an infernal existence. As Avatar Rsabhadeva confirms, “You must seek to know Krishna by serving one of his devotees.”
Lord Krishna says, “Those who ignore straying, great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. Knowing me God, the Supreme Person, original and inexhaustible, they absorb themselves in the service of devotion.”
A great soul is a person who practices devotional service constantly, twenty-four hours a day. Unless you rely on such a noble person, no one can know Krishna, God as He really is. One can understand and know God only by serving a great soul, such as the servant of the Supreme Person, Krishna. People who seek to improve their material conditions are said to chew on the already chewed. No one has ever succeeded in perfecting their material condition; however, life after life, from generation to generation, people apply themselves to it, and they repeatedly fail. Unless you are properly instructed by a great soul, a pure devout servant of the Lord, it is impossible to know and understand Krishna and his service of love and devotion.
The cosmic manifestation is dissolved in two ways.
One, the deluge or partial annihilation, occurs every 4 billion 320 million (4,320,000,000) solar years, when Brahma, regent of our galaxy “The Milky Way”, takes his night rest. The other, the end of the world, where the entire galaxy is destroyed, occurs at the end of Brahma's life, which lasts a hundred years, i.e. 311 trillion 40 billion (311,040,000,000 000) of solar years, or 4 billion 320 million x 2 (one day and one night) x per 30 days x 12 months x 100 years. At the time of the final devastation of the entire galaxy, at the end of Brahma’s life, a stream of fire emanates from Ananta’s mouth from the bottom of the galaxy. All the planets are reduced to ashes.
When the time comes for annihilation, Siva, completely disheveled, pierces the masters of the different directions with his trident. He laughs and dances proudly, scattering their hands like flags, just like the storm scattered the clouds around the world. Siva uses its power and its force at the time of the destruction of the galaxy. At the time of dissolution, Siva, his trident in his hand, performs a dance above the leaders of the different planets, and his hair falls in disorder as the clouds are scattered in all directions, to flood the various planets under incessant torrents of rain. During the last phase of this apocalypse, all the planets are flooded, and it is the dance of Siva, known as the dance of dissolution, which causes this deluge.