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Creator and Creation
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Who created this world?
If you ask this question to anybody in this world, mostly the reply will be, “This world is created by God”. One can’t doubt this reply because there is no other answer. “Who else can create this world?” people will ask you, if you do not agree with them. Even a smallest thing in the kitchen requires some manufacturer, this world too must have been manufactured, and somebody must be manufacturer. There is a story in the biography of Swami Vivekanand. When he was in US he was staying with a American lady who was his disciple. The husband of the lady was atheist and did not appreciate the view of Swamiji. Once Swamiji painted a beautiful map of the world and kept it on the table in such a way that it will be easily seen by husband of his disciple, when he will return in the evening from his job. When he returned to home and seen a map he asked as to who painted this map? Swamiji and his disciple replied, “We do not know; nobody was here in the house except we two; this map must have been created by nobody”. The husband asked as to how it was possible? But both Swamiji and his disciple reiterated that nobody did it. Ultimately, Swamiji asked him a question, “If somebody is required to create the map of the world, somebody must be required to create this world; we call the creator of this world the God!”
This is a simple argument put forth as an evidence of existence of God. It is a deep rooted thought in human mind that everything has a creator, and so the God is the creator of this universe. Most of the holy books in the world have made this argument and decisive human thought about creator-creation, a base of their religious theory. Swami Vivekanand was surely a Adwaitin, who very well knew that what we look around us and call a world was an illusion. If the above story was true, one might think that his statement about map of the world and existence of creator was against his own principles of Adwaita. But this is not wrong. The principles or knowledge of God is very subtle and unable to be understood by common people, unless they concentrate on it. The Hindu Shastras and great saints like Vivekanand had therefore, told the knowledge of God to the people in two stages, so as to make them digest it. The first stage was to agree with the people with their natural understanding about God, like creator-creation relation and the second stage was to prove that what was agreed by all was wrong.
We, in this write up here, try to think deeply about creator and creation, temporarily leaving behind the impact of holy books on our mind that God has created the world.
First of all we shall have to reply to the question of the people who have doubts. The question is if world is created by God; then who created the God? Logically there must be an answer to this question. The answer is God is eternal; God was there in the past, God is in the present and shall be in the future. Why? Because, the God is imperishable. God can’t be destroyed or God does not die Himself. Why God does not die? Because God was never born. All the things in the Universe are likely to perish one or the other day, including the Sun and the Moon. God could logically be accepted as only one existence that is imperishable and eternal.
The God will require some material to create this world. The world is created out of five elements viz. ether (the hollow of the universe), air, fire, water and earth. The question is whether these five elements were available to God for creation of the world? Whether this material was existing before God or God had created this? If we agree that the material was available, there could be hundreds of questions, like who created the material before existence of God? Where is that creator of material? etc. So we have to agree on this point that God was alone and He created the five elements to create this world. How he could create the five elements when there was no other material? There are two alternatives;
1. He must have created the five essential materials for this world from himself like a spider creates the net from the material which comes out of him.
2. He being almighty must have created the five essential materials like a magician creates so many things out of his hat or box.
If you ask this question to anybody in this world, mostly the reply will be, “This world is created by God”. One can’t doubt this reply because there is no other answer. “Who else can create this world?” people will ask you, if you do not agree with them. Even a smallest thing in the kitchen requires some manufacturer, this world too must have been manufactured, and somebody must be manufacturer. There is a story in the biography of Swami Vivekanand. When he was in US he was staying with a American lady who was his disciple. The husband of the lady was atheist and did not appreciate the view of Swamiji. Once Swamiji painted a beautiful map of the world and kept it on the table in such a way that it will be easily seen by husband of his disciple, when he will return in the evening from his job. When he returned to home and seen a map he asked as to who painted this map? Swamiji and his disciple replied, “We do not know; nobody was here in the house except we two; this map must have been created by nobody”. The husband asked as to how it was possible? But both Swamiji and his disciple reiterated that nobody did it. Ultimately, Swamiji asked him a question, “If somebody is required to create the map of the world, somebody must be required to create this world; we call the creator of this world the God!”
This is a simple argument put forth as an evidence of existence of God. It is a deep rooted thought in human mind that everything has a creator, and so the God is the creator of this universe. Most of the holy books in the world have made this argument and decisive human thought about creator-creation, a base of their religious theory. Swami Vivekanand was surely a Adwaitin, who very well knew that what we look around us and call a world was an illusion. If the above story was true, one might think that his statement about map of the world and existence of creator was against his own principles of Adwaita. But this is not wrong. The principles or knowledge of God is very subtle and unable to be understood by common people, unless they concentrate on it. The Hindu Shastras and great saints like Vivekanand had therefore, told the knowledge of God to the people in two stages, so as to make them digest it. The first stage was to agree with the people with their natural understanding about God, like creator-creation relation and the second stage was to prove that what was agreed by all was wrong.
We, in this write up here, try to think deeply about creator and creation, temporarily leaving behind the impact of holy books on our mind that God has created the world.
First of all we shall have to reply to the question of the people who have doubts. The question is if world is created by God; then who created the God? Logically there must be an answer to this question. The answer is God is eternal; God was there in the past, God is in the present and shall be in the future. Why? Because, the God is imperishable. God can’t be destroyed or God does not die Himself. Why God does not die? Because God was never born. All the things in the Universe are likely to perish one or the other day, including the Sun and the Moon. God could logically be accepted as only one existence that is imperishable and eternal.
The God will require some material to create this world. The world is created out of five elements viz. ether (the hollow of the universe), air, fire, water and earth. The question is whether these five elements were available to God for creation of the world? Whether this material was existing before God or God had created this? If we agree that the material was available, there could be hundreds of questions, like who created the material before existence of God? Where is that creator of material? etc. So we have to agree on this point that God was alone and He created the five elements to create this world. How he could create the five elements when there was no other material? There are two alternatives;
1. He must have created the five essential materials for this world from himself like a spider creates the net from the material which comes out of him.
2. He being almighty must have created the five essential materials like a magician creates so many things out of his hat or box.
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