A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Mahapuranam ( 04/04/2013. )

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, October 22, 2020. 01:46. PM.  CHAPTER-2. The Process of Creation - 3. ---------------------------------------------------------------- But after having created this total with the fiat of His will, there is no objection to the idea that the process of evolution took place gradually, because the theory is that creation is a cyclic process. It is not a sudden emerging of things that did not exist earlier. It is not that God created the world from nothing. We may say that, in some way, God does not create things Himself, as the sun does not create the problems of life, though without it no movement can take place here. God is responsible for the evolution of the potentials that existed during the conclusion of the previous cycle—called mahapralaya, the dissolution of the cosmos after one hundred lives of Brahma, the creative principle. The one hundred lives of Brahma is something difficult to imagine in one’s min

  ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, October 11, 2020. 05:38. AM.  CHAPTER-2. The Process of Creation - 2. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The condition to attain Narayana is that we want nothing or we want everything at the same time, because wanting everything is equal to wanting nothing. The trouble is that we want only certain things, and not all things. No one can humanly long for all things in the world at the same time. But why does the mind make this discrimination in asking for things? Why does it ask only for little things? Here is the trouble with human nature: it wants, but it does not want everything. But in the condition of moksha, liberation, we have to either want everything or not want anything. Akamah means one who has no desires of any kind; sarva-kamo va means one who has desires for all things at the same time. Moksha-kama udara-dhih—whose intent is on liberation alone; such a person has to w