When the time of universal dissolution sets in, those Individual Souls who have acquired the position of Devas and who have an unspent residue of the fruits of acts to enjoy or endure, return to those stages of life in the subsequent Kalpa which had been theirs in the pristine one. This is owing to the likeness of every successive Kalpa to every previous one.
प्रजाविसर्गं तु सशेषकाले स्थानानि स्वान्येव सरन्ति जीवाः। निःशेषतस्तत्पदं यान्ति चान्ते सर्वे देवा ये सदृशा मनुष्याः॥