[Advaita-l] Why did Brahman create the world?

[V Subrahmanian]

http://talkandcomment.com/p/5db7fb1189857dc29d451110 (voice note)

regards
subbu

On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 4:58 PM Praveen R. Bhat via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Raghavji,
>
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 9:43 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > I was just the thinking it would be helpful to see the sAyaNa bhAShya for
> > that particular Rk mantra को अद्धा वेद क इह प्रवोचत् । कुत आजाता कुत इयं
> > विसृष्टिः  and you posted it.
> >
> > Thank you for that Praveen ji.
> >
> (All thanks to Yoganandaji and his team. I've just copy-pasted, fixing just
> a typo or two from http://rigveda.sanatana.in/)
>
>
> > Then what is the Advaita teaching all about. I understand it to be - "the
> > mind cannot do viShayIkaraNam (objectification or a concrete
> > conceptualization) of jagatkAraNam and how it 'evolved' in the initial
> > stages to "become" jagat. But it's still possible for the shuddha
> > anatahkaraNam, when exposed to the mahAvAkya teaching to resolve in to
> it's
> > source and own up "i am brahman" by way of laxyArtham of that mahAvAkya.
> >
> > The mystery of creation remains but the mind's doubts about AtmA and the
> > sources of sorrow are destroyed thereby.
> >
>
> Exactly so, that is why that which is created after (if at all there is a
> created and an after), cannot ever know the former. Who knows is always the
> former; the former knows the former as there is no one else! Or sticking to
> the context, one who knows doesn't know as to why the creation! As Bhagavan
> Gaudapadacharya concludes देवस्यैष स्वभावोऽयमाप्तकामस्य का स्पृहा।
>
> Kind rgds,
> --Praveen R. Bhat
> /* येनेदं सर्वं विजानाति, तं केन विजानीयात्। Through what should one know
> That owing to which all this is known! [Br.Up. 4.5.15] */
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