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PARALLELISM AND INVERTENDO
originally what was the latent force it had in it became an idea of expression. When the idea of expression came there was a stir. The stir is the beginning of the universe. It took quite sometime before it started developing further and further and then generated a force, a force field was created and from there we find whole of creation coming out. This is no better explanation and no worse explanation than your big bang theory. Why should there have been a big bang. Nobody knows. Why should there have been a stir, nobody knows. There was some latent capacity for expression, because what comes cannot be coming out from something, which is not there. Nothing comes out from nothing. If something is coming out there must be potency for it. If a tree is coming out from a seed there is potency for growing a tree from that seed otherwise it won’t come. It is not possible. So there was a latent potentiality for expression and that has come out and it is an idea. That it is just an idea that came is what is significantly different in spirituality as compared to the modern scientist. They are not prepared to put it as an idea. Because idea is a concept that comes after consciousness. According to the modern physicist, consciousness is a later product. They do not accept that it can be the first product. This is the point of
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