Thesaurus: Definitions

Causal Ocean

• The substance (originally a cloudlike darkness in one corner of the spiritual sky in Vaikuntha) from which the material world is created. Prakriti, material nature, resides eternally within it. To initiate the material creation, Lord Maha-vishnu glances at Prakriti, thus agitating her to begin expanding the material elements. Viewed from inside the material universe, the same Causal Ocean appears like a surrounding shell of water and is named the river Viraja.