banks. Water rushed into Narada’s house, and to his horror, caught in a frenzy his wife, his children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren. He screamed and shouted for help as the water dragged him under. Suddenly he was pulled up and found himself in Vaikuntha (Vishnu’s abode) before Vishnu.
I am curious by nature and some question naturally arises in my mind, I try to find the answer in available sources and mould it using my logic. Here I will share the knowledge which I have gained, and other interesting things which are worth sharing.I am not a professional writer so there may be mistakes in the articles, please consider this while reading.
Monday 29 June 2020
Maya (Illusion)
Is time an illusion (Maya)?
To understand this we
have to go through the story of Narada
“The Deva rishi”.
He is one of the
many Manash (born out of mind) Putra
(son) of Lord Brahma. He was not interested in the material world so he refused
to marry. He preferred in the realm of Vishnu, where time and space does not
exist, where Maya casts no spells. He encouraged Brahma’s other sons to stay
celibate like him. He did not understand the purpose of the creation of the
universe and see no point of engaging with Prakriti.
Some other son's of the Brahma also agreed with Narada, and they refuse to marry. This
happened several times until an enraged Brahma cursed Narada, ‘you will stay
trapped within the material world until you appreciate the worth of Maya.’
banks. Water rushed into Narada’s house, and to his horror, caught in a frenzy his wife, his children, his grandchildren and his great-grandchildren. He screamed and shouted for help as the water dragged him under. Suddenly he was pulled up and found himself in Vaikuntha (Vishnu’s abode) before Vishnu.
‘Narada,’ said Vishnu, ‘where
is my water? I am still thirsty.’ Narada did not understand. Where was his
family, his wife’s village, the river?
‘Where do this pain
and suffering come from, Narada?’ asked Vishnu with a smile. ‘I thought you
had full knowledge of Maya before you began to fetch water on behalf of me .’
Narada bowed his head in realization. He knew Maya but had
never experienced Maya. Brahma was encouraging his sons to marry in order that
they experience Maya. Knowledge of Maya is not the experience of Maya. Unless one experiences Maya, one won't be
ready to empathize with those that are trapped in it.
Said Vishnu, ‘you
knew all about measuring scales and subjective realities, Yet you forgot
all about them as soon as you experienced the fabric world – home, family,
children, and village. Your understanding of Maya and Brahmanda could
have helped you in the turmoil of pleasure and pain, but it did not. Such is
the spell of Maya. Now that you have
experienced Maya, I want you to go and meet people and realize them that the
only way out of Maya is seeking answers out of material reality. I want you to
teach them into following the spiritual path.
The Parbrahma or
Supreme soul is true, the material world is an illusion. The world exists for
those who recognize the existence and does not exist for those who ignore its
existence. For example- As long as the dreamer is going through the experience
of Dream, the dream is a reality for
him. All of his experience will be real. If he is hungry, eating relieves him
of hunger, and if he is thirsty, he will drink water and thereby quenches his
thirst. This experience in the dream will be as real as when we do it
physically. This experience or state of mind will be the same when we do the
activity with our physical body ( real-world) or without it in a dream (
illusion). So which is real , our
physical world or dream world? In some sense both, maybe real or illusion, Or one may be
real and other illusion by his/her opinion. For us when we are in our material
body, the dream is an Illusion and the material world is real but when we leave
our body and left only with the soul, we realize that the material world is an
illusion and that world is real. As Soul has no physical limitation like our
body, it can see the real truth. The spiritually elevated person who knows the
real truth i.e. these supreme being (Spiritually elevated person) considered
the material world as Maya or illusion when he is present in physical body
also. That person knows the purpose of body and material world, they do their
duty ( Karma) but not attached to it. Like I know the purpose of the pen is to
write no matter how much expensive or beautiful it is. I used to write with
this pen, I am not attached to his beautifulness or expensiveness. I am not
preserving it. All material world is under the spell of Maya even Lord Brahma is not excluded. Even Narada forgets
all his wisdom and knowledge when under the spell of Maya, so how can we human
being know the real truth when under the spell of Maya?
All material world
exists in the dream of Vishnu when he awakes, this material world vanishes,
like a dream. For us the material world (time) is real but for Vishnu, it is
illusion or dream. But for Brahma
and us, the material world is real, so
is time.
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