When Gods Became the Universe — Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna
When Gods Became the Universe
Shiva, Vishnu, and Krishna — The Eternal Continuum
In the Indian worldview, the universe is alive — not silent, not separate from divinity. Brahman pervades all, Shiva dances the rhythm of cosmic cycles, Vishnu/Krishna manifests as preservation and guidance, and every atom, every star, every consciousness is a note in this eternal symphony.
Shiva: The Cosmic Dancer
Shiva’s Ananda Tandava embodies creation, preservation, and dissolution in a single cosmic cadence. The Prabhā Maṇḍala around Him mirrors galaxies born and perishing. Modern physics at CERN even recognizes this dance — the universal rhythm mirrored in subatomic particles.
नृत्यति नटराजो यत्र तत्र ब्रह्माण्डं कम्पते।
Nṛtyati Naṭarājo yatra tatra brahmāṇḍaṃ kampate.
"Wherever Nataraja dances, the cosmos trembles in resonance."
The Chidambaram temple aligns with the Orion constellation, demonstrating that the ancients understood cosmic geometry long before telescopes. Shiva is not merely a deity of bronze; He is the rhythm of the cosmos itself.
Vishnu/Krishna: The Universal Form
Vishnu preserves the universe through his avatars. Krishna, his complete and final avatar, is the teacher of the eternal dharma — the Bhagavad Gita itself. All gods, all planets, all creation exist within Him. Past, present, and future are one in His being.
सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्म
विनाशं च सृजते पुनः।
Sarvaṃ khalvidaṃ Brahma
Vināśaṃ ca sṛjate punaḥ
"Everything indeed is Brahman; He destroys and creates anew." — Vishnu Purana
Archaeology echoes this divine vision: the Dwarka ruins off Gujarat's coast show that Krishna’s city once thrived — submerged yet eternal. Here, myth and matter converge, revealing a tangible trace of divine orchestration.
Krishna: The Eternal Teaching — Geetha Saaram
यथा जातं सदा भवति
यथा विनश्यति भवति।
Yathā jātaṃ sadā bhavati
Yathā vinaśyati bhavati
"Whatever has happened, has happened — good. Whatever is happening, is happening — good. Whatever will happen — will happen — good." — Bhagavad Gita essence
Krishna reminds us: all loss is temporary, all gain is borrowed, all life is transitory. He is both the cosmic principle and personal guide — the ultimate teacher of dharma, karma, and the infinite flow of time.
When the Cosmos Recites the Gita
The Bhagavad Gita is not merely a spiritual text; it is the universe speaking through consciousness — a treatise on cosmic order. Every law of nature, from the birth of galaxies to the rhythm of atoms, echoes its eternal teachings. The Geetha Saaram is not just moral wisdom — it is the blueprint of existence itself.
The Universe Follows the Gita
The Nine Laws of Cosmic Function
The Bhagavad Gita is not merely a scripture—it is the hidden algorithm by which the cosmos runs.
Every law of motion, every cycle of creation and dissolution, every balance between order and entropy
reflects its verses. These nine tenets of the Geetha Sāram are the universe’s operating principles,
the grammar through which Brahman speaks as matter, light, and life.
1. “Whatever has happened, has happened for good.” — The Law of Cause and Continuity
न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचित् ।
Na jāyate mriyate vā kadācit — Bhagavad Gita 2.20
“It is never born, it never dies.”
Every moment in the cosmos transforms without loss. Stars collapse to form new worlds; matter becomes energy and energy returns to matter. Nothing perishes—everything evolves.
Cosmological Outcome: Conservation is the cosmic dharma. Supernovae recycle elements, black holes store information, and even in death, galaxies seed new creation. The universe renews itself endlessly.
2. “Whatever is happening, is happening for good.” — The Law of Present Harmony
कर्तव्यं कर्म समाचर ।
Kartavyaṃ karma samācara — Bhagavad Gita 3.8
“Perform your duty, for action itself is sacred.”
The universe is self-balancing in every instant. From orbiting planets to the rhythm of tides, each performs its dharma without attachment. Even chaos is harmony unrecognised.
