Who created this world and why. Why did God create the material world. Why does God need the material world
And it would be more correct to say why GOD created this world and became a man?
But, before finding out why GOD decided to descend into this world, in the human body, let's find out, why did GOD decide to create it?
GOD decided to create this world as a game for HIMSELF. on the one hand, and in order to increase the amount of LOVE in this game.
Those. HE decided to become a multitude in order to find out what it is - life in a material body, in the material world.
Of course, I state all this from my human point of view.
Because God came into this world in human body, identified HIMSELF with this body, therefore a person considers himself a body - being essentially GOD.
It may seem that the author is trying to persuade himself a man to become GOD.
This is not entirely true, I am not trying to persuade myself to BECOME GOD, because I am
GOD. I'm trying to REMEMBER GOD.
That is why I am writing all this.
I constantly think and reflect on this and write down all the results of these reflections, because it is impossible to remember all this, but it is impossible to forget, because then I will have to start all over again.
So I think for myself a man, and for MYSELF - GOD. And there is nothing unusual or unnatural in this, because our LIFE is just a game. And in the game everything is permissible, including it is permissible to think for yourself and for the rest of the world.
Why should I think for the rest of the world?
Yes, because I am GOD, and GOD is EVERYTHING, and nowhere is there ANYONE and nothing but GOD.
Those. I put myself in the place of GOD and try to imagine how I would act in this or that situation being GOD.
Perhaps someone, after these words, will twist his finger at his temple and say - well, that’s all, a comrade has arrived. So I hasten to disappoint you, I haven’t arrived yet, I’m still on my way. Although this phrase is also quite ambiguous ...
So everything I write is just travel notes, on the way to myself.
Well, for now, let's continue reflections on behalf of GOD, about the creation of the world
What and how GOD thought, having decided to create this world, for us, this mystery is great, for the ways of the LORD are inscrutable.
We can only guess. Assuming trying to remember how it managed to become so attached to this world that even knowing that I am GOD living in this body, I can’t forget myself as a person.
So, in order to be able to live in this unreal world, GOD, the only REALITY, had to get rid of HIS reality and put on an unreal body, i.e. become human.
After all, only an unreal person is able to live in this illusory world.
Although to say in the affirmative that a person is completely unreal, there is also no reason.
Only the body is unreal in a person, and I am GOD - CONSCIOUSNESS simply cannot be unreal, even if I wanted to.
GOD - REALITY has no form and therefore in its natural form, outside the form, cannot live in the world of forms. What is out of form? It is not given to the human mind to imagine the formless, although it would seem not so difficult.
Formless is that which has no physical body.
But, having become a man, HE will not be able to remain him forever.
So, at the end of the game, each person must become HIMSELF - GOD.
So, increasing the amount of LOVE THIS IS THE MAIN PURPOSE OF CREATING THIS WORLD. If there were no man, then who would need the world on its own?
The world is necessary for a person in order to gain experience of self-reliance. human life. This is why GOD created LIFE. Created by manifestation of matter.
And since matter can exist only in the form of forms, then HE populated this world with plants, animals, people, and all other creatures that can live only in forms. But this is not entirely correct either.
GOD DID NOT POPULATE THE WORLD WITH BEINGS, BUT BECAME THEM.
GOD thought how good it would be if the Sun appeared, which would give heat and light. And the planets revolved around Him, warming themselves in His rays, grasses, flowers, bushes, trees, etc. would grow on these planets, and animals would graze among these grasses.
Birds on the trees would give joy to the world with their singing, fish, dolphins and other creatures swam in the water.
And so that they love each other and multiply, and since reproduction occurs only through love, this is an increase in LOVE.
THIS IS THE MEANS OF INCREASING THE AMOUNT OF LOVE.
The more creatures created from love and living in love will inhabit the worlds, the more LOVE itself. And if such solar systems create a multitude, because how much then will the amount of LOVE increase. Live and be happy.
And the most important thing is that it is enough for GOD to think about it, as all HIS thoughts immediately materialize.
