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space as endless and eternal, so we conclude God as well to be eternal. Time followed after God had come into being. Thus space served as the mother of creation of God, and time was the negative state of it. Everything must have its end in endlessness. Motion was also there in every thing, however fine or invisible it might be. One might also ask who created space then? The only possible answer can be that the need for creation of God and of the universe led to be the cause of the existence of the space. It is and shall ever be and is therefore eternal. Why not then worship space instead? There is definitely a hint about it in Rigveda but the mystery remains unsolved and unclear for want of precise clarification. If one develops within him the state of akasha, he has then reached the highest point, which corresponds to the final state of negation, which everyone must duly aspire for. The solution is no doubt wonderful and at the same time perfectly correct too. Theakasha or the space is the Absolute. It is not composed of particles nor is there any action in it. It is perfectly pure and unalloyed. It is of course very difficult to bring it home to the mind of every one.
Akasha is the space while avakasha is the time, both widely different from each other. Time – the creation of space – may be taken as the grosser state of akasha. As a matter of fact the universe is the manifestation of time or avakasha; while God is that of akasha or space. The inner circle led to the creation of the outer universe. The intervening portion is the duration. If the outer covering along with intermediary portions gets dissolved, as it happens at the time of mahapralaya, only akasha or space remains. This is to say that the identity transforms intoakasha; or in other words the identity is akasha.
At the time when there was only the Absolute and no creation, the question of time did not arise at all. When the thought of creation got enlivened in the Base, it was perfectly free from everything. It proceeded on and due to the effect of motion, got transformed into power, with its tendency directed towards action. But, for the action it must naturally stand in need of a field or base. Now the brief pause, intervening the original thought and subsequent being, or in other words between cause and effect, was already there. This can appropriately be interpreted as ‘duration’ or ‘time’ and served for the field of its action. Thus time having merged into the power, got itself transformed into power, for further actions towards creation.
As a general rule a thought when it becomes deep brings into effect something like a pause, which has a tremendous force. In the case of the Centre, the question of depth does not arise at all, because of perfect uniformity there. The idea of velocity of force, the direct action of the mind, was also absent there, since the Centre or the Ultimate Brahman, though Absolute, did not possess mind.