What is the Hindu creation myth/ story?

Question

According to Hindu philosophy, how did we get here?

Answer 1

Hindus theory of creation is very sane and logically. as per Hindu philosophy, the soul starts its journey in the matter and slowly after passing through 8.4 million different species, graduates to human

In human too, the soul learns innumerable lessons, by taking repeated births, thus tasting joys, sorrows, pains, sufferings, richeness, poverty, weakness, strength, ignorance and wisdom, it progresses slowly towards divinity.

In hindu philosophy, we do not just end up in an imaginary heaven, but become one with the Supreme consciousness which is called Moksha (enlightenment)

Answer 2

This universe existed in the shape of darkness, unperceived, destitute of distinctive marks, unattainable by reasoning, unknowable, wholly immersed, as it were, in deep sleep.

Then the Divine Self-existent, himself indiscernible but making all this, the great elements and the rest, discernible, appeared with irresistible power, dispelling the darkness.

He who can be perceived by the internal organ alone, who is subtle, indiscernible, and eternal, who contains all created beings and is inconceivable, shone forth of his own will.

He, desiring to produce beings of many kinds from his own body, first with a thought created the waters, and placed his seed in them.

That seed became a golden egg, in brilliancy equal to the sun; in that egg he himself was born as Brahma, the progenitor of the whole world....

The Divine One resided in that egg during a whole year, then he himself by his thought divided it into two halves;

And out of those two halves he formed heaven and earth, between them the middle sphere, the eight points of the horizon, and the eternal abode of the waters.

From himself he also drew forth the mind, which is both real and unreal, likewise from the mind ego, which possesses the function of self-consciousness and is lordly.

Moreover, the great one, the soul, and all products affected by the three qualities, and, in their order, the five organs which perceive the objects of sensation.

But, joining minute particles even of those six, which possess measureless power, with particles of himself, he created all beings.

Answer 3

At first the sound came.. that is OUM. From that shapes formed and gradually like in Darwin's theory humans were born. Evolution is true in Hindu mythology.

Answer 4

Apparently, there are several different myths of origin in Hinduism. http://www.unesco.org/courier/2001_05/uk/doss24.htm

Answer 5

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