08 May 2008
Dear PBK Brothers.
Just presenting a small paragraph from wikipedia, which describes 'Maya'.
Maya in Hindu philosophy :
''In Advaita Vedanta philosophy, Maya is the limited, purely physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become entangled. Maya is held to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self — the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman. Maya is neither true nor untrue. Since Brahman(supreme sonsciousness) is the only truth, Maya cannot be true. Since Maya causes the material world to be seen, it cannot be untrue. Hence, Maya is described as indescribable. She has two principle functions — one is to veil Brahman and obscure and conceal it from our consciousness; the other is to present and promulgate the material world and the veil of duality instead of Brahman. The veil of Maya is piercable and with diligence and knowledge. Consider an illusion of a rope being confused as a snake in the darkness. Just as this illusion gets destroyed when true knowledge of the rope is perceived, similarly, Maya gets destroyed for a person, when they perceive Brahman with transendental knowledge. When the reflection of Brahman falls on Maya, then it appears as God (the Supreme Lord). Where the duality of the world is regarded as true, Maya becomes the divine magical power of the Supreme Lord. Maya is the veritable fabric of duality and she performs this role at the behest of the Supreme Lord. God is not bound by Maya, just as a magician is not illusioned and deluded by their own magic.''
In the above paragraph, worldly scholars have clearly described Maya as the divine power of the Supreme self and is virtually inseperable from the Lord and it is the causative agent to spread Duality in the world. Duality starts from Copper Age in the broad drama and in this behad ka drama, Maya causes duality from 1988-89.
Is it not ironical that the worldly scholars of bhakti-marg have described Maya accurately as per the Murlis of Shiva and we BKs/PBKs(who are supposed to be Gyani souls) are completely oblivious of the fact, that Maya is God's creation and plays a equally powerful role through the same Chariot through which God (supreme self) is going to be revealed in future. Maya is inseperable shadow of the Supreme self, and to pierce this shadow a deep study of Murlis and Vanis is most imperative. This is what i feel.
shivsena.