This creation is the result of Isvara’s Eshana-Matra. Nothing less than or beyond that Eshana can happen....

Isvara is not ordaining things all the time; else He wouldbe too busy. This means determinism which leaves very little scope for individual effort.The notion that Isvara ordains things only sometimes and not always and that He wouldbe too busy if He ordains things all the time is a puerile one. Isvara can look to everything at onestroke of His Being. There is no such thing as His ‘being too busy’, for He is not like man, usinghis senses for the purpose of acting. Isvara does not act with a changing mind as man does, forIsvara’s action is inseparable from an undivided, ever-vigilant, all-powerful, all-pervadingConsciousness which neither sleeps nor takes rest. Isvara is essentially this sovereignConsciousness itself. The whole universe is determined by Isvara’s creative Will. But this is nodeterminism in the sense of a denial of free will to man. Man has a comparatively clearconsciousness of himself and of others related to him outside, and he is possessed of the power ofdiscrimination and willing. Isvara is the basis of cosmic activity as well as individual action, andyet, He is not involved in the actions of the individual. To Isvara, everything is determined. Thepast, the present and the future are all Isvara’s Being alone. But from the individual’s ownlimited standpoint, there is, in spite of the fact of a changeless universal law, a sort of apparentfreedom of action imposed upon himself by his own individuality. Though the individual’sfreedom of thought and action is not the final truth about it, it assumes a relative importance andbegins to affect the individual with its reactions, as a result of the individual’s notion of thereality of a limited personality and its thoughts and actions. On account of this self-createdbondage the Jiva suffers and this suffering comes to an end the moment the Jiva realizes itsidentity with Isvara in consciousness, in activity and in its very existence itself.From "May I answer that" by Swami Sivananda (1987-1963). More Informations on Swami Sivananda: on the Website of Divine Life Society, Photographs of Swami Sivananda, German Pages on Swami Sivananda

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This creation is the result of Isvara’s Eshana-Matra. Nothing less than or beyond that Eshana can happen....

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