God was infinite omniscient Bliss; but, being alone, there was no one but Him to enjoy that Bliss. So He said, “Let Me create a universe and divide Myself into many souls that they may play with Me in my unfolding drama.” By His magical measuring power of maya He became dual: Spirit and Nature, man and woman, positive and negative.
But even though He has created the universe out of delusion, He himself is not deluded by it. He knows that everything is but a diversification of His one Cosmic Consciousness.
Experiences of the senses and emotions, the dramas of war and peace, sickness and health, life and death - are all happening in God as the Dreamer- Creator of all things, but He is unaffected by them.
One part of His infinite Being ever remains transcendent, beyond vibratory dualities: there God is inactive. When He vibrates His Consciousness with thoughts of diversity, He becomes immanent and omnipresent as the Creator in the finite vibratory realm of infinity: there He is active. Vibration brings forth objects and beings interacting in space in the motions of time - just as vibrations of man's Consciousness brings forth dreams in sleep.
God created this dream universe for entertaining Himself and us.
~Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, Journey to Self-Realization, page 32
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