Shloka 28
Adhyaya 45 — Jaimini’s Cosmological Questions and the Opening of Markandeya’s Account of Primary Creation
ब्रह्माणमादिपुरुषमुत्पत्तिस्थितिसंयमे ।
यत्कारणमनौपम्यं यत्र सर्वं प्रतिष्ठितम् ॥
brahmāṇam ādi-puruṣam utpatti-sthiti-saṃyame |
yat-kāraṇam anaupamyaṃ yatra sarvaṃ pratiṣṭhitam ||
હું આદિપુરુષ બ્રહ્માને નમસ્કાર કરું છું—જેનાં કારણશક્તિ સૃષ્ટિ, સ્થિતિ અને પ્રલયમાં કાર્ય કરે છે—જે અદ્વિતીય છે અને જેમાં સર્વ સ્થાપિત છે.
FAQs
The cosmos is portrayed as ordered and intelligible because it rests on a single grounding principle; ethically, this encourages responsibility and alignment with cosmic order (ṛta/dharma).
Sarga/Pratisarga: it identifies the causal basis for creation and dissolution, preparing for a systematic account of tattvas and emanation.
Creation–maintenance–withdrawal can be read as the three states of experience (arising, persisting, subsiding) within consciousness; the ‘ādi-puruṣa’ is the witnessing ground in which all states are established.