Maya in Vedanta - Pravrajika Divyanandaprana
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Swami Vivekananda’s Quotes On Maya 🔻
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Vedanta declares that our real nature is divine: pure, perfect, eternally free. We do not have to become Brahman, we are Brahman. Our true Self, the Atman, is one with Brahman.
But if our real nature is divine, why then are we so appallingly unaware of it?
The answer to this question lies in the concept of maya, or ignorance. Maya is the veil that covers our real nature and the real nature of the world around us. Maya is fundamentally inscrutable: we don’t know why it exists and we don’t know when it began. What we do know is that, like any form of ignorance, maya ceases to exist at the dawn of knowledge, the knowledge of our own divine nature.
Brahman is the real truth of our existence: in Brahman we live, move, and have our being. “All this is indeed Brahman,” the Upanishads-the scriptures that form Vedanta philosophy-declare. The changing world that we see around us can be compared to the moving images on a movie screen: without the unchanging screen in the background, there can be no movie. Similarly, it is the unchanging Brahman-the substratum of existence-in the background of this changing world that gives the world its reality.
Yet for us this reality is conditioned, like a warped mirror, by time, space, and causality-the law of cause and effect. Our vision of reality is further obscured by wrong identification: we identify ourselves with the body, mind, and ego rather than the Atman, the divine Self.
This original misperception creates more ignorance and pain in a domino effect: identifying ourselves with the body and mind, we fear disease, old age and death; identifying ourselves with the ego, we suffer from anger, hatred, and a hundred other miseries. Yet none of this affects our real nature, the Atman.
Maya can be compared to clouds which cover the sun: the sun remains in the sky but a dense cloud cover prevents us from seeing it. When the clouds disperse, we become aware that the sun has been there all the time. Our clouds-maya appearing as egotism, selfishness, hatred, greed, lust, anger, ambition-are pushed away when we meditate upon our real nature, when we engage in unselfish action, and when we consistently act and think in ways that manifest our true nature: that is, through truthfulness, purity, contentment, self-restraint, and forbearance. This mental purification drives away the clouds of maya and allows our divine nature to shine forth.
Shankara, the great philosopher-sage of seventh-century India, used the example of the rope and the snake to illustrate the concept of maya. Walking down a darkened road, a man sees a snake; his heart pounds, his pulse quickens. On closer inspection the “snake” turns out to be a piece of coiled rope. Once the delusion breaks, the snake vanishes forever.
Similarly, walking down the darkened road of ignorance, we see ourselves as mortal creatures, and around us, the universe of name and form, the universe conditioned by time, space, and causation. We become aware of our limitations, bondage, and suffering. On “closer inspection” both the mortal creature as well as the universe turn out to be Brahman. Once the delusion breaks, our mortality as well as the universe disappear forever. We see Brahman existing everywhere and in everything.
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Guru Ma Divyanandaprana ji Chranvandna. Parnam. Thanks for your love and blessing.
Thanks Guru Maa..I am getting spiritual knowledge
*MAYA*. Superbly explained. SHIR SASHTANG NAMASKAAR TO SWAMINI. JAY RAMAKRISHNA.
@enjoyfullife-naturalminimu6534
3 жыл бұрын
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Thank you so much mother for introducing the real meaning of vedant 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Mother dear, you have no idea how you are touching hearts of people at their core and transforming them...Salutations to you Maa🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I got it clearly what is maya and awareness 🙏
@VibrantThought
2 жыл бұрын
Dinesh borse what is vikshepa
Thank you very much Matha Ji, the analogy is excellent and illustration as filler in between your speech is very good idea. This gives ample time for me to write my notes with better clarity. The recording seems done in echo mode and sound quality was feeble compare to your previous speeches. Nevertheless it made to pay more attention. I am spellbound by all your lectures and indebted for imparting your spiritual wisdom to me through your excellent elucidation. You are the avatar of Gayathri Devi and next generation of Swami Vivekanandha. Take care. Stay blessed. Hari Om.
@panchaksharaiaha5867
Жыл бұрын
Mathaji I have listened to majority of your vidioes,on U-tube and it is very beneficial to all mankind,while listening to your episodes many a times I felt you might be an angle from haven not born on earth .it had helped me also a lot. thank you mathaji. A panchaksharaiah reted scientist(advocate)kssrdi bangalore.
