VEDANTA & SCIENCE
In the 2ND post on this theme, we read about the Big
Bang given to us by science to explain the process of creation.
In the subsequent posts, we
learnt about the process of creation which started with the cosmic vibration
AUM.
Here vedanta provides more clarity which Big Bang theory is not able to provide when we left the Big Bang post with an unresolved question - From where did Big Bang arise? From where did the singular energy arise during Big Bang, from which the creation emerged?
Vedanta says- When Brahman became aware of Himself/ itself and with that awareness, the vibration came, then out of that vibration, the initial energy for creation (Prakriti) emerged.
The vibration explained above is actually not sound at gross level of our understanding of sound, the vibration is the awareness of Brahman.
For easier understanding and for us to meditate and reach that Brahman after transcending every possible experience in meditation, the vibration is defined / explained as AUM in vedanta!
Various school of thoughts on creation
The astronomers and the astrologers opine that it is all Time factor that is operating everywhere and there cannot be any other cause of the world than the movement of Time in various ways creating different conditions and situations.
Vedanta says- When Brahman became aware of Himself/ itself and with that awareness, the vibration came, then out of that vibration, the initial energy for creation (Prakriti) emerged.
The vibration explained above is actually not sound at gross level of our understanding of sound, the vibration is the awareness of Brahman.
For easier understanding and for us to meditate and reach that Brahman after transcending every possible experience in meditation, the vibration is defined / explained as AUM in vedanta!
Various school of thoughts on creation
The astronomers and the astrologers opine that it is all Time factor that is operating everywhere and there cannot be any other cause of the world than the movement of Time in various ways creating different conditions and situations.
The materialists are of the
opinion that matter is everything and there is no such thing as Consciousness,
and even if the latter is conceded, it is only an exudation of matter.
The Mimamsakas, or ritualists,
think that the potency of Karma, called Adrishta, is the real cause of the
world-manifestation, and nothing can exist other than Karma, as the operative
cause.
The Samkhyas hold that the
cause of the world is Prakriti in conjunction with Purusha, and the diversity
of the world is only the evolution of Prakriti.
The Yoga school posits an
Isvara in addition to Prakriti and the many Purushas of the Samkhya, because it
is impossible to conceive of the dispensation of justice and the proper
allocation of the fruits of the Karmas of Jivas if there is no such Being who
is independent of Prakriti and the Purushas.
The Vedanta school of dualism
(Dvaita) accepts the supremacy of God above all things, making the Goal within
the aspirations of the Jivas, unlike Samskhya and the Yoga, but never thinks
that there is any intrinsic relation among God, the world and the souls.
According to them, the relation is only extrinsic.
The Visishta-Advaita school of Vedanta accepts the intrinsic relationship existing among God, the world and the souls, making the latter two integral parts of Isvara, in the manner of qualifications, or Viseshanas, of Isvara, who is the Substance.
The Visishta-Advaita school of Vedanta accepts the intrinsic relationship existing among God, the world and the souls, making the latter two integral parts of Isvara, in the manner of qualifications, or Viseshanas, of Isvara, who is the Substance.
The Advaita-Vedanta does not
accept any relationship at all, because it never feels that there are three
things as God, world and soul.
For it, the Truth is one and whatever appears in this world is only the way of the revelation of this one Truth.
That is, There is only one Truth ( sathyam) which is Infinite ( Anantham) and there is no creation except this Truth or in other words, The entire creation is only this Truth which we learnt in an earlier post through the example of boulder where we concluded that the continuum of energy never died at all, never modified itself at all, never use any other thing as tool or matter at all to create the stone and therefore, at the subtlest level, the TRUTH is that only that energy exists ( In human life, only the TRUTH - DIVINITY/ SELF/ CONSCIOUSNESS exists)
For it, the Truth is one and whatever appears in this world is only the way of the revelation of this one Truth.
That is, There is only one Truth ( sathyam) which is Infinite ( Anantham) and there is no creation except this Truth or in other words, The entire creation is only this Truth which we learnt in an earlier post through the example of boulder where we concluded that the continuum of energy never died at all, never modified itself at all, never use any other thing as tool or matter at all to create the stone and therefore, at the subtlest level, the TRUTH is that only that energy exists ( In human life, only the TRUTH - DIVINITY/ SELF/ CONSCIOUSNESS exists)
In the subsequent posts, let
us try and understand the Samkhya theory of creation in detail and then at the
end, try and compare and synchronize Samkhya with Vedantha theory of creation.
Love.
