The Creation and Its Cause

According to Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

In the beginning, this universe was the self alone, in the shape of a person. He reflected and saw nothing else but His self. He first said: "I am He." Therefore He came to be known by the name I (Aham अहमं). Hence, even now, when a person is addressed, he first says: "It is I," and then says whatever other name he may have. And because He, before the whole group of aspirants, burnt all evils, therefore He is called Purusha पुरुष. He who knows this verily burns up him who wishes to be Viraj in advance of him.

He was afraid. Therefore people still are afraid when alone. He thought: "Since there is nothing else but myself, what am I afraid of?" Thereupon His fears were gone; for what was there to fear? Assuredly, it is from a second entity that fear arises.

He was not at all happy. Therefore a person even today is not happy when alone. He desired a mate. He became the size of a man and wife in close embrace. He divided this body into two. From that division arose husband (pati पति) and wife (patni पत्नी). Therefore, as Yajnavalkya याज्ञवल्क said, the body before one accepts a wife is one half of oneself, like the half of a split pea. Therefore this space is indeed filled by the wife. He was united with her. From that union human beings were born.

Hinduism regards man and woman as the two halves of the eternal being, each constituting a vibrant, existential part, quite incomplete in itself. In the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Prajapati प्रजापति, the primordial God, divides himself into two-man and woman, the symbols of cosmic polarity deriving sustenance from the same source. (That is why in intimacy One want to merge in the other with all Force and want to become One, This is the Power on Nature, In fact, No Female or male soul is a complete human soul without the other. Male and female are halves of the same whole. What affects one, therefore, affects the other. This becomes most clear when it comes time for joining woman is a part of Man, and in Hinduism we call wife as Ardhagani.)

In the cosmic scheme man represents Purusha पुरुष (the Person, Spirit) and woman Prakriti प्रकृति (Nature, Primal Matter), both of whom unite to keep the world going. So goes the Vedic verse: ‘I am He, you are She; I am song, you are verse; I am heaven, you are earth. We two shall here together dwell becoming parents of children’.