Why Did God Create the World? Part 4

Why Did God Create the World?

Part 4

Now if we see the nature of the Truth or God, from Its standpoint, creation is a logical and actual possibility. The world as we see is constantly changing. How can a changing entity emerge from a changeless entity? How can the Changeless modify to become the world? Being one without a second how can it produce the world as a separate entity like a potter makes a pot.

The Mandukya Karika says:

Na kascit jayate jivah sambhavoyasya na vidyate,
Etaddhi uttamam satyam yatra kinchit na jayate.

No individual was ever born, as it is not possible. Nothing was ever born from that reality. That is the highest truth.

When creation itself is not there, where is the question of the motive behind creation. This may seem impossible to stomach for us who are well grounded in this world and who give it an absolute reality. For us the absolute Truth seems unreal, remote or at the most an intellectual concept. But if we reflect on this again and again we might appreciate it.

One may say, but what of creation? It is experienced by us, so it must exist. What is its relation to God/Truth? What has it come from and why was it created?

True, the world is experienced by us. Every effect must have a cause. An effect cannot be a cause of itself and a finite effect cannot be cause of the infinite world. And therefore one of the objects of the world cannot be the cause of the world. Therefore God/Truth alone can be the cause of the world. The Truth cannot produce the world remaining different from it, (as It alone Is) nor can it modify to become the world, (as It is changeless). The only other possibility is that the Truth, remaining as It is appears as the world. The world is an appearance or a projection on the Truth. A snake is seen on the rope. The rope appears as a snake, without itself undergoing any change. The mind projects the entire dream world. The dreamer experiences joys and sorrows, has likes and dislikes, lives lifetimes, travels widely...........all in the dream. For him, the experiences are real and his world solidly real. On waking everything is realized to an appearance.

Om Namah Shivay