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the innumerable worlds those others who passed away before them or even the indras who succeed each other in any given line ascending to godly kingship one by one and one by one passing away brahma vaivarta purana 87 every thing that is any where is produced from and subsists in space it is always all in all things which are contained as particles in it such is the pure vacuous space of the divine understanding that like an ocean of light contains these innumerable worlds which like the countless waves of the sea are revolving for ever in it yoga vasistha 3 30 16 17 88 there are many other large worlds rolling through the immense space of vacuum as the giddy goblins of yakshas revel about in the dark and dismal deserts and forests unseen by others yoga vasistha 3 30 34 89 you know one universe living entities are born in many universes like mosquitoes in many udumbara cluster fig fruits garga samhita 1 2 28 90 see also edit brahmaloka hindu calendar hindu creationism hindu eschatology 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