00:00Abhilash has asked, quoting from the nickname, he says, only the creator God who created
00:23the world knows when he created it.
00:29This is his creation and there is no end to his gifts and blessings.
00:34So he says, why did God create the world?
00:42Is it not us, the unliberated ones, who create this world within us and influence it and
00:51get influenced by it?
00:54Yes, Abhilash, that's quite a scholarly thing to say that the world is created by us, we
01:09project the world and then we get influenced by our own projections and so on and so forth,
01:15the cycle continues, but then the question still remains much the same, even if you are
01:29the one projecting the world, who created you and why?
01:44So let's say, you are the one who created the world, then the nickname is saying, only
02:00the creator God knows why and when he created you.
02:09Substitute the world with yourself.
02:17Why does God create world?
02:19Why does God create you?
02:20All right, let's answer it.
02:24Why does God create what?
02:29You said you.
02:31Why did God create man?
02:37The question of has been substituted by the question of creation of man and you are saying
02:48the question of creation of world is not an important one because the world is created
02:55by man.
02:59So we are not talking of the question of creation of man.
03:06What is the question?
03:08Why did God create man?
03:14So why did God create man?
03:16I'm asking why did God create what?
03:21What man?
03:22Man, what is that?
03:26What is that?
03:27Yes, Abhilash, what is that man?
03:34You are asking me, why did God create man?
03:37I'm asking back to you.
03:40Why did God create what?
03:43You said man.
03:44I'm asking what is that?
03:45Explain that to me first.
03:55If I'm asking why did A create B, must I first of all not know what A and B are?
04:06There are three things here.
04:09A, B and Y.
04:14A, B and Y.
04:22You are trying to put the emphasis on Y.
04:27You are asking why did A create B. According to you, the Y is very, very important, right?
04:34Why did A create B?
04:37Why?
04:38Why?
04:39Why?
04:40I'm saying pause.
04:42Why did what create what?
04:46Why will come later?
04:49First of all, we know what are these A and B that you are talking of.
04:56What is God and what is man?
05:01And if we do not know what A is and what B is, what business do we have extending the
05:08story any further?
05:13Why did A create B?
05:16And I know nothing about A, nor do I know anything about B, yet I'm trying to solve
05:24the problem.
05:25Would I ever succeed?
05:34Why did, give me a funny word of your choice, any word, tinta, one more word, can't you
05:57go absurd?
06:04Why did tinta eat minta?
06:11Should I go into the why or should I first of all ask what is tinta and what is minta?
06:15What are you talking of?
06:18And somebody is running after you and questioning vigorously.
06:22Why did tinta eat minta?
06:30What would I turn back and ask first of all?
06:34What is tinta and what is minta?
06:37If I know what is tinta and what is minta, then maybe probably I can answer why did tinta
06:43eat minta?
06:45Similarly, why did God create man?
06:49Who are you and who is God?
06:53But don't we already know who we are?
07:01I'm Suresh, I'm Abhilash from Chennai, it's so very certain who I am and God, we all,
07:15we all know who he is, even my three-year-old nephew knows who God is.
07:24Every evening he prays Om Jai Jagdishwara, we all know who God is, there he sits in that
07:30temple.
07:37So I'm very confident about who I am and God, he's a matter of general knowledge.
07:46Even the cows on the streets, they know everything about God.
07:59I am a little skeptical, Abhilash.
08:06I would rather inquire again, who are you and who is God?
08:15And if you can ask this question again and again, who am I, who am I, who am I?
08:30What is this thing, God or truth or true self?
08:37Then probably the whys and hows and such things will simply sublimate, disappear.
08:52When I read Nithyanandam or any other scripture about God, I usually replace the term God
09:02with myself in liberated state, myself in liberated state, that's fine, MLS, but I get
09:16easily lost when I read verses like the one mentioned here.
09:25For instance, in this verse, it's mentioned that God's creation and his blessings are
09:35limitless.
09:40What does that mean?
09:41Acharyaji, I'm not sure if I'm reading the scripture in the right sense.
09:47Can you please help me understand this verse?
09:57This is his creation and there is no end to his gifts.
10:13Abhilash, one has to go into the scripture resonating with the gurus, the saints.
10:39This verse that you have quoted is an expression in gratitude.
10:47Limitless is his creation and there is no end to his gifts.
10:57In what sense is his creation limitless?
11:06You know of the utter expanse of the universe.
11:11You also know of the utter expanse of time and you also know how time is changing everything
11:21every second.
11:24Now keep these two side by side and look at the kind of multiplicative effect they have
11:33on each other.
