help!

[Guest guest]

Dear friends,

I have some doubts that have been troubling me for quite sometime

now. Many of you may perhaps find it dumb and even out of context,

yet I take the freedom to ask it to you.

- Sri Adi Sankaracharya says 'Brahma satyam, jagat mithya' and he

says that we imagine this world to be real because of maya. All

throughout he has critisised Maya.....but on the other hand he has

praised and celebrated Maya in many of his works. Is he contradicting

himself??

- Sankara says everything is the brahman, duality is due to Maya, in

that case is Maya different from the Brahman.

 

These are the doubts of an ignorant teenager like myself. It

would be great if someone knowledgable could dispel my doubts.

 

Cheers,

Rohit Viswanath.,

Mumbai,

07/10/01.

[Guest guest]

Namaste,

 

I received this from Shri Prasad Reddy, which is

intended for the list. Am forwarding it.

 

Note: forwarded message attached.

 

There is absolutely nothing other than Holy Mother.

(underline this sentence.)

Everything is her 'lila'.

Please look into 'Naasadheeya Suktha' of RigVeda.

Trys to explain what was there at the beginning of

'sristi'.

 

With help of all texts,knowledge; - 1.whatever we see,

2.the desire

to

see, and 3.yourself, the person trying to see -

everything is Her.

 

Simply,

maya,mahamaya,jagat,prakriti,purusha,shiva,shakti,laxmi,vagdevi,

evrything is from and part of ParaBrahman/Lalitha Maha

Tripura

Sundari.

 

Think Her as Whole and concentrate/pray/meditate on

Her as

whole(Purna)

is what we need to do,

rather than ignoring some/more gunas of Mother.

 

Hope , we, getting knowledge from diversified sources,

won't

diversify

our vision, instead let us go to the unified bindu( in

 

SriChakra),which is abode of herself(bindu mandala

vasini).

 

And if we look only at Maya,and think about only Maya,

We will fell

into it.

and maya is her creation,she owns it.She is also

(sahasra nama)Avidya

swaroopa.But let us won't just regard her as Avidya

swaroopa.She is

also Vidya swaroopa.

 

Let us dance in the full glory of her, in both Avidya

& Vidya.

As prakriti and purusha.

 

This message is based on lot of

assumptions/(mis?)understandings from

me.

I am grateful to your corrections.

 

Prasada Reddy.

 

, satish arigela

<satisharigela> wrote:

>

> >All

> > throughout he has critisised Maya.....but on the

> > other hand he has

> > praised and celebrated Maya in many of his works.

Is

> > he contradicting

> > himself??

>

> I assume that you asked this question with the

view

> that worship of Devi is same as worship of maya.

>

> Lalita Sahasranama praises Her as

> MithyAjagadadiShThAnA - which equates her with

> Brahman.

> SHE is Brahman not just maya.(i have no idea of

their

> relation)

>

> In Srividya Devi is worshipped as Parabrahman.

Atleast

> some say that SHE is both Prakasha and Vimarsha and

> not just vimarsha.

>

> May be other members can correct the above, and

> explain better

>

> regards

>

 

 

 

 

 

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