There are startling details about this world and the problems the jivas face on earth in many epics. The Pancharatra is one such where we find Sage Agastya goes into a long period of strenuous penance and visualizes the Lord (gets darshan of Vishnu) and asks Him about the predicaments of the jivas (living beings) on this earth. Ahirbudhnya Samhita gives more details about this. There are similar questions and answers in Shaiva agama shastra and vaishnava agama shastra. There are the specialized scriptures dealing with the redress of the grievances of the Jivas. These are the mantra shastra, tantra shastra, and the yantra shastra. Srividya is a source of all these! Yoga shastra gives detailed account of the problems and solutions, and so also, the Atharva Veda.
Why should the jiva suffer and who is responsible for the problems the jivas face after the embodiment of the soul? There are many mysteries involved and the scripture speak in a language that cannot be understood by common people. There are secrets, coded words, symbols and all these need be decoded with the help of an attained Guru. It may go into several volumes if we start discussing them here. However, a few hints may be given in these blogs.
First of all, the jiva arrives here as a speck of stellar dust, an energy particle that inheres within itself all the knowledge! The Rk Veda simply puts it as Atmai vedgm sarvam | meaning, Atman knows all. But, we can never know or understand what is Atman!| In order to help us, the Veda further gives a clue. Atma eva brahma | meaning, Atman and brahmn are one and the same. But,here again, we do not know what is brahmn. 'Brahmn' is not a character depicted in epics, the Creator Brahma (chaturmuka brahma). Hence, we are back to square one. However, one need not be disappointed because, there is an entire treatise on Brahma sutras and this will greatly help us. Finally, an attained person comes our way to help us, only if we ardently desire and cry for help.The supreme Lord will send a Guru to help us and and also liberate us from the predicaments.
In simple words, the predicaments of the embodied soul are either of ones own making or that of an unknown (adrushta) hand. Desire is said to be the cause of all predicaments! But where does the desire come is a problem. The problem becomes more complicated when the soul gets embodied all on its own and there is no body to explain why and how. Science comes to our help to some extent here. It is an eternal action going on in the space- starting from the condensation of mass of stellar clouds into galaxies and formation of stars, clashes of stars, and the consequent waves like electromagnetic and gravitational waves along with elements like oxygen, hydrogen, helium as also gold silver, platinum, iron. .Nuclear energy is a significant factor here. The soul, Atman is supposed to be this energy particle that later on gets embodied in various diverse forms- living and non-living beings! Brahmn is that which does not come within our grasp and there is not even an alphabet or word to signify that! Whatever that appears as the primordial, primeval, or the earliest wave form, sound, or alphabets like a, u, m also do not exist at that point of time. In fact, even time does not exist! There are volumes and volumes of scriptures on these abstract things, including soul, 'silence', 'sound', matter and energy.
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