# Types of Annihilation Sukadeva Goswami outlined four main types of annihilation that occur. Firstly, there is occasional annihilation (*naimittika*) which is the destruction of the universe (during the night) after a ‘day of Brahma.’ At this time the universes are absorbed within the body of the Lord while Brahma sleeps. Secondly, there is elemental annihilation (*prakrtika*) which takes place after Brahma’s life of one hundred years. Aside from these universal annihilations, is the ultimate annihilation (*atyantika*). This occurs when the individual soul awakens his spiritual consciousness and gains liberation from material encagement. For those still absorbed in bodily consciousness, there is the experience of constant annihilation (*nityada*), or the repeated birth and death of the material body that all conditioned souls experience. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://bhagavata.keshavaswami.com/canto-12/n.a.m.e/a-annihilation-4-7/types-of-annihilation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.