adhikaṃ tu bhedanirdeśāt ..2.1.22..

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21. If the other view be held that Jiva is the creator of the universe, then the result would be, that the creation would be liable to the objection that the Jiva creates intentionally that which is not beneficial to it — 157.

COMMENTARY

Those who hold the view that Jiva is the creator of the world must answer the objection: «Why does it create a world which is not beneficial to it?» If man creates the world, why does he create it full of imperfections, through which he suffers? If man is the master of his own destiny, and there is no Lord to award the results of good and bad actions, and if man alone was the creator of his world, then he certainly would not create it such, which he knows would be painful to him, The world, therefore, is the creation of no man, because we find that it has the fault of not doing that which is beneficial to man; on the contrary, doing that which is non-beneficial to him. Thus no man willingly wants to labour, etc., but the conditions of the world are such, that no man can live in it without labouring and undergoing troubles, etc. The world, therefore, is not the creation of any man. No wise and independent person is ever seen to create his own prison-house, like the silk-worm, and after creating such a house enter into it willfully, to suffer all the miseries of confinement. Nor does any human being, being himself pure, would voluntarily enter into a body full of all impurities. The man, prior to creation, being supposed to be free and pure, voluntarily confines himself into a body of flesh, full of impurities; and enters into a self-created world where he has no freedom of action. Nor has any one ever seen any Jiva to create the Cosmic matter called Pradhana or the matter of the Buddhic and Ahankaric planes, nor the matter of the physical plane even. Fire, air, ether, etc., are the production of no man. In fact, the brain of man reels in even contemplating the wonderful organism of this universe. Therefore, the theory that the world is man-made is wrong. On the other hand, it is God alone who is the Creator of the universe, and the objection why He has created the world full of imperfections while He Himself is perfect, will be answered later on.

But an objector may say that if Brahman be the creator, then He also is liable to the objection of creating a world full of misery, and with great effort, and after such creation He has entered into it and thus He also voluntarily creates a world of misery, and then entering into it, lives in it To this the author replies by the following Sutra:

SUTRA II. 1. 22.

अधिकं तु भेदनिर्देशात्॥२.१.२२॥

.. Adhikam, greater than the Jiva, Brahman is greater than the Jiva … Tu, but Bheda, difference. … Nirdeshat, because of the pointing out.

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