11:41An immensely inconceivable universe, unimaginable in its own right, is being changed thoroughly
12:04every moment by an infinite stretch of time.
12:07Now tell me what is it that you can gather out of this statement?
12:13The universe as it is in any moment of time is inconceivable and the next moment this
12:32inconceivable immensity changes totally into something else and then into something else
12:42and then into something else and then into something else.
12:47Is that fathomable?
12:56In front of such a realization, the saints say limitless is his creation.
13:06Limitless is his creation and then they say and there is no end to his gifts blessings.
13:25I am, I can know, I can see, I can even use the word infinity when there is nothing in
13:38my life that is infinite.
13:49I talk and sing of his name when he actually has no name.
13:59In spite of being so little, I keep talking of immensities.
14:09Is that not a blessing?
14:17So as big and wide his creation is, equally big and wide are his blessings that I'm a
14:34part of his creation and I can also perceive the creation.
14:56These utterances spring forth when gratitude talks, when one has received and is full,
15:14when one is not full of grudges or dissatisfaction.
15:23You cannot intellectually or theoretically comprehend this verse.
15:31You can only resonate with this verse.
15:36You can only say yes, I too feel like saying a big thank you.
16:02This verse is both an expression of thanks and a reminder that one must remain thankful.
16:27One is always entitled to ask any question but the entitlement brings in its wake the
16:46responsibility to look for the right method to find the answer and the right dimension
17:04in which the solution would be found.
17:11If there is a wave of mind coming forth with a question, you cannot turn blind to the question.
17:23If the question is there, it is there.
17:27Now that it is there, one's responsibility is to know how to deal with it.
17:38So the mind has asked, why did Tinta eat Minta?
17:51No point rebuking it.
17:53No point dismissing it.
17:55Then you tell the mind that just as you are very eagerly asking why did Tinta eat Minta?
18:04How eagerly must you ask what is Tinta and what is Minta?
18:11Good question, but it would be answered after you answer two other questions.
18:24You have asked a very good question, we will answer it after you answer two questions that
18:32are related to your question.
18:36Are these actually two questions like getting to know Tinta and Minta or do we get to know
18:49them at the same time or we have to ask what is Tinta and then when we know what is Minta?
18:57You ask what is Tinta, what is Minta?
19:01The question has a certain effect on the questioner.
19:13Who is the questioner who had started out by asking why did Tinta eat Minta?
19:21So this question is here already, why did Tinta eat Minta?
19:24We said let it remain here, you first answer what is Tinta, what is Minta.
19:30So the questioner is here, the original question is here and now these are the two follow questions.
19:36What is Tinta, what is Minta?
19:39Asking who am I, what is the truth?
19:43What is who is man, who is God, who am I and what is the truth?
19:47Who am I, what is the truth?
19:48Who am I, what is the truth?
19:50When these questions are being asked, the questions are changing the questioner.
19:58Now the questioner is changing.
20:01To whom had this original question come?
20:06To the questioner.
20:07Now if the questioner is changing, if the questioner is no more the one to whom that
20:13question had come, what happens to that question?
20:17Gone.
20:19Because that questioner, that question was coming only to a particular questioner.
20:26Once that questioner is gone, this question is no more applicable.
20:36Who am I or what is truth?
20:38These are special questions.
20:41Who am I and what is truth are one and the same.
21:08One appears a little more personal.
21:14The other appears a little more scriptural, but one.
21:26In critical decision making process in our life, do we have to be slave to our mind
21:54You mean, do you have to take other's opinion from others or do you have to take other's
22:06opinion from your so-called mind?
22:13There are two ways in which you can abide by other's opinions.
22:19Either by asking others directly or by using this mind that you think of as yours.
22:45How does it matter whether I am talking of the oil in my oil tank or the oil at the fuel
23:02pump or the oil in your car.
23:08It is all coming from the same well.
23:16Opinions are opinions.
23:18It is nothing called my opinion.
23:24All opinions are alien, foreign to you.
23:36They are always others.
23:40Even if they happen to be present in your mind, they are still others.
23:47It is just that you are so brain identified that when an opinion is present in your brain,
23:54you start thinking that it is your opinion.
23:59And from where did that opinion come to your brain?
24:04It came either from biology or from society.
24:10How is the opinion yours then?
24:18From where did any opinion come to your brain?
24:22Either from biology or from the society.
24:27How is it yours then?
24:34So when faced with crucial decisions in life, it is a good thing to start off with the humility
24:50that the decision is not known in advance, that all the certain, all the certainty that
25:14one has is a borrowed certainty.
25:25One has to question, question, ruthlessly question.
25:45And then light emerges on its own.
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