What Is Mahapralaya and When and Why Will It Come?

[This question is part of a Mahā Satsaṅga (grand spiritual discussion) between Swami, Shri Parikshit, Smt. Bindiya and Dr. J. S. R. Prasad.]

O Learned and Devoted Servants of God,

Swami replied:- This question is not important for your spiritual development. I have told a lot about this topic in My messages. Briefly, I can say that in Mahapralaya the five elements are converted into their root cause, called Muulaprakruti, which is very subtle inert energy and this is the root material cause. Even this root material cause was created by the unimaginable God due to His unimaginable power and hence, this root inert energy cannot be claimed to be beginningless (anaadi). Once it was created by God, it will remain forever due to the will of God. This root energy preserves all the souls and all the world in very subtle state (avyaktam) like the film reel of a cinema. Hence, dissolution of world means closing the cinema on the screen and preserving the film reel for the next show. When the film reel is projected for the next show, everything is regenerated as it is as said in the Veda (Dhaataa yathaapuurvamakalpayat). The first energetic incarnation is this Dhaataa (Eshvara), who projects this cinema again on the screen as it is. The interval between two parts of the cinema is dissolution (Pralaya) and the interval between two shows of the same cinema is final dissolution (Mahaapralaya). The film reel, the electricity, the technology, the screen etc., are the resulting product components of the unimaginable power, called Mahaamaayaa or simply Maayaa.

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