"Ishvar"

  'Ishvar', the 'Lord of the Universe', is the first principle. Before that there is no principle whatsoever! All that exists is ruled by the Lord Ishvar. But, there is some one else behind this universe which is ruled by Ishvar. The architect of the Universe is beyond the Universe. He is not visible to anybody, not even the devi devatas, Gods and Goddesses, or the 'tapo janah', learned sages, or cannot be understood from the scriptures by reading or hearing them. Then what is the point in discussing all these, one may ask? This is the beauty of 'creation', a challenge to to know the Creator. Ultimately, it is realized that 'the creator is the creation' since "He has created creation and entered into it! tad srushtva tadevanupravishat | 

   The second most beautiful aspect of Creation is that there is no preceptor or principle behind creation. The principles and precepts come with a preceptor who comes later. There is absolute abstract nothingness from which emanates all that exists as the existence. The absolute undifferentiated one is 'brahman' and there is nothing to define this abstract, nothingness from which everything manifests! Anybody can attain this state of  nothingness by discarding whatever one has acquired since birth is another beautiful aspect of creation. This is like a circle where everything is a point starting from the focus, radius to the circumference! This jivatman is one such point, bindu, a spaceless dimensionless space-time combine and, it exists everywhere. This is the highest level of understanding! Now who is who in the vast deep undefined space-time combine?

   This quest for the truth keeps one young  especially in old age. This is the gift of God. It makes the jiva eternally happy and joyful and immortal; but, very rarely one makes use of this! All the scriptures direct us to this and keep us busy in paramarthika, other-worldly pursuits and thereby help us to discard the acquired qualities. Otherwise, the jiva will have to run the mill life after life and suffer in ignorance.