शिवज्ञानबोध (मेय्कण्डार - शैव सिद्धान्त का आधारभूत दार्शनिक सूत्र ग्रन्थ)

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FIRST SUTRA.
Mayavathis (Idealists) who assert the non-reality of the uni-
verse. The 2nd argument refutes the theory that world can
evolve of itself; and the third deals with the mode of evolution
i.e., by dissolution and reproduction.
(a.) The first illustration shows the reason why dissolu-
tion is required. It is as rest for Karma; just after the exertions
of the day, we require rest during the night for undergoing the
struggles of to-morrow, so death gives us a prolonged rest to the
human monad to enable it to eat its previous Karma in the next
birth. Why should it have a next birth? Because it must eat
the fruits of previous Karma and unless it does so, its Anava
Mala or Ignorance cannot be removed. This latter then is the
reason for reproduction.
(b.) The seed is the Maya; the sprout, the Karma; and
the tree, the World; and the Earth, God; and its moisture and
heat, the Sakti of God. God is "Vyapaka," Souls are Vyapti
and Maya and other Mala are Vyappia. Sea is Vyapaka, water
is the Vyapti and the salt is Vyappia.
The text of the Veda.
"That the worlds are created out 'of Brahm,'" is to be under-
stood as when we say that the tree sprung out of the earth : cf.
also the word Pangaja meaning sprung out of mire.
It is Karma that determines the number of successive births
and creations and the forms in succession, and not God. Though
it is the worm which passes into various forms before it becomes
the wasp, yet without the aid of the parent wasp which affords
it warmth and food, the worm cannot obtain its full develop-
ment, so God adjusts the birth according to Karma and makes
the souls eat the fruits thereof. Without His Divine Presence
and Energy the soul cannot take for itself its own material body
and it can have no progress unless when it is in conjunction