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The Fundamental Cause behind the World appearance

The universe appears in continuous cycle of creation and destruction. In different cycles, it moves in a uniform way. Rg Veda X-190-3, says, ”Just as God created the sun, the earth, the moon, the electricity, the atmosphere in the previous cycle. So has He done in the present, and so will He do in the future. His work is all flawless and absolutely with out any error."

The universe runs in a cyclic order.

1- First there is a period of formation
2- There is a period when it is sustained and
3- The period of destruction
4-A void before the formation of new universe.

During this period, space particles subsist and it is from this, all the matter within the new world is found. This is the fundamental cause of entire physical world. The creation has neither a beginning, nor an end. As you know that night precedes the day and the day precedes the night. Day and night follow each other. So creation follows dissolution and dissolution follows creation. Both precede each other. Prior to formation, particular universe comes in a state of emptiness where all its material elements exist in form of potential as space particles. This has been the eternal process. So universe has neither a beginning nor an end. Universe is eternally in Pravah (flow), following each other in alternative succession. It is clear that a single definite beginning is highly problematic and unscientific.

It should be remembered that the world is constructed of five elements – Ether, earth, water, fire and air. Space or ether is the supportive element. Akash or space is never created. It is a non-material substrate of universe. It is the supportive element that enables the functioning of all other elements. Space is not total nothingness but a medium of empty particles but not already formed material realities.

The process of generation proceeds from the subtle level to the gross and that of dissolution from the gross to the subtle. The process of generation occurs in order of Air, Fire, water, Earth and back into empty particles of space. The process of dissolution occurs in the reverse order – earth, water, fire and air and back to space.

It is thus clear that before man, the earth was created first so that man could live and maintain life

Do Various Theories Harmonize?

There are a number of accounts of wavelike unending process as to how universe came to exist and they harmonize.

The description of Creation in the six Shastras

The Meemansa says that,” Nothing in this world can be produced without proper application. It stresses on action and application. The Vaishesaki says that, ”Nothing can be done or made without expenditure of time.”  It emphasizes time. The Nyaya says that, ”Nothing can be produced without material cause.” It emphasizes parmanus or atoms. Yoga stresses upon conscious exertion, requisite skill or knowledge and Sankhya says, ”Nothing can be made without definite combination of atoms where as Vedanta says that nothing can be made without a Maker.

Thus six different causes have been described, one each in one Shastra. Swami Dayananda asserts that the descriptions do not contradict as all these things are required in the creation together and have been pointed out one by one to complete the requirements.

– Continued

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