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Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: My dear King, I have already described to you the measurements of time, beginning from the smallest …

One thousand cycles of four ages constitute a single day of Brahmā, known as a kalpa. In that period, O …

After one day of Brahmā, annihilation occurs during his night, which is of the same duration. At that time all …

This is called the naimittika, or occasional, annihilation, during which the original creator, Lord Nārāyaṇa, lies down upon the bed …

When the two halves of the lifetime of Lord Brahmā, the most elevated created being, are complete, the seven basic …

O King, upon the annihilation of the material elements, the universal egg, comprising the elemental amalgamation of creation, is confronted …

As annihilation approaches, O King, there will be no rain upon the earth for one hundred years. Drought will lead …

The sun in its annihilating form will drink up with its terrible rays all the water of the ocean, of …

Next the great fire of annihilation will flare up from the mouth of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa. Carried by the mighty force …

Burned from all sides — from above by the blazing sun and from below by the fire of Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa …

A great and terrible wind of destruction will begin to blow for more than one hundred years, and the sky, …

After that, O King, groups of multicolored clouds will gather, roaring terribly with thunder, and will pour down floods of …

At that time, the shell of the universe will fill up with water, forming a single cosmic ocean.

As the entire universe is flooded, the water will rob the earth of its unique quality of fragrance, and the …

The element fire then seizes the taste from the element water, which, deprived of its unique quality, taste, merges into …

In the unmanifest stage of material nature, called pradhāna, there is no expression of words, no mind and no manifestation …

This is the annihilation called prākṛtika, during which the energies belonging to the Supreme Person and His unmanifest material nature, …

It is the Absolute Truth alone who manifests in the forms of intelligence, the senses and the objects of sense …

A lamp, the eye that views by the light of that lamp, and the visible form that is viewed are …

The three states of intelligence are called waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep. But, my dear King, the variegated experiences …