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ality of Godhead. “At the end of the millennium” means at the death of Brahmā. Brahmā lives for one hundred years, and his one day is calculated at 4,300,000,000 of our earthly years. His night is of the same duration. His month consists of thirty such days and nights, and his year of twelve months. After one hundred such years, when Brahmā dies, the devastation or annihilation takes place; this means that the energy manifested by the Supreme Lord is again wound up in Himself. Then again, when there is need to manifest the cosmic world, it is done by His will: “Although I am one, I shall become many.” This is the Vedic aphorism. He expands Himself in this material energy, and the whole cosmic manifestation again takes place.
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प्रकृतिं स्वामवष्टभ्य विरजामि पुनः पुनः । भूतग्राममिमं कृत्स्नमवशं प्रकृतेर्वशात् ॥ ८ ॥
prakṛtiṁ svām avaṣṭabhya viṣṛjāmi punaḥ punaḥ bhūta-grāmam imaṁ kṛtsnam avaśaṁ prakṛter vaśāt
prakṛtim —material nature;  svām —of My personal self;  avaṣṭabhya —enter in;  visṛjāmi —create;  punaḥ punaḥ —again, again;  bhūta-grāmam —all these cosmic manifestations;  imam —this;  kṛtsnam —total;  avaśam —automatically;  prakṛteḥ —by the force of nature;  vaśāt —under obligation.
TRANSLATION
The whole cosmic order is under Me. By My will it is manifested again and again, and by My will it is annihilated at the end.
PURPORT
This matter is the manifestation of the inferior energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This has already been explained several times. At the creation, the material energy is let loose as  mahat-tattva , into which the Lord as His first  Puruṣa  incarnation, Mahā-Viṣṇu, enters. He lies within