Veda says that God created this Universe only for entertainment
The analysis to know that God is beyond analysis is also analysis only. Therefore, the direct meaning of the word Aakasha Deepam is that God is unimaginable, since He is beyond spatial dimensions. The extension of this concept is useful to the spiritual aspirant. The entire creation is within the dimensions of Space. Since God is beyond Space, it automatically means that God is beyond creation (Neti Neti

I think this is not true because everything must have a purpose. If God wanted entertainment, he wouldnt have created the Earth for his own selfish reasons; God is supposed to be perfect, remember??

God cruel to create this world for entertainment?

People often blame God stating that they are troubled since God created this world for His entertainment. They say that God is a sadist because He is entertained by their suffering. This is shear non-sense. God created this entire world consisting of the souls. Souls constitute Para Prakruti, which is a part of the creation. He gave complete freedom to the souls and gave the intelligence (Buddhi), which is the powerful faculty of discriminating good and bad. God propagated His constitution, which contains clearly the subjects of good and bad. The prophets propagated this constitution on this earth. Now if God is deriving entertainment on observing the creation, how can you call Him as sadist? He is not responsible for your desires and selection of good and bad for which you have the full freedom.

He is not responsible even for a trace of your desire and even for a trace of your subsequent action. The constitution gives only information and does not encourage you in anyway. A hotel is exhibiting a board listing the various items available for the food. The board is only for your information. According to your taste, capacity of digestion and problems of health, you have to select the suitable item of food. You cannot blame the hotel saying that the hotel is responsible for your indigestion, since it exhibited a particular item by which you are attracted! A person is standing in the balcony of his residence and is observing the traffic to get entertainment. Suppose an accident took place on the road, you cannot blame the observer to be responsible for the accident. You are well aware of the traffic rules and your over look of the rules is responsible for the accident.

The observation and entertainment of any spectator is not at all connected with the accident. The divine constitution consists of two parts. The first part is the Pravrutti, which is the social behavior to live in this world with peace and harmony. This Pravrutti is based on heaven, earth and hell, which are plus, zero and minus signs respectively. If you do social service helping the poor people, you will get heaven, which is a temporary pleasure proportional to the extent of your sacrifice in the social service. For this, you will receive the result on the earth also either partially or totally. If the result is not seen on the earth, you will receive the total result in the heaven after death. However, the result is not permanent (Kshenepunye

GOD CREATED THIS WORLD FOR NOTHING,IT IS FOR TO SEE ITSELF.BUT ,THIS IS LIKE FOOD WE EAT .AFTER SWALLOW FOO WE DONOT GET ANT CONTROL ON THEM,LIKE AFTER WORLD CREATION HE COULDNOT HAVE A TOTAL CONTROL ON.WHEN SOCIETY GO TO CHAOS,FOR CONTROLLING THIS WORLD HE HIMSELF SEND GOD LIKE KRISHNA,MOHAMMED,CHRIST,
BUDHA,MAHAVEERA,GURU NANAK ETC

I think you make a very good point... true is the fact that He has no control over the chaos in the world, but i think He could use His godly influence on all the believers to start a movement to convince people to believe that God is not cruel for creating this universe, but no single person can prove with actual account from a person or event that He made this universe for His own personal gain or entertainment. Any arguements from either of you??

Some people criticize that God is enjoying the creation by entertaining Himself while the souls are troubled with problems and the blame God with sadism. The entertainment of God is not at all the sadism. Sadism is based on two points. One is: that the sadism is exhibited in reality in the world and not in the imaginary world. For God, this world is imaginary and not real. However, the sadism in the imaginary world may also show the attitude towards sadism in the mind. Even that point is ruled out because the second point for the sadism is: that a sadist enjoys by torturing some innocent person without justified reason. Here in the case of God, the problem of the soul in the world is based on its own actions and the punishment is given based on perfect justice. Hence, the point of sadism cannot be attributed to God even in mind. Moreover, the soul is not concerned with the entertainment of God because the soul is not punished on any unjust reason.

If the soul follows the rules of God in the justice, no problem can be seen by the soul. A rich person started a college for entertainment or to escape the income tax on his wealth. This point is unnecessary for the student as long as the college is running on the rules of University. The student has scope to argue against the management provided any type of injustice takes place in teaching or in the examinations. As long as the academic program is perfectly implemented, the student has no scope of argument against the original intention of the management in starting the college. Only a student, who is not perfectly following the academic schedule, will bother about such irrelevant points to mask his own defects.

