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	* Pralaya - (Esoteric): Definition
		Pralaya, or laya, (Sanskrit, "dissolution") is a term in Hindu comprehension that conveys all appearance is subject dissolution, but not to destruction, because dissolution leads to recreation.
		Pralaya -- A non-mental, non-astral, non-material state of existence somewhere between death and rebirth, where the life impulse is in abeyance.
		Pralaya (Sans.) Dissolution, the opposite of Manvantara, one being the period of rest and the other of full activity (death and life) of a planet, or of the whole universe.
	en.mimi.hu /esoteric/pralaya.html (260 words)

	Pralaya
		PRALAYA is a period of observation or repose -- planetary, cosmic, or universal -- the opposite of Manvantara, a period of manifestation.
		Pralaya is thus a term applying also to each "obscuration," and even to every cataclysm that puts an end, by fire or by water in turn, to each root-race.
		During Pralaya everything differentiated, as every unit, disappears from the phenomenal universe and is merged in, or rather transferred to, the One noumenal.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/Pralaya.html (2412 words)

	Fundamentals of the Esoteric Philosophy - Chapter 4
		Pralaya: this is also a Sanskrit compound, formed of laya, from a Sanskrit root li, and the prefix pra.
		The cube of salt or of sugar vanishes in the water; it dissolves, changes its form; and this may be taken as a symbol of what pralaya is: a crumbling away, a vanishing away of matter into something else which is yet in it, and surrounds it, and interpenetrates it.
		That is pralaya, usually translated as the state of latency, state of rest or repose, between two manvantaras or life cycles.
	www.theosociety.org /pasadena/fund/fund-4.htm (3055 words)

	Creation of the universe as in the Upnishads & modern Physics
		In the no-creation state (called maha pralaya) the creative energies and the forces remain in an absolutely subtle and dormant state, and in the creation state they evolve in the form of the universe as we see it today.
		The time, that we calculate as the age of something or the passing period of an ongoing event, is the calculation of the aging process of something, or it is a point of determining the past, present or future.
		Thus, it would be highly unjust if the soul of some human being is by mistake transferred into a worm’s body or a worm’s soul is transferred into the body of a human being.
	encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org /creation_of_the_universe.htm (1561 words)

	K 40 Veer Class
		Pralaya was commissioned by Governor of Goa Shri Kidar Nath Sahani.
		Pralaya is armed to the teeth with 16 long-range surface to surface missiles, a 76.2 mm main gun, two 30 mm anti-air weapons, shoulder launched surface to air missiles and false target launchers.
		Once amalgamated with the fleet, INS Pralaya, with her reach and formidable firepower shall be a force to reckon with.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/k-veer.htm (1721 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - IID - The Nature of Pralaya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We can view pralaya as the work of "abstraction," and as the method which brings the form under the Destroyer aspect of Spirit, working ever under the Law of Attraction, of which the Law of Synthesis is but a branch.
		This is of a triple nature and affects the substance of the three vehicles, physical, astral and mental, reducing the form to its primitive substance, and dissipating its atomic structure.
		It can be shortened or extended at will, and when the period of pralaya has been decided upon, this thread of light, or of solar fire (note the word "solar") is withdrawn, and gathered back to the atomic subplane where it will still vitalize the permanent atom and hold it connected within the causal body.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/fire/fire1281.html (1324 words)

	Cycles of Pralaya and the Rise to Sunship in future Kalpas
		Besides this within a minor pralaya there is a condition of planetary rest or as the astronomers say "death." Mahatma KH Letters.
		At the close of the partial pralaya and the commencement of the new period of activity the Fohatic power would be exerted to increase the energy of the sun to a greater degree than formerly, in order that the newly evolving life germs might have the advantage of more force and power..
		The planet, or planets, affected by one of the vortices is cut off in full or in part from all heat and light until the swirling force of the vortex is overcome by a new impulse imparted by fohatic power at the dawn of a new cycle, which increases the degree of the sun's radiation..
	members.tripod.com /logos_endless_summer/id91.html (2496 words)

