Ishvara-Gita is a very elaborate Agama Shastra-samhita that gives us a clear idea about the creation and dissolution of the universe. It all began with a group of sages assembling in Badarikashrama under the leadership of Vyasadeva (Badarayana?). These sages included Sanatkumara, Sanandana, Sanaka, Angira, Bhrugu, Kanada, Kapila, Garga, Valadeva, Shukra, Vashishtha, and Rishi . It seems Shiva also arrived there later. Suta Muni asks Vyasadeva to instruct them as to the 'true knowledge' leading to 'emancipation' (mukti) as originally imparted by Shri Hari Narayana in His Kurma avatara (incarnation as Tortoise). This has come to be known as 'Kurma Purana'. The Second Part of this is called 'Ishvara-Gita' where Lord Ishvara gives a discourse on "The Ultimate Nature of Reality".
There is a Commentary on Ishvara-Gita by Vijnyana Bhikshu, who has written a number of other commentaries including the one on Brahma Sutras. He is of the opinion that the main purport of Ishvara-Gita is the same as the Bhagavad-Gita. Thus, one finds that Sankhya, yoga, and Vedanta are all one indivisible bunch of Adhyatma vidya. Since the main Text is very elaborate and voluminous, only a few important doctrines are placed before the spiritual seekers here for purpose of contemplation and realization.Essentially it is a yoga sadhana for emancipation.
The main questions asked by the Sages and the answer given by Shiva (Ishvara) are:
1. What is the cause of all? 2. Who suffers Rebirth? 3. What is the Atman (Soul)? 4. What is Emancipation (mukti, moksha)? 5. What is the Cause of Rebirth? 6. What is the nature of Rebirth? Who can realize all? 8.What is the ultimate reality, Brahman?. To these questions, Shiva begins with the last question first- The nature of Atman not as the Individual Soul, but as the Highest Self (Brahman).
The doctrine of absolute absorption or assimilation of the individual soul within the universal and infinite soul is accepted. This atma-brahma bhavaikya (Unity) is a reality. It samakhya/ Ultimately the individual soul (that manifests brahman) unites with the supreme Soul- brahman. Even while the jiva runs it errands in its worldly existence without the knowledge of its true nature, it exists merely as a witness (Sakshin).
The entire universe is the manifest forms of brahman and merge in it at the end after a short period of vibration due to the inherent chaitanya, Energy. The awareness or chit shakti is the cause of cognitionand the absence of it nullifies the very existence. Hence it is inferred that "It is the power of cognition(chit), consciousness that creates or destroys the perceived objective world.
The universe appears from braman, nowhere and the moment this 'nowhere' is split into 'now' and 'here', the time and space appear. All that exists here is within this Time that is an illusion created by nowehere! Hence merging back into brahman 'nowhere' from 'now' and 'here' is the objective. So also,this creation is an illusion since 'every thing' emerges out of 'no thing'. This is just similar to 1, 2, 3, 4, and many emerging out of Zero, nothing! Have we not seen how a womb of the would-be mother is impregnated with an invisible seed (sperm) and there comes out the like of its form of life! The supreme Lord is the Father in Heavens who issues out the seed in the Sun, the Earth, and thus, the cause of all that is born here.
Thus everything is emerging from nowhere and nothing only to revert to its natural state of 'nothingness' , into oblivion, nowhere, at the end.
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The main questions asked by the Sages and the answer given by Shiva (Ishvara) are:
1. What is the cause of all? 2. Who suffers Rebirth? 3. What is the Atman (Soul)? 4. What is Emancipation (mukti, moksha)? 5. What is the Cause of Rebirth? 6. What is the nature of Rebirth? Who can realize all? 8.What is the ultimate reality, Brahman?. To these questions, Shiva begins with the last question first- The nature of Atman not as the Individual Soul, but as the Highest Self (Brahman).
The doctrine of absolute absorption or assimilation of the individual soul within the universal and infinite soul is accepted. This atma-brahma bhavaikya (Unity) is a reality. It samakhya/ Ultimately the individual soul (that manifests brahman) unites with the supreme Soul- brahman. Even while the jiva runs it errands in its worldly existence without the knowledge of its true nature, it exists merely as a witness (Sakshin).
The entire universe is the manifest forms of brahman and merge in it at the end after a short period of vibration due to the inherent chaitanya, Energy. The awareness or chit shakti is the cause of cognitionand the absence of it nullifies the very existence. Hence it is inferred that "It is the power of cognition(chit), consciousness that creates or destroys the perceived objective world.
The universe appears from braman, nowhere and the moment this 'nowhere' is split into 'now' and 'here', the time and space appear. All that exists here is within this Time that is an illusion created by nowehere! Hence merging back into brahman 'nowhere' from 'now' and 'here' is the objective. So also,this creation is an illusion since 'every thing' emerges out of 'no thing'. This is just similar to 1, 2, 3, 4, and many emerging out of Zero, nothing! Have we not seen how a womb of the would-be mother is impregnated with an invisible seed (sperm) and there comes out the like of its form of life! The supreme Lord is the Father in Heavens who issues out the seed in the Sun, the Earth, and thus, the cause of all that is born here.
Thus everything is emerging from nowhere and nothing only to revert to its natural state of 'nothingness' , into oblivion, nowhere, at the end.
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