Mbh 12.302.7b

Mahabharata · translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

I have now told thee, O god among men, the truth about the Sankhya system. It is the embodiment of Narayana, of the universe as it exists from the remotest time.[1606] When the time of Creation comes, He causes the Creation to start into life, and when the time comes for destruction, He swallows up everything. Having withdrawn everything into his own body he goes to sleep,--that inner Soul of the universe."'"[1607]

Mbh 12.302.7b · Mahabharata · SANTI PARVA

Themes in this passage

Creation The Divine The Soul Truth

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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