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III. THK CREATION BY BRAHMA.
SKANDHA III., CHAP. 10.
When Bhagavan disappeared, Brahma, as directed, practised
meditation for one hundred Deva-years. He 'found his lotus abode
moved by air. With all the power acquired by Atma Vidyd and
Tapas, he drank up all the waters and the air He found the Lokas
attached to the overspreading Lotus and he had only to divide them.
j He entered into the Lotus bud and divided it into three parts the
Triloki. This is the creation of the Triloki. The higher Lokas
(Mahar, Jana, Tapas and Satya) are the transformations of Nishkama
Karma or unselfish action. So they are not destroyed in each Kalpa,
but they last for two Parardhas.
What is Kala, asked Vidura, that has been described as a Sakti
of Hari?
Kala is the disturber of Gunas, replied Maitreya, causing trans-
formations. In itself it is without any particularity and is without
beginning or end.
With Kala as the Nimitta or efficient cause, Bhagavan only mani-
fested Himself. The Universe has no separate existence from that
of Brahma, It is only Kala that makes the Universe manifest.
The Creation of Brahma is ninefold, Prakrita and Vaikrita,
Prakrita- Vaikrita being the tenth. The Pralaya is of three kinds:
(1) By Kala or Nitya. Flow of time is the only cause of
this Pralaya.
(2) By Dravya or Naimittika. Dravya is the fire from
the mouth of Sankarshana, at the end of one Kalpa.
(3) By Guna or Prakritika, the Gunas devouring their
own actions. The forms of Pralaya will be consider-
ed in the study of the Twelfth Branch.
A. Prakrita Creation^ t. e. t the Creation of Principles or
Tatvas,
I. Mahat Which is the out-come of the first disturbance
of the equilibrium of the Gunas.
II. Ahankdra Dravya + Jnana + Kriya.
III. Tanmdtra Result of Dravya Sakti.
IV. Indriyas Result of Jnana and Kriy ?? Sakti.
V. Vaikdrika Devas and Manas.
VI. The five-fold Tamasika creation.
B. Vaikrita or Individual Creation.
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