Creation cycles eternally through water and desiccation, as confirmed by both ancient scripture and observable geological evidence.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Morning Walk [partially recorded] — May 16, 1971, Sydney 710516MW-SYDNEY [03:41 Minutes] Walk_710516MW-SYDNEY Prabhupāda: …stones shows that there was water. [break] Shape of the stone indicates that there was water fall. Devotee: One time though the ocean was this high. [break] Prabhupāda: Actually, before planet was covered with water. Pralaya-payodhi-jale dhṛtavān asi vedam [Śrī Daśāvatāra Stotra 1].
It's going down, water. Now the one fourth dried up, and gradually the remaining three fourths will be dried. There will be no water. Devotee: Is that when Kṛṣṇa incarnated as a fish? Was that on this planet? Prabhupāda: Yes, when there was pralaya.
This is the way how creation carries on. [break] "...these Oriental people, we have to kill their culture." They followed the same policy in India. [break] ...lost. Devotee: [indistinct] is this? Prabhupāda: Very old? [break] ...there is any beach in the world. Devotee: It's like California little bit, but not so much anxiety. [break]
Prabhupāda: So gradually the ocean water is also being dried up. It is evidenct that water was here. [break] Eating more?
Prabhupāda: We are also research scholars. Everything we are. [break] Suppose when the water was here. Here there was water.
That's a fact. Then so much water reduced, again reduced, again reduced, again reduced, many thousands of years. [break] ...not by birth. [break] Nāmācārya. Ācārya for preaching name.