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(When Dada says ‘We’, He is referring to the Gnani Purush
and the fully enlightened Lord within Him)
The reality of this world
What is this world all about? Who created the world?
Why was it created? Who runs it?
The Christians say, ‘God is the creator of this world’. The
Muslims say, ‘Allah made this world’. The Hindus say, ‘God
made this world’. Many Jains too, say that God made this
world. If someone created this world, then he would be called
a creator, and a creator means a ‘potter’. Which sons of God
were going to remain bachelors that he had to create this world?
When even factory owners delegate their work to their
secretaries and sleep peacefully, why would God have to work
so hard? God is not a laborer that he has to toil with his hands
or fix people’s marriages. God is not crazy that he would sit
inside the womb of a water buffalo and create a bull! Besides
if there were a creator of this world, people would have killed
him a long time ago, because what kind of a person would
create a world in which no one is happy? Indeed if such a being
did exist, people would have gone looking for him and they
would have searched him out and sorted him out. But how can
they find any such being when he does not exist.
There is no creator of this world. The world is the puzzle
itself. It has become puzzle some and that is why we call it a
puzzle. The one who solves this puzzle attains the state of the