--- In [email protected], Peter Sutphen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > The concept of Maya is clearly stated in the Rig > > Veda Richo Akshare > > verse, and many other places. It is a constant > > theme, and to say > > that Buddha invented it is absurd. > > > > Richo Akshare Parame Vyoman Yasmin Deva > > Adhivishve Nisheduh > > Yastanna Veda Kimricha Karishyati Ya It tad vidus > > Ta ime samasate > > Help me out here, where do you find the concept of > "maya" in the above sanskrit quote? Maya is simply a > term used to label how that which is "not" can appear > to "be".
If I may, my understanding of MMY's definition of maya is a bit different. Maya is "that which is not," but the illusion is that it isn't Unity; it appears to be only diversity. Swami Rama and a disciple are sitting watching a glorious sunset. "Look at that sunset," sighs the disciple. "So beautiful...but it's all just maya." "No, no, no," Swami Rama retorts. "The sunset isn't maya, it's God. To say the sunset isn't God--*that's* maya." MMY's translation of the Richo Akshare verse: "The verses of Veda exist in the collapse of fullness in the transcendental field, in which reside all the impulses of creative intelligence, the laws of Nature, responsible for the whole manifest universe. He whose awareness is not open to this field, what can the verses accomplish for him? Those who know this level of reality are established in evenness, in wholeness of life." In the context of the definition I gave (and MMY's translation), the verse does indeed refer to maya, "the whole manifest universe," which is in reality the expression of Unity, the transcendental field. If you are not a knower of the transcendental field, you miss the wholeness of life (maya). To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
