In the previous episode, we had witnessed Sage Vyaasa completing his accord by saying that this is not going to be an ordinary and a usual war. This is going to be something that is extremely unusual wherein at the end of the war, not many people are going to survive on both the camps. This means that, it is not only the Kaurava army that is going to face mass destruction, but also the Paandava camp, which is equally going to face extreme destruction. At the end of the war, only a handful of people are going to survive and we’re going to witness lakhs and lakhs of people and animals waiting to face destruction! In the meanwhile, as Sage Vyaasa finishes his accord thus, King Dhritarashtra turns to Sanjaya and asks about certain geographical locations from where people have gathered at Kurukshetra for the war. Now, Sanjaya is going to give a very important accord on this, as he is starting to view the proceedings of the Kurukshetra war with the divine pair of eyes gifted by Sage Vyaasa.
Sanjaya says thus with tears in his eyes – “Oh King Dhritarashtra! Do you know something? People from all over the world have gathered here at Kurukshetra. At every household, there is no youngster at all, as all the youngsters have assembled in the battlefield, representing either side. Similarly, when it comes to charioteers, all the charioteers from across various kingdoms have arrived here, which means that there is a severe shortage of talented charioteers across various kingdoms. Similarly, when it comes to animals, all the horses, elephants, etc. from various geographies of the world have assembled here. This means, there is a huge shortage of animals to do agriculture, construction works, etc. across all territories! Such is the intensity of this war! This, I think, is going to be a marquee battle and as Sage Vyaasa said just now, if the entire world has gathered here, it is going to be a mass destruction that is going to happen very soon! How can Sage Vyaasa’s words go wrong? We’re going to witness something stunning and unprecedented within the next few days!”
As Sanjaya says thus, King Dhritarashtra asks another question thus, “Oh Sanjaya! You’re saying that people and animals from various kingdoms have gathered at Kurukshetra, aren’t you? Now tell me – What are the dimensions of this world and the geographical locations of various kingdoms? What is meant by Bhaarata Desha? What are its geographical locations? What is the composition of this world? Give me an accord on all these aspects in detail!” Sanjaya replies thus, “Oh King Dhritarashtra! Now let me tell you how this whole world took shape. Initially, there were only the five important forces – “Prithivi”, “Appu”, “Tejas”, “Vaayu” and “Aakaasha”. As these five forces were dominant everywhere, Bhagawan Vishnu (Referred to as Para-Brahman) takes a divine “Sankalpa” thus, “I’m going to unite all these five forces and create something called as “Bhumi” (Earth) wherein many living beings are going to be born and are going to live!” It is with this divine “Sankalpa” of the Brahman, did the “Prakriti” or “Moola-Prakriti” take shape. This “Prakriti” further took shape into something called “Mahaan”. This “Mahaan” further took shape to become “Ahankaara”. This “Ahankaara” splits into three categories namely, “Saatvika Ahankaara”, “Raajasa Ahankaara” and “Taamasa Ahankaara”. From the “Taamasa Ahankaara”, came the five elements (“Pancha-Bhootas” – Earth, fire, wind, water and sky), along with the “Pancha-Sanmaathras” which are nothing but the five sense organs – Look, touch, taste, smell and sound. Thus, we can see here that the five elements of the earth are closely linked with the five senses – For instance, water links itself with taste, earth links itself to smell, wind links itself to touch / feel, sky links itself with sound and fire links itself with light / vision. As Bhagawan creates all these, He decides to combine everything together to create the “Anta-Kataaham”.
As Bhagawan creates all these, there should be someone to take care of all these individually, isn’t it? Hence, from Bhagawan’s “Naabhi-Kamalam”, Bhagawan Brahma gets created. From this point onwards, the responsibility of further creation (“Srishti”) is handed over to Bhagawan Brahma, who commences his job straightaway! Thus, slowly and steadily, the world starts taking shape under the responsibility of Bhagawan Brahma, and for today, let us understand up to this point. We shall continue this discussion in the next episode as well to witness further details on this! Stay tuned! 🙂
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