The pancharatra samhita are explicitly clear about the way the universe has come into its present state of existence from a state of absolute silence. There are no well laid rules and regulations or theories and postulations about creation in the beginning, all these come later and they are still coming! There are the scientific, rather scientists' views and the spiritual, rather, the spiritualists views gained by yoga as an intuition coupled with visioning! the latter being more reliable! Being a visionary, a yogi can as well personally visualize things in a transcendental meditative mode. Once realized, there is no need for any reference or questioning!
Let's take the example of a spiritualist's view of "I am That" (aham brahmasmi). Here the realized person has visualized the process of creation in yogic trance and knows his 'existential reality'. He thinks and knows that all that exists is his own creation! The jiva struggles for existence and suffers due to ignorance! The ignorance is avidya, nescience. Here the knowledge is the inherent true nature of the jiva but it is covered by desire, attachment, fear, anger and many qualities inherited from nature, mula prakruti, as gunas (rajas, tamas, and sattva). A persons behavior is the product of these acquired qualities, not the inherent true nature. The true nature is always sat, chit and ananda. No external factors will ever modify it. The moment a jiva, person, realizes in yogic trance his true nature, the jiva comes to know that all that is seen, heard, felt, etc are the products of the limited capacity of the senses, mind, intellect, and ego. But, in yogic trance these limitations are erased and the jiva becomes totally liberated from limitations and realizes the 'truth; (brahman).
Now, the difference between a scientist and a yogi is that the latter uses his limited senses to know the unlimited! The limitations imposed on the jiva are the veiling powers of maya, i.e., kaala (time), desha (space' earthly existence), and the causality (cause and effect) creating illusion! Here, 'illusion' is not just mental, but really physical! A material object is real for a mind deluded with attachment and desire. In the eagerness to experience the object, the jiva tries to get it (the desired objects) and experience with the help of senses and mind, buddhi and ego. The jiva forgets the limitations, 'niyati', that governs the nature of material objects. The jiva will not realize the 'temporal' nature of objects! No material object is ever permanent since it loses its energy and starts deteriorating the moment it is formed! The material objects are created from subtler forces and become gross and again revert to the original state as water and ice becoming water vapor and fire dissipated into vast space (aksaha).
We never realize the fact that all material objects are the creation of our own limited intelligence, ego and mind. The senses cannot reach the base where the subtler forces create them like hydrogen and oxygen creating water!There are innumerable components that go to make the material objects. However, these are of no interest to a jiva unless it is interested in these and evinces any interest to experience them. "No desire, no world", is the rule. Everything disappears like water vapor! Things created and occupying space assolid, liquid or gas becomes almost nothing, mere vibration of waves! The jiva that realizes the 'futility of the worldly existence' reverts to its true nature and exclaims- aham brahmasmi!
Thus the world is nothing but noise created by sound vibration. It is 'kalalala', a sort of division and multiplication of cells, from the very first second or minute of its inception, conception, as in the case of birth of a child in the mother's womb! When the child is a component of all that is a cell- amino acids, enzymes, vitamins, genes, chromosomes- all covered by jelly protein cover, DNA and RNA chain in constant communication and conversation transforming one into another like cells into tissues, organs, body that finally gets discarded! This is the secret of creation. If a person still believes that the visible material world is real, he/she will be sooner or later disappointed while trying to hold on to things that cannot be held for long! This is avidya.
The world ends when the noise subsides and peace is established! Rather, the world that was believed to exist outside as 'noise', vibration of energy, sound and forms suddenly become calm and quiet and is visualized as the one that is within as peaceful existence! This is the true state of all that exists!
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