Returning to Goloka

The Creator of our universe is a Celestial Being who resides in the
highest Celestial Realm and we know Him as Lord Brahma. He lives for 311.04
trillion years – this is the length of time that our universe exists. Our universe
is like a dream in the Mind of the Creator and we are like His dream creatures.
The progenitor of Lord Brahma is the Celestial Being known as Lord
Narayana. It is Lord Narayana who instructs Lord Brahma to create the
universe by performing Samyama (a technique of meditation) on the
primordial sounds of the Rig Veda. The Rig Veda is the collection of mantras,
recorded for us by Vyasa, that are used to create a universe. There are 432,000
mantras in the Rig Veda, which is divided into 10 mandalas or chapters. The
sounds of mandalas 1 through 8 create everything in the universe except for
Man. The sounds of the 9 th mandala create perfect human bodies and the 10 th
mandala creates the consciousness that we experience as our lives.
So this is interesting! Earlier we wrote that everything is made of
consciousness and now write that the 10 th mandala creates the consciousness
that we experience as our lives. Consciousness creates consciousness. Here is
where we have to understand there are two values of consciousness: 1)
Absolute Consciousness and 2) Relative Consciousness.
Everything that Lord Brahma creates is Relative to the Absolute. The
Absolute is the real aspect of Consciousness and the Relative is the unreal
aspect of consciousness. We define that which is Absolute as that, which
never changes, is eternal and immortal. Relative is a projection of the
Absolute, like a reflection in a mirror is not the object but it has the
appearance of the object.
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