Om is Cosmos Transcended

When and how did creation take place? Swami Vivekananda affirms: ‘Creation is eternal’. The Vedas teach us that creation is without beginning or end. … There never was a time when there was no creation…the question may be asked: How was it at the first cycle? The answer is: What is the meaning of a first cycle? There was none. If you can give a beginning to time, the whole concept of time will be destroyed. Time and space are infinite, and therefore have neither beginning nor end”. What about the scientific ‘big bang’ then? They say scientists are still hearing the echoes of the bang of a few million years ago. “The word srushti expresses the universe. Mark that the word does not mean creation. It is srushti, projection. At the end of a cycle, everything becomes finer and finer and is resolved back into the primal state from which it sprang, and there it remains for a time quiescent, ready to spring forth again. During that primal state, the different forces are resolved back into the primal prana, and this prana becomes almost motionless—not entirely motionless; What is prana? Vivekananda answers: ‘Prana is spandana or vibration. Prana means force [energy]—all that is manifesting itself as movement or possible movement, force, or attraction. … Electricity, magnetism, all the movements in the body, all the movements in the mind—all these are various manifestations of one thing called prana’. That is why we say that om that is prana: vibration of air described as ether is all pervading the universe . Om is cosmos transcended. There is nothing in the universe except the om the prana the breath of life.