I have now told you, O god among men, the truth about the Sankhya system. It is the embodiment of Narayana, of the universe as it exists from antiquity. When the time of Creation comes, He causes the Creation to come into being, and when the time comes for destruction. He swallows up everything. Having withdrawn everything into his own body he goes to slumber,-that inner Soul of the universe.
एतन्मयोक्तं नरदेव तत्त्वं नारायणो विश्वमिदं पुराणम्। संसर्गकाले च करोति सर्ग संहारकाले च तदत्ति भूयः॥ संहृत्य सर्वं निजदेहसंस्थं कृत्वाप्सु शेते जगदन्तरात्मा॥