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PURUSHA SUKTHAM
The humanity and the rest of the cosmos which were held together in organic unity as the body of the Purusha was destroyed with the fall of gods/mankind. As a result each developed their ego and the cohesive unity of the cosmos was lost and the dismembered body was scattered all over the cosmos as separate entity with ego and will of their own.
Brahma creates the material world, which is often called the "one-quarter creation," expressing that it is far smaller than the spiritual world (the "three-quarters portion").
Decay and Death prevail only in this quarter creation.
St Augustine said that "Adam, at the fall, was scattered over all the earth" Humanity which was once one, one with nature, one with himself, one with God, when he fell he was scattered and divided.
In the Christian thought, the atonement means that God comes into this divided universe and gathers those scattered pieces together and in his sacrifice reunites mankind. He brings all persons together
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