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TEXT 7 sarva-bhutani kaunteya
SYNONYMS  sarva-bhutani--all
created entities; kaunteya--O son of Kunti; prakrtim--nature;
yanti--enter;
mamikam--unto Me; kalpa-ksaye--at the end of the millennium;
punah--again; tani--all those; kalpa-adau--in the
beginning of the millennium; visrjami--I create; aham--I.
TRANSLATION O son of
Kunti, at the end of the millennium every material manifestation enters
into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium, by My potency
I again create.
PURPORT The creation,
maintenance and annihilation of this material cosmic manifestation is completely
dependent on the supreme will of the Personality of Godhead. "At the end
of the millennium" means at the death of Brahma. Brahma lives for one hundred
years, and his one day is calculated at 4,300,000,000 of our earthly years.
His night is of the same duration. His month consists of thirty such days
and nights, and his year of twelve months. After one hundred such years,
when Brahma dies, the devastation or annihilation takes place; this means
that the energy manifested by the Supreme Lord is again wound up in Himself.
Then again, when there is need to manifest the cosmic world, it is done
by His will: "Although I am one, I shall become many." This is the Vedic
aphorism. He expands Himself in this material energy, and the whole cosmic
manifestation again takes place.
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