38. It was the lotus-born Brahmá, that was conscious of his egoism at first, and who has by the will of his mind, spread out this universe. (He is eternally acting, and has not retired after his act of creation).
CHAPTER LXII.
Interpretation of Destiny.
Argument. The erroneous conception of creation and of Destiny both as active and inactive.
Vasishtha continued:—These myriads of worlds and the millenniums of kalpa ages, are no more real in themselves than our false computation of the millionth part of an atom or the twinkling of an eye.
2. It is our error that represents them as true to us, though they are as false as our calculation of those infinitesimals.
3. These creations whether past or future, follow one another in endless succession, like the overflowing currents of water, with all the waves, eddies and whirlpools in them.
4. The prospect of these created worlds is as false, as the delusive mirage, which presents a stream of water, flowing with strings of flowers, fallen from the plants on the shore.
5. The conceptional creation is as baseless as a city in a dream or magic show; or as mountain in fiction, or an imaginary castle in air.
(It is a flatus venti, and not based on any thing real; but has a mere psychological existence, depending on fancy and imagination).
6. Ráma said:—Sir, the drift of your reasoning, leads to the establishment of the identity of the conceptional creation with the creator; and that this unity of both is the belief of the learned and wise. (So says Hegel: “creation is the reality of God; it is God passing into activity” Lewe’s Hist. Ph. II p. 626).