Essay name: The concept of Creation in the Major Upanisads
Author:
C. Poulose
Affiliation: Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit / Department of Sanskrit Vedanta
This study deals with the Concept of Creation according to the Major Upanishads鈥攁ncient Indian scriptures that form a crucial part of Vedic literature and Indian philosophy. The present research investigates the Upanisadic philosophy in general as well as the school of Advaita Vedanta and other Indian philosophical traditions that incorporate Upanishadic teachings.
Chapter 2 - Major Upanishads
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The set-up extols the excellence of I艣vara, Him who supreme, mighty Lord of Lores, the highest divinity of divinities, the supreme ruler of rulers, Him let us know as the adorable Isvara the 119 lord of the world. Sankara in respect of the existence of 莫艣vara
gives three arguments
argument.
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Cosmological, Theological and Moral
According to Sankara 莫艣vara is the cause from which proceed
the origin, Subsistence, and dissolution of this world of appearances
which are differentiations of names and forms. The omniscient and
120 omnipotent I艣vara is the cause of the world. He is the cause of
121 creation of the world." He is the material cause (up膩d膩nak膩ra峁嘺)
and the efficient cause (nimittak膩ra峁嘺) of the
122 world. The
undifferentiated names and forms, which are the seeds of
phenomena of the empirical world, which are of the nature of
nescience constitute the nature, as it were, of I艣vara. 123
He is also
its efficient cause. He is not a modification or effect. He is the
124 cause and the uncaused. The world is of the nature of I艣vara, but
I艣vara is not of the nature of the world. The cause is real. The
effect and its qualities are unreal. They are superimposed by avidy膩
just as the magic illusion. Thus creation is empirically real. It is
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