Vivekananda on the Vedas (part 70)

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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA ON THE VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

By Sister Gayatriprana

part 70

 

d) The Aryan Perception of the Process of Creation

1. Creation Is Without Beginning or End

The Vedas assert that the universe is infinite in space and eternal in duration. It never had a beginning, and it will never have an end. (30)

The Hindus received their religion through the revelation of the Vedas which teach that creation is without beginning or end. (31)

The ancient sages did not believe in a creation [out of nothing]. A creation implies producing something out of nothing. That is impossible. There was no beginning of creation as there was no beginning of time. God and creation are as two lines without end, without beginning, and parallel. Our theory of creation is, "It is, it was, and is to be." (32)

[The spiritual laws comprising the Vedas] may be said to be without end as laws, but they must have had a beginning. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning and without end. Science is said to have proved that the sum total of cosmic energy is always the same. Then, if there was a time when nothing existed, where was all this manifested energy? Some say it was in a potential form of God. In that case, God is sometimes potential and sometimes kinetic, which would make Him or Her mutable. Everything mutable is a compound, and everything compound must undergo that change which is called destruction. So God would die, which is absurd. So there never was a time when there was no creation. (33)

Creation is without beginning - this is the doctrine of the Vedas. So long as there is a God, there is creation as well. (34)

 

Cross reference to:

Cha. Up., 6.2.2

Gita 3.24