Divyatman,
Continuing with the same verse from Aitareya Upanishad, the ending
line of the verse is :
(He
thought I shall indeed create the worlds)
God
after being alone (here, we cannot say for how many years or decades because,
in that aloneness, still TIME has not emerged), perhaps willed/ thought, Let
me create.
Swami
said, “I separated myself from myself to create myself”.
This, by far, is the one line in our Upanishads which no one has
been able to explain so far and neither will the author be able to explain.
Why?
It is difficult to explain because, on one hand, we have read and
understood the following:-
1) God or THAT alone existed in the beginning.
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2)There was nothing earlier than the God’s existence.
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3)THAT GOD is birth less, death less and is not an effect of any cause
because, for any effect to be born out of any cause, the cause has to exist
before the effect. Here, when the Upanishad says, NOTHING existed before that
God, then it is clear that there can be no cause for the God to appear/ exist.
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4)Since there was nothing other than God, it is also clear that the elements were not created and thus, the God who existed alone had no form, as
any physical form can be created only out of 5 elements.
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I 5)If the God had no form, then it is also clear that He had no mind,
as the body and mind always co-exist and there can be no mind (at least at the
present level of understanding) without a physical form.
And…. If the God had no mind,
then HOW CAN HE WILL / THINK TO CREATE??
We will keep this
question flagged here and then, from the the
next post onwards, learn the most convincing process / sequence of creation
as per our vedas, taken from various upanishads.
Love.
