God And Soul
God
What was there in the beginning? There was indescribable and indefinable darkness, surrounded by darkness. There was a stir. The veil of darkness fell down and it took the shadow of wonder in its womb. Time was born out of it, which (mahaakaal) was an embodiment of shadow and darkness in a circular form. It looked hither and thither and said, “I am”. The word ‘I’ was created from that time on wards. It feared, and ‘fear’ started from that time on. Fear is created from the illusion of estrangement, along with ‘I’ ness. It then thought: “there is none else except myself. Why do I fear unnecessarily?” Fear disappeared. Fear vanishes by thinking as it does even now. It saw the original, and desired that it should also expand like the original. It is the beginning of desire which originated from that Being. It began to grow in it. From then on it was called “BRAHM”.
Soul
Desire, in the individual soul or ‘jiev’, is due to the impressions, or the illusions, of its being part, because to the view that sees unity in all, a drop appears to have lost its existence in the ocean. To such a view the ocean is but a vast and limitless drop in which there are no parts. This is one aspect. Another thing is that if, due to some reason, the drop has the knowledge of its being separate, and it should also think that there is the ocean at the background of each and every drop and that it is itself one with the ocean, having mingled in it.