Reference: Postulate Mechanics
Creator-creation is a common dichotomy in this universe. Our mom bakes a cake. Mom is the creator; cake is the creation. It is a simple concept. But how far back can we take this concept?
There is creation. There is no doubt about it. The simplest of creations is a consideration. Each time we consider something, we create a consideration. You consider, “We shall establish a base on moon by 2035.” And you have created this consideration.
Who are “we” that creates the consideration? We consider each one of us to be a self. It is the self that creates the consideration. Then we ask, “Who created self?” Or, “How was self created?”
We find that everybody thinks that God created self. Then we ask, “Who created God?” Or, “How was God created?”
We discover the belief that God has created the world, but God is not created by anyone. It is possible that God may have created itself. The bottom line is that God’s existence is simply taken for granted. That makes it a postulate, because a postulate is something that is taken for granted. In that case, we ask, “How does a postulate come about?”
We find that some process of reasoning underlies all considerations, such as, “Joe is a good person.” That reasoning must begin from a postulate, such as, “God creates only good things.” There is nothing beyond that postulate to reason from. The source of postulates is simply “unknowable.”
But that unknowable is not just another consideration. The fact is that we simply don’t know.
So, whichever way we look at creation, and try to think of the ultimate creator, we run into “unknowable.” We may say God is this unknowable, but we are simply assigning the symbol of God to unknowable.
Every religion has its own symbol for the Creator, which may only represent the “unknowable.” The religion then postulates attributes to make that Creator knowable.
In the ancient Vedic religions, such as, Hinduism, the Nirākār Brahman uses Māyā to arise as Sākār Brahman. The Nirākār Brahman is considered to be a reality without attributes. Māyā is considered to be the process that generates attributes. And Sākār Brahman is considered to be the reality with attributes.
Therefore, we may consider God in Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) to be “Sākār Brahman”—a reality with attributes. The attribute of omniscient (all-knowing) is then assigned to God. But all such attributes are brought about by “Māyā,” or postulates. And the ultimate source of these postulates is unknowable.
From this it follows that, not only the ultimate Creator, but also the ultimate CAUSE of these postulates is unknowable. Like “Creator-creation,” “Cause-effect” is also a dichotomy, which makes sense within the universe, but when it is applied to the whole universe, we do not find an answer.
That means, we can know this universe only by discovering the actual postulates that create it bit by bit, layer by layer. There is no single creator of this universe.
This book is engaged in the search for those postulates that have created this universe.
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Notes and Postulates
The major concepts introduced in Chapter 1 are CREATOR-CREATION, DICHOTOMY, GOD, VEDIC RELIGIONS, and ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS. These concepts are defined in Glossary: Postulate Mechanics.
PM Postulate 1.1: There is no single creator of this universe.
PM Postulate 1.2: The “Creator” or “Cause” of this world are postulates.
PM Postulate 1.3: The source of postulates is unknowable.
PM Postulate 1.4: Jesus and Krishna are symbols applied to the unknowable.
PM Postulate 1.5: To understand this universe we must discover the actual postulates.
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