Vedic Wisdom - The Involution

Vedic Wisdom

The Involution

As they say in computer science ‘garbage in - garbage out’ meaning what is put in only will come out. If even for a computer garbage that is the rule how such a wonderful universe, with all it varieties and colors could have evolved without first something involving into it.

Science has conveniently skipped this question. I won’t blame them because they were in a hurry, may be even rightly so, to disapprove the ritual oriented religion of their days without understanding the underlying deep philosophical wisdom. To confound matters unfortunately even the religion failed to ex- plain it to them.

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The Process of Involution

So how did this universe evolve? Our sages have spent collectively thou- sands of years of meditation to establish and explain the involution that has happened first before the evolution could start.

Spiritual science explains that when that super power without any form willed to see its own self with form, it pulled the matter (the building blocks) out of its own self and delved deep into it.

The matter, called the ‘prakriti’-the Mother Nature, bore that power of the spirit in its womb until it matured enough for forming a shape for the purposes of evolution as explained in the previous chapter. Rest is history.

That is the reason why whatever is there in the macrocosm is also in the microcosm.

Understanding of involution is a must because without that you can’t comprehend the true realities of the beings, their characters and qualities. And you will be making guesses which will all go wrong. Once you understand involution you can easily understand and comprehend the evolution and its features.

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To Sum up Involution and Evolution of spirit and matter

At Macrocosmic level

When the non dual, single, unitary ,supreme Godhead –Parabrahmam- willed to become many:

His two intertwined aspects ‘omniscience’ – ‘Shiva’; and ‘omnipotence-‘Shakti’ emerged as two separate energy points

From ‘Shiva-the omniscience’ arose ‘Eeshwara –the universal consciousness’

From ‘sakti’ the ‘omnipotence’ arose ‘prakriti’ the ‘universal matter’

When ‘Easwara dived into prakriti’ the ‘moola prakriti’ the universal building blocks arose.

When ‘Shakti dived in to Eeshwara’ the ‘Purusha’ the universal maker arose.

From ‘mula prakriti’ first arose ‘tanmatras’ the ‘universal subtle matter’ and then arose ‘bhootas’, ‘the universal gross matter’

When the ‘Purusha’ mixed with ‘tanmatras’ there arose the universal seed ‘Hranyagarbha’

Hriyanyagarba mixed with ‘universal gross matter’ arose ‘virat’ the universal builder that is why ‘virat’ is called ‘vishwa karma’ and ‘Viswaksena’ – the former meaning ‘universal maker’ and the later meaning ‘universal protector’.

From the ‘parabrahmam’ arose the ‘mahat’ the universal ego.

The ‘Virat’ made the universe called ‘vishwa’ All these – upto ‘Mahat’ are made of only ‘sattwa’ ; completely ‘shuddha’ – pure. But the Vishwakarma in order to make Vishwa, had to introduce the Gunas and make an alloy of them.

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At microcosmic level

The ‘Brahman’ became ‘atman’

The ‘Eeshwara’ became the ‘Prajnya’ – ‘pure consciousness’ as in deep sleeping state

The ‘Hiranyagarbha’ became the ‘Sukshma sharira’ the subtle body- i.e., ‘consciousness plus psychic matter’ as in dream state

The ‘Virat’ became the ‘Sharira’ the ‘gross body-i.e., ‘consciousness plus psychic matter plus gross matter’ as in waking state.

The ‘Mahat’ became the ‘ Aham’ the ‘self ego’.

The ‘ Vishwa ‘ is the world where the beings enjoy or suffer their experiences

As can be seen at the universal level it is the ‘samashthi’ (the aggregation) of the

Individual ‘Atman’ as the universal ‘Brahman’

Individual ‘Prajnya’ as the universal ‘Eeshwara’

Individual ‘Sukshma shariras’ as the universal ‘Hiranyagarbha’

Individual ‘Shariras’ as the universal ‘Virat’

Individual ‘ Aham’ as the universal ‘Mahat’

That is why Vedas and Upanishads repeatedly say that the ‘Beings’ and the ‘Brahman’ are one and the same and hence the realization is nothing but ‘the ‘beings’, to be ‘becoming’ meaning the ‘Individual beings to ascend and become the universal Brahman’ As we know for making any material there is a need for ‘maker’; ‘material’ and ‘making process’. We have seen above the details of the ‘maker’ and the ‘matter’. In the next chapter we will discuss the ‘making process’.

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Can we hold back our admiration to those Rishis of the yore who had the ability to envision such a cosmic reality that too without the help of any external apparatuses – all that they had was their devotion, single minded concentration, determination and finally their ever divine intuition to find the truth –the whole truth- which made them to ascend the dizzy heights of cosmic science as if it is their second nature.

This article is a snippet from the Book Vedic Wisdom, Authored by Pandit Sri Rama Sharma. Vedic Wisdom is available online at www.giri.in and across Giri Trading Agency Private Limited, A chain of Speciality Stores dealing in all kinds of products needed in Indian Culture and Tradition.