Vivekachoodaamani

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Maya considered in its own metaphysical spectrum :

 

108. There is One – undifferentiated and undivided. Nobody can define

what it is, but it has the power of God. Beginningless and yet also

called ignorance it has three qualities : sattva, rajas and tamas. It

cannot be understood except by its action and that only by the

illumined ones. It has created all this universe – produced it al. It

is maya.

 

109. If you ask of its form, it cannot be stated. It is beyond

description. It is neither real nor unreal. Neither is it a mixture

of the two. Is it separate from the atman? It is neither separate nor

yet non-separate. Neither part nor apart from the atman. It is not

the body. It is most wonderful and beyond all description.

 

110. It is real and unreal; unreal because it changes and not unreal

because it is. It is not separate because you see atman alone (if

separate there must be two) and you cannot say not separate (as you

cannot say that the snake is not separate from the rope). Knowledge

of Brahman – the One, pure, without a second – destroys maya, as the

illusion of the snake in the rope is destroyed when the nature of the

rope is known.

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Namaste and thanks to Shree Nanda for the compilations.

Some self-contemplation -

advaitin, "vpcnk <vpcnk@H...>" <vpcnk@H...> >

>Maya considered in its own metaphysical spectrum :

>

> 110. It is real and unreal;

Why is it so, one may ask. #110 replies,

>unreal because it changes and not unreal because it is.

 

Is it distinct from 'You' ? It answers,

>It is not separate

 

Then how do you see it, one may ask? It further replies,

> because you see atman alone

 

Then, what is it ? One thing one can say, it is wonderful and

mysterious.

 

Regards,

Raghava