Brahm is not the creator. When you desperately want to invent a creator, then you come up with īśvára. But Vedanta is not very enamored of īśvára. So, Vedanta says, "Īśvara is just Maya, just Maya.” Because you experience the universe, therefore, you feel the need to justify the origin of the universe. Therefore, you must have an īśvára. But how can the creator of a false universe be real? If the universe is false, what do you say about its creator?
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Questioner: Did God create the world?
Acharya Prashant: Your world is with you at the centre. Brahm is just the substratum. It has been referred to in various ways in Vedantic literature; sometimes it’s called the Substratum, sometimes the Background, sometimes the Space, the Ether in which everything is happening, sometimes the Watcher, sometimes the Progenitor, sometimes the Mega-controller who operates only at the meta-level. But the idea behind all these expressions has one thing in common – Brahm has no interest in any participation at the micro-level.
At the micro-level, it’s your own doing. Getting it? It’s the play of your own tendencies. Your own tendencies make you see a problem where there is none. You imagine, and then you do a lot to get rid of that problem; and then obviously, to do a lot, you create the entire space in which a lot of doing can happen, no? If you want to play a game, you cannot just play it, right? You want to play golf or tennis or cricket, right? You cannot just randomly and suddenly initiate the game. If you’re a serious player, as we all are, then you, in fact, require to build an entire stadium. Why? Just because you wanted to play one game; that’s what desire does.
