Summarizing Creation Posts (Contd...)
We then went to
learn the creation process as per sankhya yoga which are shown through diagram
in this post.
Explanation of
each aspect from Purusha upto the sense organs have been explained from post 13
onwards.
The 4 stages in
panchadasi:
4 Stages in Pure Canvas -
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| Pure canvas without any beginning and without any end. |
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| The pure canvass as shown in the first diagram has been been stiffened by starch for making it suitable for painting. |
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| A light sketch in some form on this stiffened canvas is drawn, which is barely visible and indistinctly cognisable as to its real features. |
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| The lines that have been drawn are filled with ink in different colors as would be necessary to present the requisite picturesque scene. |
4 Stages of Creation
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| The featureless transparency of the universality of Consciousness which existed alone, without any will, now gets concentrated with the willingness to create!! |
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| Brahman manifests itself as Ishvara who then becomes Hiranyagarbha, where the subtle cosmos can be faintly seen as an outline drawn to present the actual shape of the visible cosmos. |
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| All the colours and the phantasms that we see in this cosmos is God filling in the variety of ink, as it were, on this outline that He has drawn in the state of Hiranyagarbha. |
So these are the four stages of creation, almost similar to the four stages of the painting of a picture on the canvas.
As per
Gita (and as in vedantha), the exposition is as under:
In the sankhya,
Purusha and Prakriti, where Prakriti is not different from Purusha but only the
primordial matter of the Purusha existing as spirit, are understood to be
responsible for the creation,
If that be so,
where were this Purusha and Prakriti (or the identity of Purusha as Spirit and
Matter) before the creation took place?
Sankhya maintains
that purusha and prakriti were / are eternal and were not caused by anything.
Vedanta gives the
answer, which aligns with the flow given above:
“Purusha (as
described in the traditional sankhya philosophy) and Prakriti are both
latent in the Supreme. At the time of creation, they became operative”.
At last, the
comparison of vedantha/ sankhya and panchadasi were depicted thus:
SANKHYA
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BHAGWAD
GITA/ VEDANTHA
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PANCHADASI
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Primal cause, beyond Manifest and
un-manifest
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Not explained
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Purushottama/ Prabrahman
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Pure canvass/ Purusha
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Un-manifest cause
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Purusha
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Purusha and prakriti
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Stiffening of canvass-
Iswara
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Manifest cause
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Prakriti and Mahat
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Hiranyagarbha
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Outline of Drawing-Hiranya
garbha
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Manifest creation
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Ahankara and all Subsequent tatwa
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Same as Sankhya
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Inked Drawings- Objects created in the
universe
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Love.