Therefore, for HIM all the stars, planets and living beings on them are just shadows of His thoughts. And that is why this world is unreal because it only reflects the thoughts of GOD.
But, again, these are just my human assumptions.
And why, on what basis, did I begin to build these assumptions?
Because I am a person, in fact GOD, and at the end of the game called LIFE, I must again become MYSELF - GOD.
Therefore, I need to understand this world and my role in this world.
That is why I am writing all this.
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God did not become a man and did not decide to descend into this world in a human body. These expressions are people's fantasies, in other words, dogmas. The main provisions in religious teaching, declared inapplicable truth and not subject to criticism.
In the Scriptures (texts in Hebrew, Ancient Aramaic and Ancient Greek) there is not a word about this. There, God, as he was God, so he remained.
"God did not become a man and did not decide to descend into this world in a human body. These expressions are people's fantasies, in other words, dogmas."
And what are fantasies, and what are dogmas?
"Basic provisions in religious doctrine, declared inapplicable truth and not subject to criticism."
And the biblical commandment says: "Do not make yourself an idol." What is she talking about, have you thought about it? So this commandment says that a person should live by his own mind, and not rely on any dogmas. And that's why he has to question and question everything. True, the church teaches that faith must be blind. But this is also said in the BIULIA. If the blind lead the blind, then everyone will fall into the pit.
So, GOD gave a person freedom precisely so that a person chooses his own destiny - to be blind or sighted.
The highest taste of life. Exit from the material game Alexander Usanin
Why was the material world created?
ekam bahu syam: "The One has become many."
(Chandogya Upanishad, 6.2.3)
So who are we? Why was this material world created? Why, how, why did we get here? Almost everything depends on the correct answers to these questions; much more than we can imagine. The course of our whole life, our spiritual progress, the state of affairs on the Planet depend on them.
Academician Vernadsky argued that there are two types of matter: bone matter and conscious, living matter. He argued that consciousness is a completely different kind of energy that exists independently of immobile matter.
All religions talk about this, mystics - everyone who talks about the soul. Ancient Vedas the total inanimate material energy is called mahat-tattva, and the conscious energy is called Brahman.
Material energy is inert and in its pure form is completely motionless, static. The conscious energy is mobile, active and ecstatic; it is the source of all manifestations, including the so-called "bone" matter, that is, the material world.
Thought is one manifestation of this conscious energy. Thought is the creative principle of all things. Consciousness also manifests itself in the form of desires. To be aware means, among other things, to desire and to create. The energy of pleasure is closely related to the power of desire; they exist eternally in this one Brahman as the original feminine and masculine.
The Supreme Brahman is the limitless eternal self-sufficient, independent of anything living energy, which for the sake of its pleasure manifests itself in an infinite variety of forms and qualities.
Not dependent on anything and having unlimited power, this self-conscious energy is the Supreme Personality (to be aware of oneself means to be a person). This Personality transforms its energy in infinitely different ways, as a result of which an infinite number of the most diverse energies appears. In order to expand his enjoyment, the Supreme Brahman endows them with individual consciousness. It is just like inside the ocean there are many different currents, which, without mixing, each flow along their own invisible channels, being at the same time part of the entire ocean. Also, inside Parabrahman, the Supreme All-pervading Personality, His parts live, which perceive themselves as individual, qualitatively similar to Him, since they are created from the same divine energy. Being One and Immutable (like the ocean), Brahman at the same time "Became many".
advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam
adyam purana-purusam nava-yauvanam ca
vedutu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktau
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
“I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, the original Personality, absolute, infallible and without beginning. Expanding Himself into countless forms, the Lord nevertheless remains the same original, oldest and at the same time eternally young person. It is very difficult to achieve with philosophical knowledge but He is easily attainable through pure unalloyed devotion” (Brahma-Samhita, 5.33).
It can also be compared to the fact that, so that you would not be bored, you would endow the parts of your body with the quality of personality and be able to talk to them, while simultaneously feeling them from the inside.
