Scientists have spent tens of billions of dollars to find out the origins of matter by colliding some particles at CERN. With little or no success they claim they have found out something and they are calling it the GOD Particle.
Let us find out the real GOD Particle with little or no expense. Just by opening the pages of Srimad Bhagavatam (an ancient Vedic scripture), and studying from the chapter SB 3.11, and also from Bramha Samhita text BS 5.35. We would also like to point our readers to chapter SB 3.6 from Srimad Bhagavatam. Actually the topic we are trying to present here, has its information scattered all over Srimad Bhagavatam.
In this post, as always, we will try to consolidate all the information regarding the origin of this material creation and the matter itself. We will also try to discuss some of the amazing possibilities that arise from the understanding of how matter gets created.
We are very excited to present this post and hope the readers will feel the same. It took us quite some time to compile all this information into a meaningful, concise and interesting post. This is the reason why we were unable to put out any post for last several weeks.
Since the discussion of this topic is going to be a bit long, so in the interest of readers, we will post this in multi-parts. This being the first one.
From Srimad Bhagavatam one can understand that this entire creation is divided into two main categories:
1. The Spiritual Sky (which contains the spiritual world) AND
2. The Material Sky (which contains the material world, where we are right now)
If the entire creation was to be split in 4 parts, then 3 parts are occupied by the Spiritual Sky, while only 1 part is occupied by the Material Sky.
This, one part, of space where there is material sky (or Vacuum as is called in Layman's language) is not actually Vacuum.
The dictionary meaning of Vacuum is:
1. The absence of matter
2. An empty area or space
3. A region that is devoid of matter
Instead we understand from Vedic scriptures (Srimad Bhagavatam) that it is actually an ocean of causal (elemental) matter. Here the term ocean is to taken as a vast, expansive reservoir of something (in this case the elemental matter). The reason it seems as void or is called unmanifest, will become clear as you read on.
As explained in Srimad Bhagavatam, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna, expands himself as his first Purusha (the Enjoyer) incarnation in this Causal Ocean. This incarnation is called Maha-Vishnu (the Great Preserver/Maintainer).
The word Maha is of great significance because all the other Vishnu (Preserver/Maintainer) incarnations come from this particular expansion. It is also worth noting here that, there are many expansions of Supreme Person Sri Krishna in Spiritual World. They reside mainly in the Vaikuntha Planets, and are called Narayana (foundation of all living beings) among others. But there is no Vishnu (Preserver/Maintainer) in the spiritual world. The reason being, preservation or maintenance is required for something which is created and that which will eventually be destroyed. So since the material world is periodically created and destroyed, so there is an intermediate stage where it needs to be maintained, and thus the name Vishnu. But since the spiritual world always existed and will never get destroyed, so Vishnu (Preserver/Maintainer) would be redundant over there.
This Maha-Vishnu (or the original First Vishnu) is said to be lying in this Causal Ocean called Maha-Tattva (Great Principle).
"Great" : Because its expanse is unfathomable even for the higher-dimensional super-humans (commonly referred to as Demi-Gods).
"Tattva": Because its the principle elemental matter and also the Basic DNA (so to speak) of the entire material creation. It is the sum-total (raw-material) of this material world.
One of the many reasons why this Vishnu incarnation is called as Great (Maha) is because the entire creation rests on the breathing cycle of this Vishnu. When Maha-Vishnu Exhales, the creation takes place, and when he Inhales dissolution takes place. The duration of exhalation is same as that of the inhalation and by human estimation it is calculated to be around 311,040,000,000,000 (311.04 Trillion) years. Give or take couple of trillions, it wouldn't matter, would it? The numbers are astronomical, thus the name Maha-Vishnu.
Also, there are some more interesting facts which need to be known about the Greatness of Maha-Vishnu. Each universe appears from the Randhra (sweat pores) of the skin of Maha-Vishnu. Wait to here about the dimension of our universe (which happens to be the smallest) among others.
Our universe, according to Srimad Bhagavatam, is like a shell within a shell, something like a Russian doll. From inside-out, each shell is 10 times bigger than the one inside.
According to this information, the innermost shell (which contains all the moons, planets, stars etc.) is 16 Billion Miles in diameter. And our universe contains 5 shells covering this innermost shell. So by this calculation, our universe with all its shells combined is atleast 1,777,776,000,000,000 (1.777776 Quadrillion or 1777.776 Trillion) miles in diameter. This happens to be the smallest universe among the other unlimited number of universes.
This astronomically expansive universe appears like a bubble (or like a Puff of elemental particles) coming out of the sweat pore of the body of Maha-Vishnu. If we estimate from our own human body, we can easily understand that it is not possible to see our sweat pores with our naked eyes. So this is how insignificantly small our universe seems in front of Maha-Vishnu. Thus the name Maha (Great) seems totally appropriate.
Also it will be hard to count all the sweat pores on our body, so one can only imagine how many there would be on the body of Maha-Vishnu. Thus one can understand that it is safe to say, there are countless universes getting created and destroyed by the breathing of Maha-Vishnu.
This PUFF of Elemental Particles coming out of the sweat pores of Maha-Vishnu is in a Formless (Un-Manifested) state at the beginning.
How this elemental matter transforms from its Formless (Un-Manifested) state into this Phenomenal Creation, is an interesting journey.
Please stay tuned for the next part of this post to take this wondrous journey with us.
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