WHAT IS (NOT) MAYA
If one understands Maya, s/he is enlightened ! The mission is over. The long journey from our great fore parent amoeba to the fully developed human will be complete. For this reaching / having the human form is not enough. Need to refine and modify the mind further. Annihilate the ego (body consciousness) which traps the mind to see everything in the body level only. Purify the mind from attachments, emotions and desires. These may sound simple but practically difficult if not impossible for most. And even reaching such a mature state of mind needs getting over many preconditions; like having led a decent life, get over sex, have an unbiased view on others and issues, getting over fear, guilt greed etc, have mature friends etc. Else it is easy to slip into desires and emotions again. Or get stuck with biased views like fanatics for life and end up in anger and hatred.
Assuming an individual gets over these basic qualifications and reach the mature state of mind. Unbiased, fearless, free. Love and compassion will start trickling in such minds. From where? The love was within. We always know we can love something or someone. But not everything and everyone. Why not? The mind is the obstacle. Rather the intellect is the obstacle. The intellect allows the mind only accept experiences that it likes. So people end up liking good experiences and shun bad ones.
Now this is the trap. To get out of this self created jail of likes and dislikes, one needs to closely watch the likes and dislikes and train the mind to accept 'bad' ones also as much as 'good' ones. We like good smells. And dislike bad ones. Now do like the good ones, But make the mind neutral to 'bad' smells. That way of training the mind will make it mature. Finally a stage will be reached where any experience is accepted just as an experience. Neither good nor bad. Just an experience. No good or bad smells. Just smells. No good looking or ugly people. Just people. No poison Ivy and Cacti. Just plants. No diamond and ordinary stone. Just matter....Huh?
As we train the mind to accept more and more to accommodate everything in the world leaving nothing, the mind will start getting out off the shackles imposed by self or by the others during life. The mind is actually capable of understanding everything..
Once the mind is free, you see everything as part of yourself. Even that total stranger is actually your distant relative. Your mind keeps s/he as a stranger to keep someone as close. Now if you can keep both those who are 'close' and 'distant' as just others, you are removing own shackles from the mind. Because you think some one or something is close or own, the rest becomes distant and not own. This is a hallucination. This view is your own biased creation. Because of the mind. The mind is not trained to see everything from a detached and non-possessive manner. So some appear familiar. The rest unfamiliar and even strange and intimidating ! And it is all the vagaries of mind. The biases that are inherent or implanted in the mind. Watch the mind very closely indeed. It can make or break the individual.
The mind s thus the key to self realisation. Make no mistake. No other is not responsible for your ultimate experience. It is done by refining and understanding one's own mind. A very personal experience. Once the mind is relatively free and unbiased, get into meditation. Sit erect in a peaceful place alone. Concentrate on the breathing. When the mind is calm. watch the thoughts. Don't fight the thoughts. After all they are 'your own' thoughts. Let the thoughts pass by one by one. When the frequency of thoughts reduce, start watching the gap between the thoughts. The innocuous looking practically empty space. This is where the God is hiding ! In deep meditation when there is no though at all in mind, the God will rise at this space ! And who is this God? The so called soul, the truth, the ever existing, the bliss, the all powerful, all knowledge, the sun of awareness, consciousness, love, life will emerge at that empty mind. Thus the journey to the soul becomes complete.
Remember where we started from. Bow to our great grand parent amoeba. Bow to everything that nourished us and helped to survive. Bow to the chain of parents from the amoeba to the current parents. Bow to the teachers and masters and even ordinary people who taught us a lesson or two during the journey. Apologize to those who we inadvertently hurt. Do things to settle the mind. There may be some pending duties to complete. Some debts to repay. Some love to return. Do everything that your consciousness prompts. And rest for ever with the 'holy father' in paradise as Jesus said or reach eternal life in heaven with Allah as Mohammed says or merge into that pure consciousness within as the Hindus say. These are all one and the same thing. Realizing the true self and identifying that as our true identity, for ever. Dropping all other identities that we thought about our self or those identities the world keeps making for us. Be free ! None can stop your freedom except yourself.
Now ask what is Maya ! After all this trouble ! When in body consciousness level, we saw ourselves as the body and saw others as other bodies. And connected some people as ours and ignored the rest. Likes, togetherness, separation, pain etc were REAL. Not imaginary. When the mind is finally free, we realise we are not the body or mind but a free consciousness. No relation is existing. In fact others are none but ourselves in different body consciousness levels. The same consciousness residing in all. But very few realise the truth. Most believe they are what they look like in the mirror. Happy when looking smart. Sad when not. All these are hallucinations in the body level, simply because the mind is connected to unnecessary identities. Free the mind totally. What remains? Just the pure consciousness. Now where are our feelings and likes? It was very much there when the mind was thinking that we are the body. But once the mind is free of its own likes and dislikes, there is no duality. There are no others. Everyone is like the different fingers of the same palm. Poor creatures going to die sooner or later. Timed limited existences. Only the soul is beyond time and space.
