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Garudapurana 1.224

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1.224.1

Sūta said: / At the end of a thousand cycles of the four ages, the conditional dissolution belonging to Brahmā takes place; / and at the end of the kalpa, a drought lasting a hundred years occurs.

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Then seven terrible suns arise in the sky; / having drunk up all the water, they dry up the three worlds.

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The worlds Bhūḥ, Bhuvaḥ, Svaḥ, Mahar, and Jana, with all that moves and is still, [dry up]; / and Viṣṇu, having assumed the form of Rudra, burns the nether worlds below.

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Viṣṇu burns the three worlds and releases vast clouds from his mouth; / for a hundred years, great clouds of varied colors pour down rain.

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A mighty wind, the very form of Viṣṇu, blows for a hundred years. / When the universe has become a single ocean of rain, Viṣṇu, assuming the form of Brahmā, / lies on the serpent couch, all moving and unmoving creation having perished.

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Having slept for a thousand years, Hari created the world again. / Now I shall declare the elemental dissolution; listen, O Śaunaka.

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When a full hundred [divine] years are complete, Hari withdraws the whole universe, / deposits Brahmā within his body, and is liberated by the powers of yoga.

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Those who have gone to the abode of Brahmā also go to the supreme state. / Drought and the suns arise, and likewise clouds, O twice-born; / by clouds raining for a hundred years, the cosmic egg is filled.

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The cosmic egg of the Lord of the world is split open by the waters within; / when the full lifespan of Brahmā has expired, it breaks and dissolves into the water.

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Thus the earth, the foundation of the world, dissolves into water; / water dissolves into fire, and fire dissolves into wind.

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Wind dissolves into space, and space into ego; then the cosmic intellect enters [the ego]; / the cosmic intellect dissolves into the unmanifest, and primordial nature into the supreme Puruṣa.

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Hari sleeps for a hundred years; then, at the arrival of day, / he creates the moving and unmoving creation, manifested in the order beginning with the unmanifest.

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Thus ends the two hundred and twenty-fourth chapter, entitled 'The Conditional Dissolution', in the Ācārakāṇḍa of the first section of the first part in the glorious Garuḍa Mahāpurāṇa.

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