barney 0 Report post Posted May 18, 2004 Maya can be interpreted in many ways. But maya in Advaita philosophy is actually meant to tell us that nonthing in this world is perpetual. It keeps on changing and subject to perishable. But most of us take it to mean illusion like as though we are imagining that it is there but it is not there. That is not what maya means by Sankara. Does Hinduism consider the world in which we live as real or unreal? Hinduism considers the world in which we live as a projection of God and unreal. It is unreal not because it does not exist, but because it is unstable, impermanent, unreliable and illusory. It is unreal because it hides the Truth and shows us things that lead to our ignorance. It is unreal because it changes its colors every moment. What is now is not what is next. In one moment so many things happen here. Many new souls enter. Many depart also. Friends become enemies and enemies friends. The sun and the earth change their positions continuously in space and time, while the wind moves, the rivers flow and the oceans shift their currents. The people who live on earth are also very fickle. Their minds are never stable. Their thoughts never cease. They seem to live today and disappear tomorrow. While all this is going on in the whole wide world, at the microscopic level, millions of atoms, cells and molecules in the bodies shift and change their positions or get destroyed. The philosophy is very simple but difficult to follow. After all what is illusion? It is something like a mirage which misleads you into wrong thinking and wrong actions. This world precisely does that. It offers you happiness but leads you into the darkness of suffering. It tempts you with many things and when you run after them you find them to be unreal and incapable of quenching your thirst for stability and permanence. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
atanu 0 Report post Posted May 21, 2004 Excellent Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Azuric 0 Report post Posted May 23, 2004 wow Barney, thanks. That actually answered my questions on what Maya is. A good read, like many of your other posts. Azuric Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted May 26, 2004 I really like what you've written, and personaly, I agrea with you about what's real and illusions. But some part of you are in a pathless land, an endless land, where u yourself have no idea about or eaven know anything about, cause it's all in your head and not in from of your eyes. U have seem to open up more to what u can understand with a human mind (that IS what we are) rather then to just repeat what u read. You seem to have your own conclutions, and I really like that! Good luck with your search in yourself and not some words taking over yourself /images/graemlins/wink.gif You are you, no other books or minds are you! =) Pace and love all! =) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest guest Report post Posted May 26, 2004 Great post... Apparently when we are back in spiritual world this whole time in maya will seem like less than a split-second dream... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
