As during a pralaya the distinction of names and forms does not exist, and Brahman also then does not exist in so far as connected with names and forms, the text applies to Brahman the term 'Non-being.
But, as in the pralaya state the three gunas are in a state of equipoise, none of them being superior or inferior to the others, that relation of superiority and subordination cannot then exist, and hence the world cannot originate.
For the clause 'Non-being indeed was this in the beginning' declares that the prânas existed even at the time when the entire world was in the pralaya state.
Should it, on the other hand, be maintained that even in the pralaya state there is a certain inequality, it would follow therefrom that creation is eternal.
This follows from Smriti also, which declares 'when the pralaya has come and the end of the Highest, they all together with Brahman enter the highest place.
The descent of Spirit into Matter is indicated by the overshadowing Tamas creation, The individuals reach the spiritual plane at the time of Pralaya and lose all sense of I-ness.
When individuals throw off their material garb, or when, by Pralayic force, their material cover is forcibly removed, they become fit to be gathered together and to become merged at Pralaya in the One.
And even their Lokas are destroyed with the daily Pralaya of Brahma.
The waters of Pralaya sweep away everything before them.
The Pralaya is of three kinds: 1) By Kala or Nitya.
Upon the Pralaya of Triloki, the essence of that triple plane and its Karma become embedded in Mahar Loka.
So saying the fish disappeared and on the seventh day the Pralaya waters deluged the Triloki.
The seed of the Universe was in the bosom of Mahat, and it manifested the Universe and destroyed the darkness of Pralaya by its own light.
So they are absorbed in the Second or the First Manifested Purusha at Pralaya and become re-born at creation.
The Naimittika Pralaya comes on, as Brahma sleeps.
Commenting on this, Sridhara says there is no Pralaya at the end of a Manvantara.
The Pralaya at the end of seven Rounds therefore means the Pralaya of Triloki.
Their Lokas are destroyed with the daily Pralayaof Brahma.
This is called Atyantika Pralaya or absolute dissolution.
At the conclusion of the period of pralaya he re-emits the world and individual souls by an act of volition and the souls begin the round of transmigration.
The texts which speak of Brahman as being one only without a second are explained as referring to the state of pralaya or absorption which occurs at the end of each Kalpa.
This is but another way of looking at the inherent teleology of the prak.rti, which demands that a state of pralaya should cease and a state of world-framing activity should begin.
If in the meantime pralayatakes place, the buddhi is submerged in the prak.rti, and the avidyâ also sleeps with it.
Pralaya and the disturbance of the Prak.rti Equilibrium.
The time came when a vast change was impending; one of those changes called a minor pralaya, and it was necessary that the seeds of life should be carried over that pralayato the next manvantara.
That would be a minorpralaya and a minor manvantara.
If they were essentially active, their activity would be permanent so that no pralaya could take place.
For in the pralaya state endeavour, which is a quality of the soul, cannot take place because no body exists then.
When the pralaya state comes to an end, creation takes place owing to an act of volition on the Lord's part.
There being then no possibility of action to effect either the conjunction or the separation of the atoms, neither conjunction nor separation would actually take place, and hence neither creation nor pralaya of the world.
But what he did do, throws the whole of that past manvantara, and to some extent the pralaya that followed it, into the realm of shadows.
I spoke of the Celtic qualities as having been of old patrician; they are plebeian nowadays, after the long pralayaand renewal.
Europe then was in thick pralaya (as Abyssinia is now); but in the midst of it all there was Ireland, with her native contrariness, behaving better than most people do in high manvantara.
In Greece an old manvantara had evolved patricianism and culture; which thepralaya following swept all away, except some relics perhaps in Thebes the isolated and conservative, certainly in Sparta.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pralaya" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
