Why did Krishna create us?
From: isha
Krishna is the supreme being, the primeval lord, he is self satisfied.then why did he create us or the other souls?
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instances, as far as I know. Eternally the amsha of Krishna.
Sometimes the scriptures may have the usage that God created us. And there are some passages like Eko bahu syam, the one became many umdopanishads. But these are not in a time-dedotational or chronological sense.
They are in a philosophical sense. They indicate our eternal dependence on Krishna. Just as in our experience, sun and rays are always together, similarly, Krishna and his energies, we the souls, are all eternally together.
Now, this way your question could be rephrased as, why do we exist? Krishna is self-satisfied. That is for the reciprocation of love and the resulting ecstasy. Krishna does not need us because he is self-satisfied.
But although he is self-satisfied, he desires to share his satisfaction with others. Baladeva Daya Bhushan explains that when a person is happy, that happiness expresses itself as dancing. It is not that the person is dancing to become happy, it is because the person is happy, he is dancing.
Similarly, Krishna is innately, eternally an overflowing ocean of happiness. Ananda Sagar, famous Agra. And he desires to share this happiness with others.
So in this world, we think of doing any creation or any project, whether it be building a house or forming a relationship with someone, or whatever else, because we feel a sense of incompleteness that we hope will be removed by doing that particular activity. But in Krishna’s case, it is not to remove any sense of incompleteness, it is to share this completeness with others. So we exist eternally, Krishna exists eternally, and this eternal existence is for the purpose of the eternally expanding ecstasy of love