Explaining how we come into being....

Verse 1.3.5: This is how the material world is created. There is a scripture called Sattvata tantra, in which all these 3 incarnations are given. There are 3 Vishnu's, not just one: This Maha-Vishnu creates mahat-tattva. When he lies down in the causal ocean, Karuna, the universes emanate from His pores of His body. In each universe, He enters as Garbodhaksayi Vishnu, lying in the Garbhodaka ocean. From the navel of this Vishnu, a lotus stem comes and then Brahma takes birth.

So this brahma is the secondary creator. He creates prajapati's. Through prajapati's, Brahma creates all the living entities. So this whole thing is part of Krishna's universal form. Right now, Brahma's age is 57 years, so for mahapralaya to come there are 47 more Brahma's years. Then Brahma sleeps. Then complete destruction takes place.

Srila Prabhupada's disciple (Sadaputa Prabhu) gave a wonderful example on how time works: like a Whirlpool. On the top, the ball in it might move slowly, but as it goes down, the speed of the ball is very very fast. Similarly, we are lower in the system, so time seems to be going very very fast, but for Brahma who is in the top system, it is slower.

So we take brith in the day of Brahma helplessly and in his night we die helplessly. So what is the end, so that's why we should chant nicely and try and get out of this cycle of birth and death in this lifetime itself. And for this we have the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.