The Sleep the Universe Needed

Between one universe ending and the next one starting, there is nothing but water.

There is no land, no light, and no time worth counting.

Vishnu floats on it, asleep, coiled on the endless snake Ananta.

Whose sleep it is

That sleep is not carelessness.

It is Yoganidra herself, the Goddess in her form as cosmic rest, wrapped around him like the pause between two breaths.

She is holding the next beginning of the universe inside her until it is time.