Who & What were existing before all these Creations?
How thrilling it is to imagine how the entire space would have been before all these creations and after everything gets annhilated!
We may faint even when we think of it.
No earth; So, No America. No Europe. No India. No Kings. No politics. No Nasty Cinema. No media. No internet. No mobile phone. No love. No tortures. Nothing existed and only a blank space existed in the material sky.
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No planets, No stars, nothing at all.
Silence. Only silence everywhere.
Only the sound of Ohm (Aum) was existing everywhere.
These things are beyond our imagination.
But, for Krishna, these are just a game. He is managing everything just as a time pass (!!!).
Because He does not need these things for His existence.
But, these things require Krishna for their existence.
(CREATIONS BY KRISHNA -2 : SPIRITUAL (VAIKUNTA) PLANETS! READ HERE!)
Ok, Let us atleast get consoled by reading the words of Srila Prabhupada who explains in his translation & purport to SRI CAITANYA CARITAMRUTA ( Adi Lila: 1-53):
First Read the Translation:
“Prior to the cosmic creation, only I exist, and NO phenomena exist, either gross, subtle or primordial.
After creation, only I exist in everything, and after annihilation, only I remain eternally.”
Read the second sentence. It is beyond our imagination.
Krishna is always prominent both before and after creations. This is the subtle meaning.
After annihilation = I Only remain.
After Creation: Again I only exist in everything.
What this shows?
Everything is Krishna. Nothing else.
Let us now Read the Purport of Srila Prabhupada for this GREAT SLOKA. For your ease of grasping, I have given numbers and Titles:
(i) “I” always mean that it is a Person:
Aham means “I”; therefore the speaker who is saying aham, “l,” must have His own personality. The Mayavadi philosophers interpret this word aham as referring to the impersonal Brahman. These Mayavadis are very proud of their grammatical knowledge, but any person who has actual knowledge of grammar can understand that aham means “I” and that “I” refers to a personality. Therefore the Personality of Godhead, speaking to Brahma, uses aham while describing His own transcendental form. Aham has a specific meaning; it is not a vague term that can be whimsically interpreted. Aham, when spoken by Krsna, refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and nothing else.
(CREATIONS BY KRISHNA – 3 : BRAHMAM & INTERMEDIATE WORLDS! READ HERE!)
(ii) NO BRAHMA or SIVA BEFORE CREATIONS:
Before the creation and after its dissolution, only the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His associates exist; there is no existence of the material elements. This is confirmed in the Vedic literature.
Vasudevo va idam agra asin na brahma na ca sankarah. The meaning of this mantra is that before creation there was no existence of Brahma or Siva, for only Visnu existed. Visnu exists in His abode, the Vaikunthas. There are innumerable Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky, and on each of them Visnu resides with His associates and His paraphernalia. It is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita that although the creation is periodically dissolved, there is another abode, which is never dissolved. The word “creation” refers to the material creation because in the spiritual world everything exists eternally and there is no creation or dissolution.
(CREATIONS BY KRISHNA – 4: MATERIAL WORLDS – CREATION & ANNIHILATION! READ HERE!)
(iii) KRISHNA HAD SAME OPULENCES BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER CREATIONS:
The Lord indicates herein that before the material creation He existed in fullness with all transcendental opulence, including all strength, all wealth, all beauty, all knowledge, all fame and all renunciation. If one thinks of a king, he automatically thinks of his secretaries, ministers, military commanders, palaces and so on. Since a king has such opulence, one can simply try to imagine the opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When the Lord says aham, therefore, it is to be understood that He exists with full potency, including all opulence.”
We can’t imagine even a bit beyond that. Even Brahma does not know fully.
Only Krishna knows fully about His creations.
The above explanation shows that Only Krishna as Vishnu existed before material creations and Only the sound of OHM (AUM) existed everywhere! And, Spiritual planets and their population are eternal and always exist.
(CREATIONS BY KRISHNA -5 : FOURTEEN MATERIAL WORLDS – FULL DETAILS! READ HERE!)