Cosmological Outcome: The equilibrium between gravity and expansion, attraction and radiation, mirrors this law. Every fluctuation sustains the whole. The universe acts in perfect duty—karma yoga on a cosmic scale.
3. “Whatever will happen, will happen for good.” — The Law of Future Evolution
प्रकृतिं यान्ति भूतानि निग्रहः किं करिष्यति ।
Prakṛtiṃ yānti bhūtāni nigrahaḥ kiṃ kariṣyati — Bhagavad Gita 3.33
“Beings follow their nature; what can restraint achieve?”
The future is not chaos but unfolding design. Nature moves toward greater complexity and awareness; every collapse births higher order.
Cosmological Outcome: From hydrogen clouds to conscious life, evolution shows purpose in pattern. Expansion, cooling, and star birth signal the universe’s pilgrimage toward knowing itself—sat-chit-ānanda through matter.
4. “What have you lost that makes you cry?” — The Law of Impermanence
अनित्यमसुखं लोकम् ।
Anityam asukham lokam — Bhagavad Gita 9.33
“This world is transient and sorrowful.”
All forms fade so that life may continue. Decay is the mother of renewal; to cling is to resist the cosmic tide.
Cosmological Outcome: Entropy is impermanence expressed in physics. Stars exhaust fuel, galaxies thin, yet from this ebb flow new dawns. Without impermanence, evolution would halt.
5. “What did you create that is now destroyed?” — The Law of Non-ownership
ममैवांशो जीवलोके जीवभूतः सनातनः ।
Mamaivāṃśo jīvaloke jīvabhūtaḥ sanātanaḥ — Bhagavad Gita 15.7
“All beings are but fragments of My eternal Self.”
Creation is not possession; it is participation in the divine continuum. Nothing originates ex nihilo, and nothing ends in void.
Cosmological Outcome: Civilisations rise and vanish; stars form and dissolve, yet their substance remains. Matter is lent, not owned—energy merely changing attire.
6. “Whatever you took, you took from here.” — The Law of Exchange
देवान् भावयतानेन ते देवा भावयन्तु वः ।
Devān bhāvayatānena te devā bhāvayantu vaḥ — Bhagavad Gita 3.11
“Through this sacrifice, nourish the gods; they will in turn nourish you.”
The universe thrives on reciprocity. Every gain invokes a gift, every absorption a return. This endless circulation is the yajña of existence.
Cosmological Outcome: Photosynthesis, planetary cycles, stellar fusion—all are cosmic transactions where giving sustains being. Balance is the breath of Brahman.
7. “Whatever you gave, you gave here.” — The Law of Cosmic Reciprocity
यत् त्वं ददासि तत् अत्रैव ।
Yat tvaṃ dadāsi tat atraiva — Geetha Sāram
“Whatever you have given, you have given only here.”
No act, no photon, no kindness is lost. The universe keeps every vibration, recycling it into new harmony.
Cosmological Outcome: The light from ancient stars still travels, the heat of vanished suns warms new worlds. Every emission enriches the whole—nothing escapes the cosmic ledger.
8. “What is yours today was someone else’s yesterday, will be someone else’s tomorrow.” — The Law of Transference
इदं शरीरं कौन्तेय क्षेत्रमित्यभिधीयते ।
Idam śarīram kaunteya kṣetram ity abhidhīyate — Bhagavad Gita 13.1
“This body is but a field, O Arjuna.”
Ownership is illusion; stewardship is truth. Every particle journeys through forms and lives.
Cosmological Outcome: The atoms of our breath once belonged to ancient stars. Reincarnation is not metaphoric—it is molecular. The universe remembers itself through endless exchange.
9. “This is the rule of the world.” — The Law of Dharma
यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत ।
Yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata — Bhagavad Gita 4.7
“Whenever righteousness declines, I manifest Myself.”
Dharma is the universe’s self-regulating principle. When imbalance arises, nature manifests correction—sometimes gently, sometimes cataclysmically.
