Brahmam and Maya…
Thursday, December 19th, 2013
Brahmam and Maya have neither any beginning nor any end… Both eternally coexist. Clearing many a doubt of earnest spiritual seekers, Bhagawan presented a final question and answer in Sandeha Nivarini, His ‘Own” ’treatise’ on clearing doubts of devotees, about a possible ‘primordial’ Ishwara Sankalpa, that might have caused the creation, the act of Nirguna becoming Saguna…
Devotee: How can it be said the Maya has no origin or hethu? Just as the potter’s handiwork is the hethu for the clay to take the form of the pot, the Sankalpa of Iswara is essential for the force latent in Brahmam to become patent.
Bhagawan: In the final dissolution, or Mahapralaya, Iswara too will become non-existent. Brahmam alone will exist, isn’t it? Then, how can the Sankalpa of Iswara be the hethu? It cannot be. While considering this subject, you should not take Brahma, Vishnu and Iswara as three separate entities. These three are forms shaped by the three gunas. All three are One Paramatma. But, since it is difficult to understand the working of the world, it is explained and grasped as three; three forms engaged in three types of actions, bearing three names. At the time of creation, dissolution is absent. Both can coexist only beyond time. Man who exists in time, action and cause can never hope to grasp it. When you transcend the three gunas, you too can attain that, but, not till then. So, without spending time in such un-understandable problems, engage yourself in the things you urgently need, traversing the path, which will lead you to the Goal.
II Samastha Lokah Sukhino Bhavantu II
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