What was there in the beginning? There was Indescribable and indefinable darkness surrounded by darkness. There was a wave. 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 (Mahakal) 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 onwards. It feared, and fear existed 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 Brahman.
It united itself with darkness, the name of which is Maya and which is its true form. Two forms, of the size of a pea, came into being. One was called Purusha, who had the first body-form; the second was called Prakriti, which was already in the form of veil, and the same manifested now. It is also called Pradhan. It had covered the reality at first and on this account it got this name.
When there were Purusha and Prakriti, both united; and from that time onwards offsprings were born to them in body-form. He had enjoyed happiness while uniting with Prakriti and so there is the arrangement of union of male and female in each and every species of creation. It thus started from that time.
When the veil of darkness had descended, five tints (kalaen) in the form of currents came down one after the other. There was difference in their colour. The first was black; the second yellow; the third red; the fourth white with a reddish tinge; and the fifth pure white. These tints belong to the Mahakal region or Mahakal Mandal. That Time-God (Kalapurusha) then assumed three forms of Brahman, the Hiranyagarbha, the Antaryami or Avyakrit and Virat. These three are causal, subtle and gross. The first, Hiranyagarbha, is causal state in which five causal phases are found in 'nothingness' and 'para-nothingness' (Shoonya and Mahasoonya) states. The second, Antaryami or Avyakrit, is subtle existence in which the five phases assumed the form of sound, touch, form, taste and smell. This is the region of Trikuti. The third is the Virat or gross state, in which the causal phases (Karankalayeh) assumed the form of five gross elements—ether, fire, air, water and earth. This is the region of the thousand petalled lotus (Sahasra dal kamal). Just as all the three bodies are in Brahman, they are in the individual soul too.
When the living creatures and animals were born out of the union of Brahman and Maya, they too were of the form of this same veil. In the gross human body, the ether-element settled in the throat; the air-element in the heart; the fire-element in the navel; the water-element in the genital organ; and the earth-element in the anus. This body too is formed from the mixture of these elements in a certain proportion (Pancheekaran). Just as sound, touch, form, taste and smell are found to dwell in the subtle body (heart) of man so also they are found in Antaryami or Avyakrit. And just as these five phases lie in a withdrawn state in the causal body of man, they are found in Hiranyagarbha also.
Time creates, and Time alone kills. This is the inevitable law of Time. Let us first understand about the dissolution of the individual soul or Jiva.
When death comes, first of all the element of earth is withdrawn from the Basic plexus or Mooladhara chakra and it comes to the Hypogastric plexus or Swadhistan chakra — the place of water element. The earth-element is then converted into water. Hands and feet become cold. This is the dissolution of water. Then, water is withdrawn from the Hypogastric plexus or Swadhistan chakra and is accumulated in the solar plexus, in the region of the navel called Nabhi chakra. It then becomes fire. The region above the navel becomes warm. This is the dissolution of fire. Then, fire is gradually withdrawn from the Solar plexus to the Cardiac plexus or Anahat or Hruday chakra, and it becomes air, mixing with the breath (air) of the heart region. Then the whole body begins to tremble. This is the dissolution of the air-element. After that, the air of the Cardiac plexus is withdrawn to the ether element of the Pharyngeal plexus or Vishuddhi charka, assuming the form of ether. A sound is produced in the throat and this is the dissolution of the ether-element. The lower portion of the body is dead (and dissolved) and now only the part above the eyes is alive. Now the element of Brahman, which is found in the individual soul, is withdrawn. Eyes are turned back and are merged in the Virat element. This Virat principle merges itself in the Antaryami principle which, in turn, merges itself in the Hiranyagarbha. This is the dissolution of the Brahman (Brahma pralaya), the specimen of which is Sushupti.
Then all the three bodies of the Brahman merge in the element of Time or Kalatattva. This is the dissolution of the Time element. Time, again in its turn, merges in the whirl — cave of the First Maya (Adi-maya), the giver of momentum. There is no withdrawal beyond. It lies there alone, withdrawn and shrunk. This is called the dissolution of Mahakal or Great Time. The Supreme Base which is the substratum and which has a wonderful form is never dissolved. It remains as it is.
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