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Panchadashi Lesson - D0111: Second Creation

Panchadashi
Module - D
Unit - D01
Lesson - D0111: Practical - On Second Creation
By Raja Subramaniyan

Question: If I have the complete authority to create my world, why am I not doing a good job?

We have seen that God/Society/ government are not responsible for my creation.

Then why is it I am creating this world around me, which is mixed with sorrow and pain? Why I cannot create a world, which is like a paradise with only happiness all the time?

Answer: Your past actions AND your current preferences determine the quality of your creation.

You have designed the world around you in exactly the way you have wanted it to be. However, you have forgotten your past actions.

Example: You go to a restaurant and order a plate of Idly. When you see the person on the next table is served with ghee dosa and you are getting a plate of Idly, you cannot exclaim why there is a difference in service. Each one gets what they ordered.

Similarly, in your past lives you have done many actions - good and bad - the result of which is appearing before you as your world.

Life is like a buffet spread. The quality and the variety depend on your affordability. If you have earned enough due to your good actions in the past, you will be presented with appropriate options.

Out of the many items presented to you, what items you select is according to your current preferences. If you are a type of person who will not try new items (God has not made you like that) you might miss some interesting items on a buffet.

Your current preferences are your likes/dislikes accumulated over many past births and cultivated in the current birth.

Actions: Whatever you think, you talk and you do will amount to your actions.

Actions are classified as good actions and bad actions. Every one of us inherently knows what is good and bad.

Preferences: Repeated actions lead to formation of a habit. Habit determines what we like and what we dislike. These are our preferences.

Thus, your creation depends on your past actions and your current preferences.
Question: Looks like I am totally controlled. How can I then be responsible for my creation?

Answer: Your past actions determine your current options. Therefore, it is clear that your current actions will determine your future options.

Secondly, the past actions determine only what is offered to you. However, you have complete control over what you select. Your current preferences could be controlled fully by you.

Example: What is displayed in a buffet is the result of your past actions. However, what you select out of it is entirely up to you. You may like fried potato and hate green salad. Still you may decide to eat only healthy food. It is completely under your control.

If you start eating green salad and stop eating fried potato, your preferences will be changed. Within couple of years, you will find that you like green salad and hate fried potato.

Both fried potato and green salad are God's creation. They are innocent. There is nothing wrong with fried potato. If your body is not able to digest, it is up to you not to eat it.

Thus, the current actions will define your preferences. You have full control over your current actions. As a result, you completely determine your future options and the preferences.

Thus, you are fully responsible for the world created by you. If you are not happy about the world you have created, you have complete control and authority to redefine it the way you want it.

If you create an image of fried potato as a tasteful / enjoyable diet it will give you sorrow whether you eat it or not. (Eating will spoil your health. Not eating will make you disappointed) Instead, if you create an image of fried potato as rich carbohydrate stuff you will ignore it in the buffet.

God's creations are innocent. You have choice on how to convert that into your creation.

Example: You are watching a politician talking non-sense in the TV news. (This is God's creation). If you take it seriously, your blood pressure will go up. Instead, if you take him to be a joker you will have a hearty laugh. (You have a choice in your creation)

Thus, you can get upset, remain unaffected, or even have fun depending on how you create your world.

Question: What is the nature of the world created by me?

Answer: Firstly, it should be understood that it is not possible to enjoy God's creation unless one creates one's own world. That is creating our own world is not a crime. In fact, it cannot be avoided.

Revelation goes with pervasion. Unless the objects created by God, is pervaded by thoughts, we cannot perceive the world. Even animals do this. Nevertheless, they do not attach frills and other add-ons. They simply create a world exactly the way it is created by God. Human beings make alterations.

Example: A doll is made by pouring molten metal inside the mold. Similarly, man's world is created by pouring the thoughts into the objects (created by the God). However, unlike the normal mold, God's creation is continuously being modified. As result, we need to break the frozen thoughts (fixed ideas) and remake them into the changed mold. However efficient this process is there will always be a gap between God's creation and man's creation.

In case of animals, it is easy for them to melt the doll repeatedly and remake it according to the changing mold. In case of human being it is difficult to change fixed ideas. As a result, the dolls made out of the changed mold are not perfect.

For a cow, the green grass (God's creation) and the thought-grass (cow's creation) are identical. For a man, the thought-grass (man's creation) is different from the green grass (God's creation) because he has his own ideas about it.

God's mind is illusion using which he creates the world. Man's mind is deluded, using which he creates his own world. Both God and man are powered by the same ONE.

While change in the God's creation is natural, the changes in the man's creation depend on his mental maturity.

The balloon was very valuable to the child. When he grows up it is no longer valuable.

God's world always exists in the present. God has not invented time. Time is man's creation. Past and future are man's creation.

World is continuously changing to provide appropriate experiences to living beings. Since human beings do not have the knowledge of their past deeds it appears to be unpredictable.

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