Creation

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My humble question to the learned assambly of devotees.

 

According to SB, Canto 2 & 3 there are ten stages of material creation:

 

> I-VI SARGA(PRAKRTA); VII-X VISARGA(VAIKRTA).

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> I. SARGA (PRAKRTA)

> Creation of PRADHANA ("brahman"because coming from brahman), then due to

> presence of Lord manifests interaction of 3 GUNAS => mahat-tattva ;

> -

> II.

>

> 1) Lord glances (Sambhu) on pradhana and sends there:

>

> -KALA (3 GUNAS developing in action)

> -JIVAs with their

> -KARMA and

> -SVABHAVA.

>

> 2) Pradhana is being agitated (becomes MAHAT-TATTVA) and produces AHANKARA

> (Lord Sankarsana,1000 headed Ananta).

>

> Ahankara interacts with 3 gunas:

>

> Sattva+Ahankara = VAIKARIKA(ego in godness)=> JNANA-SAKTI(material

> knowledge,jnanendriya and their deities ); MANAS(Lord Aniruddha)

>

> Rajas+Ahankara = TAIJASA(ego in passion)=> KRIYA-SAKTI(material

> activity,ability to act,karmendria and their directing deities);

> BUDDHI(Lord Pradyumna)

>

> Tamas+Ahankara = TAMASA(ego in darkness)=> DRAVYA-SAKTI(material

> elements);MATERIAL INGRIDIENTS(Lord Vasudeva).

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> III.

> Creation of objects of sence perseption (TAN-MATRA)=>giving birth to

> MATERIAL ELEMENTS, beggining from creation of SABDA TAN-MATRA(sound)=>

> KHAM(ether).

> (The activities and characteristics of the ethereal element can be

> observed as accommodation for the room for the external and internal

> existences of all living entities, namely the field of activities of the

> vital air, the senses and the mind.)=> organ of hearing, ears.

> (Why organ of hearing is on third stage as long as on second?)

>

> ETHER+KALA => SPARSA (object ot touch) => AIR => SENSE OF TOUCH;

> => FIRE

> => WATER

> => EARTH, all objects of sense perception with their corresponding

> material elements and indriyas appear.

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> IV. KNOWLWDGE and ABILITY TO ACT appears;

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> V. Sattva guna, from which mind is created giving birth to RULING

> DEMIGODS.

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> VI. Under influence of AVIDYA jivas fully forget about their relationships

> with the Lord and start acting as foolish.

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> VII. VISARGA (VAIKRTA)

> The seventh creation is that of the IMMOVABLE ENTITIES, which are of six

> kinds: the fruit trees without flowers, trees and plants which exist until

> the fruit is ripe, creepers, pipe plants, creepers which have no support,

> and trees with flowers and fruits.

> SB 3.10.20

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> VIII.

> The eighth creation is that of the LOWER SPECIES of life, and they are of

> different varieties, numbering twenty-eight. They are all extensively

> foolish and ignorant. They know their desirables by smell, but are unable

> to remember anything within the heart.

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> IX.

> The creation of the HUMAN BEINGS, who are of one species only and who

> stock their eatables in the belly, is the ninth in the rotation.

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> X.

> Creation of DEMIGODS.

> The creation of the demigods is of eight varieties: (1) the demigods, (2)

> the forefathers, (3) the asuras, or demons, (4) the Gandharvas and

> Apsaras, or angels, (5) the Yaksas and Raksasas, (6) the Siddhas, Caranas

> and Vidyadharas, (7) the Bhutas, Pretas and Pisacas, and (8) the

> superhuman beings, celestial singers, etc. All are created by Brahma, the

> creator of the universe.

>

 

Can somebody give an explanation (reference) about at which stage of the

process of creation unlimited universes coming out from Lord Maha Visnu's

body? How this fits in the above mentioned picture?

 

Your servant

Acyuta Priya das.