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08-02-2015, 10:56 PM
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Does there exist non-maya?
In Hinduism there is a conception called "maya". This can be seen as something like "nothing is what it seems". But does there exist something or more than a single thing in life that really is what it seems?
What I can think of is your and mine inner world.
Do you have other ideas?
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08-02-2015, 11:36 PM
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Maya is real. That is the illusion. There's no separation between these two states.
Leave duality behind.
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09-02-2015, 06:16 AM
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Master
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Hello ScarlettHayden ,
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Originally Posted by ScarlettHayden
Maya is real.
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This seems a very true insight to me and can be of helpful use when there is confusion in all this diversity I face everyday.
Thank you .
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09-02-2015, 09:56 AM
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I find duality to be a useful concept.
For example what if maya is both real and not real at the same time? What if it could be either or both depending on how it suits you?
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09-02-2015, 12:16 PM
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I think its all really about consciousness. at the end of the day, all states are just god existing at different levels of vibration (consciousness).
So at this level of consciousness maya is real, but not the ultimate reality, our job is to raise our vibrational rate (consciousness) to experience the higher states of god and eventually to re merge with him.
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09-02-2015, 04:42 PM
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mAyA is thinking you are like this when you are like this.
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10-02-2015, 07:34 AM
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Master
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Originally Posted by athribiristan
I find duality to be a useful concept.
For example what if maya is both real and not real at the same time? What if it could be either or both depending on how it suits you?
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Sounds like playing the game of life. If I'm not mistaking it is called leela (devine game) in Hinduism. True Yogis view life also like a divine game.
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10-02-2015, 07:43 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by peteyzen
Our job is to raise our vibrational rate (consciousness).
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The raising of ones vibration is a well known subject. I have heard many versions of it and they all seem legit.
I would like to ask you this question too; how should one raise ones vibration?
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10-02-2015, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by kris
mAyA is thinking you are like this when you are like this.
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Unfortunately the website didn't load .
Maybe you could tell here what is written on the website.
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10-02-2015, 10:04 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Serrao
In Hinduism there is a conception called "maya". This can be seen as something like "nothing is what it seems". But does there exist something or more than a single thing in life that really is what it seems?
What I can think of is your and mine inner world.
Do you have other ideas?
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Yes, as per Hinduism, there does exist that which is not illusory or Maya, but the truth itself.
As per Adi Shankaracharya, " Brahma satyan jagat mithya, jivo brahmaiva naparah " ( Brahman the Absolute alone is real; this world is unreal (maya), but the jiva or the individual soul is not different from Brahman.)
The whole focus of Hinduism is understanding the grand illusion of Maya through viveka or discrimination, meditation and yoga and realizing the truth by oneself.
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When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. ~ Swami Satchidananda
Wholesome virtuous behavior progressively leads to the foremost.~ Buddha AN 10.1
If you do right, irrespective of what the other does, it will slow down the (turbulent) mind. ~ Rajini Menon
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