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Creation and destruction by sound
What was there in the beginning? There was Indescribable and indefinable darkness surrounded by darkness. There was a wave. There was a stir. The veil of darkness fell down and it took the shadow of wonder in its womb. Time was born out of it, which (Mahakal) was an embodiment of shadow and dark¬ness in a circular form. It looked hither and thither and said, ‘I am’. The word ‘I’ was created from that time onwards. It feared, and fear existed from that time on. Fear is created from the illusion of estrange¬ment, along with ‘I’-ness. It then thought: “There is none else except myself. Why do I fear unnecessarily?” Fear disappeared. Fear vanishes by thinking as it does even now. It saw the original, and desired that it should also expand like the original. It is the beginning of desire which originated from that Being. It began to grow in it. From then on it was called Brahman.
It united itself with darkness, the name of which is Maya and which is its true form. Two forms, of the size of a pea, came into being. One was called Purusha, who had the first body-form; the second was called Prakriti, which was already in the form of veil, and the same manifested now. It is also called Pradhan. It had covered the reality at first and on this account it got this name.
When there were Purusha and Prakriti, both united; and from that time onwards offsprings were born to them in body-form. He had enjoyed happiness while uniting with Prakriti and so there is the arrange¬ment of union of male and female in each and every species of creation. It thus started from that time.
When the veil of darkness had descended, five tints (kalaen) in the form of currents came down one after the other. There was difference in their colour. The first was black; the second yellow; the third red; the fourth white with a reddish tinge; and the fifth pure white. These tints belong to the Mahakal region or Mahakal Mandal. That Time-God (Kalapurusha) then assumed three forms of Brahman, the Hiranyagarbha, the Antaryami or Avyakrit and Virat. These three are causal, subtle and gross. The first, Hiranyagarbha, is causal state in which five causal phases are found in ‘nothingness’ and ‘para- nothingness’ (Shoonya and Mahasoonya) states. The second, Antaryami or Avyakrit, is subtle existence in which the five phases assumed the form of sound, touch, form, taste and smell. This is the region of Trikuti. The third is the Virat or gross state, in which the causal phases (Karankalayeh) assumed the form of five gross elements—ether, fire, air, water and earth. This is the region of the thousand petalled lotus (Sahasra dal kamal). Just as all the three