Cosmological Outcome: Collapsing stars, re-forming galaxies, and quantum symmetries echo this truth. The cosmos reincarnates equilibrium. Dharma is physics in moral form.
Therefore...
These nine truths are the architecture of existence.
They underlie gravity, thermodynamics, and evolution just as they underlie ethics and devotion.
The Gita is not metaphor but map; its verses are the equations of creation.
सर्वं खल्विदं ब्रह्म ।
Sarvam khalvidaṃ Brahma — Chāndogya Upaniṣad 3.14.1
“All this is verily Brahman.”
The final revelation of cosmology and scripture converge:
Brahman is the Universe; the Universe is Brahman.
In every quark pulses Śiva’s rhythm, in every orbit abides Viṣṇu’s order,
and through every law resounds Kṛṣṇa’s song.
Thus the cosmos itself chants the Gita Sāram—eternal, balanced, and alive.
Śiva — The Dancer Behind the Laws
What the Bhagavad Gita declares in wisdom, Śiva Purāṇa reveals in movement.
The same nine laws that sustain the universe are expressed through the Ānanda Tāṇḍava —
the cosmic dance of Śiva. In His rhythm, the cosmos cycles through creation, preservation, and dissolution,
eternally balanced within the circle of fire.
“यथा नृत्यति नटराजो, तथा भूरि चराचरं नृत्यति।”
Yathā nṛtyati Naṭarājo, tathā bhūri carācaram nṛtyati.
— Śiva Tattva Stotra
“As Nataraja dances, so do all beings — the moving and the unmoving.
His cosmic rhythm sustains the pulse of the universe.”
Every principle of the Gita is an echo of Śiva’s cosmic choreography:
- Continuity — His ḍamaru resounds creation’s pulse.
- Harmony — His step keeps the balance of worlds.
- Evolution — His flame dissolves to renew.
- Impermanence — His dance never repeats.
- Non-ownership — He creates, yet owns nothing.
- Exchange — His circle of fire mirrors cosmic yajña.
- Reciprocity — He gives and receives within Himself.
- Transference — His forms change, but essence remains.
- Dharma — He is the law, the order, and its dancer.
Thus, the universe is not ruled by laws apart from divinity;
it is divinity in motion.
In every wave of light, in every orbit, in every vibration — Śiva dances still.
The Science of Spiritual Law
Modern physics calls it entropy and equilibrium; Indian philosophy calls it dharma and karma. Both describe the same truth — that the universe sustains itself through balance, renewal, and consciousness.
Thus the Bhagavad Gita is not prescribing behaviour to humankind — it is revealing the laws that govern both matter and mind. In every transformation, every birth, every collapse, the cosmos recites the Gita.
अहमात्मा गुडाकेश सर्वभूताशयस्थितः ।
Aham ātmā guḍākeśa sarvabhūtāśaya-sthitaḥ — Bhagavad Gita 10.20
“I am the Self, O Arjuna, seated in the hearts of all beings; I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all existence.”
From Shiva’s dance of energy to Vishnu’s preservation and Krishna’s wisdom, the same law prevails — the Gita is the universe explaining itself.
The Law Returns — Karma and Newton
कर्मणः फलदातारं ईश्वरं सर्वभूतानाम् ।
Karmaṇaḥ phaladātāraṃ īśvaraṃ sarvabhūtānām — Bhagavad Gita 5.29
“The Lord of all beings dispenses the fruits of every action.”
Sir Isaac Newton wrote, “For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.”
Three millennia before him, the Vedas and the Gita declared the same truth — that no act in the universe
is ever without consequence. The physical world calls it force; the moral world calls it karma.
Both describe the same balance that sustains existence.
In every exchange of energy, in every heartbeat, in every word uttered,
the universe restores equilibrium. The push and the pull, the give and the take,
the creation and the dissolution — all are mirrors of the same law:
that the cosmos, in its infinite fairness, always responds in kind.
Physics names it reaction. Hinduism names it dharma.
Both speak of one principle — that nothing moves without moving something else,
and in doing so, moves itself. The circle closes, the rhythm returns.
