CH 7, Verse 6

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Chapter 7

Verse 6

 

Etad-yoneeni bhuutaani sarvaanee'ty upadhaaraya /

aham kritsnasya jagatah prabhavah pralayas tathaa //

 

Know that these (two Natures) are the womb of all

beings. I am the origin as well as the end of the

entire Universe.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 69

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

Compiled by: Swami Dattananda

Bhaktimala, April 1999

 

"Know that these (two Natures) are the womb of all

beings. I am the origin as well as the end of the

entire Universe."

 

These two Natures, the higher and the lower, as have

been described in the previous lesson constitute just

one Prakriti (Nature) of the Lord. This Prakriti is

the womb of all animate and inanimate objects of the

world and the Lord alone is the cause of the

origination, maintenance and destruction of the entire

World. In other words, making use of Prakriti as the

instrument, the Lord creates, maintains and destroys

the whole Universe.

 

Creation constitutes the manifestation of the Universe

through a process of evolution and destruction means

dissolution of it into its original state through a

process of involution. Thus, the Para and Apara

Prakritis (higher and lower natures) of the Lord are

eternally expressing as the cyclic process of

manifestation and dissolution. Therefore the Lord

says, "I am the origin and the end of the entire

Universe’, which means that the entire Universe

originates and dissolves in the Lord Himself.

 

As the Prakriti (Para and Apara) is the womb of all

creation, it becomes the direct cause of the Universe.

And as this Prakriti directly proceeds from the Lord,

the Supreme Self of the Brahman, the Lord Himself is

the ultimate cause of the Universe. Therefore, the

Lord is the one Universal uncaused cause of all

phenomena. As everything springs from the Lord

Himself, He is the instrumental and material cause of

the whole Universe. The instrumental cause is also

called as efficient cause. There are two causes in the

making of an earthly object by any human being. But in

the creation of this entire cosmos with its

multifarious universes and objects, the Lord alone is

the cause.

 

For instance, there are two causes in the making of a

pot. First cause is the clay, which is the material

cause and the second is the potter, the efficient

cause of the clay out of which he makes the pot. But

with regard to the creation of the world, the Lord is

the only cause. As a spider spreads out the web that

is non-different from it’s own body and withdraws it

into itself, so also, this world comes out from the

Lord, who does not depend upon any other auxiliary and

in the end projected world is also absorbed back into

the Lord Himself. The Lord is thus not only the

efficient cause of creation but is also material.

 

 

 

 

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