What is the need for God to have made the creation?
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So, question, why did the need arise for God to create the entire creation? So, Sankantaya Bharatan, एदन्धारिते जगत् एदन्धारिते गत् These living entities are maintaining eternal existence. What does that mean? God does not have a need to create it.
But we need it. The very existence of free will, God has given us free will. The very existence of free will implies, necessitates, the existence of an arena where free will can be utilized.
In the spiritual world, we love and serve God. But that is our choice. We have the free will whether to love and serve God or to not love and serve God.
Now, when we decide not to love and serve God, if our free will is to be given, then there has to be a place where that free will can be utilized. So, that place where we, if we decide we don’t want to love and serve God, the arena where that free will can be exercised, that is this world. This world serves two purposes.
One is experimentation and second is reformation. Experimentation means, the souls think that independent of God, we can enjoy in different ways. So, the different ways the souls can try to enjoy, the program for experimenting that, eat that, go here, try that, do that, is experimentation of humanism.
And when the soul understands, all these things don’t make me happy. Then, laws are there in the heart, scriptures are there, the duties are there, there is reformation. So, reformation means, we know by loving God, I am going to be happy.
By loving God, serving God, I am going to be happy. And then, we return to God. So, the need for creating this world is, to facilitate the use of our free will in defiance of God, if that’s what we want.
And this world,