The whole creation is a self-creating principle. The creator and the created are not two different things. There is no separate God outside the creation. And undoubtedly there is no God as a person. If God has created man then who has created God? This will be an obvious question.
Out of nothingness comes the creation. And this creation manifests as Shiva and Shakti. This is how out of nothingness the Quantum Principle is born. The unmanifest has to manifest as the manifest. The non-dual has to manifest as the dual. The unseen has to manifest as the seen. This is the only way of the creation and except this there is no other way. The seen can then become a gateway to the unseen.
It is just like how the dance is born out of the dancer. If the dancer is there then the dance is also there. And without the dancer there is no dance at all. And the dancer has engrossed so much in his dance, there is absolutely no separation between the dance and the dancer.
Carl Sagan was a great cosmologist. And he said that the whole creation is a dance of Shiva as Nataraja.
Avadhoot’s World 