Mbh 12.280.3c

Mahabharata · translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

All superior Beings again, endued with similar powers and similar forms, revert to their respective destinies at a new creation after a universal destruction, ascending and descending precisely in the same manner as during the creation that is dissolved.[1382] As regards, again, the person who is conversant with Brahma, as long as he continues to enjoy and endure the unexhausted remnant of his acts of previous Kalpas, it is said that all creatures and the two stainless sciences live in his body. When his Chitta becomes cleansed by Yoga, and when he practises Samyama, this perceptible universe appears to him as only his own fivefold senses.[1383] Enquiring with a cleansed mind, Jiva attains to a high and stainless end. Thence he attains to a spot which knows no deterioration, and thence attains to eternal Brahma that is so difficult of acquisition.[1384] Thus, O thou of great might, I have discoursed to thee of the eminence of Narayana!'

Mbh 12.280.3c · Mahabharata · SANTI PARVA

Themes in this passage

Creation The Divine Meditation Nature Patience Strength

Creation in other traditions

The same theme, as Islam, Christianity, Taoism and Buddhism address it.

Lo! We have created them a (new) creation

Quran 56:35 · Quran

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 1:27 · Bible · Genesis

Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day. To whom is it that these (two) things are owing? To Heaven and Earth. If Heaven and Earth cannot make such (spasmodic) actings last long, how much less can man!

Tao Te Ching 23.1 · Tao Te Ching

`All created things perish,' he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.

Dhp 20.277 · Dhammapada · The Way

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