Here is the disclaimer - What I am about to say is just an attempt to connect the dots and complete the logical picture!

I do believe that the grand hand of the divinity has a definite place in the creation of the universe, mankind and other species. For me, the holy trinity would ideally consist of

1.the divine energy - Adi Para Sakthi,

2. souls (male or female or others) and

3. the Prakruti itself.  

But other forces of shaping also prevailed such as evolution and involution. We have to again view evolution in the context of the Prakruti and in the context of the other souls!

I am currently unable to think of a proper logical sequencing of events that happened, at the point of ‘Big Bang’, But I do have certain opinions about how things started getting in place. I pray to the almighty Adi Para Sakthi and the protagonist’s team to guide me to write about the truths/facts only, as much as possible.

1.      Adi Para Sakthi existed for eternity and is still ruling over us.

2.      The first aspect of creation was MAHAT or the canvas of dark energy and dark matter.

3.      Certain things might have started in parallel such as-

a.      Evolution of Prakruti

b.      Evolution of the living forces

From here on, the below set of events might have happened in any sequence or as parallel events

4. As part of evolution of the Prakruthi, the below creation steps might have happened.

        

   Please refer to my article on – The Construct of the Universe – Part 2 -https://www.mayoan.com/post/10-the-construct-of-the-universe-part-2

I quote from that article:

As per some contents of puranas I have come across, the dissolution of the

universe during the pralaya (deluge) time happens as follows:

• First the deluge (water) appears and breaks the earth - Earth is gone

• Next fire vaporises water - Water is gone

• Then air removes fire and ashes - Fire is gone

• Then the space sucks in the air - Air is gone

• MAHAT removes the space - Space is gone

• Finally, MAHAT itself is gone (assuming most of the souls has experienced the great merge)

  
  

  In the creation, (say at the big bang), the reverse was expected to have happened during the creation of the Prakruti.

• First MAHAT is formed

• Next Space is drawn

• Air/Prana/Gases fills in the space adequately

• Fire follows Air

• Water follows Fire

• Earth forms over water

5.    All the cosmic grand events can be attributed to the above creation or dissolution related events! And we have to expect the 2nd and subsequent derivative actions besides the integrated effects from the combination of the above distinct events, some of which may be on a grand display in the cosmic canvas.

6.      Black holes may mean any of the below 2 events too:

a.      Glimpse into the continuum of dark energy/dark matter

b.      Glimpse into the nothingness wrapping Adi Para Sakthi

Both of the above can serve as a form of universal sinks. The first one can also

serve as a source.

7.    Adi Para Sakthi might have created Nithyasuris - Nithyasuris are eternally liberated souls in Hindu philosophy, particularly within the context of Vedanta, representing those who exist in a state of perpetual service to the divine. Nithyasuris can be considered as the governors of the universe. Initially they might have consisted of both the protagonist and the antagonist with equal strengths (ICCHA SAKTHI). They might have created their own teams and interests. Based on the learnings from the past creation cycles, protagonist might have been favoured more too. A hierarchy might have evolved among the nithyasuris during the formative years and power struggle would have happened both in the physical and mental realms. In the physical realm, great devastating wars would have been fought and in the mental realm, the good and evil forces may have used their respective ICCHA SAKTHIs to let loose , boons, curses and rules to gain control of the universe! Coupled with Maya (https://www.mayoan.com/post/38-work-of-maya-in-our-inner-faculties ) and the complete failure of order, no one perhaps could figure out who the real protagonist was and who the real antagonist was and in those formative years utter chaos and mayhem remained.

8.     The existence of nithyasuris may lead to some thoughts such as – the fast-expanding universe might not have evolved uniformly. The places where nithyasuris stayed would have matured fast to support their existence.

9.     Language was not existing and all communications among nithyasuris, at least, initially were happening up till the feeling/emotional layers (Pashyanti as per the vak system – please refer to https://www.mayoan.com/post/33-the-vak-system-or-the-system-of-speech-in-humans) only and were facial expressions/grunts of various kind just like the cave men of our lineage. This was the case at least till the nithyasuris understood about the act of meditation. Then probably they heard the Vedic hymns released by the big bang and arrived at the knowledge of creating a language as a platform to communicate. Eventually they were able to communicate better and as part of evolution, many alphabet systems and languages started developing too. From Shruti (what is heard), evolved the Smriti (what is memorized) form of language and eventually this too evolved into written format (palm leaf manuscripts) and then into the printed formats.

10.  Initially creation involved sexual union among the Nithyasuris to procreate. The idea of ‘soul’ was till then non-existent or not discovered. The sexual union, in an ad hoc way produced ‘soul’ too and attached it to the womb. Idea of ‘death’ or time was not existing for some more time. Some puranas also talk about other forms of creation such as –

• Manasa Shristi – Creation by thought

• Jarayavee Shristi – Creation by womb

• Anda Shristi – Creation by egg

• Swedaja Shristi – Creation from sweat

• Udbhijja Shristi – Creation from the sprouting of seeds

Eventually the creation also included evolution and other aspects such as cell divisions/aggregations supporting new forms/functions, the concept of the survival of the fittest, grafting as a means to reproduce, regeneration, development of the chakra system as part of involution and so on and so forth. In the formative years, the protagonists or the antagonists might have used their ICCHA SAKTHI too to support creation of the species’ that would aid them in their endeavours.

11.  The idea of discrimination and the subsequent idea about good and evil led to the idea of Karma, which then evolved into the idea of ‘soul’ as a permanent entity that can be used to account for good and bad karmas. All these measures and counter measures were set in place by the antagonist and the protagonist forces continuously which led to the proverbial good vs evil wars. The souls became permanent entity and they started dotting the universe at various places in various densities waiting for their place and time to take birth.

12.  At some point, time became a fundamental tenet of the universe, and the concept of death and reincarnation got in place.

13.  With death came the idea of involution, that subsequently led to the idea of the path to eternal liberation or ‘mukthi’.

14.  The spinning, expanding, forging, heating etc., forces started evolving the universe to a place where it is now. All this happened, while the tree of life was blossoming too. Good and evil forces started consolidating their positions in the animal kingdoms, plant kingdoms, marine kingdoms and in the bird kingdoms supporting the creation and evolution of various species of their kind. Similarly in a cosmic sense, various realms got associated with the good and evil forces. Probably, the fight was also taken to the microscopic worlds too.

15.  In the human form, the development of mental faculties and the corresponding maturity of the chakra system inside his body, made him walk erect from being a crouching species. Considering the wars between good and evil and the many great extinctions - both in the context of this earth and in the context of the universe, the creational aspects might have happened more than once with different degrees of maturity seen among the species in each creational phase. Evolution and involution might have been reset several times in the past as a consequence to the wars that happened between the good and evil forces.

16.  The fight between good and evil was also taken to the realms of inner faculties of human and other species. Involution is the process of removing the 3-malas or imperfections (https://www.mayoan.com/post/the-3-imperfections ) to gain mukthi or the eternal liberation.

References:

https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/nityasuri

Hari Om!

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