Creation in Puranas
Why is Lotus shown in Creation?
Lotus is
a flower that blooms in presence of Sun and shrinks when Sun sets in the
west. The
same way, creation (Lotus) blooms in presence of
Consciousness (Sun). If Consciousness can be
symbolized as Sun, then
Awareness is the Sunlight. All the forms
including Human beings have Consciousness and Awareness. But when the body
dies, it is the Awareness is what is lost.
When the
Consciousness that reflects as awareness is gone, it is a "life-less or
in-animate" object. The loss of Awareness which is called death. Presence of
Awareness is life. The lotus blossoms everyday in presence of sunlight
and shrinks in the absence of sunlight. This constant blossoming and
shrinking of Lotus flower is the symbolism of birth and rebirth.
The whole creation starts from Vishnu and
the lotus springs out from his navel and on that sits Brahma the Lord of
Creation. Brahma has four heads, the three axes of directions and
space.
The Brahma is the mind the creator. Lotus is the body and a plant like Lotus
is used because plants are the food producers for the other organisms, since
they can only capture sunlight. Like the umbilical cord connecting the womb
and mother's body so does Vishnu the Cosmic Intelligence connects to the mind of
us.
Without Consciousness there is no
creation and so does without Vishnu there is no "jagat" or World. But this
Vishnu holds a shiva-linga which means that the Consciousness expresses
itself through Awareness the Shiva. This is why Vishnu holds the shiva-linga.
The blue cosmic ocean is the unlimited space and the
Ananta, the snake is the eternal time. On this eternal time and space blooms
this whole creation. It is fascinating know the mystery of creation
when we understand each of the symbolism in the vedic puranas. We will
explain more in the forth coming sections.
This
is the symbol of Sakthi Foundation. Aum is the Symbol of Consciousness (Sun)
for the creation of knowledge.
This is the meaning of chin-mudra. Little finger represents body,
ring finger represents mind (that is why in wedding ring is worn in ring
finger or mind finger because the event is the joining of two individuals
are mind level) . The middle finger is the senses and the
fore finger is the
“I” or ego thought. The thumb is the consciousness finger or intellect
finger without which the other fingers are useless. The forefinger is always
found associated with the other three fingers and when it transcends them it
merges with the thumb to form a circle which indicates that this
consciousness has no beginning and end.
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