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The mystical answers you’ve received don’t only skirt around (“hand wave”) their reification. They do something even more daft. A few centuries ago, they would have got away with talking about ‘mind’ as it it were something ineffable—some mystical property of people. Heck, just a century ago, all living creatures were thought to have some sort of élan vital that distinguished them from non-living matter. “Mind” in their sense is now however just élan vital in fancy dress.
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No, we Hindu pagan idol-worshippers don’t believe that a God “created” anything - we are taught in the Vedas that the Supreme Being BECAME everything - in other words, the Supreme Being is the Cosmic Being. The universe and everything in it is the corporeal manifestation of Cosmic Consciousness, which also extends beyond and is transcendent as well as imminent.
The relevant passage from the Taittiriya Upanishad is
ba̱hu syā̱ṁ prajā̍ye̱yeti̍ | sa tapo̍’tapyata | sa tapa̍s ta̱ptvā| i̱daguṁ sarva̍m asṛjata | yad i̱daṁ kiṁ ca̍ | tat sṛ̱ṣṭvā | tad e̱vānu̱prāvi̍śat | tad a̍nupra̱viśya̍ | sac ca̱ tyac cā̍bhavat | ni̱rukta̱ṁ cāni̍ruktaṁ ca | ni̱laya̍na̱ṁ cāni̍layanaṁ ca| vi̱jñāna̱ṁ cāvi̍jñānaṁ ca | satyaṁ cānṛtaṁ ca sa̍tyam a̱bhavat | yad i̍daṁ ki̱ṁ ca | tat satyam i̍tyāca̱kṣate |
He [being One] wished, may I become manifold, may I grow forth. He meditated and having meditated he [mentally] projected all, whatever there is. Having projected the Cosmos [from consciousness] he entered into it. Having entered it, he became the manifest and the unmanifest, defined and undefined, supported and not supported, the sentient and the insentient, real and unreal. The Satya (true) became all this Cosmos, and therefore the wise call it (the Brahman) Satya (the true).
Vedanta refutes the concept of creation from nothing (ex nihilo) by an unseen God . Matter exists eternally and is simply manifested and not created.
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TRANSITIONING V ACTIVELY DTHING
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