No Creation

Sage Vasishtha

All this talk about who created this world and how it was created is intended only for the purpose of composing scriptures and expounding them: it is not based on truth. Modifications arising in the infinite consciousness or organization of the cosmic being, do not really take place in the Lord, though they appear to do so. There is naught but the infinite consciousness, even in imagination! To think of that being the creator and the universe as created, is absurd: when one lamp is kindled from another, there is no creator-creature relationship between them - fire is one. Creation is just a word, it has no corresponding substantial reality.

Consciousness is brahman, the mind is brahman, the intellect is brahman, brahman alone is the substance. Sound or word is brahman and brahman alone is the component of all substances. All indeed is brahman; there is no world in reality. 

Just as when the dirt is removed the real substance is made manifest, just as when the darkness of the night is dispelled the objects that were shrouded by the darkness are clearly seen, even so when ignorance is dispelled truth is realized.