	Life after death and rebirth by Benjamin Creme
		In pralaya the soul lives in its own realm with no other purpose than to be the soul.
		It is possible to remain in pralaya for a few dozen to thousands of years until such time as a group of souls is sent out of pralaya into incarnation because the time is right and the circumstances suitable.
		Another reason for rapid cycles of incarnation may be the necessity of "rounding out" the disciple’s equipment by concentrating one-pointedly for several lives on acquiring some quality otherwise lacking; or to contribute some special quality, perfectly developed in him, to the work of a particular group or nation.
	www.shareintl.org /archives/AgelessWisdom/aw_bclife-aft-death.htm (3253 words)

	âPralayaâ rolls out of Goa- The Economic Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		PANAJI: Indian naval ship Pralaya, built by public sector undertaking Goa Shipyard (GSL) with Russian and Ukrain technology assistance for the Indian Navy, was commissioned on Wednesday.
		Pralaya is the second ship of the ‘Prabal’ class and is of totally indigenous construction.
		Once amalgamated with the fleet, INS Pralaya, with her reach and formidable firepower shall be a force to reckon with, say officials of GSL.
	economictimes.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=31796694 (337 words)

	Excellence in Web Technology & Design - arvindpralaya
		Pralaya believes in old fashioned business, where word of mouth and trust go a long way to produce mutual monetary benefit.
		Pralaya is interested in building long-term relationships with its customers, not short term hacks that so many consulting companies are notorious for.
		Pralaya works with the client to determine what is a convenient payment schedule for them.
	www.elance.com /c/fp/main/viewprofile.pl?view_person=arvindpralaya&type=seller&catid=10224&rid=120U (478 words)

	Theosophic/Esoteric Cosmology: Esoteric Cosmology - 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Everything that exists and lives on our Earth was also existent before our present Earth come into being; it was existent in a kind of seed state, just as a whole plant is present in a seed, sleeps in the seed, so to speak, before it takes on form in the outer world.
		When the state of perfection is reached, a Pralaya, a sleeping state, occurs once more, and this is followed again by a state of waking and growth.
		It is the hollow form, swimming in a great, mighty sea of the highest spiritual beings that is gradually disappearing and out of which the Being of the Earth itself flows.
	wn.rsarchive.org /Lectures/Dates/19040609p01.html (3925 words)

	The Law of Solar Union and The Cycle Of Sunship
		I cannot of course rule out that during the seven partial solar pralayas there is not a change of events or "taking over" by any given Sun/son.
		We might note that it is during the last full solar pralaya that the "war" took place due to incorrect timing.
		It marks the moment of the highest development of deva substance in the system, the consummation of the work of Agni and his fire angels, and the initiation of Brahma.
	logos_endless_summer.tripod.com /id213.html (2995 words)

	Brahma Summary
		PRALAYA, or doomsday in the Hindu eschatological scheme, comes at the end of the fourth and worst of the four ages, or yugas, at the end of each kalpa, or day of Brahmā.
		In the Vedantic mythology of the late Purāṇas, and in Indian literature in general, recurrent images of doomsday serve to emphasize the insubstantiality of the world; the things that people think of as permanent are constantly destroyed and re-created.
		A thoughtful and complex interpretation of the pralaya may be found in Madeleine Biardeau's Études de mythologie hindoue published in the Bulletin de l'École Française d'Extrême Orient (Paris, 1968, 1969, 1971, and 1976).
	www.bookrags.com /Brahma (2390 words)

