Deprived of its quality of aroma by the wind, the earth element is transformed into water, and water, deprived of its taste by this same wind, merges with fire. Fire, deprived of its form by darkness, dissolves in the air element. When air loses its touch quality by the influence of space, the air merges into that space. When space is deprived of its tangible quality by the Supreme Soul in the form of Time, space merges into a false ego in ignorance.

The material senses and intelligence merge into a false ego in the passion from which they arose, and the spirit, along with the heavenly beings, merges into a false ego in virtue. Then the total false ego, with all its qualities, merges into the aggregate of the twenty four elements of material nature.

This is maya, the illusory energy of the Supreme Person. This illusory power, made up of the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, is empowered by the Lord for the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the material galaxy.

When the time of devastation comes, and Anantadeva, the full emanation of Krishna, desires to destroy all creation, He becomes slightly angry. Then from the middle of his eyebrows appears Rudra (Siva), who has three eyes and wields a trident. This Rudra, also known as Sankarsana, full emanation of Krishna, embodies the eleven Rudras (the eleven manifestations of Siva). He appears to destroy the entire galaxy.

When the time comes for annihilation, Siva, disheveled, pierces the masters of different directions with his trident. He laughs and dances proudly, scattering his hands like flags, just as the storm scatters clouds across the world. Its power is enormous.

At the moment of dissolution, Siva, his trident in hand, performs a dance above the rulers of the different planets. Her hair is falling into disarray as the clouds scatter in all directions, in order to flood the various planets in incessant torrents of rain. During the last phase of this apocalypse, all the planets are flooded, and it is Siva's dance, known as “dance of dissolution”, which causes this flood.

Each creation gives to beings individual and distinct from God, the opportunity to end their life conditioned by matter and the energy of illusion. When they do not take this opportunity and return to Krishna, to their original abode in the kingdom of God, then Lord Sankarsana becomes angry.

It is for this reason that the eleven emanations of Rudras or Siva, come out from the middle of Lord Sankarsana's eyebrows, and together they destroy the entire creation, the entire galaxy.

At the moment of total annihilation, everything returns to God

After millions and millions of years of existence, when Brahma's life ends, then comes the annihilation of the galaxy.