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sridatta1 · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 652 Location: india

The cosmic inert energy is the space from which the entire creation is evolved
100) AnantagunaakaashaBrahmano vidyante shrutaah
srushtisthitilayahetumattvasushuptyaatmatvaadayah.

(In the concept of space being called as Brahman, several merits exist like creator, maintainer and destroyer of the universe, becoming Atman in deep sleep etc., as heard in Veda).

The cosmic inert energy is the space from which the entire creation is evolved. Matter, awareness, light, heat etc., along with their modifications constitute this universe and all this is evolved from the primordial energy, which is the space. In Veda it is said that space is generated from God and from space the entire creation is evolved. Hence, space is the first item of creation, which acts as the primary source for the whole creation.

The modifications of the space are due to illusions only and thus the entire universe is an illusion form of the space only, which is the inert primordial energy. Hence, the universe is space only and we can say that the universe is maintained by space. When the illusions are removed, all the modifications in the universe disappear and this is the final dissolution of the universe into space. Therefore, the space can be called as Brahman, which is the creator, maintainer and destroyer of the universe. All these points are correlated with Brahman. It is said that the universe is created, maintained and destroyed by Brahman. It is also said that the entire world is Brahman only since the world is based on illusion. All these are merits of the primordial energy to be called as Brahman, the greatest in the universe. The concept that the soul or Atman in its basic form in deep sleep is Brahman is also correlated.