Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, February 21, 2021. 03:53. PM. Chapter I : SECOND BRAHMANA: THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-5. Post-5. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, this cosmological process, the development of the effect from the cause, gradually, from the Universal Being, down to the lowest of diverse elements – this it is that is described here in this Br?hma?a, which says that originally nothing was, from where the element of distinction between the subject and the object, characterised by a double activity of grasping and separation, was evolved, and then arose the Cosmic Mind, Hira?yagarbha. Here is a passage of great significance from the point of view of philosophical technique employed in the understanding of the relation between the individual and the Universal. This which is a symbolic sta

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, February 11, 2021. 10:43. AM. Chapter I : SECOND BRAHMANA: THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-4. Post-4. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the Sankhya and the Vedantaam cosmological descriptions, we have certain grades mentioned of the coming out of the effect from the cause. Before we go further into the difficulties envisaged in these passages of the Upani?hads, it is better to understand the evolutionary principles as initiated in the Sankhya and the Vedanta. The Sankhya tells us that there was an original condition where everything was potent, though not patent. Everything was hidden, though not expressed. Everything was in a universal causal state. That is regarded as the non-existent, dark, undeveloped, indivisible state of things. That is called Prakriti in the S??kh

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, February 08, 2021. 08:42. AM. Chapter I : SECOND BRAHMANA: THE CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE-3. Post-3. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, this peculiarity, whatever we may call it, whatever designation may be applied to it, is the cause of the distinction of the effect from the cause, and that becomes the first breeding ground for the further multifarious division we see in the form of this vast creation. The moment this creation begins, the moment there is the potency released for the external expression of what was hiddenly present in the cause, there is a catastrophic change taking place. And, this is the urge for creation, the urge for diversity, multiplicity, colour, sound, activity, etc. This characteristic of self-division is called M?tyu (death principle), that which destroys