However, in true reality, everything is much more interesting. There are no barriers to thought in its purest form. At the level of the Absolute, the desires of Parabrahman and his conscious energies immediately become a fait accompli. In order to deepen and perfect the relationship, the Supreme Brahman and its various, individual conscious energies take on beautiful forms endowed with various qualities - so that they can touch and see each other, perceive what is happening in various other ways, which deepens their mutual enjoyment of communication, which is nothing other than pure, ever-increasing, unmotivated, unconditional love.
Since all these particles of God, embodied in various forms, are absolute, eternal and do not depend on anything, they do not need to go to work. All their occupations come down to the enjoyment of communication, which, thanks to their boundless imagination and omnipotence, takes on a wide variety of forms in the various spaces - worlds - created by them for this purpose. If there is energy, conditions are necessary for its manifestation. Different types of worlds are created so that different energies can act in them, different levels games with the Supreme personality. All relationships with God on a spiritual level are varied, pleasurable games of love. Just like children who do not have to worry about anything, all particles of God are ready to play with each other for an eternity without rest, coming up with more and more new entertainment. The life of the absolute level is a variety of endless games in the worlds that Prarabrahman creates from His self-luminous omnipotent energy. Those who have attained enlightenment also perceive this world as self-luminous. It is perceived as dark only at the level of low vibrations due to the cover of a false ego.
In the hymns of the Rig Veda there is a statement: “Before the creation of the boundless worlds, there was only one Brahman, and nothing but Brahman; after the creation of all the limitless universes, there is only Brahman, and nothing but Brahman; and after they have gone into the unmanifested state, only Brahman will exist, and nothing but Brahman.”
To create new world, Parabrahman does not need to work for seven days - He only desires, and His perfect conscious energies, manifesting in the forms of Gods and goddesses subordinate to Him, clean souls- eternal, ever-existing personalities - all immediately perform.
There is no competition in the spiritual world, because all relationships there are love relationship between Energy and its Source, because there is not and cannot be a competition between the whole body and its part. Just as each cell, different parts and organs of the body, each in its own way, jointly and completely harmoniously serve the common interest - the whole body, so the infinite inhabitants of the spiritual world are driven only by boundless love for each other, for the Higher Whole that unites them all - Supreme Personality.
The highest incomprehensible mysticism lies in the fact that the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Personality, remaining One and One, manifests itself in an unlimited number of forms, communicating as a person with each of its manifestations - that is, with each of us: for this He created us! Although God is one, and we are an infinite multitude, He communicates with each of us personally, all the time maintaining our interest in Himself, strengthening our love with His infinitely attractive qualities for us. This does not need proof: everyone who walks the spiritual path has a practical experience of personal communication with God. Everyone who sincerely serves Him knows from experience how He responds to our every attempt to communicate with Him. In the spiritual world, in addition, we also see Him - That, of which we are all integral parts!
Since He is unlimited, we - His particles - are also infinite. He loves us - just as we love every cell of our body (if we are mentally and physically healthy) - only much, much more!
Out of love, He endowed us with an independent individual consciousness, because love craves reciprocity. That's why He awakened us as individuals - for games, relationships in love! "Variety is the mother of pleasure!" For His pleasure, He created us different, with an individual character that brings us and Him the greatest pleasure.
There is no time in the spiritual world, everyone is eternally young and attractive there. And the Lord Himself, the personally manifested Parabrahman, communicates with us in an irresistibly beautiful form, simply driving everyone crazy with his boundless love, beauty and amazing qualities. There, in personal games with the Lord, everyone takes the image that he wants. We look and express ourselves there as we wish - in order to get more pleasure from the games.
The Brahma Samhita gives a description of the immaterial imperishable spheres: “All the buildings are built there with precious stones and the philosopher's stone Chintamani; all the trees there are wishing trees, all the women are Goddesses of Fortune. Every word there is a song; and every step is a dance; there every day is a holiday!”
Being one of the energies of the Almighty, time manifests itself differently there and is felt in the form of the ever-existing present.
That living world is a world of relationships, a world of pure and unconditional love.
