1. Has this universe proceeded from God or from something else?

A.-God is the efficient cause of this universe, but the material cause is prakriti - the primordial elementary matter.
"He who has created this multiform universe, and is the cause of its sustenance as well as dissolution, the Lord of the universe in
whom the whole world exists, is sustained and then resolved into elementary condition, is the Supreme Spirit. Know Him, O man, to
be your God and believe in no other as the Creator of the Universe." RIG VEDA 10: 126, 8.

"In the beginning the whole was enveloped in utter darkness. Nothing was discernible. It was like a dark night, Matter was in its very
elementary form. It was like ether. The whole universe, completely overspread by darkness, was insignificantly small compared
with the Infinite God who thereafter, by His omnipotence, evolved this cosmic world - the, effect - out of the elementary matter - the
cause.* RIG VEDA 10: 129, 3

"Love and worship that Supreme Spirit, O men, Who is the support of all the luminous bodies (such as the sun), the one
Incomparable Lord of the present as



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It is remarkable that modern science is slowly but surely coming round to what the Vedas teach. The atomic theory is losing ground
and the Vedic doctrine gaining ground day by day. Mark what one of the modern most scientists, M. Bernard Brunlhes says:- "Matter
which seems to give us the imaage of stability and repose only exists, then, by reason of the rotatory movement of its particles so
that when atoms have radiated all their energy in the form of luminous, calorific, electric and other forms of vibrations, they return to
the primitive ether." Rama Deva.


well as of the future worlds, Who existed even before the world came into being, and has created all things that exist in space
between the earth and heaven.*"RIG VEDA 10:121, 1.
Satyarth Prakash

THE "LIGHT OF TRUTH"
by Swami Dayanand