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Originally Posted by Viswa
What is Maya?
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In the end...What is Maya?
There is this Triad "Ishvara-Jiva-Jagat".
Here - "Ishvara" and "Jiva" is the same soul, but based on their attachments they are differentiated.
When Soul (hereafter I call the soul as "Purusha") is attached to Jagat (hereafter I call the Jagat as "Prakriti"), it is called "Jiva".
When Purusha is totally detached from Prakriti, but reclines on Prakriti for the sake of duty, which is symbolozied as "Reclining Vishnu" (Supreme Purusha) in "Anantasesha" (Infinite forms - Prakriti), the Purusha is called "Ishvara" (or Supreme Purusha or Saguna Brahman).
But How this Prakriti(Infinite forms) and Purusha(Conscious/Witness soul) comes into being and gets merged for this Universal experience?
It is MAYA, where the unmanifested Prakriti (or Unmanifested three gunas or Pradhana) comes into being as Prakriti, separate from Purusha, due to this Maya or Material energy.
This Maya is "
Neither different nor same from Nirguna Brahman".
Nirguna Brahman is "Brahman in Non-duality" - and Saguna Brahman is "Brahman in Duality" i.e. Purusha in the form along with Prakriti, also the form of Linga, where Upper part is Purusha and the Lower part is Prakriti/three gunas.
Maya, cannot be said as second from Brahman, but also cannot be said one with Brahman, and because of this there comes Duality "Purusha and Prakriti", and our attachment to Prakriti makes it Triad as "Ishvara-jiva-jagat".
Everything is Brahman. But based on it's position caused by it's Maya in Time, it called in different names as,
i) Before Maya => Non-duality => Nirguna Brahman, where the Brahman felt as if he is Present or not without the three gunas (na sat na asat), as if he is conscious or not (na prajna na aprajna), and brings up his Illusory potency (maya) to bring the three gunas into existence (Ref -
https://bhagavata.org/canto3/chapter5.html - verse 24). Without these three gunas, sattva-rajas-tamas, the ONE/ Brahman cannot be said either being or non-being, as said in Upanishads and BG. And because of the absence of the Three Gunas, it is experienced as Emptiness - no self - no GOD by "BUDDHA". Yes, "
Experience happens in Non-duality and there is self/ONE as Non-dual, meaning without three gunas", but as full of emptiness, Peace, no world, no bliss, no mind, nothing....Finally...
..Thanks to Srimad Bhagavatham, canto 3 chapter 5, also to you all..
ii) After Maya => Duality => Brahman with Three Gunas - Saguna Brahman with Infinite forms - Satchitananda - Pure Consciousness - Witness Consciousness - Supreme Purusha reclining in Prakriti - GOD - THE ONE - Kingdom of Heaven - The LORD who creates,maintains,destructs - etc..
iii) After Creation of all worlds, enters into all living beings and reside in the Heart as "I" thought, and when gets attached to materials - all elements - intellect,mind,senses, called as "Jiva atma" or False-self.
When one detaches from the liking of Prakriti (Prakriti means not just matter, but emotions-body-prana-mind-intellect) by any MEANS, then the Jivatma becomes enlightened and resides in the "I" thought and called as "Paramatma".
And, when his Prarabdha Krama ends, the body dies, and reaches the Sat-Chit-Ananda, and
- remains in the Consciousness of "Oneness" with everything and everyone in the form of Individual spirit or "experiencing the emptiness and Peace without consciousness of Universe beyond MAYA" - if he is a Jnani
- remains in the Consciousness of "Oneness" with the surrendered (or) devoted form/image.
And when the Maha-pralaya happens, the Prakriti goes back to Unmanifested form, and the SUPREME Purusha - THE ONE - Almighty GOD - Saguna Brahman, merges every being with HIM and becomes/called as Nirguna Brahman.
The Unenlightened beings before Maha-pralaya, because of MAYA In TIME - comes again to re-birth, to experience the Karma and desires left out.
Maya is the cause of Manifestations of Pradhana (all Unmanifested Gunas/Prakriti) - etc.. and the LORD or Supreme Purusha, creates-maintains-destructs from the power of Mahat-tattva, using the THREE GUNAS.
The Purusha/soul is not the doer, and only the combination of Three Gunas or Prakriti, is the Doer of all actions, based on what the SOUL attached to.
This is all the merging of many Hindu Philosophies into one, referring to Bhagavat Gita, the essence of All Upanishads.
The END....?
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