We are not getting much help from emptybill, or anyone else on the list,
for a definition of the Sanskrit term maya and what it meant for the
Shankara tradition of Advaita Vedanta, so it looks like it's up to me to
post the explanations. Maya is in fact, indescribable, a superimposition on
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I've heard that when tamas guna dominates, maya is a covering over reality
Vedanta is all about how to pierce the veil of maya in order to know the
transcendent truth. Maya is a perception as fact - the appearance of
phenomena through the constituents of nature, the three gunas. In the
To reiterate - the term maya in Advaita Vedanta is not real, yet not
unreal; it is neither both nor neither. Maya in Advaita Vedanta is real in
the sense that it is presented to us, but not real in the absolute sense.
According to Shankara, maya is a superimposition on the real.
Apparently there
emptybill, thanks for your clarity here. This brings to my mind Maharishi's
teaching that knowledge is different in different states of consciousness.
Purusha Prakriti realization seems to be a GC experience to me whereas the
experience of moksha as one's basic nature seems more like Unity.
A
Empty, really a great concise roadmap here that you write here. FFL-post-of-
the- year thus far amongst all the athletic supporters flash-flooding this
forum as place of high mind spirituality otherwise. Thanks. For Me the best
sutras I got out of the TM-siddhis were the ones about the
Buck:
For Me the best sutras I got out of the TM-siddhis
were the ones about the discernment/distinction o
Bhuti a Purusha.
For most TMers, the esoteric teachings are the most important aspects of
their practice - the knowledge and the mechanics of the Sri Vidya and the
Kashmere Trika theory.
Buck, that's one of my favorites too. Share in Bhagambrini...
On Monday, January 20, 2014 7:39 AM, dhamiltony...@yahoo.com
dhamiltony...@yahoo.com wrote:
Empty, really a great concise roadmap here that you write here. FFL-post-of-
the- year thus far amongst all the athletic supporters
A popular view of Advaita Vedanta (sometimes an accusation)
is that it is Maya-vada...
Maybe you lost them, but you have to begin with a definition of the term
maya - which I already posted: maya is neither real nor unreal, nor both,
nor neither. Maya is not an illusion or something that is not
Richard, I've heard that when tamas guna dominates, maya is a covering over
reality; when rajo guna dominates, maya is a veil; but when sat guna dominates,
maya is actually a means to ultimate reality.
What do you think?
On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:40 AM, Richard Williams
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This brings to my mind Maharishi's teaching that knowledge is
different in different states of consciousness...
Things and events - phenomena - are not real, yet not unreal either. They
are like an illusion in that they are not exactly as they appear to be, yet
they are real in the sense
Richard, this brings to mind one of my favorite passages from Maharishi's SBAL:
...identification is not bondage. What is bondage is inability to maintain
Being along with identification while indulging in experience and activity.
pg 238
On Monday, January 20, 2014 9:50 AM, Richard Williams
This reply demonstrates that you are either unable to understand the post or
you didn't read it. It also shows that you are probably unqualified to study
advaita.
The post was about Advaita - not Kashmiri Trika or Shri Vidya.Your reply is
merely inane. Don't sully this one with your
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