Creation of the Universe - Part 2

HOW CREATION CAME INTO EXISTENCE

Swami said,

For the time being, we will save the above Swami’s saying in our heart and go on to try and understand the most convincing theory which science has given to the mankind for the creation of the universe, so far.

Big Bang Theory - The Premise

The Big Bang theory is an effort to explain what happened at the very beginning of our universe. Discoveries in astronomy and physics have shown beyond a reasonable doubt that our universe did in fact have a beginning.

Prior to that moment there was nothing; during and after that moment there was something: our universe. The big bang theory is an effort to explain what happened during and after that moment.

According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into existence as "singularity" around 13.7 billion years ago.

They are thought to exist at the core of "black holes". Black holes are areas of intense gravitational pressure. The pressure is thought to be so intense that finite matter is actually squished into infinite density (a mathematical concept which truly boggles the mind).

These zones of infinite density are called "singularities." Our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitesimally small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense, something - a singularity. Where did it come from? We don't know. Why did it appear? We don't know.

After its initial appearance, it apparently inflated (the "Big Bang"), expanded and cooled, going from very, very small and very, very hot, to the size and temperature of our current universe.

It continues to expand and cool to this day and we are inside of it: incredible creatures living on a unique planet, circling a beautiful star clustered together with several hundred billion other stars in a galaxy soaring through the cosmos, all of which is inside of an expanding universe that began as an infinitesimal singularity which appeared out of nowhere for reasons unknown. This is the Big Bang theory.

• At 10 (-43) seconds after birth- (1 m of trillion  of1 trillion  of a second), a big bang was heard.

• Tiniest drops of primordial cosmic soup with incredible energy locked inside the same came into being with the big bang.

• There was cosmic oneness inside this soup. This one started becoming many.

• Within barely 10(-11) seconds, the quarks had elaborated to make enough protons and neutrons n nuclei of first few elements had been formed.

• Most of the helium nuclei in the universe   were produced within a minute after birth.

• First atoms came into existence about a hundred thousand years later.

• After that stars and galaxies were born.

However, the big bang theory has no answer for the following questions.

From where the tiny drops of cosmic soup came into existence? 

What is the energy/source which created even this cosmic soup?

What existed before big bang occurred? As per this theory, Prior to this Big Bang where the tiny drops of cosmic slip first came into existence, there was nothing which existed. How this is possible? How can a thing come into existence without any cause? How can something arise out of nothing? 

So, if this Big Bang, the appearance of finest drop of cosmic energy owes its appearance to some cause, then what is that cause, which has no matter, as the first matter to have appeared as per this theory is this cosmic soup? 

Why this Big Bang has to happen after all? Who is the cause and why and how He/ THAT willed that this Big Bang should occur and the cosmic soup should emerge and then through a process, Atoms, Stars and galaxies should emerge?

Let us get back to our vedas to seek answer to these questions and to more convincing theory for creation of this universe and also, to have the most satisfactory  answer to “Who is the God who created the universe? If God created the universe, then how God himself was created?” Etc

Love.

Swami Krishnananda

Further on "Why we should know about creation?"

Dear All,

Daily, after the post is scheduled, the author reads the post in the morning not as the author himself but as a normal reader who is fully engrossed in this material world and is not 100% focused on these spiritual aspects.

Thus, after reading today's post as a normal reader, it comes from within that the relevance of knowing about creation needs to be explained further and hence, this post.

1) If we are clear from  day 1 of our first birth that we are divine, then there is no chance of our perceiving about ourselves as an Individual, with Ego, with Mind. 

2) How ever, if  we had realized that we are God in the first instance, we would not have undergone several births and deaths, we would not have carried karma in this birth for which we are suffering or enjoying. 

3) So, on getting  up in the morning, we are very much aware that we are an individual, so and so, son/daughter of so and so, living in such and such place, working in such and such company, having so and so children.... So and so forth.

4) Here, in the above 3rd Point, we have to observe one thing. All the identity or most of the identity that we are perceiving, except the identity that I am so and so,  are born out of our association with various other individuals/object in this world.

5) To make it further clear, suppose we are alone in an island with no other object or human being at all, then would we be thinking much of our identity? We would be just roaming around, plucking fruits from trees, eating, then sleeping and just existing like that. We would neither think about the world nor about the creator of this world.

6)So, we are clear about one thing. Our Identity, our ego is relevant only in the context of the society, the world and its beings, otherwise, there is no need or relevance for us to think any thing about us other than knowing that we are having a body and we are existing. In an Island, living alone, even our name has no relevance.

7) So, the point driven here is "OUR EGO HAS IMPORTANCE ONLY IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS CREATION AND ITS OBJECTS".

8) Thus the world or creation has become important for our ego. 

9) Next thing that assumes importance is " Who created me and this world"?

Recently, one of the devotees asked the author to record Bhava nasha Bhajan and send it to her. 

In the Bhajan, there is a line "Mohana kara mana moha vinasha".

MOHANA KARA

Thus, in the context of our ego, we need to know first ( to like, to develop liking, mohana kara), why we are developing this ego, with connection to whom are we having this ego identity, how all these beings have come up in this creation, in connection to whom we are having this ego and ultimately, why and how this creation has come up at all?

MANA MOHA VINASHA

Ultimately, as a Tamil saint said, " Even theft has to be learnt and then given up," the purpose of human birth and spiritual sadhana is to renounce everything, to give up everything . In this giving up process, ultimately the knowledge of this universe, the concept of creation of this universe, the concept of creator or Iswara and lastly, the concept of ourselves, we the individual with this body, this mind, this intellect, these impressions, even this identity has to leave us for us to sing " AHAM NIRVIKALPO NIRAKARA ROOPAH..........  SHIVOHAM SHIVOHAM".

This giving up of creator, created, creation and our jiva hood, our ego is MOHA VINASHA(Annihilation of all attachments, all delusions)!

Praying to Sai that with this post, the relevance of creation is clear to all the readers, in what ever level they are in their spiritual  Journey.

Love