This is Newton’s Law. This is Karma. This is the justice of the stars.
The Universe in Its Totality
Brahman pervades all; Shiva dances the rhythm of stars; Vishnu/Krishna sustains all; and the cosmos itself is a field of consciousness. Indian cosmology is incomplete without recognizing Brahman, Shiva, and Vishnu/Krishna as inseparable from the universe. Every constellation, temple, and atom is a reflection of this eternal principle.
The harmony of science and scripture is seen in:
- Nataraja at CERN
- Chidambaram temple aligned with Orion
- Dwarka ruins under the sea
- The eternal dharmic laws encoded in the Bhagavad Gita
References & Sources
- Bhagavad Gita, Chapters 2, 11
- Vishnu Purana, Chapters on Vishvarupa and Cosmic Order
- Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 10 — Krishna Leelas
- Shiva Purana, Chidambaram Rahasyam
- Ananda Coomaraswamy, The Dance of Shiva
- Archaeological Survey of India — Marine Excavations at Dwarka
- CERN — Nataraja symbolism
- Subhash Kak, The Astronomical Code of the Rig Veda
Glossary of Terms
An interpretive lexicon bridging Sanskrit philosophy and cosmic science
Ākāśa (आकाश): The element of space or ether — the infinite field that accommodates all vibrations. In cosmology, it resonates with the concept of spacetime continuum.
Ānanda Tāṇḍava (आनन्द ताण्डव): The ‘Dance of Bliss’ performed by Lord Śiva as Naṭarāja, symbolising the cyclic rhythm of creation, preservation, and dissolution — analogous to the oscillating cycles of the universe.
Brahman (ब्रह्मन्): The supreme, unchanging reality — infinite consciousness underlying all existence. In modern cosmology, comparable to the universal field from which energy and matter manifest.
Dharma (धर्म): The intrinsic order and law that sustains the universe. The physical counterpart is ṛta — the principle of cosmic balance observed in nature’s self-regulating systems.
Geetha Sāram (गीता सारम्): The distilled essence of the Bhagavad Gita, presenting nine timeless laws of existence. These principles parallel the laws of energy, symmetry, and causality in science.
Karma (कर्म): The law of action and reaction — every deed, thought, or motion yields a corresponding result. In physics, echoed by Newton’s third law and conservation principles.
Līlā (लीला): The divine play — the spontaneous self-expression of Brahman as creation. The universe’s expansion, diversity, and dynamism reflect this cosmic playfulness.
Naṭarāja (नटराज): The ‘Lord of Dance’ — Śiva in his cosmic form, symbolising perpetual motion. The circle of fire around Him represents the boundaries of spacetime and energy transformation.
Ṛta (ऋत): The Vedic concept of natural order — the rhythm and precision by which the cosmos operates. It is both physical law and moral harmony; the precursor to the idea of Dharma.
Sat–Chit–Ānanda (सत्–चित्–आनन्द): ‘Being–Consciousness–Bliss’ — the triune nature of ultimate reality. In cosmology, represents existence (matter/energy), awareness (information), and equilibrium (entropy’s harmony).
Tattva (तत्त्व): Principle or reality — the elemental truth underlying phenomena. The Śiva Tattvas are metaphysical constituents of creation, comparable to fundamental forces in physics.
Yajña (यज्ञ): Sacred offering or exchange — symbolising reciprocity between giver and receiver. Parallels the conservation of energy and the cyclical flows in ecological and cosmic systems.
Śruti (श्रुति): ‘That which is heard’ — divine revelation transmitted through spiritual insight. Represents the intuitive dimension of truth that complements empirical discovery.
Śiva (शिव): The Auspicious One — representing the principles of transformation, dissolution, and regeneration. In scientific analogy, He embodies entropy and renewal: destruction as creation’s prerequisite.
Vishvarūpa (विश्वरूप): The Universal Form revealed by Krishna — the cosmos as the Divine Body itself. The astrophysical universe as a living, conscious whole.
© Dhinakar Rajaram, 2026
Bibliotheque Series — Science, Memory and the Indian Gaze
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