Reference: Postulate Mechanics
Creation means to bring something into existence. When your mom bakes a cake, she is bringing that cake into existence. She is creating that cake.
How was this universe created?
Like ‘mom’ in the above example, we assume that God created the universe. But that makes God knowable. If the universe is everything knowable then it would include God too.
May be God is an earlier version of universe that transformed itself into the current version. This idea of an earlier version shall also supply all the ingredients, which, when “baked” produce the current version. We do not know how many different versions this universe has gone through, but the basic ingredients of the universe must have been there always. How these ingredients were created initially is unknowable; but these ingredients have always been there to be sensed.This supports the Vedic assertion that the universe has neither a beginning nor an end.
It is the sensing of the ever present ingredients of the universe that triggers the postulates. It is through postulates that we come to know this universe. Knowledge builds up as we consider based on those postulates. This is how we start creating our universe.
Suppose you grow up in a family, where everyone genuinely cares for each other. This develops in you a deep sense of security. It is natural for you to postulate, “Man is basically good.” This postulate becomes a part of you. When you go out in the world and come across a person who harms you, you consider, “Oh! He is just having a bad day.” Such postulate and ensuing considerations are a part of your universe.
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. Thus, the Vedic religions appears to support our arguments above.
In Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) God is postulated as the source of all creation. God is then assigned the attribute of omniscient (all-knowing) among others. But God itself is presented as a mystery.
We come to the conclusion that we create our universe by discovering the actual postulates bit by bit, layer by layer, and bolstering them with our considerations.
But, “Who or what generates these postulates and considerations?”
This question shall be taken up in the next chapter.
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Notes and Postulates
The major concepts introduced in Chapter 1 are CREATION, GOD, VEDIC RELIGIONS, and ABRAHAMIC RELIGIONS. These concepts are defined in Glossary: Postulate Mechanics.
PM Postulate 1.1: The ingredient of this universe are eternally present.
PM Postulate 1.2: These ingredients, when sensed, trigger postulates.
PM Postulate 1.3: Postulates are the basis of ensuing considerations.
PM Postulate 1.4: Postulates and considerations become building blocks of universe.
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