In the world of the Absolute there are no prohibitions and restrictions on desires. Because everything that exists there, every personality, is a full or partial manifestation of Gdiny, who is aware of himself as the Supreme Personality, and at the same time sees Himself through the eyes of his integral particles endowed with individual consciousness. This supreme truth was expounded 500 years ago by Sri Chaitanya in a philosophy that has come to be known as "acintya bheda-abheda tattva":“the incomprehensible unity and difference between energy and its source”, – “the incomprehensible unity and difference between God and all conscious beings, everything that exists”. We are small particles of the Supreme, different and non-different from Him, just like sparks of fire and fire, Sunshine and the disk of the sun, a drop of water and the whole ocean.
And being a part of the Almighty, we have exactly the same and complete freedom, knowledge, eternal and boundless bliss. Everything that exists in the spiritual world is created from eternity, knowledge and bliss. Since all these qualities are our true nature, we, driven by it, strive to reveal this nature of ours: we want to know everything again, we don’t want to die, and we all strive for pure and unconditional love, which brings infinite happiness to the soul.
Depending on no one and nothing, God (the spiritual world) is eternal, unchanging, blissful and limitless. Myriads of material Universes are in Him, like a small cloud in the boundless radiant sky. Sometimes this cloud disappears without a trace, sometimes it appears again.
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After all, we still do not justify his desires: we hate each other, we kill, we condemn, we produce all kinds of sins, and often we ourselves do not realize that we are sinning. We have reached the point where we have created a nuclear bomb, as the apogee of absolute destruction. There are very few righteous people in the world (I do not consider myself one of them), it is very difficult to get to heaven (for this you need to work on yourself all your life), to hell is incredibly easy.
Mankind throughout its history, in fact, does nothing but roll into the abyss. Wars are getting bloodier, depravity is getting more inventive, addictions are getting more and more severe. Yes, and worse. The life of most people is hated by themselves: school - hassle at the university - unloved job for forty years of life - old age - death. Many, many people get up in the morning at the disgusting signal of the alarm clock with one thought - if all this would end faster, and then let it be hell, anything. And that's how I live too. What are the thoughts about salvation? What kind of “bright joy” can we talk about?
I once got acquainted with the life of a worker at a factory in the city of Kovrov: he gets up at an unimaginable early hour, hurries to the bus (if he is late several times, he can be fired), he plows there for up to five hours for a salary that looks more like a cruel joke, and the rest of the time, apathetic from fatigue, spends in the yard with beer. He constantly swears, drinks and fights, does not go to Church, but he is deeply unhappy. Why did the Lord create it? Is Hell waiting for this poor hard worker, and hundreds of thousands of his kind? A huge part of the people who live and have ever lived did this not for the joy of either themselves or God. What was in Hitler's soul when he killed millions? And where did my classmate, whose life is broken and destroyed, take a wrong turn? Mankind is like an unsuccessful car that was launched into the series, hoping that it will live up to expectations, but it works with malfunctions.
And what is all this for? Only then, in the end, when humanity, exhausted, tormented by its own sin, finally reaches the bottom, solemnly come from heaven, completely incinerate this world, and then raise all of us, already exhausted, fallen, from the graves to judge? It's very cruel.
The best minds of mankind have been looking for answers to the questions that you ask for many millennia. The answer can be obtained only by trusting God. The good Heavenly Father, who sent His Son into this world for the sake of saving the world, cannot wish evil to mankind. So, we are waiting for what the apostle Paul says:
Let's start with the most important. Why did God choose to create the world? This is a question that has no answer. However, we cannot stop asking them. And we find a probable answer to this unanswerable question in St. Maximus the Confessor, when he, in his “Chapters on Love”, discussing this, speaks of mutual joy: had need, but that they, according to their acceptability, partaking of His blessedness, would enjoy, but He Himself rejoiced in His deeds, seeing them rejoicing” (“Chapters on Love”, centurion 3:46).
