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From Chapter 13 of the Mrgendra Agama:

The final dissolution of the worlds created in the order of samasta takes place at the time of complete dissolution (maha pralaya), and the dissolution of the worlds created in the order of vyasta takes place at an intermediate time of dissolution (avantata pralaya). Creation takes place at two levels. Since the time of existence precedes the time of dissolution, the duration of existence is explained here first. Listen to this exposition. The duration of the four yugas-–kruta, treta, dvapara and kali--makes one cycle of time known as a caturyuga. A cycle of 1000 caturyugas is considered as one day of Brahma, and another of the same duration is one night of Brahma. In this way, 2000 caturyugas make one day of Brahma. Three hundred and sixty days of Brahma make one year of Brahma. At the lapse of one parardha (50) of such years of Brahma, a secondary dissolution (avantara pralaya) takes place for the worlds of the impure path--asuddha adhva. Here all the tattvas, beginning from Maya, down to the earth, meet dissolution in the reverse order of creation. At that time, the one hundred Rudras, Virabhadra, Srikantha, Krodhesa, Canda, Samvarta and other Lords who are maintaining the worlds of the impure path, continue to exist, keeping under their possession the worlds which are now in a subtle form, being absorbed into their respective causes, and the souls which are associated with their own karmic impulses and with a subtle body constituted of the tattvas from pruthvi to kala and which are in the prakruti (original nature, first intelligence). They would continue to exist until the completion of the primary dissolution. Subsequently, at the beginning of the next intermediate creation, Anantesvara, being commissioned and directed by Lord Siva, would prompt and direct Srikantha and the other Rudras to create the worlds of the impure path in the same order as adopted before. These Rudras, having created the worlds from their respective sources, would then hold authority over these worlds.

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Orchid's View

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"All men are beautiful walking flowers. Instead of remaining as a witness and enjoying all this, man suffers through being possessed by the disease of 'I' and 'mine.' It is God who sees as the eye behind our eye. Brahman fills us entirely." Siva Yogaswami

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