In my last post I introduced you to an important deity Ardhanareshwar, the half Shiva half Parvathi deity, and gave you a few examples of the concepts it talks about. Based on one of the examples I gave, I’m going to make another important extrapolation of the Ardhanareshwar deity. Using the example that Ardhanareshwar tells that there exists multiple paths to divinity and that an individual selects only one among them, there exists multiple universes like our universe that follow different paths to same upper world, i.e. the Divine World. These universes are parallel universes having their own unique (Vishnu) set of rules (Varuna) to progress to the Divine World. If scientists were to find alien planets like our planet Earth, they will have to look outside our universe, i.e. by first entering a worm-hole portal to another universe. These other universes probably exist because our universe, which may look absolutely perfect for us, may not actually be perfect in the perspective of the Divine World. Our universe may be suitable for only certain types of souls to progress to the Divine World. The other universes may be tailored to be suitable for a mutually independent set of souls. Or if one universe produces a bad by-product soul, this soul could be sent to another appropriate universe to clean it. Hence these universes act like organs to the Divine World. This extrapolation may not be a perfect extrapolation because I’m not from the Divine World, but it could be close to it.
PURUSHA:
Purusha is a very important Vedic concept and a very important scientific concept. It is concept that tells nothing in this world is perpetual. Everything that happens or exists has a source or in order for something to happen or exist something must be done or expended. Purusha is a Sanskrit word meaning ‘The man of the house’, i.e. the source of income in the household. This comes from the male’s natural tendency to be the source of income for the household which is why it is not a good idea to ask a man how much he is earning.
Purusha is an important deity in the Vaastu Chart as well. It is the deity that connects the two halves of the chart. The Purusha part of the Vaastu Chart is mobile and its orientation depicts the phase of action or creation. More specifically the deity at the Foot of Purusha empowers the deity at the Head of Purusha and various insights can be drawn by this connection. The foot as the source of empowerment tells that the foot is an important source of energy for every creature. The mechanical pressure by which the foot is pressed on the ground by the weight of the body provides energy to the body. Likewise in an organization, the foot, which is the root level, is one that empowers the goals of the head of the organization. Therefore, the fact that the Brahmins (who were considered the educated class) ill-treated the Shudras was a complete violation of their own doctrine and was the cause of their downfall and the downfall of Hinduism a long time ago.
Given that Purusha is also an important deity in the creation sequence, let me now explain what the Vedic idea of the Creation of the Universe and the Earth is from this sequence. Then we can compare this with the Big Bang Theory postulated by modern scientists. Let me first remind you the sequence. It is Purusha-Vayu-Soma/Apa-Agni-Prithvi. According to the Vedas, the universe was created by the actions of a being from the upper world. This being (Purusha) churned (Vayu) something that generated material (Soma), probably the electric charges. This churning continued and more of such material was being generated and the energy of the system was accumulating. The energy was confined to a bounded region (Prithvi) which caused the generation of Fire (Agni) spots in the region (this comes from the Agni-Prithvi association) and expansion (i.e. growth - Agni). These Fire Spots then began to suck in the material (a property of Agni) and the material began distributing accordingly. Now the fact that there were multiple such Fire Spots, the churning must have happened at multiple locations on the bounded region according to the Law of Conservation (brotherhood of Agni and Indra) where the number of Fire Spots created is equal to the sum of the number times and number of locations churned on that region. This multiple churning would have happened in a regulated manner (Rudra) by one individual. Hence the Vedic authors gave Aum (from the Vayu (churning) of Creation) another epithet of Shiva through the phrase ‘Aum Namah Shivaya’. The Fire Spots sucked in material uptil its capacity at which point they began to cool into solid form (Prithvi). The material or charges would have converted (Agni) to specific atoms and molecules (Prithvi) during this stage. The churning would have been regulated in a specific pattern (Varuna) in both Time and Space in order to provide the Universe under construction a specific or unique (Vishnu) texture/structure. A structure that defines the rules of the Universe’s System and the rules for divine progression. The Big Bang Theory on the other hand talks about a thermal instability from out of nowhere on a massive object that created the Universe and the Earth.
In Bharathanatyam, the Anandha Thandavam depicts creation as the dance of Shiva. Anandha means ‘Happiness’ in Sanskrit. Hence it says that the qualities of happiness where injected into the Universe during its creation. In this Universe, divinity can be achieved only through happiness where nothing, such as wealth, status, etc, bounds you. But to enter that kind of state requires a lot of churning, twisting, etc, which will be horrifying to you when it occurs. Or without taking necessary risks (the horror) one will never get what he/she really wants (the happiness). The intonation of Anandha Thandavam too has horrifying touch to it. It looks confusing in the beginning because happiness and horror don’t look associated.
My next post will commence the Sun marathon. In this marathon a whole new set of interesting concepts will be introduced to you. Things that you never expected to be connected will begin being connected and you may possibly fall flat (the horror) when trying to digest it. There nothing to worry about when that happens because the same thing also happened to me and I turned out fine later (the happiness).
