posted December 22, 2005 10:15 AM         

So perhaps next time you see one of those chaps with a "The End of The World Is Nigh" sandwich-board strapped to his back, you can smile sweetly at him and relax in the prospect that the end of the world will indeed come... again... and again... and again

Pralaya
(End of the Cosmos)

It is a time not for sorrow but for rejoicing ... for all the Atmans (souls) in the Cosmos have no alternative but to attain Moksha (salvation). No room left for Maya to play its role ... the Cosmos rolls back to its original size, the size of a half a thumb! All Atmans (souls) have attained Moksha (salvation), the very purpose of creation is over resulting in Pralaya (collapse) of the entire Cosmos.

All Atmans (souls) having thus purified fully ... shine in its Cosmic glory known as God, the Creator (God, a cluster of all purified Atmans in the Cosmos). Unable to retain itself, this Cosmic source of energy again splits with a big bang and spreads out with full force in all directions. All purified Atmans get scattered all over the Cosmos and in the process get engulfed in the chakra of Maya (ignorance). These Atmans will again and again manifests a body (of the total 8.4 million manifestations an Atman can have in a lifetime) until they free themselves from the ham shackles forever.

The initial travel of the Atmans (souls) in the ever expanding Cosmos after the big bang is centered on the Atmans gaining impurities as they travel further and further into the infinite expanse of the Cosmos. Comes a day when a solar system type of structure is formed and ultimately life takes its roots on one of the cooled planets.

This barren planet will hence forth be known as Mother planet for it becomes a sojourn for traveling Atmans to manifest a body leading to their purification. This manifested being which starts is journey as an amobae will evolve into plant life after a certain period of time. Thereafter, it will evolve into animals and finally into the shape of a human being. This form of a human being alone is capable of liberation of the Atman (soul) forever to regains its pristine glory. The power of these liberated Atmans can be invoked by anyone on Mother planet. What a system created by God ... absolutely foolproof and exhilarating for those who has had a glimpse of his domain!

As per popular belief, Pralaya (end of the Cosmos) is a time when all life ends everywhere ... all over the Cosmos. As viewed by the physical senses it appears to be so. On the Cosmic scale, Pralaya is a cleansing time for the Cosmos ... a time for start of a new Cosmos! It will again take billions of years of the evolutionary process before someone as powerful as a human being shall again manifest only to liberate in the end ... attain the status of a man God like Mahavira, Buddha, Jesus Christ or prophet Mohammed. This would be the start of the precipitating process. One Atman (soul) after another will follow suit and gain self-realization.

Why is it so that the physical manifest life is in contradiction to the Cosmic process! What is death for a human being is a new life for an Atman (the soul within)!! What is night for a physical being (a time to give rest to the physical self) ... is a time of reckoning for Atman (the soul within). During night time ... every Atman (the soul within) in all its glory and fury gives a glimpse of its desires to the physical self through the medium of dreams. Unless this happens, the egoist I would ruin the body leading it to catastrophic results. The present body runs owing to the balance resultant Karma of previous lives the Atman (the soul within) had manifested and is not the result of present life alone. The physical body cannot run itself. It is but a cluster of inert matter which comes to life only after an Atman (the soul within) takes over.

No Atman changes or takes over a body in the middle of the process. The growth of the body is initiated from the beginning and the evolutionary tendency within makes it to grow. Once the body is left by the Atman, it is as dead as the inert matter it is comprised of.

At the time of Pralaya, all Atmans are forced to leave the body resulting in death of all jivas all over the Brahmand (Cosmos). What a glorious end! Nothing more to manifest ... all purified Atmans combine together. God, the Creator reaches the pinnacle of its glory ... The absolute power of the Creator manifests!!

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