CREATION
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1. The whole creation is a play of thoughts : the outcome of the mind. It is your mind that binds you; it is also the mind that is the means of your freedom. You are eternally free. You are not bound at all.

2. Whence and wither ?: As long as the human mind does not directly experience ultimate Reality as it is, the mind is baffled in every attempt to explain the origin and purpose of creation..... The human mind can at best make brilliant conjectures about the past and the future of the universe because it is bound by the spell of Maya . It can neither arrive at final knowledge of these points, nor can it remain content with ignorance about them. "Whence ?" and "Whither?" Presupposes the beginning and the end of this evolving creation. The beginning of evolution is the beginning of time, and the end of evolution is the end of time. Evolution has both beginning and end because time has both beginning and end.
Between the beginning and the end of this changing world there are many cycles; but there is, in and through these cycles, a continuity of cosmic evolution. The real termination of the evolutionary process is called Mahapralaya,or the great annihilation of the world, when the world becomes what it was in the beginning, namely, Nothing. .... the entire objective cosmos, which is the creation of Maya, vanishes into nothingness at the time of Mahapralaya. It is as if the universe had never existed at all.

From- Dis., p23.

Lord Avatar Meher Baba