	Vedic Cosmology
		I would appreciate elaboration on the points of manvantara > and pralaya, and whether the material universe dissolves after the tenth > and final incarnation of Vishnu.
		He is born at the time the universe is created and he dies at the time of it's destruction (pralaya) so his life-span is the life-span of the universe.
		One occurs at the death of Brahma, called the maha pralaya (great devistation), and that is the end of this universe.
	www.krishna.org /sudarsana/archive/msg00040.html (677 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Healing - I - Three Major Laws of Health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		By the development of goodwill, which is the will of good intention and motive, will come the healing of diseases of the respiratory tract, lungs and throat, the stabilizing of the cells of the brain, the cure of insanities and obsessions, and an attainment of equilibrium and of rhythm.
		Longevity will ensue, for death should be the recognition by the soul of work consummated and pralaya earned.
		That is the sleep of the physical, the end of manifestation, and the occult significance of this is not yet comprehended.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/healing/heal1038.html (1121 words)

	Total Life Care Center's Inspirational Story of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The companion word is Pralaya: the cycle or period of rest for the Universe, solar system, planet or man. The period between lives is Pralaya.
		Pralaya is a quiet time when we are most able (and available) to receive messages from within.
		When you plan for some Pralaya, rest or contraction, you are using the tide of Nature to your advantage.
	www.merrynjose.com /artman/publish/printer_537.shtml (607 words)

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		KT Pralaya (Sans.) Dissolution, the opposite of Manvantara, one being the period of rest and the other of full activity (death and life) of a planet, or of the whole universe.
		Then there is the pralaya or death of the individual man. Man is purusha; the corresponding adjective is paurusha: hence, the paurusha pralaya or death of man. These adjectives apply equally well to the several kinds of manvantaras or life cycles.
		Pralaya is a compound of pra -- away, and laya, derived from the verb-root li -- to dissolve.
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/ctg/pr.htm (6227 words)

	Pralaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the Record label by the same name, see Pralaya Records.
		Pralaya, in Hindu cosmology, is a period of time of the cycle of existence of the planets where activity does not occur.
		Taking 360 Manvantaras and equal number of Pralayas, one "Year of Brahman" is gotten.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pralaya (171 words)

	[Advaita-l] Re;Kundalini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The death of a jeevan mukta cannot be called pralaya (or destruction) since such a person is not under control of death as we experience it.
		It means that the liberated soul at BL has to merge in divine at pralaya in order to become sarva gatah and achaloyam etc. This won't happen on the part of the same liberated soul at BL before pralaya.
		Before, death (that is, for him it is called > pralaya) > his soul still localized finitely in a physical body and the terms of 2/24 are not applicable.
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /archives/advaita-l/2005-March/015024.html (749 words)

	SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM: CANTO 12 - CHAPTER 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is said to be the occasional annihilation [or naimittika pralaya] in which [Nârâyana] the creator of the universe lies down like lord Brahmâ, to absorb upon His bed Ananta the universe.
		Of the things subject to change which swiftly are being taken away by the force of the mighty current of Time, are the various conditions [stages of existence] the causes of their constantly being born and annihilated [nityah pralaya].
		This is the annihilation called prâkritika, during which the energies belonging to the Supreme Person and His unmanifest material nature, disassembled by the force of time, are deprived of their potencies and merge together totally.
	srimadbhagavatam.org /canto12/chapter4.html (4392 words)

	Defenceindia.com : 23-dec-2k2 : Navy News : INS Pralaya to be commissioned today
		INS Pralaya, a warship built at the Goa Shipyard Ltd, will be commissioned at Panjim on Wednesday on the eve of the Goa Liberation Day.
		The ship is named after the old Pralaya, an Osa-II class missile boat, which was decommissioned on January 18 last year after spending 25 glorious service with the blue-water force.
		The production of the new Pralaya commenced on May 2, 1998 and it was launched on December 14 this year.
	www.defenceindia.com /23-dec-2k2/navy.html (196 words)

	The Vendanta Sutras, Sankaracharya, comm.: Second Adhyâya, Second Pâda: II, 2, 12
		For in the pralaya state endeavour, which is a quality of the soul, cannot take place because no body exists then.
		Nor could the unseen principle be adduced as the cause, since its purport is to effect enjoyment (of reward and punishment on the part of the soul), not to bring about the pralaya.
		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.--For these reasons the doctrine of the atoms being the cause of the world must be rejected.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/sbe34/sbe34188.htm (1046 words)

