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hidden or sleeping in the latent motion matured and churned up the whole motion and created force or power which rushed out. The subtlest particle got heated up. Thus the coverings set in from the very first day. By the effect of continuous heating, the particles began to come into motion. Its intensity went on increasing and adding veils after veils to it. Grossness began to develop by the effect of the growing intensity and vibrations. The action of every particle started and went on multiplying till Reality was wrapped up within, like a silk worm in the cocoon.
Thus at the beginning of creation there was a stir, a motion. This motion was the basis of creation. It was a ‘sacred thing’ next only to God. The same thing appeared in the form of the human mind. When the time of creation came, preparations commenced, currents flowed, vibrations intensified, formations of knots (granthis) started, momentum gathered, churning process set in. Actions and reactions began and continued till objects began to assume individual forms. The process of creation came into full swing. Animate and inanimate objects began to come into existence. In course of time all the objects came to light and the universe was formed. The prakriti came into existence through the effect of revolving motion round the centre. The motion generated power which subsequently led to be the cause of creation. This primary motion or the stir (kshobha), which arose to be the cause of the cosmic phenomenon, was brought into action by the dormant will of God. The stir set into motion the latent powers; and processes of creation and animation started. The same root-force appearing as stir or stimulus descended in every being in the form of the chief active force. In man it came to be known as the mind at the root of which there is the same dormant will, just as it was in the stir. Thus the human mind is closely identical with the root-force or the original stir of which it is a part. As such the functions of both are also closely similar.
Pointing out the cause of the stir (kshobha) I would remark that perfect calmness prevailed before creation came into action. Even power or force lay frozen at its origin. The time for the change, however, came. Motion got awakened and set things into action, resulting in the formation of forms and shapes in accordance with the will of Nature. At the root of all this there was something, which we might call an active force. But that too must have a base for itself, without which it cannot have its action, and it was the Ultimate. Thus we come to the conclusion that creation was the result of motion and motion that of the Base, which is and shall be.
Space and Time
Before creation there was only ‘space’ all over. Thus being of God (Isha) was a later development and it took some time for its appearance. We see the