Information About Dissolution
Pralay means 'Dissolution (destruction)'. It is of two types –
- (Aanshik Pralay) Partial Dissolution and
- (Mahapralay) Great Dissolution.
(Aanshik Pralay) Partial Dissolution:
It is of two types.
First Partial Dissolution
One, at the end of the fourth era (Kaliyug), the tenth incarnation named NiHkalank, who is also called Kalki, appears on the earth. He will eliminate all the devotionless human beings of that time (Kaliyug) by killing them with his sword. At that time, the maximum age of a human being will be 20 years, but actually, it will be 5 years less, that is, in 15 years everyone will go through childhood-youth-old age and die. A five-year-old girl will give birth to children. Human height will be about one and a half or two and a half feet. At that time, there would be so many earthquakes that it would not be possible to build even a four-foot high building on earth. All human beings will live in burrows dug in the ground. The land will not be fertile. Three cubits (about four and a half feet) down to the bottom, the fertile element of the land will be exhausted. There will be no fruitful tree and the Peepal tree will not bear any leaves. All human beings (male and female) will be meat-eaters. Interpersonal behaviour will be extremely bad. People will ride bears. The bear will be a good vehicle of that time. Due to pollution of the environment, there will no rain. As dew falls, so it will rain. Rivers like Ganga-Yamuna etc. will also dry up. This will be the end of Kaliyug. At that time, there will be a (Pralay) Dissolution (there will be only water everywhere on the earth). There will be so much rain that there will be hundreds of feet of water on the whole earth. A few humans will remain alive at very high places. This water will dry up in hundreds of years. Then forests will grow all over the land. The earth will become fertile again. The environment will become pure again due to the abundance of forests (trees). Some people who will be endowed with bhakti (devotion) will remain alive in high places. They will have children. Those children will be of very high stature. Because of the purification of the atmosphere, the body will become extremely healthy. The parents will be of short stature and the children will be of high stature (body). After some time, the height of the parents and the children in their youth will be equal. At that time the atmosphere will be completely pure. Thus, this will be the beginning of Satyug. This (Aanshik Pralay) Partial Dissolution on the earth is done by Jyoti Niranjan (Kaal).
Second Partial Dissolution
The Second Partial Dissolution occurs after one thousand (four eras) Chaturyugas. Then one day of Shri Brahma ji ends. For the same number of Chaturyugas, there is night. The dissolution lasts for one night. [Actually, one day of Shri Brahma ji is of 1008 Chaturyugas. The reign of fourteen Indras is completed in one day of Brahma ji. The reign period of one Indra is of seventy-two Chaturyugas. There are four yugas in a Chaturyug:- 1. Satyug which is of 17 lakh 28 thousand years. 2. Treta Yug which is of 12 lakh 96 thousand years. 3. Dwapar Yug which is of 8 lakh 64 thousand years. 4. Kalyug which is of 4 lakh 32 thousand years. There are total 43 lakh 20 thousand years of the four Yugas. To make it easy to calculate, calculation is done with Chaturyug. One day of Brahma is of one thousand and eight Chaturyugas. It is counted in round numbers as one thousand Chaturyugas.}
When the day of Brahma ends, all the living beings of Earth, (Patal Lok) Netherworld and Heaven (Indra Lok) get destroyed. The living beings destroyed in the Dissolution are made unconscious and secretively put in the (lok) world of Brahm i.e., Kaal who resides in Brahm Lok, who does not manifest himself to anyone and who has been assumed to be (Avyakt) unmanifested, that Avyakt (Brahm). Then on the completion of the night of Brahma which is of the duration of one thousand Chaturyugas (actually, it is of 1008 Chaturyugas), the work of genesis again commences in these three worlds (Etherworld-Earth-Heaven). At that time, the living beings of the worlds of Brahma, Vishnu, Shiv and that of Brahm Lok (Mahaswarg) remain safe. This was the second type of (Aanshik Pralay) Partial Dissolution.
