Why Do We Speak About the 'Primal Desire of Awareness'? - 21st August 2017

Then, I'm happy she brought up that point because I did not mention this earlier, which is important to understand. When we talk about the words or the primal desire in Awareness to experience itself as something, it is just an answer; it is not the truth. Nobody can play with the cause of the creation of the universe. What are the causes of the creation of Maya? We have to find some answers to remove the questions because when you come to the recognition of Brahman, of Awareness, then to say it has a desire becomes completely laughable.

So, we are not talking about the desires of Awareness in the same way as we talk about the desire that we might experience—the energetic feeling mixed with thoughts in this worldly play. I wanted to mention that when I started speaking about the desire for creation of this world, there is a primal urge, you know, to experience itself as something, or to love itself, to experience the love for itself, or for it to evolve or play the game, or even the Leela, the play. You cannot really say that it had the urge for anything at all; it has a desire about anything at all. It is beyond that.

It is only in worldly terms when we need to describe something, we need to remove this question: 'Okay, why was the world created?' For me, from the beginning, I said I'll give you four answers; you pick whatever gives you the most peace, because actually we don't know. And I said I was interested in the peace.