Q. When I look up at the sky at night from my rooftop and see so many stars, I often think how this amazing world came into being? Did it happen all by itself? Was it always there or was it actually created by some very superior force or being?

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A: This world is full of wonderful manifestations like great mountains, vast oceans, large rivers and huge waterfalls, varieties of trees, animals, birds, insects, reptiles and human beings. This is only one planet that you are able to see. There are fourteen planetary systems like this in total.

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They are - Bhooh (Earth) and six heavenly planets above this known as Bhuvah, Svah, Mahah, Janah, Tapah and Satyam occupied by high caliber living beings. Below our planet Earth, there are seven hellish planets named as Atala, Vitala, Sutala, Talatala, Mahatala, Rasatala and Patala populated by demons, snakes and other evil beings. All the above planets together are known as a universe and there are multi-million universes.

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All these did not happen all by themselves. These universes have been created by a Creator, a sentient being with super-intelligence called God, Krishna. Wherever you find anything created, it must have a creator. This is the logic. The Vedas, the greatest source of all perfect knowledge, give abundant information about both the Creator and the Creation. The summary of Vedic information is contained in the Shrimad Bhagavat Gita.

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The Creator, the Supreme Lord of lords, Shri Krishna, speaks all about this in brief in the following verses (9.7, 8 and 10) of the Gita:

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"O son of Kunti, at the end of the millennium, all material manifestations enter into My nature, and at the beginning of another millennium, by My potency, I create them again."

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"The whole cosmic order is under Me. Under My will, it is automatically manifested again and again, and under My will, it is annihilated at the end."

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"This material nature, which is one of My energies, is working under My direction, O son of Kunti, producing all moving and nonmoving beings. Under its rule, this manifestation is created and annihilated, again and again."