534. If God is the creator of the Universe, who is His creator?

http://www.speakingtree.in/spiritual-blogs/seekers/god-and-i/if-god-is-the-creator-of-the-universe-who-is-his-creator

In the blog which was posted yesterday titled “An Atheist Graduate Son and Peasant Father in Conversation….!”

http://memyinnerthoughts.blogspot.in/2014/08/532-atheist-graduate-son-and-peasant.html

An illiterate peasant father tells his Graduate son that just as we conclude the existence of a gardener when we see a well kept garden, There has to be Absolute to have created this vast Universe. In some of the responses I found a question if God created the universe who created Him. This question though simple has baffled both the scientists and the spiritual seekers. I am also curious to take a plunge to explore the answer, first let me see what the question is asking about?

Though we all believe God to be a Supreme Power we have provided it different names in different language depending on the religion and the mindset of the person who adores that same God. Hindu religion has numerous Gods. Though there are verses depicting the universal oneness like

“Akashat patitam toyam, yada gachchati sagram, Sarva devo namaskaraha, keshavam pratigachchati”.

(Meaning: As every raindrops falling from the sky ultimately join the ocean, prayers offered to all gods ultimately reach the One Lord.)

the seekers are granted freedom to choose the deity they would wish to adore. And I in the initial stages regarded my deity to be the Super Hero who had a lot of saga in mythological references portraying His heroism. Even then the question, “If my Super Hero created everything, who created my Super Hero?” always bothering.

Nevertheless, when I transited from ritualistic approach in searching for the answer and went further deep into the spiritual aspect then I started describing Him to be Omnipresent, Eternal, and Formless Energy which cannot be comprehend by my five senses. That Formless Energy is “Brahman” in Hinduism, “Allah” in Islam or “Holy Trinity” in Christianity. That Formless Energy is beyond Time, Space and Causation. It is here I started to understand God in the lines of Sat (Existence), Chit (Awareness) Ananda (Bliss), which always existed, which was never born or would never die, then the question itself began to fade away.

Anything that is created gets destroyed as time elapse. But that Formless Energy was never created and hence can never be destroyed. But I keep looking at that Formless Energy in its manifestations and get perplexed, it is same as the ocean being viewed as waves, foam, bubbles, and saying that the waves bubbles and foam got destroyed as it hit the shore. 

I have observed the tea vendor at the tea stall pours tea from one glass to another several times very vigorously and in the process there is froth formed on the surface. Now if I say that the milk is the cause and the froth the effect, then can I consider milk and forth to be separate entities? No, they are one and the same. Hence when I say that this universe is created again I am wrong as I am looking at the manifested form of the Formless Energy.  Every form of living and non-living things originate from that Formless Energy and finally merge into it. It is not getting destroyed it is going back to the origin to come back afresh.

Someone asked a Sadhu from Himalayas, “Sadhu Maharaj, just as a sculptor is there for a sculpture to come into existence, if we look at this vast universe, should we not consider God to be the creator of the universe?”

After a brief silence, the Sadhu replied, “Your have a point there in saying so. But I would like to say that in your sculptor and sculpture analogy, the sculptor is separate from the sculpture. Moreover the sculpture exists even if the sculptor passes away. So a more appropriate analogy could be that of an actor and his act. This world is like an act to the Supreme Actor. When the actor stops acting, the actor still remains. Even while acting, the act being a just make believe one, the reality is the same – Actor only IS.”