[Advaita-l] Why was the illusory universe generated at the first place?

[Shashwata Shastri]

What kind of nature is that which bonds Brahman itself?!

Shashwata Chowdhury

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 8:26 PM, S Jayanarayanan via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> The answer is provided in the Gaudapadiya Karika 1.9:
> http://www.celextel.org/upanishads/atharva_veda/mandukya.html     "Some
> others hold that creation is for the enjoyment (of God), yet others say
> that it is for His sport. But it is the very nature of the resplendent
> Being, (for) what desire can he have whose desire is all fulfilled?"
>
>
>
>       From: Shashwata Shastri via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org>
>  To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 3:18 PM
>  Subject: [Advaita-l] Why was the illusory universe generated at the first
> place?
>
> What is this Maya? Where does it come from? Why was Avidya there at the
> first place? Brahman is the one and absolute. My question is, why this
> spark of imperfection in the perfect? Without Brahman there can be no
> existence of Maya itself. But what is the relation between Maya and
> Brahman? It is not like the Brahman, it is not even same as Brahman, it
> can not exist without Brahman, it is not something which can be identified
> as the opposite of Brahman either. But we need to admit that it did
> generate from Brahman. If it is from Brahman then why it was there on the
> first place (Again same question)? Why depended existence of ignorance in
> absolute and pure Brahman?
>
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