Floods from the Kosi River took a toll of hundreds; villages were [literally] wiped out. But the destruction could not be averted. Such disasters are on a small scale, limited to specific areas. If there is war and atom bombs are used, all nations will be involved [affected]. There will be floods and earthquakes, and no remedy can be suggested for such calamities.
It is said about atom bombs that they create widespread earthquakes. In the case of atomic warfare, there is a possibility of the Earth's outer crust cracking. As a result of the experiments of testing the atom and hydrogen bomb, a whole island [part of the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean] disappeared within five minutes. This happened because the origin of matter is gas. I have written about it in my book. When matter is vaporized, space and gas have three factors. The world, crores [tens of millions] of years old, can be destroyed in seven days. How long-lasting is this world, and how many times has it been formed and wiped out?
Many a world has gone, and this too will go. To take its place, another world is being made ready. Three-fourths of it is already ready, one-fourth remains to be formed. If this world is destroyed today, evolution will start in another. Evolution consists of a fixed process of ages — stone age, vegetable age, worm age, and so forth. If this world is destroyed today, an interval will remain, but by natural processes new life in a new world will take millions of years to materialize. Millions of years are required for another world to come into being.
Natural and unnatural catastrophes come in cycles [of time], not in ages. A cycle is made up of so many ages. Just as after four years a leap year occurs, and a day is added for calculation purposes instead of adding a fraction of a day monthly — similarly this destruction will mean leaping millions of years. There is no question of time. Millions of years mean one second, because there is nothing such as time .
Think [Suppose] Elcha's age is 40. [Looking at Elcha, Baba asked him] Do 40 years exist for you now? You can understand 40 years, but not at this moment. Why? Because there is no question of time.