I wish, O Kuru hero, to know what origin and what the end is of all creatures; what the nature of their meditation is and what their acts; what the divisions of time are, and what is the spare of human existence in the respective cycles.
युधिष्ठिर उवाच आद्यन्तं सर्वभूतानां ज्ञातुमिच्छामि कौरव। ध्यानं कर्म च कालं च तथैवायुर्युगे युगे॥