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Date: Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 9:12 AM
Subject: Contemplation of creation-dissolution ends the Samsara delusion -
Srimadbhagavatam
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Contemplation of creation-dissolution ends the Samsara delusion -
Srimadbhagavatam

In this chapter, the Supreme Lord summarizes the order of creation and
involution to say how it leads to liberation.

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सांख्ययोगवर्णनम् -

श्रीभगवानुवाच -
( अनुष्टुप् )
अथ ते सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि साङ्ख्यं पूर्वैर्विनिश्चितम् ।
यद्विज्ञाय पुमान् सद्यो जह्याद् वैकल्पिकं भ्रमम् ॥ १ ॥
आसीज्ज्ञानमथो अर्थ एकमेवाविकल्पितम् ।

Creation projects multiplicity. Multiplicity becomes a fantasy, causing the
delusion of reality of duality.

The experience of these pairs of opposites is nothing but samsara, bondage.
There was only one principle before the creation characterized by duality.

तन्मायाफलरूपेण केवलं निर्विकल्पितम् ।
वाङ्‌मनोऽगोचरं सत्यं द्विधा समभवद् बृहत् ॥ ३ ॥
तयोरेकतरो ह्यर्थः प्रकृतिः सोभयात्मिका ।
ज्ञानं त्वन्यतमो भावः पुरुषः सोऽभिधीयते ॥ ४ ॥

That Non-dual principle, that is beyond mind and speech, due to Maya became
two and further became many leading to the delusion of duality.

How indeed will the delusion of multiplicity end? The Lord provides the
solution: contemplation of dissolution, laya, of the projected universe.
That is, when we delineate how diversity resolves into the One principle,
we realize the ultimate Truth, the Non-dual principle, that alone remains
over.

अन्ने प्रलीयते मर्त्यं अन्नं धानासु लीयते ।
धाना भूमौ प्रलीयन्ते भूमिर्गन्धे प्रलीयते ॥ २२ ॥
अप्सु प्रलीयते गन्ध आपश्च स्वगुणे रसे ।
लीयते ज्योतिषि रसो ज्योती रूपे प्रलीयते ॥ २३ ॥
रूपं वायौ स च स्पर्शे लीयते सोऽपि चाम्बरे ।
अम्बरं शब्दतन्मात्र इन्द्रियाणि स्वयोनिषु ॥ २४ ॥
योनिर्वैकारिके सौम्य लीयते मनसीश्वरे ।
शब्दो भूतादिमप्येति भूतादिर्महति प्रभुः ॥ २५ ॥
स लीयते महान् स्वेषु गुणेशु गुणवत्तमः ।
तेऽव्यक्ते संप्रलीयन्ते तत्काले लीयतेऽव्यये ॥ २६ ॥
कालो मायामये जीवे जीव आत्मनि मय्यजे ।
आत्मा केवल आत्मस्थो विकल्पापायलक्षणः ॥ २७ ॥

Creation is nothing but the cause transforming itself into the effect.
Laya, dissolution, is the involution of the projection into its causal
principle. The Supreme Lord's teaching is that when we contemplate upon the
concept of creation from the One and its involution into that One, we
transcend the delusion of duality.