Ramana Maharshi : What is the purpose of creation?

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advaitajnana , Prasanth Jalasutram <jvrsprasanth

wrote:

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> Question: What is the purpose of creation?

>

> Ramana Maharshi: It is to give rise to this question. Investigate the answer

> to this question, and finally abide in the supreme or rather the primal

> source of all, the Self. The investigation will resolve itself into a quest

> for the Self and it will cease only after the non-Self is sifted away and

> the Self realized in its purity and glory.

>

> There may be any number of theories of creation. All of them extend

> outwardly. There will be no limit to them because time and space are

> unlimited. They are however only in the mind. If you see the mind,time and

> space are transcended and the Self is realized.

>

> Creation is explained scientifically or logically to one's own satisfaction.

> But is there any finality about it? Such explanations are called

> krama-srishti [gradual creation]. On the other hand, drishti-srishti

> [simultaneous creation] is yugapat-srishti. Without the seer there are no

> objects seen. Find the seer and the creation is comprised in him. Why look

> outward and go on explaining the phenomena which are endless?

>

> Source: (Excerted from Be As You Are - The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi,

> p264)

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Namaste,

 

Ramana says the full truth is Ajativada or nothing happened at all..Tony