The Dhaarmik Traditions - Indic Studies Foundation

Katha Upanishad (Invocation)
6. असतॊ मा सद्गमय तमसॊ मा
ज्यॊतीगर्मय
ॆुत्यॊमार् अॆुतमगमय
Meaning:
Lead us from the unreal to the Real
From darkness to Light
From death to Immortality
Theory of creation of the universe:
A 9th century Hindu scripture, The MahapurAna by Jinasena claims the something as
modern as the following: (translation from [5])
7. Some foolish men declare that a Creator made the world. The doctrine that the
world was created is ill-advised, and should be rejected. If God created the
world, where was he before creation... How could God have made the world
without any raw material If you say He made this first, and then the world, you
are faced with an endless regression... Know that the world is uncreated, as time
itself is, without beginning and end. And it is based on principles.
Theories of the creation of universe are present in almost every culture. Mostly they
represent some story portraying creation from mating of Gods or humans, or from
some divine egg, essentially all of them reflecting the human endeavor to provide
explanations to a grave scientific question using common human experience.
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