"Spider, Herbs and Plants, Hairs groth" Triple analogies to explain the Creation of the Universe:

1. The Rishies have the unique style of using minimum words with maximum significance in their sacred mantras.

2. Certainly analogies are the only instruments  of expressing the inexplicable. with control and limits, no extra strokes added.

 

3. Here the Creation is explained with the help of three analogies, the Spider's web, the herbs sprouting forth from the earth, hairs growth on the head and body of man.

4.  The Spider creates the web out of itself and withdraws it unto itself--the material of the web is the very substance of the spider:

5. Similarly, the Supreme Reality ( Easwaran) Itself is the lock, stock, and barrel of this atrocious looking mechanism of "Samsara".

7. The second analogy : "the herbs sprouting forth from the earth," this is to deny a possible false suggestion which is in the previous  analogy.

8. The spider creates the web certainly for a personal end, for a personal gratification, thus the Supreme Reality must have a personal motive to create this Universe.

9. In the second analogy there is no motive in the earth to produce and nourish plants.

10. It is without any effort and without any personal motive that the plants come out of the earth, similarly the world comes out of the Real.

11. The second analogy may cause misunderstanding that the Supreme is a dead, inert, in sentient matter like the earth, incapable of knowing or feeling.

12. In order to avert this thinking a third analogy: that the finite has come out of the Infinite as hairs grow on the head and body of man.

13. Effortless, as as an expression of the very life in the man, hairs grow and thrive.

14. Similarly the finite is, in its own way, an expression of the vitality in the Reality.

Mundakoupanishad: chapter-1, section-1, mantram-7.         

 

  

 

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