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

[Bhaskar YR]

These are all mere words. It does not solve the doubt

praNAms
Hare Krishna

Yes, that is the problem, we don’t have any other alternative other than wording the brahman.  Words and mind cannot reach there, but still we use words and mind to understand the concept and through words and mind only we declare brahma tattva is beyond the reach of words and mind…so funny is it not ?? …Perhaps stUlArundhati nyAya helpful. But anyways, all these prakriya-s / methodologies come for our help only and only if we accept that there is some problem in our understanding of the concept of brahma tattva.  And firm conviction in shAstra’s verdict that final emancipation would erase any and every doubt about that TATTVA which is beyond the reach of words and mind.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar

Bhaskar ji,

These are all mere words. It does not solve the doubt. Infinite cannot have ripples, fluctuations. Nothing apart from infinite can be. So what is all this?

Per force, we need terms like avidya, Maya etc which themselve violate the infiniteness of Brahman if taken to be other than Brahman. If not other than Brahman, then Brahman's nishkriyata is violated.

Yes, still haunted by doubts. Essentially this one only.

Sudhanshu.

On Thu 30 Jan, 2020, 16:11 Bhaskar YR, <bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com<mailto:bhaskar.yr at in.abb.com>> wrote:
praNAms Sri Sudhanshu Shekhar prabhuji
Hare Krishna

Problem is that the questions etc implies some fluctuation, something happening.. that is against the principle of one homogeneous infinite entity.. creation etc we can keep aside.. but the fact of impugned question, discussion implies fluctuation, a vibration and that violates infiniteness of sole existence.

>  Still haunting this doubt ?? 😊 When shruti declares everything is brahman there is nothing apart from that, what prevents us to consider that socalled troubling fluctuations, vibrations etc. themselves brahman??  There is no question of svagata bheda here !! it is  just like looking at Vishnu tattva not only in physical form of Vishnu with four hands  but seeing the Vishnu tattva between the fingers gap of these four hands and the gap between shankha,  chakra etc. 😊  ....sarvaM vishNu mayaM jagat sarvaM khalvidaM brahma.  If that is not the case or that is not the realization then we may have to wait completely still water without currents, waves and bubbles to realize it is indeed water !!  Even in that scenario one could easily see the duality i.e. the completely still water and the person who is witnessing it.  All these problem arise, I reckon due to keeping the brahma tattva aloof from something, in the above example it is vibrations and fluctuations.

Hari Hari Hari Bol!!!
bhaskar