A.- Three - God, the soul, and the prakriti (matter).
Q.What are your authorities for this statement?
A.- "Both God and the soul are eternal, they are alike in consciousness and such other attributes. They are associated together - God
pervading the soul - and are mutual companions. The prakriti (matter), which is
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*Literally the sun. -Tr.
Likened to the trunk of a tree whose branches are the multiform universe which is resolved into tis elementary condition at the
time of dissolution is also eternal. The natures, attributes and characters of these three are also eternal. Of the two - God and the
soul - the latter alone reaps the fruits of this tree of the universe - good or evil - whilst the former does not. He is the All-glorious
Being who shines within, without and all around." RIG VEDA I, 164, 20.
"The Great God - the King - revealed all kinds of knowledge to the human soul - His eternal subjects - through the Veda." YAJUR
VEDA, 50, 8.
"The prakriti, the soul and God, all of them, are uncreated. They are the cause of the whole universe. They have no cause of the
whole universe. They have no cause and have been existing eternally. The eternal soul enjoys the eternal matter and is wrapped up
in it whilst God neither enjoys it, nor, is He wrapped up in it." SHWETA SHWATER UPNISHAD, 4: 5.
The attributes of God and the soul have been described iin the last chapter. Here we shall treat of the properties of prakriti (matter).
"That condition of matter in which the intellect-promoting (satva - high), passion-exciting (rajas - medium) and stupidity producing
(tamas - low)qualities are found combined in equal proportions is called prakriti. From prakriti emanated the principle of wisdom
(Mahaatava), and from the latter proceeded the principle of Individuality (Ahakaara) from which emanated the five subtle entities and
the ten principles of sensation and action, and the manas, i.e., the principle of attention. From the five subtle entities issued forth the
five gross entities, such as
solids, liquids, etc. These twenty-four entities and the purush, i.e., the spirit - human and Divine - form a group of twenty-five
noumena." SANKYA SHASTRA,1: 61.
Of all these twenty-four, the prakriti is uncreated, the principle of wisdom, the principle of Individuality, and the five subtle entities
are the products of the prakriti and are in their turn the cause of the ten principles of sensation, and action and of the principle of
attention. The purush - i.e., the spirit - is neither the cause (material) nor the effect of anything.
Satyarth Prakash
THE "LIGHT OF TRUTH"
by Swami Dayanand
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
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
"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
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