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Re: Expansion verses Creation

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sureshsmr • Fri May 03 2002 - 07:29:15 PDT 


Namaste,

According to our Sri Ramanuja darshanam, This Entire Universe is the 
body of God or Sriman Narayana.
As the Lord is beginningless, this universe consisting of living and 
non living things, being His body is also eternal.
The Purusha suktam clearly states that this Universe forms one 
portion of the Lord and the other three portions are beyond human 
comprehension and divine.

In the dhyana slokam of Sri vishnu sahasranamam "Anthastham yasya 
vishvam sura nara khaga go..." it is said that this vishva or 
universe including the devathas, humans, etc., are all in Him and He 
has all the three worlds as His body.

The Swethaswatara Upanishad (4:5) states that : " The Prakriti, the 
soul and God all of them are uncreated.they are the cause of the 
whole universe.They have no cause of the whole universe and have been 
existing eternally.The etarnal soul enjoys the etarnal matter and is 
wrapped up in it while God neither enjoys it nor is He wrapped in it."


Lord Krishna in the BG (2-28) clearly states that All created beings 
are unmanifested in the beginning, Manifested in the interim and will 
be unmanifested again after annihilation.

>From All this it is clear that Jivas and Jagat are beginningless 
entities and they are inseperable from God, exist in God as His 
Shareeram or Body.

The Unmanifested state is something beyond time (or where time comes 
to a stand still).It is something which we can never think with our 
minds.At the beginning of the Kalpa, the Lord brings out the universe 
into its manifest form and Space,time,Name and Form will start from 
this point.
Thus Creation as explained earlier is the merciful act of Srinam 
Narayana who gives a manifested form to this Universe to enable we 
Jivas to work out our Karmas.As long as we have the Ahankara and 
Mamakara in us we will be bound by the Karma.

Namo Sriman Narayana

Suresh



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