The venerable Lord spoke to Manu, revealing the nature of authority and succession among the divine and noble beings. He explained that this authority has been described in relation to the past, the present, and the future, and promised to clarify how transitions occur, both for this world and for others. By the force of destiny, what must inevitably happen comes to pass, and each cycle concludes as is proper. The Seven Sages, the gods, the ancestors, and the Manus themselves—all these great beings—when their allotted authority is exhausted, become anxious, perceiving the change in their own state. When a Manvantara, an epoch presided over by a particular Manu, comes to its end, the deities destined to become the rulers of the next Manvantara are born. As each Manvantara completes, similar declarations are made, especially in the Kali age, just as the wise say that the continuation of the Krita (Satya) age is always preceded by Kali. When one Manvantara finishes and the next begins anew, the Seven Sages and Manu are established according to the proper time. This establishment is for the festival of the Manvantara, ensuring continuity, and occurs whenever pairs arise, medicinal plants appear, livelihoods commence, and righteousness is founded. Even in villages and cities where the distinctions of caste and stages of life are absent, the Seven Sages and Manu are set in place to preserve the continuity of the cosmic order. When the former ones perish, new ones are born, just as before. Alongside them, serpents, spirits, ghosts, Gandharvas, Yakshas, and Rakshasas also arise. At the beginning of each Manvantara, the Seven Sages and Manu practice celibacy, thereby freeing themselves from all debts. For a hundred thousand years, they remain established in righteousness, each according to their order. They establish hermitages and set their minds on heaven, while the gods of former times remain wholly established in righteousness. Through sacred mantras, they ascend to the sinless Maharloka, and there, those self-controlled ones remain, observing, until the dissolution of beings. When the divine abodes in the three worlds become empty, these beings, endowed with austerity, fill the stations again. The Seven Sages, Manu, the gods, and the ancestors together maintain an unbroken line of succession, even at the end of a Manvantara. In all Manvantaras, until the dissolution of beings, this continuity is declared by Svayambhu, the self-born Lord. Thus, the succession continues unbroken until the dissolution of all beings. Great beings and the ends of people arise exclusively in the Satya age. In Satya Yuga, they remain eternally, but when change comes at the time of re-creation, through detachment and renunciation of sense objects, they enter into the god Nārāyaṇa. The world of living beings does not remain even for a moment, constantly turning through decay and growth. Those who perceive these changes, moved by the wind of time, understand them through Vyasa’s concise and comprehensive teachings, empowered by divine energy. The proper cycles are joined with the lords of gods, the Seven Sages, the ancestors, and the rulers of progeny. For those honored by fame, brilliance, and renown, the merit is indeed the spreading of the dominion of the gods, ensuring the continuity and order of the cosmos.