Posted by: samir28 September 26, 2006
The best religion!!!!
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This is quite a complex topic. But anyways, The Creation of Universe according to Hinduism is not an event that happened once. Creation and Destruction follow each other without beginning and without end, in a cyclical manner. According to Hindu Cosmology, Creation of the Universe, its Growth and its eventual Annihilation are cyclical processes without a beginning and without an end. Each cycle, known as a Yuga consists of an active phase and an inactive phase, the duration of each of them being 4.32 billion years. Calculations based on published literature in this regard reveal that the age of the Universe according to Hindu Cosmology is 19.252 billion years. In the beginning of such a cycle, there was nothing in the universe, only darkness and the “brahman” or divine essence / a type of energy. The' brahman' being without trait / features is not describable. When it was time for creation of the universe the 'brahman' dispelled the darkness and becomes 'manifest'. This is the stage of 'creation' whereas it again becomes unmanifest at the end of one cycle by contracting into itself, and this is the stage of annihilation. ......to be continued
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