Vedic metaphysics

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Dear Sudhir ji,

The cosmic maya described below is the earth reduced to the universe.The

universe is Brahmah.When we imagine the earth with respect to the universe it

becomes a small dot in space.This dot is maya.It is said to be ignorance too, as

it is seen as a black dot in space.

But to lift it to the universe, we the creatures of the earth, have to fix the

earth at the various points in space like the solstices and the equioxes.These

are the shortest, longest and equal days and night during the year as the earth

travels around the sun. To realise these points we celebrate the various

festivals at different times of the year. For example, the lenght of the cosmic

travel from the shortest day to the longest day, we travel in space about 30

crore kilometers.This is the reason we celebrate two extreme sankrantis Makar

sankranti and Karkat sankranti, to get the feel of the longest distance we

travel in space. These two points are like the head and the tail of God, the

creator, or his backbone or spinal column.If we alighn ourselves with him we

reach him.

This timing has now gone wrong by 24 days, due to precession of earth axis, and

we have to do calendar reform for this purpose.The more we postpone this

calendar reform the more we are unable to escape the clutches of the maya and

delusion. Thus let us please discuss about this important aspect to save our

philosophies and not live in the world of theories only.

Thanks,

Hari Malla

 

, Sudhir-Architect

<ar_sudhirkumar wrote:

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> Vedic

> metaphysics is the perennial philosophy that is at the core of all

> religions - a precious gift for which the West is ever indebted to the

> East. (Francois Voltaire).

>

> Become divine Bureaucracy of the Supreme Reality Brahman and savethe Grand

wondrous Design of Viswakarma †" the only Supreme Reality

>

> MAYA (Cosmic Delusion)

>

> For appreciating the divine concept of Vedic Maya, a few references are given

below.Rig Veda 1-131-1 and 6-47-18 describe the universe as His Creative Art

(mayabhi)

> and for every form He is the Model. All the riches, matter, clouds, Sun

> and other objects belong to Him. Svetasvatra Upanishad (4 -9 and10)

> describes Brahma as the Illusion Maker and Prakrti as Maya.Being Shakti energy

(cosmic power) of God, Maya hinders the truth to the human senses, which tend to

even misrepresent the reality.

> According to Mundakya Upanishad III-2-9, after the illusory effect of Maya

vanishes, you become Brahma. " so ye ha vaitatparaman Brahma Veda, Brahmaiva

Bhavati " (when you start knowing Brahma, you become Brahma.

> The human form of Indra Deva is an illusion R.V 6-47-18 says, " Indra Mayabhi " -

the illusory Indra. According to Sama Veda 1710, HE shines as supreme Lord in

all the worlds as part of his cosmic

> Lila (Play) described as Maya. He is the first cause of all these

> worlds visible to senses and beyond.

> The effect of Maya in our sense perception of truth is given in Yajur Veda

40-15 to 17 where it says, " the face of truth is covered by golden lid. " Unless

the golden lid of Maya, which forms its veil, is removed, one

> cannot find the truth of Reality. Maya creates this golden disc and

> hides the God.

> Rig- Veda 7-33-3 also attributes Maya in Prakrti. Bhagavad-Gita has some

verses

> relating to Maya, particularly (7- 4, 5, 13, 14, 25, 27),( 4- 9, 10 ),

> (3- 27, 39, 40).

> Soul

> (Atma)- the omniscient principle is provided to human beings so that

> they could get out of the vehement effect of MAYA and their past and

> present good or bad karma(actions) due to their gunas. Those who do not allow

the unmoved mover soul to

> administer their gross bodies, do not follow Rta (cosmic laws) and do

> not serve the purpose of their human birth, are born again and again as

> the vehement effect of Maya continues.

> It

> is thus apparent that “Maya†creates attachment to children, matter,

> money, gold etc. Vedic metaphysics clearly mentions that all material

> things belong to God and these are given to us for minimum use as need

> based and not greed based. It is Maya that is the cause of insatiable

> desire and thus deludes the human beings (B.G.3-39, 40). Thus due to itscosmic

illusion we are chained to Destiny.

>

> The knowledge of the doctrine of Maya can save this beautiful globe and world

of senses.