The idea that Maximus the Confessor expresses when discussing mutual joy can also be associated with the concept of mutual love. “God is love” (1 John 4:8), the Evangelist John tells us. And this Divine love is not self-centered, but mutual, it is distributed among all those who are involved in it. God is not just some Being, independent, isolated and loving only Himself. God is a Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. All Three Persons love each other and are connected to each other in a continuous movement of mutual communication. God is not personal, but interpersonal, being not just a union, but a fusion. One of the characteristic terms that the Cappadocian Fathers use to describe the Holy Trinity is communion.
Therefore, if God as the Holy Trinity is the sacrament of shared love, this means that the decision to create the world is in perfect harmony with the nature of God, since Creation allows others besides Him to share this movement of Trinity love. When I say that this choice is in accordance with the nature of God, I do not mean that God was in any way "obliged" to create the world. On the contrary, no internal or external factors forced God to make such a gesture. He acted absolutely freely. God is necessary for the world, but the world is not necessary for God. As the Russian theologian Georgy Frolovskii said: “The world exists. But he began to exist. And this means: the world might not exist. There is no need for the existence of the world. Cause and foundation of the world outside the world. The existence of the world is possible only through the extra-worldly will of the All-Good and Almighty God” (“Creation and creation”).
However, despite the fact that God creates the world with absolute and perfect freedom, and the world, accordingly, is an expression of His free will, God in the act of creation reveals His true nature - love. Let us recall here the words of St. Dionysius the Areopagite that Divine love is ecstatic, which means that it is outside of Him. God created the world because his love "overflows". Without this flowing love, the world would never exist. And instead of talking about creation ex nihilo (out of nothing), it would be more correct to talk about creation ex amore (out of love).
If we look at Creation in this way - as an expression of mutual joy and mutual love - then no theistic view that the universe is a work of art and the holy Creator is an architect or craftsman can satisfy us. We cannot accept the image of the universe as some kind of clock that the watchmaker only makes, winds and then leaves to run.
Undoubtedly, such views are wrong. According to Saints Maximus the Confessor and Dionysius the Areopagite, Creation is not an act in which God acts only outside, but an act through which God expresses himself inwardly. God is not only outside of creation, but also within it. The first images with which we describe the relationship of God with the world should not depict the One who shapes the world, changes it and organizes it. We must conceive of God as some entity living within everything, present everywhere and forever. When we say that God is the Creator of the universe, we mean that God is “everywhere and all-fulfilling,” using words that Orthodox Church refers to both Christ and the Holy Spirit.
Closely related to this issue is another topic that I would like to touch on. The creation of the world should be interpreted not as an event that happened once in the past, but as continuing to be connected with the present. The world exists because God loves it, and not because he loved it sometime in the distant past, at the very beginning, but because he loves it here and now, this very moment and every next. We should speak of Creation not at some indeterminate point in time, but in the present. We should not say that once, many years ago, God created the world. The point is that God creates the world with me and you inside him now and always. If the holy Creator did not use his creative will every fraction of a second, then the universe would be lost in the darkness of non-existence. As St. Philaret of Moscow said, “the creative word is like an adamant bridge, on which creatures are placed and stand, under the abyss of God’s infinity, over the abyss of their own insignificance” (“The Word on the day of finding the relics of our Holy Father Alexy Metropolitan of Moscow and All Russia the Wonderworker and on the occasion of returning to the Moscow flock”). This creative word of God, the “Adamant Bridge” of St. Philaret, is a word spoken not once, but unceasingly, a word spoken yesterday, today, and repeated “for all days until the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).
As a creation of God, the world is beautiful by birth: “And God saw all that He had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). But at the same time it is the world of the fall, broken, crushed, destroyed and distorted by sin - the original sin of our ancestors and the personal sins of each of us. As the apostle Paul says, the whole creation has “subjected to vanity” and “groaning”, waiting for the hour when it will be free again (Rom. 8:20-22). However, this fall is not complete. In created nature, even in a fallen state, echoes of the sacred presence of God continue to be heard. And the world continues to be beautiful, even if its beauty is imperfect. And we can truly say the words spoken at every Vespers: "Wonderful are thy works, Lord."
