From the time immemorial, human beings get exposure of the earth, Sun, Moon, stars and other planets virtually from their birth.

Prakrti  The Supreme Mother

From the time immemorial, human beings get exposure of the earth, Sun, Moon, stars and other planets virtually from their birth. As they grow, they come to know about the magnitude, func­tioning and vital role of these gross objects of the universe for their own survival. Thereafter, one observes from childhood the various phenomena relating to plants, beautiful flowers, green leaves, vegetables and fruits in different seasons. Along with this the fixed periodicity of seasons, rise of sun, moon, emergence of dawn and dusk, day and night, formation of clouds, rain, storms, floods etc; are also observed. By the time a child is able to think more independently, he/she accepts the phenomenon of birth, growth, death of human beings, animals, birds, plants and trees beyond his/her control being a natural phenomenon. Thus the human being starts knowing about the Nature much earlier than the knowledge about many gods, fairies, deities and perhaps later on about the One universal Lord-the formless and ineffable God. Behind the gross universe, the Nature is then visualised as some thing extremely powerful, disciplined but subtle. In the Vedas the Nature is described as Prakrti and it is the manifestation of God as such it is divine Nature. The human beings have natural relationship with Prakrti, gross Universe and the world.

So long as one is happy with these natural phenomena and no "wrath" of Nature in the form of hurricanes, lightening, thun­der, tornadoes and bursting of volcanoes is faced, perhaps one does not feel any need for God or gods, spirit, soul and other divine metaphysical concepts. The ancient man would not have been different in regard to the observations about these natural phenomena. This vast sea of matter and its extremely turbulent material waves would have also affected the ancient man, but perhaps with a less vehemence than the modern material man. As the moral and physical pollution, social tension, environmental hazards, economic strains and vulgar consumerism would not have been there to the degree these exist now. Thus the ancient man suffered much less agonies and miseries caused by "matter" in the various fields of society, family, economics and physical sciences with many of their negative and harmful applications. However, compared to modern man, the ancient man had to move even to far off places in search of food, shelter and locating safe surroundings for protecting a family and forming social groups.

During this frequently forced displacement many human beings might have come across erupting volcanoes, cloud bursts, ferocity of man eaters in the forests, poisonous snakes and other reptiles, many other creatures with mild and strong venom. All these would have lead them to appease some supernatural force sitting in the volcanoes, clouds, oceans, rivers in spate, etc. While they could appreciate the blessings of Nature for providing them food, shel­ter, family and other blessings but they would have found diffi­cult to understand her "wrath" leading to unpleasant and furious phenomenon. To locate and appease those forces sitting behind these phenomena a large number of gods, deities and other objects of worship would have been found or created. This search led to animism, anthropomorphism, pluralism and later to metaphys­ical gods, devas and finally to Vedic metaphysics relating to One Supreme Reality as supreme Father and Prakrti- as supreme Mother.