29 Mar 2023
[Mr. Talin Rowe asked: Hello! I just want to say to thank You to You for answering these questions and for everything. We who know are blessed in finding a teacher of Your degree are so extraordinarily lucky and blessed. It’s truly a real miracle. Thank You to Surya for forwarding all of my emails as I can imagine that getting so many, in such a rapid pace, Surya must be thinking… what’s wrong with this guy! I hope You’re feeling well. Please let me know if You want anything from me. Talin Rowe. Here are all the questions I’ve written down that have just popped into my head. I hope that if You find some to be useless or to not help in any way that You’ll forget I asked!
Does creation already belong in its fully developed state? Meaning all changes done on the energy of the system are already done. From the point of view of God, thus keeping time as a non-constraining factor?]
Swami replied:- If you go to see a picture, you will have better entertainment if you do not know the whole story of the picture. The thrill and anxiety continue only when the story is not known to you in advance. The same concept applies to God to get complete entertainment from His creation-picture. The only difference is that the film show seen by you is with unknown story and also uncontrollable by you if you don’t like some scene. In the case of God, the total picture is with unknown story, but, controllable by God at any stage. It is like your imaginary world created by you in awaken state. Another major difference is that God’s imaginary world (i.e. this creation) is materialized as real world before your eyes while at the same time can be controlled by God like your imaginary world. The imaginary world becomes the real world because God gifts His absolutely reality to the imaginary world so that it becomes another absolute reality. One absolute reality can’t do any miracle in another absolute reality. But, an imaginary world of God that became the absolute reality is not inherently absolute reality, but is called as relative reality. The absolute reality can do miracles in relative reality and thus, can control the whole relative reality at any stage by withdrawing its absolute reality from the whole creation or any part of the creation. Hence, freewill is given to the entire creation so that changes occur based on full freedom and simultaneous rigid natural laws. The human being in this world is given full freedom to change its destiny unlike in the upper worlds in which the soul experiences the fruits of its own deeds without any freedom as told in the Gita (Svabhāvastu pravartate).
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