The various theories of creation - that it is the expansion of God or it is the will of God or it is for God's enjoyment or it is an illusion like a dream or it proceeds from time are mere intellectual speculation based on the false self. Thus there is need to realize the true self is not the form but formless in order to realize there is neither the creator nor creation from ultimate point of view.
Universe[Mind] is the very nature of consciousness. It is its inherent nature which simply emanates and flows from it. But even this is only an appearance for in truth there's no creation at all. For Gnani the universe is an illusion. Viewed from the absolute there's neither birth nor life nor death, neither appearance nor disappearance, neither production nor destruction, neither bondage nor liberation. There's none who neither works for freedom nor is there any who is liberated - this is the highest truth. Thus viewing from ultimate standpoint is necessary to realize all the knowledge based on ego is not wisdom. Therefore one has to learn to view his body and universe from the ultimate standpoint of view, to realize there is no second thing exists other than the consciousness, which is the true self.
Chandogya Upanishads:- This universe comes forth from
Brahman and will return to Brahman. Verily, all is Brahman. A person is what
his deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life
to come. So let us direct our deepest desires to realize the Self.
The Gnani know that there's neither unity nor plurality - the world is neither one nor many. Just as a piece of rope is mistaken for a snake; the consciousness is mistaken as this diverse universe. Duality is an appearance and the non-dual consciousness is the real truth.
The universe is not different from the self and the self is not different from consciousness and consciousness is ultimate truth. That the non-dual consciousness appears as the diverse universe is only an illusion. If it really became diverse then the immortal would become mortal. The religionists who seek to prove the origination of the unborn, by that very enterprise try to make the immortal, mortal. Ultimate nature can never change - the immortal can never become mortal and vice versa. Consciousness appears to be many"; "those who are attached to creation or production or origination are speculating and imagining on the base if false self or ego "the unborn is never reborn, for who can produce consciousness?". The consciousness is the cause of everything and it itself is uncaused.
