Every Speck of dust is only Brahm:Shri Shri Anandamurti:TOI: THE SPEAKING TREE

Saguna Brahmn, Qualified Consciousness, is the cause of the creation of the universe. In other words, the universe has originated from Brahmn.

But if Brahmn or Bhagwan created the universe, a very pertinent question arises about the availability of the material or stuff from which the universe was made. Saguna Brahmn also needs some material to create the universe just as the potter needs clay to make his pots. A potter obtains his clay from the earth. So then has Brahmn also obtained the material from someone else? The material and its owner from whom Saguna Brahmn borrowed it must have existed even before the Brahmn came into being, and that this owner is bigger than Saguna Brahmn has to be admitted.

It has already been accepted that Brahmn is non-causal. Nothing existed before it. And so the material from which the universe is made could not have existed before Brahmn.What could be the material out of which Saguna Brahmn made this universe if nothing existed before or beyond it? The universe, which is so visibly existent, could not have been created out of nothing. The only material available to Saguna Brahmn for creation was its own Self. Hence, it has to be accepted that this creation is only Saguna Brahmn metamorphosed into all that we find in the universe.

The entire universe is formed from Saguna Brahmn. It is only this which is manifested as this creation. To say that Brahmn is present in a book means that the book is a separate entity and Brahmn occupies that entity. This gives the impression of two separate entities – Brahmn and the book which appears to be outside Saguna Brahmn. This is completely incorrect as it has already been established that everything is made of Brahmn; It has assumed the shape of everything. Hence the correct thing to say would be that the book is Brahmn or that It has assumed the shape of a book also. This shows that the book and Brahmn are not two separate entities and that the book did not exist before Brahmn. This alone is the correct expression, for Brahmn is infinite and eternal and nothing can exist beyond or before It. The book could not have existed before Brahmn. In fact nothing could have existed before Brahmn. Every speck of dust is only Brahmn.

Brahmn is the cause of the entire creation and it is the collective name for Prakriti and Purush. Which of the two then forms the creation? Prakriti is a unique force – a principle, the only function of which is to qualify Purush.

Purush cannot perform the tremendous task of giving Prakriti the form of creation. Prakriti does not assume the shape of the creation and it is only Purush who could take these forms. Hence, the stuff of which the entire creation is made is Purush. Prakriti qualifies Purush to give Him different forms and Purush has to follow the designs of Prakriti. For example, a potter shapes a lump of clay according to his designs. The lump of clay is comparable to Purush and the potter who provides the force, to Prakriti. Similarly, Prakriti gives all these shapes to Purush according to Her wish to create this universe.