Shloka 5
प्रलय-त्रिविध-विभागः एवं प्राकृतप्रलय-वर्णनम्
परार्धद्विगुणं यत् तु प्राकृतः स लयो द्विज तदाव्यक्ते ऽखिलं व्यक्तं स्वहेतौ लयम् एति वै
parārdhadviguṇaṃ yat tu prākṛtaḥ sa layo dvija tadāvyakte 'khilaṃ vyaktaṃ svahetau layam eti vai
اے دِوِج! جو لَے (انحلال) پراردھ کے دوگنے عرصے تک قائم رہے، وہ ‘پراکرت لَے’ کہلاتا ہے۔ اس وقت سارا ظاہر عالم اَویَکت میں جذب ہو کر اپنے ہی سبب میں لوٹ جاتا ہے۔
Sage Parāśara (teaching Maitreya)
FAQs
It describes the deepest cosmic dissolution where the entire manifest universe is reabsorbed into the Unmanifest (avyakta), emphasizing the cyclical nature of creation and the return of effects into their primal cause.
He defines Prākṛta dissolution by its immense duration (twice a parārdha) and by its metaphysical process: everything manifest (vyakta) merges back into its own causal basis within the Unmanifest.
Even when the verse speaks in Sāṅkhya terms (vyakta/avyakta), the Vishnu Purana’s broader teaching places these processes under the supreme governance of Vishnu as the ultimate ground in whom cosmic cycles arise and subside.