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The constant rhythm (description of Brahmlok)

 Week 24, chapter 8, shlokas 16-28


And then there is a tower of fourteen Bhuvanas (universes), one that lies in the forefront of the seven eternals and is also the forehead of the mountain (made of the three worlds) called as Brahmabhuvan.

When the cycle of four eras (yugas) takes a thousand turns, which makes one day of Brahmdev (God of creation) and one thousand quartets make one night of his world. The inhabitants of his world never die and remain eternal. And those who witness the eight parts of the day of Brahmadev are called ‘Ahoratravid’ (the knower of days and night of the world of Brahmadev).

With the rising of the day in Brahmloka, the manifest universe arises from the unmanifest matter which can never be measured. And with the completion of four parts of the day the manifested world ends. At the beginning of winters in the world of Brahmdev, the clouds of matter disappear and appear again with the onset of summer. In the same way with the rising of the day of Brahmdev, the crowd of creatures (creation) keep coming and going a thousand times in every cycle of four yugas (eras) and also disappears into Maya as the night of Brahmdev arrives. It is a rhythm coinciding with the rhythm of the world of Brahmdev- whereas Brahmdev is the treasure of the seeds of creation and the deities like the Panchmahabhootas disappear there only with the permission of Brahmdev.

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