The System of the Vedanta according to Badarayana's Brahma-Sutras and Cankara's Commentary c7.s6.t3.3

c7.s6.t3.3

For the Hellenic consciousness, the existence of the world has its purpose in itself. Christianity, inclining to the Old Testament, seeks to understand Creation through the love of God towards mankind, towards a thing to be created, though not yet existing. According to the Indian view, the creation of the world rests upon a moral necessity. The deeds done by the soul in an earlier existence must be atoned for. To be the place of this atonement, is the only purpose of this huge world. Its plurality originates solely from two factors, which are indicated by the two words bhoktar and bhogyam: on the one side, is the bhoktar, he who enjoys, that is, the (individual) soul, the subject of enjoyment and also of sorrow, and on the other side, the bhogyam, what is enjoyed, the fruit (phalam) of works done in an earlier existence, the object of the enjoyment and suffering of the soul. The world is this expansion of the Existent into the enjoying soul and the fruit to be enjoyed, and nothing else.