Mahapralay (Great Dissolution): -
It is of three types.
First Mahapralay:- Kaal (Jyoti Niranjan) performs it at the end of a Mahakalp when Brahma ji dies. [Age of Brahma = a night of Brahma is of the duration of one thousand Chaturyugas and similar is the duration of a day. One month is of thirty days and nights; one year is of 12 months; the life of one Brahma is of hundred years. This is called a Mahakalp].
Second (Mahapralay) Great Dissolution: -
After the death of seven Brahma ji, one Vishnu ji dies, and after the death of seven Vishnu ji, one Shiv dies. This is called Divine Mahakalp, in which Brahma, Vishnu, Shiv, all the living beings of their worlds, and all the creation in (Swarg Lok) Heaven, (Patal Lok) Netherworld, (Mrityu Lok) Earth etc, and the livings beings in them get destroyed. At that time only Brahm Lok remains, in which this Kaal God (Jyoti Niranjan) and Durga live in three forms as MahaBrahma-MahaSavitri, MahaVishnu-MahaLakshmi and MahaShankar-MahaDevi (Parvati) by creating three Loks. In this Brahm Lok, a (Mahaswarg) Great Heaven has been created, in which living beings who have attained the fourth salvation reside. {Souls like Sage Markandey, Sage Rumi who have attained the fourth salvation and who are called Brahm Leen (merged into Brahm). They are beyond the range of divine vision of the worshippers of the three worlds here. The sages of Heaven, Earth and Netherworld cannot see them. Therefore, they consider them to (Brahm Leen) have merged into Brahm. But they go to the Great Heaven built in Brahm Lok.}
Then at the beginning of the Divine MahaKalp, Lord Kaal (Jyoti Niranjan) re-creates the universe below Brahm Lok. Lord Kaal through intercourse with his Prakriti (Maya-Aadi Bhavani) in the form of MahaSavitri, MahaLakshmi and MahaDevi (Gauri) gives birth to his three sons (Rajgun Brahma, Satgun Vishnu, Tamgun Shiv). This Kaal Lord makes them unconscious by his power. Then he places all three of them at different places like Brahma ji on a lotus flower, Vishnu ji on the bed of Shesh Naag in the sea, Shiv ji on Mount Kailash. Then he brings them back to consciousness in turn. They are ordered to churn the ocean through Prakriti (Durga). Then this Mahamaya (Original Prakriti / Sheranwali) makes her three forms and hides them in the ocean. She reveals three girls (young goddesses). The three children (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiv) marry these three goddesses. He gives three departments, one each to his three sons - the task of creation to Brahma ji, the task of preservation (nurturing) to Vishnu ji and the task of destruction (killing) to Shiv ji, due to which the creation of Kaal (Brahm) begins again, which has also been described in the Holy Puranas. For instance, there is a detailed description in Shiv Mahapuran, Brahm Mahapuran, Vishnu Mahapuran, Mahabharat, Sukh Sagar, Devi Bhagvad Mahapuran, and it has also been briefly stated in Gita Chapter 14 Verses 3 to 5.
Third (Mahapralay) Great Dissolution: -
When Trilokiye Shiv (Tamogun son of Kaal) dies 70 thousand times in one brahmand, then there is (pralay) destruction of one brahmand and Kaal (MahaShiv), who resides at all three places in Brahmlok, also renounces his body of MahaShiv. Thus, this was the dissolution of one brahmand i.e., the Third Great Dissolution and at that time one Brahmlokiye Shiv (Kaal) died and 70,000 (seventy thousand) Trilokiye Shiv (son of Kaal) died i.e., the living beings of all the loks (worlds) including Brahm lok built in one brahmand get destroyed. This time is called one Yug (era) of ParBrahm i.e., Akshar Purush. In this way, the meaning of Gita Chapter 8 Verse 16 should be understood.
"Similarly, there are three divine great dissolutions": -