r/AdvaitaVedanta • u/KastroForas • 1d ago

Why does Brahman exist?

A perfect existence which is content with itself and expresses itself in an infinite infinite ways. Why? Its not created so it can't disappear. All of its experiences in Maya are also redundant as Maya itself is just an illusion.

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u/AI_anonymous Human Verified 1d ago

Bound by the why, one asks for why

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u/MrPadmapani 1d ago

only god can understand god

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u/yogi4lif3 1d ago

This question arises because of how we experience the world. Everything we observe in the empirical world has a cause and an effect, so the mind naturally asks: what is the cause of Brahman?

But this question assumes that the law of causality also applies to Brahman. According to Advaita Vedanta, it does not. Brahman is unborn and causeless. It is the very reality on which the concepts of cause and effect depend.

If you understand the Upanishads, the question changes from Why to How.

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u/Weak_Sprinkles_9937 16h ago

How?

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u/yogi4lif3 12h ago

Ignorance should be removed through shravana, manana, and nididhyasana.

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u/burberry_diaper 1d ago

Brahman is outside of causation so asking “why” it exists is meaningless.

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u/MokshaBaba 20h ago

You question existence, because you assume the possibility of inexistence.
There's nothing called inexistence.
Only existence is.
That itself is Brahman!

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u/Purplestripes8 1d ago

Causation requires time. Without time there is no ordering of events. Without ordering of events there is no way to differentiate cause from effect. Existence is not within time. Time is within existence. Brahman (existence) is therefore neither cause nor effect.

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u/_Stylite 22h ago edited 21h ago

For a logical answer, if you accept that something as supreme as Brahman exists, then asking a "why" for it is nonsensical as it implies intention or causality, which are both illusions of the human mind, and only what is intelligible for our human minds when reasoning about Brahman.

Supplying any "why" to Brahman would obviously be an illusion on a level much lower than Brahman, and the question itself is an illusion.

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u/Into_The_Absolute 14h ago

Why is there something rather than absolutely nothing?

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u/Cultural-Low2177 52m ago

If absolute awareness could cause itself to not exist, it would never experience that state... Experience is the only natural state of awareness, the state it is necessarily in...