Thalli .. I am from Telangana, daily morning I wake up with your darshan
Thank you 🙏 Love your videos!
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Thankyou ma I love you videos and I am applying in my life 🙏🙏
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Pranaam mataji. 🙏🙏🙏
"I mode" and "that mode" arise mutually. So basically if the illusion of the ego self is dissolved this implies that the illusion of there being anything outside of myself is also dissolved with it. "Where was I born? What did I worship as God? Where did I seek refuge when I became the (one) blissfull essence, the Reality." -Sorupananda
OBSERVED THE CONCEPT MAYA IN VEDANTA PROMOTED BY PRAVRAJIKA DIVYANANDAPRANA A NOBLE SOUL AND NARRATION MADE THEREON WITH SUITABLE ILLUSTRATION AND REALISED.
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Thank you so much maa Always be grateful to swami maa
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Pronam mataji
Namaste mataji
Namaskar🙏🙏
Thank you very much
Pronam ma
Pranamam
Love from kedarnath.
It's somewhat remarkable that our ancestors arrived at these truths at the very dawn of civilization and equally so that mankind completely ignored and forgot about it.
@the_real_hacker_
3 жыл бұрын
And invited it's own suffering
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This concept of Adhyas is worth knowning SAHASRARA times
How shall I know when mataji 🙏 you'll come in nagpur city on your centre .🙏
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I think conversations between some Christians and some Hindus would be useful. I would add context to the scope of the conversation in some Hinduism as it appears to Me which is that one must understand internal reality, as well as external reality, but then also recognize that not everyone has the same nature to thier internal reality. Some people are a little more good or a little more bad by thier own internal nature. At the very least, I think some Western thinking and some Hindu thinking can be complimentary and useful when added together.
@user-gp1zy3up7y
7 ай бұрын
unfortunately, we can't, other religions are belief systems. while Hinduism is the for seekers. India is a land of seeker. No one knows truth. 'Neti Neti'
We can say I am not body, I am not mind (snake)....I am the shuddh, chaitanya (self luminosity) atman...
@theperfectcelibate8669
3 жыл бұрын
Will you be able to say this at the someone chops your head off?
In my seven years of my work I ask them part of gift ask so many times in the time they give one time I can believe it they give now I feel positively but you feel in what way how can justify .yshk viswanatham MscBed retired teacher
Maya is Rahu , Smokey illusion.. next
How can I belive itself you are negative side more created but my self you give it ,give me don't fail your self . I want money you are give it I will received by me don't go back to you do it positively.
Halfbaked vedanta is dangerous. At 7:40 this body and mind is mine but I am not that. Sorry this is not so. Mind body complex is of five element the I which claims is Ahamkara which is also the vritti. What is left is left as it is IS.
@vishwa1767
2 жыл бұрын
Kindly start a fully baked Vedanta lecture series.
Mam what is vedanta????🙏🙏🙏😇😇😇😇
@tsprema9376
3 жыл бұрын
anta means inside or end. that which is in the vedas or at the end of vedas. upanishad is vedanta. Upanishad is part of vedas.
@induindu7350
3 жыл бұрын
@@tsprema9376 so vedanta means vedas??? Which vedas???
@tsprema9376
3 жыл бұрын
@@induindu7350 upanishad is vedanta. upanishads are in all the 4 vedas
@SubhankarDeychallenger009
2 жыл бұрын
Kindly follow the series, what you asked, she has already explained it in details. 🙂
Brahman and maya are like two sides of same coin Where there is Brahman, there exists ground for maya
@ankitjoshi5947
2 жыл бұрын
So where to find reality
@the_real_hacker_
2 жыл бұрын
@@ankitjoshi5947 you are the supreme reality
@ankitjoshi5947
2 жыл бұрын
@@the_real_hacker_ but how do I experience it and be Blissful
@the_real_hacker_
2 жыл бұрын
@@ankitjoshi5947 you can meditate to experience it but remember that meditation's purpose is to realize yourself as Bliss itself. So the experience is good as long as you're not attached to it
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