Chapter 20 - Creation
The Vedic version of creation clearly explains step by step how it takes place and it is important to know at
least the principal sequence. As you will see from the information given below, creation starts with the
topmost spiritual planet, eternally manifested by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and ends with
the manifestation of the lower, material energy. In other words, the model is exactly the opposite of present
day scientists who claim that everything comes from practically nothing and that consciousness is a product of
matter. The Vedic view shows how this is illogical and it also transcends all other creation models put forward
by different pious cultures.
1. The original spiritual planet, which resembles the whorl of a huge lotus flower, is called Goloka Vrndavana.
It is the abode of Lord Krsna, the original Personality of Godhead.
2.This original planet, Goloka, throws off a spiritual ray of effulgence called brahmajyoti-which is the ultimate
goal of the impersonalists.
3.Within this unlimited brahmajyoti there are unlimited numbers of spiritual planets, as there are innumerable
numbers of material planets within the sun rays of the material universes. These spiritual planets are
dominated by plenary expansions of Lord Krsna, and the inhabitants there are ever-liberated living beings.
They have bodily features like the Lord and are full of bliss, knowledge and eternal. The Lord is known there
as Narayana and the planets are known as Vaikunthas.
4. Sometimes a spiritual cloud overtakes a corner of the spiritual sky of brahmajyoti, and the covered portion
is called the mahat-tattva. The Lord, then, by His portion as Maha-Visnu, lies down in the water within the
mahat-tattva. This water is called the Causal Ocean (karana-jala).
5. As He sleeps within the Causal Ocean, innumerable universes are generated with His breathing. These
floating universes are scattered all over the Causal Ocean. They stay during a breath of Maha-Visnu.
6. In each and every universal globe the same Maha-Visnu enters again as Garbodhakasayi Visnu and lies
there on the Garbha Ocean on the serpentine Sesa incarnation. From his navel-abdomen sprouts a lotus stem,
and on the lotus, Brahma, the Lord of the universe, is born. Brahma creates all living beings of different
shapes in terms of desires within the universe. He also creates the sun, moon, and other demigods. Krsna
further expands Himself as Ksirodakasayi Visnu, and enters everything--even into the minute atom.
7. The sun is situated almost in the center of each and every universe, and it distributes profuse light and heat
all over the universe. There are millions and billions of suns in all the millions and billions of universes within
the mahat-tattva. The suns and moons are required within the universes because they are dark by nature. The
Vedas instruct us to go out of the dark universes and reach the glowing effulgence, the brahmajyoti.
The brahmajyoti is due to the illuminating Vaikuntha planets, which need no sun or moon or power of
electricity.
The entire material creation is only 1/4 of the entire creation of Krsna....the spiritual sky accounts for the other
3/4.
The goal of our existence is to leave the material universe and again have association with the Lord in His
spiritual universe, either on the Vaikuntha planets with Krsna's Narayana expansions or directly in Krsna's lila
in the Supreme Abode, Goloka Vrndavana.
By following the instructions of Srila Prabhupada and the previous acaryas one can go back home, back to
Godhead, Krsna.
Chapter 20 - Creation