Ramana Maharshi : What is the purpose of creation?

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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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Why Creation?"What is the purpose of life? Why did God put us here?" These questions keepcoming up, again and again. Perhaps, you want to find God and hang him!Fundamentally, what you are asking is: why creation?When it comes to creation, you never ask why, because you are just a tiny speck inthis creation. As a human being, in terms of family, your social structures, yourfinancial securities, education, qualifications and positions that you have taken inthe society, I know you slowly started assuming that you are the center of theuniverse—but you are just a tiny speck in the existence! Tomorrow, if youdisappear, nobody will miss you.So, this tiny speck asking the question, `Why creation,' does not make sensebecause the question doesn't come from the right context. This question comes upbecause the experience of life has not become blissful. The struggles, the pain ofexisting, are there.You might have created so many comforts, so much security, but still the inherentstruggle and pain, the day-to-day tensions are there. You have to drag your feetand do many things, isn't it? You fill yourself with enthusiasm; you find new reasonsfor yourself to do this and that. But somewhere inside there is something whichconstantly struggles in every human being, unless he attains to certain inner grace.Some people have become aware of it; most people are yet to even become awareof it. They just keep themselves busy, never to face the inner struggle.The reason why people are keeping themselves so busy, keeping themselves soentangled with life is not because they have fallen in love with life. It is just to avoidthe inner struggle. Many of them, if they don't get married, if they don't producechildren, if they don't start businesses and don't get into all the mess that they aregetting into on a day-to-day basis, they would be lost within themselves.Just to keep a certain semblance of sanity, they keep all this activity going. If theyjust sit quietly for two days in one place, they will become aware of the innerstruggle that is there in every being trapped in this limited body. Once they becomeaware, they start looking. That is when we say somebody is on the spiritual path,because he has become aware of the inner struggle.The Yoga Sutras are a tremendous document about life, but they start in a strangeway. The first sutra is half a sentence. Patanjali starts the yoga sutra like this: Andnow: yoga. This simply means that you have seen everything in your life—either byyourself, or through somebody else's life. You saw money, you saw power, you sawpleasure, you saw wealth—everything. But still there is an inner struggle. Once youhave seen this? And now: yoga.If you have not seen it, if you still believe that, "if I get a few more bucks everythingwill be okay; if I build a new house everything will be okay"—if you are still in thatchildish state then it's not time for yoga yet.So the question comes up because there is an inner struggle. Maybe you are nothundred percent aware of the struggle, but here and there it touches you. So now,the more intelligent question for you would be: How do I get beyond this strugglingstate? If you ask how, I have a way. If you ask why, then I have to tell you a story.If you want, I can tell you a story: one day, God had nothing to do and he wasplaying marbles. And one marble fell this way and it became planet Earth. Anotherone shot up and it became the Sun?. I can go on like this. Now you won't believethis ridiculous story. But if I make the story more elaborate, and if the story weretold a thousand years ago, you would believe it. You have a problem about this,isn't it? You don't believe anything that happens today, but you will believe it after athousand years. It doesn't matter what it is.But whether you believe it or not, stories don't liberate you. So when it comes toexistence, don't waste your life asking the question, `why?' Because if you sit herefor the rest of your life and go on thinking `why,' or consult every other man on thisplanet, all you will get is more and more fairy tales. You will not get a solution.Different cultures will tell different stories; different religions will tell different stories;every individual can create his own story. Stories will not liberate you. But if you ask`how,' then we open up the path, we give you the method. Don't ask why.-Sadguru Jaggi Vasudev , Prasanth Jalasutram <jvrsprasanth wrote:>> 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)> > -- > à°"à°‚ నమో భగవతే à°¶à±à°°à±€ రమణాయ> à°ªà±à°°à°¶à°¾à°‚తౠజలసూతà±à°°à°‚> à°ªà±à°°à±‡à°®à±‡ శాశà±à°µà°¤à°®à±>