Category: The Days and Nights of Brahma

"As the Satya-yuga is always the first in the series of the four ages or Yugas, so the Kali ever comes the last. The Kali-yuga reigns now supreme in India, and it seems to coincide with that of the Western age.   Anyhow, it is curious to see how prophetic in almost all things was [...]

"Vamadeva Mudaliyar (Modely) describes the coming "night" most poetically. Though it is given in Isis Unveiled, it is worthy of repetition.   "Strange noises are heard, proceeding from every point...These are the precursors of the Night of Brahma; dusk rises at the horizon, and the Sun passes away behind the thirtieth degree of Makara (sign [...]

"The final [or Maha-] PRALAYA is the Death of Kosmos, after which its Spirit rests in Nirvana, or in THAT for which there is neither Day of Night.   All the other Pralayas are periodical and follow, in regular succession, the Manvantaras, as the night follows the day of every human creature, animal, and plant. [...]

"There are many kinds of Pralaya, but three chief ones are specially mentioned in old Hindu books:   The first is called NAIMITTIKA, "occasional" or "incidental", caused by the intervals of "Brahma's Days"; it is the destruction of creatures, of all that lives and has a form, but not of substance which remains in status [...]

"This is the name given to the periods called MANVANTARA (Manu-antara, or between the Manus) and PRALAYA (Dissolution); one referring to the active periods of the Universe, the other to its times of relative and complete rest - according to whether they occur at the end of a "Day", or an "Age" (a life) of [...]