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Analysis of Maya
The analysis of Maya reveals that the unreal factors cause the
real disturbance. All the worldlybonds are just feelings on certain
forms. The bond (feeling) and the bonded (form) are found
unreal on analysis. The form of a beautiful girl is unreal
because the reality is only Matter. The
glamour of shining is only a color generated based on certain
frequency of the light energy.Thus, color is an unreal form of
light. The sweet love expressed by her is also unreal form of
awareness. Therefore, the beautiful form of matter, the
glamorous color of light and the sweet
love of the awareness are totally unreal if isolated from their
corresponding real matter, real light
and real awareness. If this Maya is not analyzed, even a great
sage like Vishwamitra sitting in
constant devotion to God was dragged out by the dancer from the
heaven. Similarly, all theworldly bonds are only feelings
established by some rigid social convention. The bonds in this
life did not exist in the previous birth and will not exist in
the future birth. They are onlytemporary and hence, unreal (Tat
krutakamhi... Shankara). Reality is eternal. Once, King Janaka
asked the sages to tell about the previous birth of his queen.
The sages kept silent for a long time.
But the sages revealed the truth due to continuous pressure from
Janaka. They told that the wifewas his mother in the previous
birth! Since the bond is unreal, neither she was mother nor is
she
the wife of Janaka. Mother and wife and son and husband are
unreal bonds, which are the unreal
roles in the drama. Both are simply actors taking different
unreal roles in different dramas to
entertain the Lord. The relationship between the souls is only a
colleague type only, which iseternal in all the dramas (lives).
Therefore, there is no meaning of kith and kin and the
outsiders.
All the souls are equally related to each other, if the reality
is realized. Hence, the entire world isa single family of God as
its head (Vasudhaika Kutumbakam).
All the fights between the human beings in the name of
family-outsider, caste, sex, nationality,
religion, language etc., are only due to the illusion of Maya
that is prevailing over the soul.Arjuna killed several kings in the
battles previously when his brother performed Rajasuya
sacrifice. But in the Kurukshetra war, Arjuna could not kill the
opponents since they were his
relatives. You are taking bribe from an outsider for the sake of
over-enjoyment of your familyand you are going to hell for that.
Your sin is not shared by your family members who enjoyed
the extra wealth. On this point Valmiki, a robber was
transformed into sage. Boys are dejected
and sometimes commit suicide since the unreal love and the
unreal beauty of a girl is not
attained. This is the climax of the illusion (Maya)! With
reference to Maha Maya, this Maya(beauty and love) are unreal. If
you cannot come out of the illusion in the lowest level, how
can
you cross the other levels of illusion like Maha Maya and Mula
Maya to attain God? Arjuna was
also overcome by this basic illusion and treated the unreal
relatives as the real kith and kin. Hewas unable to identify the
Lord acting as his driver as his real kith and kin. He was worried
aboutthe incidental death of those unreal kith and kin. Therefore,
the Lord [ Krishna ] laughed at the
very outset (Prahasanniva Gita), because, even the lowest Maya
was not conquered by him
[Arjuna]. With the help of analysis of Maya, all the devotees in
this universe should be united asone family irrespective of
religion, caste etc.
Written by
His Holiness Shri Datta Swami
website address: http://www.universal-spirituality.org
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Jai Guru Datta