Those who don't realise this end up experiencing death. They think they die ! But only their attachments restrained them from escaping death. They held on to the limited world and the logical end of the timed existence is experiencing death. Even the sun will die, become a red giant and become large enough to engulf earth. So then. What would we hold on to for ever? Nothing is worth holding on to for ever. Except the soul. And this is what the Masters told us. We laughed at them and had fun ! When death comes, we cry ! The Gurus smile. "We told you ! Now don't cry. You don't really die either ! It is just a changing of dress. You spoiled the dress given to you. But did not realise the truth about you either. So you get another dress. Another life. Another chance. Until you realise the true self the dress changing will continue. Or until the earth lasts. Or the sun explodes. Then the game restarts as an amoeba in another conducive planet. This is the fun game of the creator. relax. He is just taking you for a ride. Playing hide and seek. Hindus named this fun loving God Krishna. That description befits the creator. It is indeed fun loving and kind. Full of love. The manifestation of it makes the dead material look different and attractive. We see attractive shapes and things. But forget to see the underlying fun filled mind of the creator which makes the things and people attractive. This is Maya.
We think the shape is real. We like some shapes. Dislike some ! The game is on already ! We keep the good shapes. Shun the ugly ones. And we are already trapped in the game. Now you cant get out of your own likes ! You make boundaries to keep your possessions. Those who try to possess your possession is an enemy now ! Fight Fight ! First of all who asked you to like something in particular? That created all the trouble. No? Now enjoy fruits of your deeds. the more you try to possess, the more you get attached. Finally you have to leave everything. Are you happy? No? Why not? Feel like Jackass? You bet ! But dont tell anyone else. Just realise our self as the jackass first ! That makes a good beginning ! Cant be any lower than that. LOL ! You are playing with the super consciousness. Trapped in a game of epic proportions. Multidimensional game in space and time. You are the player. You think you are smart. Smarter brother is watching you ! Before you start the game, the end game is decided ! Relax ! You cant simply challenge it. No need to succumb in fear and seek for alms too as taught by the wise priests. Just realise that we are children of the creator, to start with.
Just like Jesus who claimed he is the only begotten son of God. But Jesus thought he was the only son. He was not. Everyone is a child of God. Even the animals and mosquitoes and cockroaches or donkeys and pigs. All that are created are children of the creator. Or part of the creator. Don't simply develop any middle finger complex that I am better than the rest, at least better than a few. You will be shown the middle finger sooner or later by the ultimate gamer, just to remind you what you think about yourself. Be confident and proud of being a part of the creation. Just leave the middle finger complex. The rest is in order ! LOL ! Om Shanthi...
If one understands Maya, s/he is enlightened ! The mission is over. The long journey from our great fore parent amoeba to the fully developed human will be complete. For this reaching / having the human form is not enough. Need to refine and modify the mind further. Annihilate the ego (body consciousness) which traps the mind to see everything in the body level only. Purify the mind from attachments, emotions and desires. These may sound simple but practically difficult if not impossible for most. And even reaching such a mature state of mind needs getting over many preconditions; like having led a decent life, get over sex, have an unbiased view on others and issues, getting over fear, guilt greed etc, have mature friends etc. Else it is easy to slip into desires and emotions again. Or get stuck with biased views like fanatics for life and end up in anger and hatred.
Assuming an individual gets over these basic qualifications and reach the mature state of mind. Unbiased, fearless, free. Love and compassion will start trickling in such minds. From where? The love was within. We always know we can love something or someone. But not everything and everyone. Why not? The mind is the obstacle. Rather the intellect is the obstacle. The intellect allows the mind only accept experiences that it likes. So people end up liking good experiences and shun bad ones.
Now this is the trap. To get out of this self created jail of likes and dislikes, one needs to closely watch the likes and dislikes and train the mind to accept 'bad' ones also as much as 'good' ones. We like good smells. And dislike bad ones. Now do like the good ones, But make the mind neutral to 'bad' smells. That way of training the mind will make it mature. Finally a stage will be reached where any experience is accepted just as an experience. Neither good nor bad. Just an experience. No good or bad smells. Just smells. No good looking or ugly people. Just people. No poison Ivy and Cacti. Just plants. No diamond and ordinary stone. Just matter....Huh?
As we train the mind to accept more and more to accommodate everything in the world leaving nothing, the mind will start getting out off the shackles imposed by self or by the others during life. The mind is actually capable of understanding everything..
Once the mind is free, you see everything as part of yourself. Even that total stranger is actually your distant relative. Your mind keeps s/he as a stranger to keep someone as close. Now if you can keep both those who are 'close' and 'distant' as just others, you are removing own shackles from the mind. Because you think some one or something is close or own, the rest becomes distant and not own. This is a hallucination. This view is your own biased creation. Because of the mind. The mind is not trained to see everything from a detached and non-possessive manner. So some appear familiar. The rest unfamiliar and even strange and intimidating ! And it is all the vagaries of mind. The biases that are inherent or implanted in the mind. Watch the mind very closely indeed. It can make or break the individual.
