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Re: Any reference for creation of world?
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Subject: Re: Any reference for creation of world?
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From: nparker@crl.com (Nathan Parker)
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Date: 18 Mar 1995 09:08:55 -0800
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From nparker@crl.com Sat Mar 18 11: 58:01 1995
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Mukund T Narasimhan (M1N@ECL.PSU.EDU) wrote:
: Bertrand russell in one of his essays consistently questions the reason for
: God to create the world? Further he suggests that even if God did create the
: world and everything in the world is according to the Divine Plan, how can one
: justify a five year old child dying of meningitis? Is there any argument for
: this available in Gita or upanishads?
According to the acintya-bhedAbheda-tattva-vAda, the reason for the
creation of the material world is to accomodate the desires of the living
entities. The living entities are part and parcel of Krishna and are
eternally individuals. Their constitutional position, as part, is to
engage in the service of the whole. But because they are of the same
quality of God, they also possess the Lording tendency, the controlling
tendency. But whereas the Lord has unlimited controlling capacity, the
living entities (being only a small part) do not have the capacity to
control. Therefore the Lord creates the material world to give those
living entities the opportunity to control, which they otherwise would
not have been able to do. Since God is al merciful, and since the jiva
wants to control, so the Lord allows for the jivas to execute their free
will by interacting with and controlling matter. When the living entity
comes in contact with the prakriti (the three modes of material nature),
He interacts with the time factor, creating past, present, and future
(and hence activities). As one performs an activity, the time gradually
clicks forward, and that activity which is in the present is shifted back
to the past in the form of a seed reaction. As the time clicks again,
another reaction is shifted back into the position of the past (in the
form of a seed reaction), and that see reaction that was previously
present in the past is shifted back again cycling to the future. As the
time continues to click, that reaction which was moved to the future, is
again brought to the position of present, and comes out in the form of a
full blossomed reaction. In this way if one performs good or bad, the
reaction to it is cycled around due to the influence of the time factor,
and it eventually returns to present, and causes further activities.
While the living entity is engaging the result of his previous
activities, the time factor continues to click, sending more activities
into the past as seed reactions. So just to get one's reaction (good or
bad) one has to perform more activity, which means even more reactions.
So in this way one is bound by his actions and reactions, this is
samsara. THerefore a five year old child having some disease is due to
the activities it engaged in in a previous life. The primary point we
must understand (which is not being understood by Bertrandt Russell) is
that we are not these bodies, we are the eternal spirit soul. When the
body dies, we do not die, and when the body is born, we are not born. So
it is not that the living entity came into existence only when the five
year old child was born. That living entity has engaged in unlimited
activities, and unlimited lives previously (unlimited indicating a number
that we can not know). So based on all those previous activities, the
living entity is put into the body of a child and forced to suffer or
enjoy accordingly. It is only when the living entity becomes free from
the material bondage, the association with matter, that his true nature
will again be exhibited. The jivas are eternally servants of Krishna,
therefore their constitutional position is to engage in the service of
Krishna. THis is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, and this is known as
jivan-mukti:
man-manA bhava mad-bhakto
mad-yAjI mAm` namaskuru
mAm evaiShyasi satyam` te
pratijAne priyo 'si me
"Always think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me and offer your homage
unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this
because you are My very dear friend."
sarva-dharmAn parityajya
mAm ekam` sharaNam` vraja
aham` tvAm` sarva pApebhyo
mokShayiShyAmi mA shucaH
"Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I will
deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear."
