#instantaneous creation

[shinymoonbird]

In the Hill of Light, Arunachala

ॐ

23rd to 28th January, 1939 Talk 616.

[...] When I was staying in the Skandasramam I sometimes used to go out and sit on a rock. On one such occasion, there were two or three others with me including Rangaswami Iyengar. Suddenly we noticed some small moth-like insect shooting up like a rocket into the air from a crevice in the rock. Within the twinkling of an eye, it had multiplied itself into millions of moths which formed a cloud and hid the sky from view. We wondered at it and examined the place from which it shot up. We found that it was only a pinhole and knew that so many insects could not have issued from it in such a short time. 

That is how ahankara (ego) shoots up like a rocket and instantaneously spreads out as the Universe. [...]

Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi -  Pg. 598

https://selfdefinition.org/ramana/Talks-with-Sri-Ramana-Maharshi--complete.pdf

[shinymoonbird]

Arunachala Shiva - The Divine Mountain ॐ 

யதார்த்தமா யுள்ளது ஆத்மசொரூப மொன்றே. ஜக ஜீவ ஈச்வரர்கள், சிப்பியில் வெள்ளிபோல் அதிற் கற்பனைகள். இவை மூன்றும் ஏககாலத்தில் தோன்றி ஏககாலத்தில் மறைகின்றன. சொரூபமே ஜகம்; சொரூபமே நான்; சொரூபமே ஈச்வரன்; எல்லாம் சிவ சொரூபமாம்.

What actually exists is only ātma-svarūpa [the ‘own form’ or real nature of oneself, which is pure self-awareness]. 

The world, soul, and God are kalpanaigaḷ [imaginations, fabrications, mental creations or illusory superimpositions] in it, like [the imaginary] silver [seen] in a shell. These three appear simultaneously and disappear simultaneously. Svarūpa [our ‘own form’ or actual self] alone is the world; svarūpa alone is ‘I’ [our ego, soul or individual self]; svarūpa alone is God;

everything is śiva-svarūpa [our actual self, which is śiva, the absolute and only truly existing reality]. 

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi - WHO AM I?, Paragraph Seven

Original Tamil prose by Bhagavan Sri Ramana with English translation by Michael James

[shinymoonbird]

Arunachala - Digital Art by Juergen Puetz (Palmyrart)

ஜாக்ரம் தீர்க்கம், சொப்பனம் க்ஷணிக மென்பது தவிர வேறு பேதமில்லை. ஜாக்ரத்தில் நடக்கும் விவகாரங்க ளெல்லாம் எவ்வளவு உண்மையாகத் தோன்றுகின்றனவோ அவ்வளவு உண்மையாகவே சொப்பனத்தில் நடக்கும் விவகாரங்களும் அக்காலத்திற் றோன்றுகின்றன. சொப்பனத்தில் மனம் வேறொரு தேகத்தை யெடுத்துக்கொள்ளுகிறது. ஜாக்ரம் சொப்பன மிரண்டிலும் நினைவுகளும் நாமரூபங்களும் ஏககாலத்தில் நிகழ்கின்றன.

Except that waking is dīrgha [long lasting] and dream is kṣaṇika [momentary or lasting for only a short while], there is no other difference [between these two mind-created states]. To the extent to which all the vyavahāras [doings, activities, affairs or occurrences] that happen in waking seem [at this present moment] to be real, to that same extent even the vyavahāras that happen in dream seem at that time to be real. In dream the mind takes another body [to be itself]. In both waking and dream thoughts and names-and-forms [the objects of the seemingly external world] occur in one time [that is, simultaneously].

Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi - WHO AM I?, Paragraph Eighteen

Original Tamil prose by Bhagavan Sri Ramana with English translation by Michael James

[shinymoonbird]

The Vedanta says that the cosmos springs into view simultaneously with the seer. There is no detailed process of creation. This is said to be yugapat srshti (instantaneous creation). It is quite similar to the creations in dream where the experiencer springs up simultaneously with the objects of experience. When this is told, some people are not satisfied for they are so rooted in objective knowledge. They seek to find out how there can be sudden creation. They argue that an effect must be preceded by a cause. In short, they desire an explanation for the existence of the world which they see around them. Then the Srutis try to satisfy the people with such theories of creation. This method of dealing with the subject of creation is called krama srshti (gradual creation). But the true seeker can be content with yugapat srshti – instantaneous creation

From: “Talks”, Talk 651, (23.3.1939) ( pdf )

See also: Blog: “You have been told; why have you not realized?” - “Just as Dream and Magic ...”