Meher Baba uses the word lahar as a synonym for the “Original Whim”, the original impulse from the “Beyond Beyond”, that initiates creation. This impulse is a whim because it is a lark, without cause or reason, that arises in the ocean of divine unconsciousness; it is the first stirring of unconscious God to know himself as conscious God. It is the very first unconscious gasp of the jivatma- the embodied soul, crying out, “who am I ?”
This lahar, or whim, is what starts the creation game.
Now lahar, interestingly, also means a river of pyroclastic concrete that issues from a volcanic eruption. A lahar is super heated gas and lava mixed with whatever lies in its way as it attains velocity.
This strikes me as a fitting image for the Original Whim. Nature, like the woman she is, erupts with a gaseous molten torrent demanding to be heard and seen. She will not be denied. And so it began.
Now, what I love about this, is the fact that She cannot be denied. The lahar cannot be denied. The very first gasp of creation, “who am I”, cannot be denied. This is a super charged volcanic river of molten desire that concretizes as creation. This is the most primal orgasm. This is the most Original Cry of ecstasy: this is the very First Orgasm.
This is the Original Big Bang.
