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Re: Death re: wiseforumfool [Re: vinaire] #13148 - 03/08/02 06:03 PM Edit Reply Quote

Baap re, Vinaire, you give me a hard time with your sharp questions. I'll try my best to answer them. The article What is called physical universe in the article is Pr�krta in Sanskrit. What is called Energy, that is (Mah�-)Pr�na. Matter is Pancha-Bh�ta, which is just evolved Energy. Space with dimensions is (Mah�-)Ak�sha. Time is K�la. (Direction is Dish�). But Saguna Brahman is not that where only the physical universe (predominance of Prakrti) is created, but also the spiritual (predominance of Purusha) and also the equal mixture of the physical and the spiritual (Jiiv�tman) and all three are interconnected. These three are the Traita principles. One of your questions was whether time and space were created. The answer to that is that they are creations in Saguna Brahman and are the effect of Prakrti=Pr�krta. Time, space and direction are three qualities of the manifestation. Everything that is a quality, is created. Life is Jiiva (=being created or born), it is a force and depends on the three creative qualities expansion (rajas), contraction (tamas) and balance (sattva). It is not really a machinery, but is an organic (un)conscious movement in space. Life is the interplay of the Traita principles with the three creative qualities in space in any direction in a certain time. Be is a rootprinciple of life. When Life evolves, then we get be->becoming_>becomes. The be-stage is in Nirguna Brahman, the becoming in Saguna Brahman when the Asmit� or I-Am-ness is created. That process has its height with identity (I am x) of the subjective with the objective.