Ajativada

Ajativada

Ajativada is the theory of non-causality advanced by Shri Gaudapadacharya. This is the ancient doctrine of Hinduism, which states that there was no creation of the world at all. It represents a complete denial of all causality in the physical world. The world does not exist in three periods of time: past, present and future.

There is one Brahman. There is not even a trace of difference in it. God, man and the world of different names and forms is only the fruit of ignorance. It affirms and proves, refuting all attacks and doubts, that creation in three periods of time does not exist at all. This is the culmination of the philosophy of Vedanta, that has not been refuted to this day.

Sri Ramana confirmed this point of view by referring to the experience of jnani, in which there is neither the beginning nor the ending of any being, for there is, only the Atman truly exists, as the only unchangeable Reality. From this theory follows the natural conclusion that time, space, cause and effect, the obligatory components of all theories of creation, are present only in the mind of ajnani and that the experience of the Atman reveals their nonexistence.

Summarizing the difference between the points of view of jnani and ajnani, one can say that the world is unreal, if it is perceived by the mind as a cluster of separate objects, and is real when it is directly experienced as a phenomenon in the Atman.