The mind s thus the key to self realisation. Make no mistake. No other is not responsible for your ultimate experience. It is done by refining and understanding one's own mind. A very personal experience. Once the mind is relatively free and unbiased, get into meditation. Sit erect in a peaceful place alone. Concentrate on the breathing. When the mind is calm. watch the thoughts. Don't fight the thoughts. After all they are 'your own' thoughts. Let the thoughts pass by one by one. When the frequency of thoughts reduce, start watching the gap between the thoughts. The innocuous looking practically empty space. This is where the God is hiding ! In deep meditation when there is no though at all in mind, the God will rise at this space ! And who is this God? The so called soul, the truth, the ever existing, the bliss, the all powerful, all knowledge, the sun of awareness, consciousness, love, life will emerge at that empty mind. Thus the journey to the soul becomes complete.
Remember where we started from. Bow to our great grand parent amoeba. Bow to everything that nourished us and helped to survive. Bow to the chain of parents from the amoeba to the current parents. Bow to the teachers and masters and even ordinary people who taught us a lesson or two during the journey. Apologize to those who we inadvertently hurt. Do things to settle the mind. There may be some pending duties to complete. Some debts to repay. Some love to return. Do everything that your consciousness prompts. And rest for ever with the 'holy father' in paradise as Jesus said or reach eternal life in heaven with Allah as Mohammed says or merge into that pure consciousness within as the Hindus say. These are all one and the same thing. Realizing the true self and identifying that as our true identity, for ever. Dropping all other identities that we thought about our self or those identities the world keeps making for us. Be free ! None can stop your freedom except yourself.
Now ask what is Maya ! After all this trouble ! When in body consciousness level, we saw ourselves as the body and saw others as other bodies. And connected some people as ours and ignored the rest. Likes, togetherness, separation, pain etc were REAL. Not imaginary. When the mind is finally free, we realise we are not the body or mind but a free consciousness. No relation is existing. In fact others are none but ourselves in different body consciousness levels. The same consciousness residing in all. But very few realise the truth. Most believe they are what they look like in the mirror. Happy when looking smart. Sad when not. All these are hallucinations in the body level, simply because the mind is connected to unnecessary identities. Free the mind totally. What remains? Just the pure consciousness. Now where are our feelings and likes? It was very much there when the mind was thinking that we are the body. But once the mind is free of its own likes and dislikes, there is no duality. There are no others. Everyone is like the different fingers of the same palm. Poor creatures going to die sooner or later. Timed limited existences. Only the soul is beyond time and space.
Those who don't realise this end up experiencing death. They think they die ! But only their attachments restrained them from escaping death. They held on to the limited world and the logical end of the timed existence is experiencing death. Even the sun will die, become a red giant and become large enough to engulf earth. So then. What would we hold on to for ever? Nothing is worth holding on to for ever. Except the soul. And this is what the Masters told us. We laughed at them and had fun ! When death comes, we cry ! The Gurus smile. "We told you ! Now don't cry. You don't really die either ! It is just a changing of dress. You spoiled the dress given to you. But did not realise the truth about you either. So you get another dress. Another life. Another chance. Until you realise the true self the dress changing will continue. Or until the earth lasts. Or the sun explodes. Then the game restarts as an amoeba in another conducive planet. This is the fun game of the creator. relax. He is just taking you for a ride. Playing hide and seek. Hindus named this fun loving God Krishna. That description befits the creator. It is indeed fun loving and kind. Full of love. The manifestation of it makes the dead material look different and attractive. We see attractive shapes and things. But forget to see the underlying fun filled mind of the creator which makes the things and people attractive. This is Maya.
We think the shape is real. We like some shapes. Dislike some ! The game is on already ! We keep the good shapes. Shun the ugly ones. And we are already trapped in the game. Now you cant get out of your own likes ! You make boundaries to keep your possessions. Those who try to possess your possession is an enemy now ! Fight Fight ! First of all who asked you to like something in particular? That created all the trouble. No? Now enjoy fruits of your deeds. the more you try to possess, the more you get attached. Finally you have to leave everything. Are you happy? No? Why not? Feel like Jackass? You bet ! But dont tell anyone else. Just realise our self as the jackass first ! That makes a good beginning ! Cant be any lower than that. LOL ! You are playing with the super consciousness. Trapped in a game of epic proportions. Multidimensional game in space and time. You are the player. You think you are smart. Smarter brother is watching you ! Before you start the game, the end game is decided ! Relax ! You cant simply challenge it. No need to succumb in fear and seek for alms too as taught by the wise priests. Just realise that we are children of the creator, to start with.
Just like Jesus who claimed he is the only begotten son of God. But Jesus thought he was the only son. He was not. Everyone is a child of God. Even the animals and mosquitoes and cockroaches or donkeys and pigs. All that are created are children of the creator. Or part of the creator. Don't simply develop any middle finger complex that I am better than the rest, at least better than a few. You will be shown the middle finger sooner or later by the ultimate gamer, just to remind you what you think about yourself. Be confident and proud of being a part of the creation. Just leave the middle finger complex. The rest is in order ! LOL ! Om Shanthi...
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