things (souls) remain there asleep, until the material galaxy is created again. These are the ways of creation, maintenance and destruction of the material world. This is so for all galaxies.
Material creation is produced by the interaction of the three gunas, the three attributes and modes of influence of material nature; virtue, passion and ignorance, set in motion by the Lord; therefore it is said that the Lord existed before the manifestation of material influences. Only Visnu, (plenary emanation of Krishna) the Supreme Lord, existed before creation, without Brahma, Siva, or any other celestial being. This Visnu is Maha-Visnu, lying on the ocean of causes or causal ocean. By the action of its only breath emanate from its body the innumerable galaxies in the form of seeds, which then develop gradually in gigantic spheres each containing innumerable planets, just as the seeds of banyan grow until forming immense trees, with innumerable branches. Maha-Visnu is a full emanation of Lord Krishna. All the Brahmas that govern the different galaxies only live for the time of one of its expires, after they have emerged from the pores of its spiritual body.
Living beings are automatically absorbed into the body of Maha-Visnu at the end of the hundred years of Brahma's life. But thus absorbed in Him, the individual beings distinct from Krishna, God, keep their own identity; and as soon as by the will of the Lord creation again joined the manifested state, all beings, until then inactive, and as if asleep, find themselves free to resume their various activities, in the thread of their conditions of past existence . This is called the principle of waking up after sleep and resuming your own activities. When a man sleeps at night, he forgets his identity, his homework and all of his waking activities. But as soon as he regains consciousness, everything he needs to do comes back to his mind, and he resumes his activities. Likewise, living beings as spiritual beings remain in the body of Maha-Visnu as long as the annihilation of the universe lasts; but as soon as creation comes again, they awaken, they resume their unfinished tasks.
Lord Krishna specifies to this effect: “With the day of Brahma are born all the varieties of beings; and let her night come, all are annihilated. Endless, day after day, is reborn, and each time, myriads of beings are brought back into existence. Endless, night after night, night falls, and with it, beings, in annihilation, without their being able to do anything about it. There is, however, another world, which is eternal, beyond the two states, manifest and unmanifest, of matter. Supreme world, which never perishes; when everything in the material galaxy is dissolved, it remains intact”.
“At the end of an age, when the duration of Brahma’s life comes to an end, all material creations return to Me, and at the beginning of the following age, when