Reason for Creation

Madhva holds that Vishnu created this universe for his own bliss.Ananda was the reason for creation.Just like a father marries and evolves a family for the sake of his own bliss , so too Vishnu for the sake of his own Ananda created this Universe.He partakes the delight of the creatures but not the suffering, which are of the creatures own making.

Sri Aurobindo describes how from out of an Omnipresent Reality, the Absolute (what is known as Brahman in the East) the universe was created, as unconscious, ignorant, divided forms. He goes on to say that the reason that the universe was created from the Absolute is for the purpose of delight. Furthermore, in order to achieve the Absolute's goal of delight in the creation, we as humans must evolve beyond our lower nature to rediscover our higher nature, including the hidden spirit in life. In that process of discovering our higher nature and spirit, we experience the delight of existence, fulfilling the very purpose for which the Absolute created the universe.