Maya

Once Adi Shankara was passing through a forest with his disciples, they encountered an elephant. The great Indian Master who expounded the Advaita theory and explained at length about Maya or illusion, was the first to flee.Adi Shankara quickly climbed a ...

All outward victory is due to the power of the Brahman or one's true self. A short story from Kenopanishad reveals the truth.Once the gods and the demons were engaged in a war in which the gods emerged winners. However ...

Continued From Part IIIMaya (Illusion) StandpointThe first syllable 'gu' illumines 'Maya' and the 'Guna'. 'Ru' is the supreme 'Brahman' which removes both illusion ('Maya') and delusion (bhranti). (1 :47)Para'Brahman' (The Supreme Self) illuminates 'Maya', but always remains beyond 'Maya'. The person ...

Look within firstWithout ever bestowing a rational thought on the subject or object, everyone is working at feverish haste convinced that in the palm of his hand lies the destiny of mankind.  It is a great mystery, indeed: and Bhagavan Ramana ...

At one of our programs, I asked, how many of them thought that I had hypnotized them. Out of a group of eighty, three of them lifted their hands. One of the ladies who was sitting next to the ...

The knowledge of Brahman unveils the curtain of maya revealing the truth that the essence of all that is manifested is Brahman and Brahman alone. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa says that when one is awakened to the realization of ...

In the Ramayana, Rama and Lakshmana wanted to go to Lanka, but the great ocean spread itself in its vast expanse debarring them to cross over. Lakshmana in his frustration drew his arrow to attack Varuna ...

At daybreak all that is manifested is born from what is called the non-manifested (avyakta). At nightfall the manifestation merges again into the non-manifested. But, superior to this non-manifested, there exists another Non-manifested, eternal, which does not ...

Swamiji, we have read in many books that our mind is nothing but maya or illusion and that all our questions are only an illusion. ...

Maya has the capacity to ruin our life. If we understand the nature of maya well, it will go away from us in one moment. ...