Monday, March 28, 2011

MAYA

माया 

In Advaita Vedanta philosophy, Maya is the limited, purely physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become entangled. Maya is held to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self — the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman. The concept of Maya was introduced by the great ninth-century Hindu philosopher Adi Shankara.He refuses, however, to explain the relationship between Brahman and Maya. or whatever blah . -Wikipedia 




The main point is MAYA - it is nothing but an illusion which prevents  us to seek truth  "a veiling  of truth" and honestly its a part of everyone/everything. We all create illusions , our  mind does , inanimate objects do..and as Plato said "world is an illusion" , i believe it really is...thats how i interpret MAYA. This is an attempt to unveil it and an effort to look beyond  these illusions . An attempt to know what is  what and who i really am. Its attempt to accept and to be brutally honest to myself, break those illusions i know i have created and i need to get rid of in the due course of time ..."veils of Maya".


And about Maya , its a thin shadowed line between real and unreal. Often when the real identities are talked about , the real character is hidden and then the need for the unreal identity arises , so that the real character can come into light .