🙏And This Is Maya🔻
(Story told by #SwamiVivekananda)
We are all like this in the world. A legend tells how once Narada said to Krishna, ‘Lord, show me Maya.’
A few days passed away, and Krishna asked Narada to make a trip with him towards a desert, and after walking for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
(Story told by #SwamiVivekananda)
We are all like this in the world. A legend tells how once Narada said to Krishna, ‘Lord, show me Maya.’
A few days passed away, and Krishna asked Narada to make a trip with him towards a desert, and after walking for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
When the Hindu says the world is Maya, at once people get the idea that the world is an illusion. This interpretation has some basis, as coming through the Buddhistic philosophers, because there was one section of philosophers who did not believe in the external world at all. But… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Maya is a statement of the fact of this universe, of how it is going on. People generally get frightened when these things are told to them. But bold we must be. Hiding facts is not the way to find a remedy. As you all know, a hare hunted by dogs puts its head down and thinks… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Nature is Maya. Maya means name and form, into which everything is cast. Maya is not real. We could not destroy it or change it if it were real. The substance is the noumenon, Maya is phenomena. There is the real “me” which nothing can destroy, and there is the phenomenal “me”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The highest knowledge will show you that there is no motion, no change in anything; that the very idea of it is all Maya. Study nature as a whole, that is, study motion. Mind and body are not our real self; both belong to nature, but eventually we can know the ding an sich. Then… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The one peculiar attribute we find in time, space, and causation is that they cannot exist separate from other things. Try to think of space without colour, or limits, or any connection with the things around — just abstract space. You cannot; you have to think of it as the space… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Know nature to be Maya and the Ruler of this Maya is the Lord Himself.
— Shvetâshvatara Upanishad
— Shvetâshvatara Upanishad
This theory of Maya has been the most difficult thing to understand in all ages. Let me tell you in a few words that it is surely no theory, it is the combination of the three ideas Desha-Kâla-Nimitta — space, time, and causation — and this time and space and cause have been… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This Maya is not absolute zero, nor non-existence. It is defined as neither existence nor non-existence. It is not existence, because that can be said only of the Absolute, the Unchangeable, and in this sense, Maya is non-existence. Again, it cannot be said it is non-existence;… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Hope is dominant in the heart of childhood. The whole world is a golden vision to the opening eyes of the child; he thinks his will is supreme. As he moves onward, at every step nature stands as an adamantine wall, barring his future progress. He may hurl himself against it again… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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