Acharya Prashant responds to a question about why God created a bad world by stating that no God has created the world. He explains that this idea is a children's story, used to give simple answers to immature minds, and one must grow beyond it. He illustrates this with an analogy of a child asking who made various things, with the ultimate answer being "God made it." He asserts that spirituality is not for children and encourages the questioner to move past these childish notions. Spirituality, he clarifies, does not begin by asking "Who made this?" but rather by questioning the very reality of the object of perception: "Is this even real? If it is, for whom is it real?" The only proof of the world's existence is one's own senses. Since everything is certified by one's own senses and mind, the inquiry must first turn inward to the observer's own system. The question of creation is secondary to questioning the existence and nature of the thing itself. Everything one sees and experiences has a massive contribution from oneself, with the mental contribution being far greater than the physical one. The mind assigns meaning to everything, and this meaning is different for each individual. This constant search for meaning, or "arth" (which also means profit), shows that we are more interested in an object's utility than the object itself. Therefore, the world is your own creation. If the world appears bad, "bad" is also a meaning you have assigned to it, and the suffering is experienced by you. Thus, the world is bad *for you*, and the responsibility for it is yours, not some external God's. Spirituality deals with Truth (Satya) and Brahman, not a personal God who creates worlds. Brahman is liberation (mukti), and if anything arises from it, it is only liberation. If you use this freedom to create a rotten world for yourself or to identify with the ego (aham), the responsibility is entirely yours. The good news is that this same freedom gives you the power to change your world and attain liberation. Acharya Prashant concludes by addressing the accusation of being negative. He states he is not negative towards life but rejects foolishness. If a person's life is filled with foolishness, he aims to negate that filth. He says that the world is your own creation, and its condition is your responsibility. He advises the questioner to stop making frivolous comments and instead engage in genuine inquiry to clean up the inner world.
