The Creator and His attributes

 विश्वकर्मा विमना आद्विहाय धाता विधाता परमोत संद्रुक्।

 तेषामिष्ठानि समिषा मदंति यत्र सप्तरुषीन् पर एकमहुः॥ (१०.  ८२.  २)

vishvakarmA vimanaa aadvihaaya dhaataa vidhaataa paramota saMdruk |teSAmiSThAni samiSA madaMti yatra saptaruSIn para ekamahuH || [10. 82. 2]

   This verse explains the Creator and His attributes according to Rk veda. The probable mode of creation is also presented here as available from the yajurveda, Shvetashvatara upanishat as well as the latest scientific researches and results of experiments (CERN). According to veda, “Exceedingly wise, exceedingly strong is the Designer. He is Creator, Disposer, Epiphany supreme. Mortal Men rejoice that their votive offerings are heeded there where they say “the One is, beyond the Seven Seers.He is our Father” who begat us, he the Disposer who knows all situations, every creature. It was He alone who gave to the Gods their names; to Him come questioning all the other creatures. To Him the seers of old offered their substance in sacrifice, as did also the multitude of singers who fashioned this whole universe when first the spheres, both the shadowy realm and the bright, were set in their places. That which the Waters first received, beyond the heavens, beyond the earth, beyond both Gods and demons-- say, what was that, the first primeval germ, when all the assembled Gods, and they alone, were watching?  He was the primal germ borne by the Waters, wherein all the Gods were coalesced together; at the navel of the Non-born the One and only is set, he upon whom depend all created beings.” [Rk veda X, 82, 2 – 6].

    “Know, then, that prakriti is maya, that which comes within the ambit of time, space, and causality, and that the supreme Lord is the Creator of maya. The whole universe is filled with transient phenomenal objects that are an iota, fraction,  amsha, parts of His being. By truly realizing Him who, though non-dual, dwells in prakriti, both in its primary and in its secondary aspect, and in Whom, this whole world comes together and dissolves- by truly realizing Him, Who is the Lord, the bestower of blessings, the Adorable God, one attains the supreme peace. He, the creator of the gods and the bestower of their powers, the Support of the universe, Rudra, the omniscient, who at the beginning gave birth to Hiranyagarbha- may He endow us with clear intellect! He who is the sovereign of the gods, in whom the worlds find their support, who rules over all two-footed and four-footed beings-let us serve that God, radiant and blissful, with an oblation. By realizing Him who is subtler than the subtlest Who dwells in the midst of the chaos, who is the Creator of all things and is endowed with many forms, who is the non-dual Pervader of the universe and all good-by realizing Him one attains the supreme peace.” [YajurVeda, Svet. upa., Part I, Chapter IV, 10 – 14]. [Ref. Raimundo Pannikkar: The Vedic Experience. Courtesy: Velayan Swami Kauai Hindu Monastery, Hawaii is.)

    The above mantra, along with the preceding one, eulogizes the powers and glory of the Lord and explains the secret of creation (as revealed by the Lord in the Bhagavad-Gita here).

   The verse: ahamAtmA guDAkesha. . . | (along with the verses in vibhutiyoga Ch X) is enough to know Him. He is the Self of all. He, the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, and the antaryamin sit in the heart and works through the Mind. He is the One, above all the seven seers- the five senses and the manas and buddhi (that He commands). It is His ‘Will’ that He creates rather, ‘the One becomes many’ according to the Lord’s will, desire and resolve- “ekohaM bahusyam.It is the creative power of the Mind, His ‘citta’ that creates the primal germ, the ‘thought-particle’ (mind-worm)- the desire. Thus, the phenomenal, objective, transient, perceivable, sensuous world is created of the powerful vibration of Mind, cittavrutti. The Mind creates the world and the Mind is the world. And, man is Mind, its moods and attitudes! It is Sri Hari chitta!