ABSTRACT
The process of creation, the sustenance and dissolution of the world is the subject of many statements in the Vedas. Creation appears in a cycle and at the end of every cycle there is dissolution and at the end of the dissolution period there is again creation. The creation of the world requires six different causes and they are: proper application; expenditure of time; material cause; skill, knowledge and thought; definite combination of atoms in exact proportion and ratio; the Maker. The whole of the creation and the Universe has three main causes, the first cause is the efficient, the second the material, the third is the common. The efficient cause is that by whose directed activity, desire, thought, skill and intelligence a thing is made; in the absence of these entire nothing is made or created.
