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The Creator That Became the Creation
God, Maya, and the Cyclic Mystery of Existence
Before Differentiation
There was a God before differentiation. It had no form, attributes, or distinguishing characteristics. It was immutable, unmanifest, and unmoving. No universe, matter, life, or division between one thing and another existed. There was nothing else besides God. It simply existed.
Yet God possessed something extraordinary: the potential to change. This potential was Maya, the power through which the undifferentiated could become differentiated, the unmanifest could become manifest, and the one could appear as many.
Maya was not another entity standing beside God. Maya was God’s own potential, inseparable from its existence. Through this potential, manifestation became possible. What had been without form could appear in countless forms. What had been unmoving could become the universe’s movement.
But this tells us only how the fantasy begins, not why. Why should an immutable existence possess the potential for change? Why should the undifferentiated become differentiated? Perhaps these questions have no answers. Perhaps manifestation simply happens because the possibility exists.