> For bringing the Golden Age or the " Kingdom of Heaven "

> nearer to the earth, the knowledge of Maya would greatly help. The firm

> belief in its vehement effect can reverse the present trends based on

> abject materialism.

> Those individuals

> who understand the effect of Maya all these modern gods, gurus, cults

> disappear and firm belief in One God and One life becomes dominant.

> They all find we are part of he same life of formless God who is our

> supreme Father. We live in Him as cells of His life, which take birth,

> grow and die and are reborn. It is more like our gross body that has

> trillions of living cells that are always there but live only for a few

> hours to a few days and are reborn.

> Vedas thus advise that the highest and ideal living is by avoiding illusory

> smartness i.e. false ego, snobbishness, artificial life of glamour and

> ostentation. The blind pursuit of money, matter and prestige, power and

> status are not the requirements of your real extended self (Jivatma) but

illusory requirements of your senses that run after even tiny matter.

> Our

> intellectual arguments, empirical knowledge and sense experience have

> created a strange world of contrasts and confusion, one God to

> multiplicity of gods, extreme idealism to dreaded materialism. Today we

> find people have hardly any common views on any subject and this has

> become cause of conflict between nations, societies, families and even

> friends.Vedic Metaphysics tell us it is due to the mystic power (shakti) of

the divine Nature described in Vedas as MAYA, it acts asa huge Cosmic Saw.

Multiplicity, lust, greed, pride, hatred, jealousy,

> egoism and self-interest are its sharp teeth. Below and between its

> teeth are love, cooperation, humility, purity and truth. Those in

> pursuit of money, matter in any of its form and other mundane

> activities are very often caught in the teeth of Saw. They first start

> losing the divine instruments like buddhi (intellect) of their inner world and

finally the instruments of their outer world like sense organs and finally their

gross bodies as well. According to Bhagavad-Gita God

> being merciful and benevolent gives long rope to individuals to develop

> the divine qualities hidden in them and known to their immortal soul.

> Otherwise, the individuals being their own greatest enemies grow in

> wickedness and sink deeper into sin and finally get shameful

> punishment.

> Those individuals who start developing divine qualities known to their

immortal extended " self†with selfless service to weaker members of society

and resist from aimless pursuit of money

> and matter, smoothly pass through or below the cosmic Saw of Maya. Such

> persons tend to merge with Brahma -the formless and ineffable God

> through right knowledge contained in Vedas. Those who acquire this

> knowledge and put into practice get beyond the effect of the Saw of

> Maya. Since Brahma is beyond this veil of cosmic illusion, the true

> seekers of Him tear off this veil withpara jnan (higher

> knowledge) and also get beyond the illusory effect of Maya. These

> individuals come to know that nothing is produced out of nothing. So,

> God being eternal is Himself the universe and universe is God. " A sateh saj

jayete kutos " i.e. how can entity be produced out of non-entity?

>

> Maya

> is a practical philosophy of ending human sufferings. In any society

> when Knowledge of Maya starts disappearing diversity in thoughts

> actions increases. Human mind becomes devils workshop, even rudderless,

> and can lead to spread of atheism,

> materialism, anti social elements increase. All actions to make world

> free from pollution and Unity in Diversity become an act of hypocrisy

> to collect more funds.

> HUMAN Nature of believers in Maya is Positive- love, harmony, cooperation …

(Plato, Sankracharya etc) and non believers is negative i.e. man is ungrateful,

deceitful, cowardly, avaricious and fickle (Hobbes,

> Machiavelli) . Knowledge of Maya leads to Kingdom of Heaven near the

> earth, Universal brother hood, global family, Ramarajya, One God etc

>

> For

> more details in regard to Vedic Maya, kindly read chapter 6 (six) of

> Glimpses of Vedic Metaphysics for on line reading and even taking print

> at no cost. Website is http://wwww. sabhlokcity. com/metaphysics/The book is

also accessible through Search Engines of Google.com, and Lulu.com.

Please render divine and noble service and forward it other seekers of Vedic

knowledge known to you-Prem Sabhlok

>

> Thanks & Regards,

>

>

> Sudhir Srinivasan

> B.Arch, Dip.ID, Dip.CAD, Dip.PM, AIIA, IIID, ARIAI

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