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Karma as the Source of Diversity

The Vedas recognize divine karma (the action of God) as the source of all creation, preservation and destruction. However, since God performs them without desires, unlike human beings he is not bound by them. From the first chapter of the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (1.6.1) we learn that karma is one of the triple causes of diversity, the other two being name and form. The diversity in names arises from speech, and the diversity in forms comes from the eye, whereas the (mind and) body is the sources for the diversity in actions. For all actions, the body is the source, the controller, or the lord. Within the body, the mind, the speech, breath, the organs of action, and the organs of perception are considered the main deities who receive their share of food from the body and perform their actions. However, we cannot fully rely upon them to fight the impurities and the evil that can infest our body, since they are all vulnerable to evil and demonic actions, thoughts, desires, temptations, a...
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CONTROVERSY? MAYA






Maya, a controversial topic is in the Gyan Yoga of Swami Vivekananda. The only reason to use this word "controversial" is because this topic has led to a big controversy between dualism and non-dualism for approx 2000 years. The approach to Maya in Advaita Vedanta is unique as other perceptions (school) see Maya as a creation of god and assumes it as reality. Vedantasara is a classic book to understand non-dualism.


Advaita Vedanta says:

  "JAGAT MITHYA, AHAM SATYA, JIVA BRAHMNE MANA PARA"
  • Jagat Mithya: The world we live in is Maya.
  • Aham Satya: You yourself are the real truth.
  • Jiva Brahmne Mana Para: But we don't know it because we haven't discovered our self.

Maya is ignorance of truth. We also don't know that we are Brahman and the problem starts here. We cannot say Maya has proper existence because the enlightened persons do not feel Maya but on the other side Maya cannot be challenged as we live around it. Ignorance to Maya is a bad trait rather it's better to know it and then work on it, says non-dualism. Ignorance is cancelled by knowledge as we get to know what we don't know. When the Atman is diluted with Maya, Self awareness cannot be done. A classic example for this by Sri Ramakrishna is unless we don't move the formation of dirt and fertility on the pond we won't be able to see the pure water beneath it, so the same is with Maya unless we don't remove Maya from our vision of life we won't be able to feel the real Brahman inside our self.

Ramanuja Acharya, who lived 1000 years ago, attacked the Advaita Vedanta through his master piece Sri Bhasya which has 7 great questions on the weak link of non-dualism which is Maya. All the questions are answered in the book "Seven Great Untenebals" by John Grimes. Ramanuja mentioned that there are two sorts of Maya which are "Vidya Maya" and "Avidya Maya".


Swami Vivekananda said the way out of Maya is through Maya, it's called Vidya Maya where there is absence of ignorance and this is called spirituality.


My Respected Viewers to cover the whole topic of Maya, need to publish more than 2000 blogs. Best way to understand by Swami Vivekananda's quote "IT'S BETTER TO UNDERSTAND THE MACHINE TO FIND THE WAY OUT OF IT OR ELSE THE MACHINE WON'T LET YOU GO".

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  1. Prachi SinghalMay 9, 2020 at 12:11 PM

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  2. Ganesh YegneshwaranMay 9, 2020 at 4:55 PM

    Lots of material to look at Atma darshan through Atma chintan for realisation of the self

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  3. sabbazMay 10, 2020 at 7:47 AM

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