Hindu Ideas of Creation
In Our Time: Religion
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The Universe Is Created by Shiva
Shiva is a god who has five functions. In the tradition, one is he creates the universe, he maintains it, he destroys it, and then he reveals himself - those are the five functions of shiva. When it says creates the universe,. he does n't create it from himself. He he generates it from pre existing substance, and that emanates as as the universe. And they speak about the vibration, the splender, the vibration of the universe in and out all the time. Within this structureth there are two levelsshiver first creates what he calls the pure creation. The second is the impure creation created by his regent, ananta.
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