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The Creator (energy) and the Creation (matter) are ONE!

This primal truth is expressed in various ways in all the world's religions. Let's take as another example the Taoist symbol called the "Tai Chi", which many people know as the "yin-yang" symbol.

The Tai Chi is an attempt to express the experience of the infinite in an image or picture. In reality the Tai Chi is not a two dimensional image but a four dimensional one. While such a symbolic representation is difficult to express in words. I hope that you will bear with me while I attempt to do so. Examining the Tai C'hi, we notice that in the center of the black teardrop shape is a point of white, and in the center of the white teardrop is a single black point. Now imagine that the "tail" of the white teardrop actually continues behind" the symbol itself and is connected to the white dot at the center of the black half, while the "tail" of the black half comes around the "front" of the image and connects to the black dot at the center of the white half. Got it?

Ok, now imagine that the Tai Chi is not static, but that it is in constant flowing motion within itself,i.e. that the white portion is constantly flowing out of the center of the black portion and the black portion is continuously being born out of the center of the white portion.

In other words, the Tai Chi is not a circle divided into a black half and white halves, but an attempt to express in a beautifully simple image the constant process of creation, growth and evolution itself. It is a picture or image of "Ek Ong Kar". It is an "Akal Moorat" a timeless, infinite image.

The Power of the Word

In the Christian bible, in the book of John, is written: "In the beginning was the Word" and the Word was with God" and the Word was God. "

What is the Word of which John was speaking?

For thousands of years the sacred texts of India, the Vedas, Shastras and Smritis, have taught that sound vibration holds the key to the mysteries of the universe, to the actual creation and sustenance of our world, and to the means of extricating ourselves from its bonds. In the Vedic tradition, the world we see, the world of phenomena is said to be the visible manifestation of the infinite combinations of sound patterns, all derived from the soundless sound (Anahat Shabd) of the One who is both the Creator and the Creation. To express it another way, the Word of which John is speaking is the Anahat Shabd of the Vedic teachings; the continuous vibrating of the Creator/Creation in action.

The latest research in astronomy validates the creation of the universe as beginning with this cosmic sound.

"Three independent teams of astronomers yesterday presented the most precise measurements to date of the infant universe as it existed approximately 14 billion years ago, exposing telltale reverberations they called "the music of creation." The results represent a significant advance in scientists' efforts to understand what happened in the initial split second of cosmic creation and how the universe has evolved since, researchers said .... the cosmic microwave background, is the cold echo of the hot Big Bang fireball. Reaching Earth from all directions, it is enfeebled and stretched into the microwave range by the expansion of the cosmos. Scientists say that 1 percent of the static picked up on a home TV antenna is the echo of the big bang approximately 15 billion years ago. Astronomers first detected this background glow in 1965, using a ground based radio telescope. But the radiation appeared bafflingly uniform and featureless in contrast to the present-day universe -- all Jumpy with stars and galaxies. Russian and American theorists soon predicted that the seeds of this lumpiness should show up in what mathematicians call a "harmonic series" of fluctuations imprinted on the embryonic glow. The primordial cosmic soup "is full of sound waves compressing and rarefying matter and light" much like sound waves compress and rarefy air inside a flute or trumpet, .. said Paolo deBernardis, Italian leader of the international collaboration known as BOOMERANG, or Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics" another high-altitude balloon project presenting new analysis.

Washington Post - Monday, April 30, 2001

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