K SIVA PRASAD Retired senior IAS officer in the Punjab Government. Dwelling further on ‘sat’(real/permanence) and ‘asat’ (unreal/impermanence), Krishna asks us to contemplate on ‘that’ which is indestructible and which pervades all (2.17). The popular and easy understanding of creation is that it is the work of a Creator. But Krishna points towards ‘creativity’, which.