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The origin of the universe is a mystery. No one knows how and when the cosmos came into existence. It is only through conjectures, logical or otherwise, that people try to explain the beginnings of creation. There are sages who are of the view that there is no beginning at all to time. It just exists without beginning and without an end. As is the time, so is the space infinite. And we cannot say when and where and how the chain of cause and effect commenced. It too is beginningless and endless. And all this is known and yet unknown. God is so known and also unknown like time, space and causation. We may succeed in knowing the latter three but not God who is no other than Truth. And this unknown and unknowable God manifests as the cosmos and its components. While everything and everyone is a manifestation of God, in the best of everything and everybody God is more perceptibly manifest. And in the Vibhooti yoga of the Gita, Sri Krishna declares that the best of everything is indeed Himself.
Vasuki among the snakes, Uchchaisrava among the horses, Iravatam among the elephants, Prahlada among the daityas and Sri Rama among the wielders of weapons indeed exhibit the divine traits most tangibly.
"If there is any land on this earth that can lay claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi, to be the land to which soul on this earth must come to account for Karma, the land to which every soul that is wending its way Godward must come to attain its last home, the land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, above all, the land of introspection and of spirituality - it is India."--- Swami Vivekananda
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