Unknown author of the work of Russian prose of the 19th century “Frank stories of a wanderer to his spiritual father” vividly emphasizes this innate beauty and splendor of the world. Passing through the endless forest thicket with the Jesus Prayer on his lips, the wanderer felt how his heart was filled with love for all people, and not only for them, but for everything that exists: “When I began to pray with my heart, everything around me seemed to me in delightful sight: trees, herbs, birds, earth, air, light, everything seemed to say in me that they exist for man, they testify to the love of God for man and everything prays, everything sings the glory of God. And I understood from this what is called in the Good Love "knowledge of the words of the creature" (Second Story). The experience of this particular moment is not a false sensation, but a true knowledge of the true nature of the created world.
Translation from modern Greek: the editors of the online publication "Pemptusia".
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In this article, we will consider the Vedic concept of the emergence of the world in which we live.
How and why did God create this world?
Consider such moments, who is God, why he created the material world, and why we are here. And how to get back home.
The topic is very extensive and rather incomprehensible to the average person, therefore this article describes the process of creating the material world and the meaning of this phenomenon in a very short and simplified way. According to the Vedas, the ancient scriptures, there is a spiritual world and a material one, in which we are now. About the spiritual world, as it is described in the Vedas, you can read in a short review "Paradise pictures of the spiritual world and a description of the Kingdom of God."
Why does God need the material world?
A completely logical question, and the answer given in the Vedas, is that God does not need the material world, since He is self-sufficient and does not need anything. But God created it for a certain category of souls.
In the spiritual world, all souls, being integral parts of God and realizing this, serve the Whole. That is, they live for God, or serve God, who is the Source and root cause of everything. In serving God, souls experience ever-increasing bliss and are completely satisfied with this state of affairs. In the spiritual world there is no suffering, disease, old age, or death. There everything is eternal, full of knowledge (wisdom) and bliss.
However, sometimes the soul has a desire to live for itself, that is, to remove God from the center of its life, and put itself in this center. And since this is impossible in the spiritual world (since the natural nature and activity of the soul is service to the Whole), God, in order to enable souls to try to fulfill their desire, created the material world and deprived them of the memory of Himself. Thus, having come to the material world, the soul forgot that there is a God who needs to be served, and now it can fulfill its desire - to serve itself, to live for itself.
What came out of it - you can see around. Everyone lives for himself, with all the ensuing consequences - the joys and sufferings of material existence, birth, illness, old age and death. And so again and again - under control and reincarnation.
The material world is a mystical dream of God
The Brahma Samhita says that Maha-Vishnu (one of the manifestations of God) lies in the Causal Ocean (which is part of the spiritual world) and is immersed in a mystical dream called. This is not just a dream in the usual human sense. Yoga Nidra means special condition on the verge of sleep and wakefulness, and those who have entered this state by practicing yoga nidra can better understand what is at stake. The causal ocean is a special sphere of spiritual existence.
With each exhalation from the pores of the transcendental body of Maha-Visnu, innumerable universes emanate, and with each inhalation, all these universes are drawn into His mouth and thus destroyed. It is difficult to understand with the mind, because in the material world everything is not the same as in the spiritual one, and here we do not meet anything like that. It is almost impossible to imagine the size of Maha-Vishnu if from every pore on his body a drop of sweat the size of the universe is emitted.
Each such universe is ruled by Brahma, who is the secondary creator of the universe, as well as Vishnu and Shiva. That is, for each universe there is one Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. Each has its own area of control. Brahma creates, Vishnu sustains, and Shiva destroys.
The term of existence of the material world is 311 trillion years - that is how much Brahma lives, and that is how long the cycle of "exhalation-inhalation" of Maha-Vishnu lasts. When this cycle of existence ends, a new one follows, and so on endlessly.
Choice of material body
The material body is the grossest shell of the soul, and more subtle bodies is mind, intelligence and false ego. All these bodies, as it were, envelop the soul, determining the future of a person in accordance with the way of life and desires that he has.
