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Re: Brahman's omnipresence after cosmic dissolution

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jayasartn • Tue Aug 27 2002 - 00:23:42 PDT 


SRIMATHE RAMANUJAYA NAMAHA.

Dear sri Pradeep,
I agree with your explanation.
Elsewhere (i am not able recall in whch text exactly)the Lord has 
said that'curving back upon myself, I create again and again'
In a snake-like fountain of energy, spewing forth and coiling back is 
what we can visualise about creation and delusion.
Maharishi Mahesh yogi conceptualises krishna as the massive black 
hole which according to one version of scienc, will gobble up the 
entire universe at the time of Maha pralaya.
Even at the beginning of creation, the chaturmukha Brahma doing tapas 
to make craetion happen, is likened to the 'heating up'-the initial 
churning to facilitate quintuplication of gross elements.

According to texts 3types of pralaya are taking place.
(1)The continuing pralaya - every day people or some life form 
dying / withering
(2)that which takes place at the end of a kalpa, namely at the end of 
a day of Brahma.
 what happens then is 
#the first 3 worlds, viz., bhuloka, bhuvarloka &suvar loka get 
destroyed.
# the 4th one, the Maharloka is partly destroyed and partly 
undestroyed and teh beings there shift to the next higher world, 
which is janoloka. The ,ast ,namely, Jano, Tapo and satya loka do not 
get destroyed in teh 2nd type of pralaya.
during this 2nd pralaya, after destriying the 3 worlds , the Lord is 
said to take the form of a child, Balakrishna, on a peepal leaf.
# the 3rd and the last type of pralaya takes place at the end of the 
life of Brahma. at this state, all beings, the chetanas and achetanas 
rest in sukshma form in the Lord.The Lord alon eremains, with 
jivatmas an dmatter, lying in Him, in subtle form, undifferentiared.

The 2 questions raised by sri ram kumar have no relevance at this 
state.  
There is no talk of shrinking or growing small in size.
We can not spot a single word in sribhashya to Vedanta surtas,to tell 
that the Lord grew big etc, at the time of creation. All that is said 
is He bacme many. Ramanuja uses the words very carefully. similarly 
it is to be assumed that no shrinking takes palce at pralaya. All the 
qualities of the Brahman continue to be there at pralaya as at 
creation. The only difference pertains to whether It is manifested or 
not. it must then be assumed that even the kaala-desa parimANam (the 
time-space continum)and other dimensions remain unmanifested and not 
destroyed or shrunk. This is something beyond our perception. To our 
mortal and finite brains, praalya resembles the existence of a 
massive black hole (krishnaarpaNam).

jayasree sarnathan.



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