	SDDS Volume 2 Issue 16
		Nitya Pralaya : This takes place every moment, when the atoms that compose the various forms in the universe unite and disperse.
		Naimittika Pralaya : when the solar systems are disintegrated into their primitive elements at the end of each Brahma Kalpa.
		Prakrita Pralaya or Mahapralaya- affecting the entire universe, when it is resolved into unmanifested, undifferentiated nature, where the Gunas are in a state of equilibrium.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/oppiliappan/sgati/sddsv2/v02016.htm (834 words)

	The Online Panchangam - Matsya Avatar
		Since PRALAYA - Dissolution - was to follow soon, the VEDAS would be lost for the next spell of Creation, unless they were retrieved.
		As God was wondering what was to be done, he noticed Sage Satyavrata, who was doing penance subsisting on water alone, making the ritual offering of water of God.
		As foretold by the DIVINE FISH, PRALAYA (deluge) set in and on the turbulent waters, a boat appeared.
	www.panchangam.com /matsya.htm (714 words)

	Manifestation (Sristhi) and Potentiality (Pralaya)
		When Sakti expands or opens herself (unmishati), the universe comes into being, and when she gathers or closes herself up (nimishati), the universe disappears as a manifestation- an endless phenomenon of her total self "opening" and "closing", bringing into existence countless universes.
		The Goddess alternates eternally between a phase of manifestation (sristhi) and dissolution or return to potentiality (pralaya); between relative space and time which is curved or circular (vrittakara) and Absolute Space (svasvyata-vyom) and Time, the uter dark depths, Mahakali.
		At the time of cosmic dissolution the universe of physical objects is withdrawn again into Sakti, as everything collapses inwards into one dimension: the 'bindu' or seed-state.
	www.crystallotus.com /Shakti/04.htm (282 words)

	Rings, Rounds, And Obscuration -A Theosophical Article by William Q. Judge
		And as it is distinctly taught that an obscuration overtakes a globe when the entire race deserts it for another, it is very safe to assume the teaching to be that deserted planets go into obscuration if the races that left them have not completed all their rounds.
		As these, in their process of formation, proceed with their development upon this globe—or any other they may be on, cataclysms for that globe take place from time to time, involving either the entire mass or only a portion of it.
		And the Moon may illustrate the question about obscuration and pralaya, as she is not in obscuration but is in her final pralaya and is disintegrating as quickly as nature will permit, this earth meanwhile absorbing her particles slowly from day to day while the great cycle of our evolution unerringly goes on.
	www.blavatsky.net /theosophy/judge/articles/rings-rounds-and-obscuration.htm (1419 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - IIE - Triangular Linking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cosmic pralaya - The obscuration of the three suns, or of three solar systems.
		Solar pralaya - The obscuration of a system at the end of one hundred years of Brahma.
		Incidental pralaya - The obscuration of a scheme.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/fire/fire1431.html (674 words)

	Hidden Hints on studying the SD
		it is said (Proem) that during the pralaya the plan for the next manvantara slumbers until the dawn of the next evolution, when its potential power goes forth to action.
		The question “What happens to the planets during a minor pralaya or dissolution?” is answered in footnote p.
		But in a minor pralaya the “dead planets” are objective in space, but with all their active life and energy gone.
	www.trasi.fsnet.co.uk /public_html/theosoc/hidhints.htm (5890 words)

	Srivaishnavan.com - FAQ
		There are actually three types of pralaya: 1) The first one is the continuing pralaya.
		During this second type of pralaya, after destroying the first three worlds mentioned above, the Lord takes the form of a young child, Balakrishna, and lies on the leaf of a peepul tree.
		Actually, at the time of the final deluge (pralaya), all the Jivatmas and matter merge m Brahman, in a very subtle (sukshma) state.
	www.srivaishnavan.com /ans_paramatma.html (4711 words)

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