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Re: Brahman's omnipresence after cosmic dissolution

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pradeepjanakiraman • August 26, 2002 


Ramkumar

Depends on what Pralayam you are considering. In the Bhagavatam 
different types of Pralayam are mentioned. 

One is a mild form (Naimittika ?) which probably occurs at the end of 
each ChaturYugam when the SaptaRishis come back and help re-instate 
the degraded and lost Vedas. 

The MahaPralayam occurs at the end of each Kalpam (1000 
ChaturYugams). That lasts for an entire night of Brahma which also 
spans 1000 ChaturYugams. 

This goes on and on till finally Brahma's 100yrs comes to an end. Our 
Brahma is currently in the 2nd-50yrs of his life-span (Dwitiya-
ParArdham). 

When the total dissolution happens, Brahmam still exists. The 2 
qualities such as Ananta-tvam & Satya-tvam hold even then. At this 
stage all matter collapses, space collapses, even time collapses. 

This is the most interesting part where Sri Suka says that there is 
no TIME also in that state. All the modern Physicists should probably 
take a look at this highly valuable Space-Time relationships being 
elucidated in our scriptures. 

Thus creation proceeds like the web of a spider, where both the 
spider and the web exist after the creation of the web. Sometimes, 
the spider, not satisfied with its web, draws the entire thing back 
into itself, and only the spider exists.

The cosmic universe manifests from the Brahmam just as the web 
manifests from the spider. 

Radhe Krishna

-- Pradeep 


--- In bhakti-list@y..., "Ramkumar T.G."  wrote:
> 
> asmad sarva-gurubhya: nama:
> SrI-vishNave nama:
> 
> Dear Members,
> 
> Wondering as to how the folowing descriptions of
> the brahman (ie SrIman-nArAyaNa) relate to one another:
> 
> a) antaryAmi-tva (pervasiveness, a.k.a svarUpa-vyApti)
> 
> b) vibhu-tva (omnipresence)
> 
> c) ananta-tva (spatial, temporal & material transcendence)
> 
> d) satya-tva (immutability)
> 
> 
> Trying to understand these properties in the following states:
> 
> 1) praLaya-daSa (ie the material universe in its dissovled state)
> 
> 2) during jagat-sRshTi (cosmos regeneration after dissolution)
> 
> 
> Question:
> 
> q1) Does only matter, but not Space (deSa) collapse 
>     during praLaya?    
>     That way the brahman as vibhu does not need to shrink down
>     and satya-tvam & ananta-tva remain valid.
> 
> q2) Does 'vibhu-tva' go by the name 'antaryAmi-tva' when we speak of
>     the brahman in relation to jIva-s or matter ?
>    
> 
> Thanks,
> aDiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan
> //Ramkumar   
> 




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