According to Sankara's nondualism, reality is ....

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Sankara declared Himself as the Lord in Human Form. But He knows that

immediately people will revolt against Him. At that time the people were either

Buddhists or followers of Purva Mimamsa. Both were highly arrogant and egoistic

and they will not tolerate this concept in which they have to worship a human

being as God. Therefore, Sankara was very clever and following their psychology

declared that every human being is God. Ofcourse He used the word Brahman, which

was misunderstood as God by the people. The human being is the greatest

creation-item and can be called as Brahman. But He did not reveal this secret

because He wanted to drag them first and convert them into theists.

Simultaneously He could establish the concept of Human Incarnation by this. He

could make them accept that God can be in the human form. Since He extended this

concept to all, nobody attacked Him with egoism and jealousy and thus He was

safe. The entire misunderstanding of Advaita Philosopher comes only when

he compares the human incarnation with the human being. He should be

appreciated because he has gone up to the soul, which is the finest item of the

creation. Nobody can cross that item because God is beyond the soul and becomes

unimaginable. The existence of unimaginable God is not accepted because it is

beyond the experience. Therefore, any philosopher has to stop with the soul,

which is a part of Infinite Ocean of pure awareness called as Mula Maya or Mula

Prakruti. God associated with Mula Maya is called Parabrahman. The Mula Maya

acts as the medium for us to receive God. If the Mula Maya is also absent God

cannot be received by us and becomes completely unimaginable. The Mula Maya is

charged by God like the wire by electricity. Therefore, you can treat the Mula

Maya or the Infinite Ocean of pure awareness as God. Thus, such Mula Maya is the

first incarnation of God, which alone can be grasped by our intelligence or can

be experienced by us.

 

In such divine Mula Maya, which can be called as almost God or Parabrahman the

will of creation arose. Such will is in the form of Knowledge, action and

decision. Therefore, such will is called as Maya, which consists of the three

qualities Sattvam, Rajas and Tamas respectively. Such Maya is also charged by

Parabrahman and is called as Eeshwara. The original Mula Maya charged by God was

called as Brahman. Thus, Maya is in the form of will only. This entire Maya is

not materialised further in the view of God to become the Universe. It remains

as will only in the view of God. The materialised world is the modification of

just a drop of the ocean of Mula Maya thrown out as an object for the

entertainment of God. In the view of God even this materialised world is almost

like the imaginary world only being a tiny particle of the Infinite Ocean of

Mula Maya. The human being is a part of this materialised world, which is the

imaginary world only in the view of God. Thus, this materialised

world (Prakruti) also can be called as Maya (Mayamtu Prakritim – Gita) in the

view of God. The gross bodies made of five elements in this Universe are

appearing as materialised forms in the view of the human being simultaneously.

The human being is actually a part of this materialised Universe. The soul in

the human being is a part of Mula Maya in its original form. Similarly, the

subtle body or Jeeva is a part of Maya. The gross body, which is in materialised

form is still an imaginary form only in the view of God. Thus in the view of God

there is no difference between the subtle body and the gross body as far as the

point of imagination is concerned. This means though the gross body is made of

five elements and the subtle body is made of three qualities, both these bodies

are imaginations only in the view of the God. But in the view of human being the

subtle body is imagination and the gross body is materialised form. Therefore,

the conclusion is that in the views of both God and

human being, the soul is pure awareness (Mula Maya) and the subtle body is made

of three qualities (Maya). But as far as the gross body is concerned it is

imaginary form in the view of God and simultaneously materialised form in the

view of human being. This means that in the drop thrown out from the infinite

ocean of Maya, the Mula Maya remained in its original form as souls (Pure

Awareness) and the Maya remained in its original form as Jeevas (Three

qualities). The remaining portion of the drop after becoming souls and jeevas is

modified into materialized five elements, which are used in the formation of

gross bodies.

 

at the lotus of shri datta swami

surya

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