Atman and Maya

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The following came from Krishna Moorthy

 

May we request the list members when responding, to try and delete

the earlier messages ..... We had to edit these out before reposting

the message.

 

 

" k.s.krishna moorthy " <ksksat27

<Ramakrishna >

Monday, July 21, 2003 07:31

Re: [sri Ramakrishna] Atman and Maya.

 

 

Further to email from

> --- Michael Bowes <rmichaelbowes On maya and atman

 

 

 

Dear devotees,

God is always seated in our heart as a supreme

witness.He is the paramatma and we are all jivatmas

and we can be under his association where we enjoy the

absolute happiness by losing our self ego before him.

Though every soul has that potency to associate with

God eternally,many of us are in the mode of ignorance

where we want to interact with matter and thereby get

controlled by Maya the energy of material nature.

No doubt this material world is like a dream but

many of us are not that much equipped to come out of

the dream state.When the great masters like Thakur

come

to this world they induce the desire in our heart to

wake up and gradually we try to make that eternal

desire come true.

We Thaku's devotees are different from materialistic

men in the sense that we atleast have the desire to

come out of this dream of miseries,but the poor

scientists and ateists are not ready to come out of

the dream.They vainly think that they can make this

world an eternal place to live forever.

So start witb any MARGH(BHAKTHI is the most suitable

one for this KALI age) and you would realize the

improvement in your mind.Attaining Mukthi or

Liberation may take so many janmas and not such an

easy task.

[Guest guest]

Dear Devotees,

I totally agree with the previous replies regarding this subject.

I would like to point out a little of what I read in Sri Ramakrishna

Prabha (a monthly magazine from Sri Ramakrishna Math-Madras in

Telugu). Sri Adi Shankara in his Advaita philosophy says that even

though each soul is potentially divine, it cannot become the

paramatman. It is like a wave in the ocean. Even though the wave is

part of the ocean, it can never become the ocean. Sri Thakur also

gives a good analogy for the same. He says that: Imagine a servant

serving his master with all respect and love through out his life.

Having satisfied with his service and out of his grace the master

offers his chair to the servant and makes him sit next to him.

Realizing that we r one with divine is also similar to this. Even

though we r atman in true sense we forgot that identification and

since we identify ourselves with body, we r trapped by maya. If we

serve the lord with Bhakti then out of his grace, he would lift us up

and allow us to break the shackles of maya and make us(atman), part

of him.

 

Jai Sri Ramakrishna,

Prasad