श्री भगवानुवाच कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृत्तः। ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे येऽवस्थिताः प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः।।11.32।।
śhrī-bhagavān uvācha kālo ’smi loka-kṣhaya-kṛit pravṛiddho lokān samāhartum iha pravṛittaḥ ṛite ’pi tvāṁ na bhaviṣhyanti sarve ye ’vasthitāḥ pratyanīkeṣhu yodhāḥ
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: Krishna answers, I am time, the destroyer of worlds, here to annihilate these people, even without you, all these warriors arrayed in opposing armies will cease to exist, delivering the vision's actual, central meaning in a single, direct sentence after all the buildup.
In life: sometimes, after a long, overwhelming buildup of experience or explanation, the actual core meaning turns out to be surprisingly simple and direct once it's finally stated plainly.
Teaching: after working through a long, complex experience or explanation, look for the surprisingly simple, direct statement of its actual core meaning, that simplicity, once you find it, is usually the real point underneath all the earlier complexity.