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Pralaya, or laya, (Sanskrit, "dissolution") is a term in Hindu comprehension that conveys all appearance is subject dissolution, but not to destruction, because dissolution leads to recreation.
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Pralaya -- A non-mental, non- astral, non- material state of existence somewhere between death and rebirth, where the life impulse is in abeyance. An experience of perfect peace and unending bliss prior to taking the next incarnation.
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Pralaya (Sans.) Dissolution, the opposite of Manvantara, one being the period of rest and the other of full activity ( death and life) of a planet, or of the whole universe. Prana (Sans.) Life Principle, the breath of life, Nephesh.
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217:4 Pralaya, the destruction of the world. 217:5 Benares (see note 1.) 217:6 Great Īśvarī (see note 2).
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Asuras, of all that seem to be working against Ishvara - these are the forces that call out the inner strength of the Self in man, by struggling with which the forces of Atma within the man are developed, and without which he would remain in Pralaya ...
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Thus while a "Day" and a "Night" represent, as Manvantara and Pralaya, 8,640,000,000 years, an "age" lasts through a period of 311,040,000,000,000; after which the Pralaya or dissolution of the universe becomes universal.
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The whole thing is unfortunately made much more obscure and absurd by dividing each of the seven cosmic cycles into seven (each with it's own small pralaya), and each of those in turn into seven, and each of those in turn into seven, ...
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 See also: World, Spirit, Spiritual, Plane, Sun
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