00:00Verse 14 very prominently points to my question and the verse says on the eternal and infinite
00:25screen of sat chit anand, self shiv by his own power shakti is projected as the moving
00:32shadow picture of the universe in manifestation and into that again it is absorbed in dissolution.
00:39The question therefore is what is the need for the self to project on its screen the moving
00:48shadow picture of the universe which we see around us including ourselves as the body and the mind.
00:55Why is there a need for truth or God to split itself into this duality of the existence?
01:06Answers from some scriptures say that it is just a play or leela but these answers do not satisfy me
01:15and they just stop my questions. However, the inner turmoil to know continues and doesn't
01:23really end. Acharyaji, please help me understand this. Thank you. The scriptures have told
01:34that the nirakar became sakar, that the nirgun became sagun, that a dvayat manifested
01:44as dvayat just in its own reasonless playfulness. There was no cause.
01:56It had no need really. His question really is why did God create the universe?
02:05Why did everything spring up from nothing? Why did a dvayat turn into this multiplicity
02:13of dualities? And when the scriptures tell him that there is no reason, it just is.
02:24It is called leela of the infinite. It does not satisfy Pradeep.
02:33Pradeep says no, no, no. That is not a satisfactory answer. I want a deeper answer.
02:39It is great that you are not satisfied because all the answers that the scriptures are giving
02:45are incorrect and misleading. I will today give you the right answer. I will today tell you why
02:50God created the universe. God created the universe so that he can torment Pradeepji.
03:01Unless the universe is created, how will Pradeep become dissatisfied and ask such deep questions?
03:15If there is no universe, where will this question come from?
03:19The sole purpose of the universe, I tell you Pradeepji,
03:23is to come to a point where you can ultimately ask, what the hell is this?
03:31Simple, innocent and direct truth does not satisfy you. What are you looking for?
03:39Some conspiracy theory? Yes, there is conspiracy. God had a wife and the wife kicked him out
03:50of his house. Now, if there is non-duality, then there is only one house. And what has the wife
03:59done? The wife has kicked God out of the house. So God needs a place to go to. So he created the
04:08universe. He created the universe so that he may live in the universe. And the ancients say
04:16that because God had been pushed out of his house, he used to live on the earth in the
04:26old golden days. I in fact saw him rolling on the beach here. I too am quite old you know.
04:39But then, in one of the Dwadgames, Pradeepji came and Pradeepji started asking God all
04:48his great questions. And that was when God left earth and went back to his wife.
04:53He said, the wife tortures me, but that torture is preferable to the torture of such great questions.
05:04And since then the earth is godless. Now you know why the earth is so evil? Because you went to God
05:11and totally confounded him with such deep questions. God does not have sufficient depth
05:26to answer such questions. And when God was here, you would queue up outside his humble hut.
05:38Somebody would say, give me this. God would say, alright. Then the next one would say,
05:45I do not want anything for myself. But don't give the previous one what he wanted.
05:51Now God is in a deep query. He is supposed to be the grantor of all wishes. But what does he do
06:02when all that you wish is that the other must not get his wish?
06:15Pradeepji, why not keep it simple and honest? Why did God create the universe?
06:25Is that what bugs you in your daily life? Don't you know? Don't I know?
06:31Is that what is keeping you so restless? Look at your daily routine. Look at your 24 hours.
06:45Are you frustrated by this question? Why don't you ask questions that really matter?
06:51You will not ask about your job, about your wife, about your kids, about your fears and insecurities.
07:04About those things, you know very well what you have to do. You know all the answers.
07:13And you take quick and definite decisions.
07:16You will not be inquisitive about where your daily reactions come from.
07:23You will not ask, why am I not bold enough? Why am I not strong enough? Why have I chosen weakness?
07:36Instead, you are asking such transcendental questions.
07:46If God is really merciful, why did the lion kill the deer?
07:58Why are there only two genders? Or maybe two and a half?
08:06What is the significance of two and a half? Why should not there be eight genders?
08:10Let there be more choice.
08:16Why is gravity precisely 9.8 m per second square?
08:22Does God know mathematics?
08:29Why does God prefer ellipses over circles?
08:37Ellipses over circles? Why is nothing really truly circular?
08:49Yes, keep asking. These questions are such great escapes, great and dishonest.
09:00Such questions have zero value. Ask something that is practical.
09:04Ask something that will really help you lead your daily life.
09:12What will you do with stories related to God?
09:15Is God a story? You already have enough stories. You better end those stories.
09:21Do not ask for more stories.
09:27But you want to live in stories. You don't want to end the existing stories. You want to add.
09:34And so many books are full of so many stories about Godhood, stories about God, stories about
09:46the various saints, kings, priests, prophets.
09:58And how you stick to those stories, don't you?
10:01People will not talk of the Gita. They will very fondly remember stories related to Krishna.
10:09And then what is their life? Very story-like.
10:14No truth in the life then, only stories.
10:30A Kathavachak once came to me. You know Kathavachak? Storytellers.
10:50So, he was all the time talking of the Bhagavad Purana, stories related to Krishna, Vishnu.
11:09I said, you really love Krishna? He said, yes.
11:13I said, the Purana is wonderful. But why don't you talk of the Gita?
11:20Shreemad Bhagavad Gita. He said, people don't like that.
11:30As long as I entertain them with stories,
11:36spicy stories that personify the God, that invest God with human qualities,
11:44in which there are tears, meetings, separation, man-woman relationship,
11:55flowing hair, flute, song, river, dance, sensuality.
12:03Sensuality, a little bit of titillation as well.
12:18People are happy. It is not as if these stories really arouse devotion in them.
12:26They are just getting entertained. But then that's what they want, entertainment.
12:30If I start talking of the Gita, the pure essence, then they run away or doze off.
12:40And then to again wake them up, I have to tell them a spicy story.
12:46I have to tell them of how God ran away with the clothes of the naked women and then people wake up.
12:55And then people wake up. Now, yes, now something interesting is coming our way.
13:19And they would narrate the story as if it happened right in front of them.
13:24And they would add their two bits, not two bits.
13:28Two bits of the original would remain. Rest all would be their own confabulation.
13:35And then, you know, the goddess told her friends,
13:42tonight I am feeling very, very restless.
13:50What were you doing in her bedroom?
13:56Stories. Tell them to really narrate one shloka from the Gita and they would fail.
14:06And even if they narrate a shloka, ask them, what really does it mean?
14:10And they would not know, but they will be full of stories.
14:20Come to the point.
14:26Keep the story aside.
14:31Talk of the real thing.
14:41Spirituality is not intellectual gossip.
14:55Spirituality is your flesh, your blood, your very breath.
15:00You have to pay for it with your life.
15:05And if you are not paying for it with your life,
15:07then your questions will have no quality.
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