Ajata Vada — The Doctrine of Non-Creation
Ajata Vada (the doctrine of non-origination) is Advaita's most radical philosophical claim — that Brahman never actually became the world, which therefore never actually came into existence.
Ajata Vada (Ajata = not-born, unoriginated; Vada = doctrine) is Gaudapada's (7th century CE — Shankara's teacher's teacher) most radical contribution to Advaita philosophy, presented in his Mandukya Karika. The teaching: nothing has ever actually come into existence. The world of multiplicity does not arise from Brahman — because Brahman never actually divided itself. The apparent arising of the world is as real (or unreal) as the arising of dream objects — the dream objects seem to arise, but in the context of waking they never actually came into existence at all. Similarly: from the perspective of Brahman (Paramarthika standpoint), no multiplicity ever arose; the world never came into being; the individual soul never became separate from Brahman. This is the most extreme expression of the Advaita vision: not only is the world 'Mithya' (relatively unreal) — it never even arose in the first place. This teaching cannot be understood from within the perspective of the one who thinks the world is real — it can only be understood from the perspective of Brahman itself.
No soul is ever bound; none is ever liberated. For who would be bound, and who would seek liberation? Brahman alone is, and Brahman has never moved.
Physicist Julian Barbour's 'The End of Time' — which proposes that time is not fundamental to reality and that all apparent temporal succession is a kind of appearance within a timeless 'Platonia' — resonates structurally with Ajata Vada: if time itself is an appearance, then all events (including creation) are appearances within a timeless reality, consistent with Brahman's unchanging nature.
Mandukya Karika