About Maya and Mula maya

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Since the Human Incarnation is the Creator, the

analysis of the Human Incarnation gives an idea about

the God but Vedas and Gita say that God is always

unimaginable and can never be known. But the existence

of the unimaginable God must be experienced

(“Astetyeva”—Veda). Otherwise you may say that God

does not exist because He is unimaginable and also

beyond experience .The unimaginability is called as

Maya. Unimaginability is the property of ParaBrahaman

which has entered pure awareness and made the Mula

Maya or pure awareness as Maya. Mula Maya is not

unimaginability since creation did not start.

Therefore, the word Mula Maya means the root of Maya

and has no Maya in it. When creation started the Mula

Maya is converted into Maya which is a mixure of the

unimaginability of ParaBrahman that entered Mula Maya.

Therefore, in the state of Mula Maya or Brahman, the

ParaBrahman is not having unimaginability. Brahman is

the purest state of ParaBrahman in the absence of

creation. In that state ParaBrahman is not

unimaginable to itself. The unimaginability arises

only when imaginability or Prakruti also exists as a

reference. Therefore, Brahman can be said as the

ParaBrahman left over with pure awareness and without

unimaginability (Maya) or imaginability (Prakriti)

 

Maya is wonderful because. Maya is a mixure of

awareness and unimaginability. The pure awareness is

from Mula Maya and the unimaginability is from

ParaBrahman. Thus we can apparently say that Maya is

unimaginability. Ofcourse, the pure awareness is also

generated from ParaBrahman like the unimaginability.

If it is diluted unimaginability, it is wonderful or

little Maya, which can be understood by human beings.

If the unimaginability is 100%, then it is called as

Maha Maya. The Mula Maya is in the form of pure

awareness and is called as Mula Prakruti or Shuddha

Sattvam. Sattvam is the knowledge of other things;

Shuddha Sattvam is the knowledge of itself. Sattvam is

a part of the Maya because Maya is composed of the

three qualities called Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas. When

the pure awareness is aware of other things, the

Shuddha Sattvam is converted into Sattvam. Then the

other things are Rajas and Tamas, which are the

modifications of Suddha Sattvam only. The Rajas is

work or energy. The Tamas is ignorance or matter. Both

the Suddha Sattvam and Sattvam are the states of same

knowledge. Therefore, the Suddha Sattvam or knowledge

is nearest to Parabrahman and is an inseparable

associated characteristic of Parabrahman. It can be

used as the identity mark for Parabrahman. When this

knowledge is wonderful, then the Suddha Sattvam is

called as Sattva Maya. This wonderful knowledge is

Prajnanam, which consists of both wonderful Suddha

Sattvam and wonderful Sattvam (Satvika Maya). This

means that Prajnanam contains a wonderful explanation

of itself and all the other related things. It is a

wonderful knowledge of the Creator, the path to please

the Creator and the soul. Therefore the wonderful

knowledge of the Parabrahman is the nearest

inseparable identity mark in the case of human

incarnation. The human incarnation is not recognised

in the state of Brahman because there can be no

preaching from Brahman, which is pure awareness

without any creation. The preaching comes only from

Eswara since He is associated with creation. The Rajas

and Tamas also attain the unimaginability and become

wonderful in miracles. Rajas is work and Tamas is

force. Thus miracles are forms of wonderful work and

force, which are far from Parabrahman. Miracles can be

transferred to demons. Since Rajas is Brahma and Tamas

is Siva, both these grant boons to demons. Sattvam is

Vishnu who never grants any boon to demons. It means

that the Satvika Maya or Prajnanam can never be

transferred to demons. Sattvam represents Vishnu and

Mula Sattvam represents Narayana. This is the reason

why Ramanuja and Madhva stressed on Vishnu or Narayana

who acts as the spiritual preacher. However this does

not mean that the Parabrahman is associated with Mula

Sattvam and Sattvam only. All the three qualities are

associated and therefore, separable and different

items only. The Parabrahman is associated with all the

three qualities in wonderful state. Even while

transferring the miracles to demons, the Rajas and

Tamas in the complete unimaginable state cannot be

transferred. The force and work in the creation,

ruling and destruction cannot be transferred to any

demon. For e.g.: A demon may create small objects but

cannot create the world. Lord Krishna showed

Viswarupam through which He proved that such miracle

could never be exhibited by anybody other than

Himself. The entire Bhagvat Gita shows the

non-transferable knowledge or Sattvam or Vishnu. The

Viswarupam in the Bhagvat Gita also shows the

non-transferable Brahma and Siva who represent the

creation and destruction of the cosmos. In between the

creation and the destruction, the Lord maintained the

cosmos as Vishnu and preached Arjuna about the

spiritual concept of the vision. Thus Vishnu stands

for preaching the knowledge even while maintaining the

Universe. Therefore one should not distinguish between

these three divine forms of the Lord. The Lord is

always associated with these three qualities in equal

proportions. When the Prajnanam is preached, a little

of it is also donated as jnanam. A scholar has

received a part of the infinite Prajnanam. Similarly,

the demons receive a part of divine force and divine

work as miracles. Thus the donation of all the three

qualities exists form the side of the Lord but the

human beings or demons with little capacities can

receive a little of these three only. A scholar cannot

be Narayana. A scholar is a water drop only whereas

Narayana is a mighty ocean of true knowledge (Satyam

Jnanam Anantam—Veda). Similarly, a demon doing small

miracles cannot be equal to Brahma and Siva. A sage

called Tandu created a handful quantity of sacred ash

and thought that he is the Lord. But Lord Siva

appeared before him and produced a mountain of ash

from His thumb. Thus the quantitative difference

exists.