Question: Has God–the creator, created all this without any purpose? Are we born without any purpose?
Acharya Prashant: When you say God has created the universe, then in our limited sense of using the word creator and creation, we say that just as man creates this (pointing to a nearby object) God too, creates the universe. All that we have known in the name of creation is manufacturing, building. When you say creations then you really do not mean creativity, you mean manufacturing. And, that is our idea of god—some kind of a manufacturer. Who is sitting with some kind of a blueprint and he is creating the earth and the rest of the universe with his hands.
And, it is kind of justified because man’s mind can go only as far as its limits. It sees the world around it and superimposes the idea of this world upon God. Mind says, “I know what is meant by creation. Creation means creating this; creation means all this that we see around us. And, whenever this has been created it has been created with a purpose. So, god too must have created all this with purpose.” No, not really.
What you see around yourself is building; and, building and creativity are different things. Creativity is like kids playing on the beach and building sand castles, they do it for fun. They do it because they love doing it. God is no separate from his creation.
When the creator and creation are very close together, that is called creativity. The more is the distance between the creator and the creation the less is the creativity. The more the act of creation is an act of love; the more is the creator one with the creation.