If some body still argues on this point due to foolishness, the only answer is that God is the supreme most boss and there is no body to argue with Him. If an ant comments on the driver of car, such comment is not even heard by the driver! Since you do not know all the actions of a soul from its childhood, you should not say that a particular soul is good and yet is punished without justice. Neither you are capable of noting all the actions of a soul nor you are capable of judging the action in depth. Shankara established the nature of the world as unreal by itself and is felt real as long as the world exists based on God. Such unreal world is imaginary. The dream cannot be real without its basic material, which is the soul or awareness. Similarly, a pot without mud and a chain without gold are unreal and they are imaginary or illusory. But the world is imaginary to God only and not to your self. If you say that the world is imaginary for your self also and try to do sins, you will have to undergo all the punishments and you must feel the punishments also as imaginary like your sins! Your sins and their punishments are within the realm of the world only and hence both must be imaginary!

Our soul is like spark of fire from big fire(paramathma).

I also think that once you have proof of all your reasons then you may be right. Putting all these reasons and past facts together doesn't make you nessicarily correct...

The whole world is the kingdom of God

You must realize that the whole world is the kingdom of God as stated by Jesus. Any injustice will be punished by Him and you need not worry about it. Your view of the punishment is revenge but His view of punishment is to transform the soul. If somebody has stolen your money, don

Well this is what I think
if it was not for genes one could have said that there
is a god of sorts, but we arrive here with baggage already packed for us, like Farouk Bulsara said it's all decided for us..why do people smoke ..in their genes
why do people sing (Pavarotti) was in his genes, who decides that..and for us that have the cancer gene, we must run on sunday and praise the sadist...WTF
children that get born with desease must praise the lord
please that is just too much..

The absolute knowledge of the absolute God is impossible because the absolute God is unimaginable. The absolute God comes in human form to give you the experience of His existence, in absence of which, you may deny the very existence of the absolute God and may become atheist (Astityeva….Veda). The identification of the human form in which the absolute God exists is the knowledge of God (Brahma Jnanam or Brahma Vidya).

The experience of the existence of the absolute God does not reveal any trace of the nature of the absolute God and hence God is always unimaginable. The only information about the absolute God is that God exists. “Aum Tat Sat” means that God exists and no more information about God is available. The word Tat means that God is beyond your imagination. The word Aum denotes that God is the creator, ruler and destroyer of this world. These three adjectives indicate the works (Creation, rule and destruction) of God only and not the nature of the God. This is called as the information about the existence only (Sanmatra vada). God comes in human form, which is characterized by the awareness or chit.

Very beautiful discussion!!! It just seems that there is so much to learn, explore, discuss... The Vedas are amazing! I am a just beginning reading the Gita, it is short, easy to read, but I Love to take my time allowing it to permeate my mind. I have read The autobiography of a Yogi...excellent selection, know I realize that there is so much more of the Truth available- but seems like time is short? Is this the end of the age? And if so, is there really a worry unless we operate by the Cosmic Laws of the Divine Universe? Can we figure it all out? I believe to be True this Aum Tat Sat; So what is the benefit of life? Is it taught that we live this experience (recieving a body and living these different lives) that we may become "like G-D? or anything to this effect? Thanks for all of the comments and look forward to more beautiful discussions fellow Truth Seekers!

God created this universe for His own entertainment like a cinema. He watches the universe like cinema. The end of the world means, when God wishes to stop His watching the cinema. The cinema can be stop any time if God wish and the reel of the cinema will be available to God to restart it.

The continuous entertainment (Ananda) is possible only in the world when God exists in the relative reality. In the state of absolute reality, space also disappears and God alone is left over. In such state there is no question of any entertainment. If you take God in to such state of absolute reality, you are making God bored. There will be no necessity at any time for God to cross the space (Mula Maya) because God need not destroy this world completely and regenerate it. The show of cinema is withdrawn but the film roll is never destroyed by any producer unless he is extremely mad. The dissolution of the world means the closure of the show only and the world in subtle state is protected which is regenerated as per Veda (Yathaa Purvamakalpayat….). Therefore, God will never cross Mula Maya (primary energy or space) at any time. He is only aware of absolute reality and such awareness exists in God which is not always remembered.

In the human mind also several concepts are stored even though they are not remembered always. Similarly, God can attain the awareness of the absolute reality at any time if He likes and can really become alone. But, such awareness is only stored in God and is never attained since such lonely state bores God.

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Well that certainly explains how half assed everything has turned out. I would hate to think he was just inept. Now it makes sense! Its just his sense of humor!! He's just a funny old man!!