Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam (Study)
by Sadhu Gyanananddas | 2021 | 123,778 words
This page relates ‘Material Bedrock of All Beings and Things’ of the study on the Prasthanatrayi Swaminarayan Bhashyam in Light of Swaminarayan Vachanamrut (Vacanamrita). His 18th-century teachings belong to Vedanta philosophy and were compiled as the Vacanamrita, revolving around the five ontological entities of Jiva, Ishvara, Maya, Aksharabrahman, and Parabrahman. Roughly 200 years later, Bhadreshdas composed a commentary (Bhasya) correlating the principles of Vachanamrut.
3.5. Material Bedrock of All Beings and Things
Māyā as the matter is not inevitably opposed to spiritual spirit. Indeed, it can be positively and complementary useful, outstandingly in understanding Parabrahman’s purpose of the creation of the universe. We shall also shed some light on this topic further. In Vacanāmṛta Gadhadā III/10, Svāminārāyaṇa charges this analogy cited earlier, which affirms māyā as the field or material substratum of all beings and things.
Bhadreśadāsa cites:
“devamanuṣyamṛgapakṣyādiśarīratayopadiṣṭaṃ kṣetram” (Bhagavad-Gītā 13/19, p.285)
“Māyā serves as a substratum for the bodies of devas, humans, animals, birds, etc.”
In order to explain the creative process, this idea is also very significant. The jīvas and īśvaras, as we saw, at the time of dissolution remain dormant like unterminated seeds in the agriculture field. After that, māyā’s association with Puruṣa, at the time of creation, the jīvas and īśvaras sprout forth from māyā with names and forms.