PraLayams

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In a message dated 11/4/99 12:07:58 PM Pacific Standard Time,

sampathkumar_2000 writes:

 

<< Sir, adiyen has one more related question

> re:"pralayam". Are there any passages in Vedas

> related

> to pralayam? We know "purusha-suktam" which is a

> great

> hymn appearing in all the 4 vedas. Generally,

> 'purusha-suktam" is known to be a primordial hymn

> that

> is Veda's eye-witness account of the process of

> Cosmic

> Creation. Similarly, is there a hymn in the Vedas

> that

> speaks of "pralayam" -- a Vedic eye-witness account

> of

> cosmic dissolution? >>

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The Nasadiya Sukta (Rigveda 10.129.1-7) is the best account of Pralaya in the

Vedas. There cannot be any 'eye witness' account as such because there are no

eyes in the state of Mahapralaya and the Jivas are put 'to deep slumber' by

Brahman. The nature of Pralaya can be fathomed only from the Sastras, and is

very mysterious. Which is why, the last mantra of the Nasadiya Sukta puts

poetically:

 

"Iyam visristhi yat aababhuva yadi va dadhey yad va na|

Yo asyadhakshyah pareamey vyomantso anga veda va na veda||

 

The mantra does not mean that even God does not know what existed before the

creation manifested, rather it means that the state of the Universe before it

came into being is unfathomable by human mind.

 

(The Taittiriya Brahman repeats this entire sukta and adds two famous mantras

which declare that Brahman indeed is the efficient and the material cause of

Brahmanda. The second of these is quoted by Sri Ramanuja in Sri Bhasya

Adhyaya 1, Pada 4 in the adhikarana starting with the sutra 'Prakrtischa

drishtanta.....")

 

Regards

 

Vishal

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On this subject, VAgarwalV wrote:

> The Nasadiya Sukta (Rigveda 10.129.1-7) is the best

> account of Pralaya in the

> Vedas. There cannot be any 'eye witness' account as

> such because there are no

> eyes in the state of Mahapralaya and the Jivas are

> put 'to deep slumber' by

> Brahman.

 

Sir, thank you very much for this piece of

information. It is very very useful.

 

If there were no eye-witnesses to pralayam adiyen is

wondering how the Azhwar sang about it

"aalamA-marathinil-illai mEl oru bAlaganAy..."! From

hearsay, eye-witness account or pure imagination? Just

a curious thought.

dAsan,

Sampathkumaran

 

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