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Beings are unmanifested in their beginning, manifested in their middle state, O Arjuna, and unmanifested again in their end. What is there to grieve about?

Beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their middle, descendant of Bharata, and unmanifest again in their end. What is there to lament in this?

Beings come from the unmanifest (avyakta), appear for a while in the middle, and return to the unmanifest at the end. Krishna asks what there is to lament in such a pattern. The verse places a single life inside a much larger cycle, in which what we see is only the visible middle section. It invites a calmer perspective on beginnings and endings. It also echoes ideas found in Sankhya, where the world arises from an unmanifest source and dissolves back into it.