[Advaita-l] Necessity of Creation

[S Venkatraman]

Dear Sir,

This is indeed an extremely well written and lucid text. It is written by who and what is the whole text of which this Chapter 7 is a part? Will it be possible to get a link to the whole text?

Many thanks and regards,
Venkat


> On 20-Jun-2020, at 12:34 PM, Mahadevan Iyer via Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> 
> Pranams Atman,
> 
> An excellent resource on Samanvayam.
> 
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HOlc2fmiIBE5KiUzVzpVhhr9G2vRXX8e/view
> 
> *Regards,*
> Mahadevan Iyer
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 23:28, Mahadevan Iyer <mahadevan.n.iyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Pranams Atman,
>> 
>> What is the necessity for creation ? Why not everything just be
>> in its primordial state ?
>> 
>> In Advaitam, there is no creator, the process of creation, and that which
>> is created.
>> 
>> Brahman appears as Jagat through Jeeva.
>> 
>> In my view, our perception of MANY, does not eliminate the existence of
>> the ONE. Just as the perception of two eyes, four limbs, ten fingers etc...
>> does not eliminate the existence of the ONE body.
>> 
>> Human brain ( Anthakaranam ) creates pairs of duality, like dark & light,
>> small & big, short & tall etc. One of which is defined in terms of the
>> other. Hence, perception is NECESSARILY of dual nature.  This applied
>> recursively leads to apparent multiplicity.
>> 
>> The trick is that we think in terms of cause and effect by creating a
>> timeline of events.
>> 
>> How Brahman appears as Jagat, cannot be cognized by this logic as Brahman
>> is not time bound.
>> 
>> Kindly convey if there is a better explanation for this. Thank you.
>> 
>> *Hari Om,*
>> Mahadevan Iyer
>> 
>> 
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