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Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda Powerful is clinging to life and this is my Isis and this is Maya I was reading Ernst Becker's denial
of
death the Pulitzer prize-winning book a very dark book where he says
his basic thesis is that this tremendous fact of death is the prime
motivating factor the fear of death is the prime motivating factor
for Humanity this fact of death is there and we see don't know I'm
not afraid of death I don't think about it II say aha you don't think
about it remember he's a psychoanalyst Freudian repression you have
suppressed it
so in Freudian psychoanalysis and this is New York the at one time it was in fashion everybody like says my guru is my is my therapist everybody had a therapist and pricier the more well-placed you are censor and if you say you have a problem yes is a solution if you say yeah you don't have a problem I'm all right about more serious problem repression you suppress it somebody asked Freud actually, did they ask what is not what is normal because whatever you say you're abnormal there's something wrong with you and fried give a beautiful definition of normality he said the ability to do your work and to love
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so if you are functional in your life more or less you can just take care of your business you your life and you can relate to others normally then you're normally a very beautiful definition actually so the in that book he says this tremendous fear of death is there it haunts us which we repress it and you know in Freudian the psychoanalysis you cannot repress anything forever it comes out
so it comes out he says in the form of what he calls immortality projects all the great endeavors of human life from raising a family to making a business to conquering an empire all of that is our struggle to conquer death I know I will die and my reaction is this I suppress it and my reaction is this whether it's children or a big organization or an empire or art writing a book becoming famous I will live on but they are all doomed to failure because of the kind of immortality we want this is not that kind of immortality or nationalism I will die for my country and I will be immortal as the person who died for his country but this is not really in our hearts this is not what we want what do we want we want to live like this, not in that kind of immortality Woody Allen here he somebody asked him to do you want
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so you want to become immortal on the silver screen you want to live forever in your movies and your books and he said typically would yell and he said no I want to live forever in my apartment that is true we don't want really that kind of immortality we all try to get it but that's a poor substitute for what we secretly want we want to exist this clinging to life this is Maya he says swami Vivekananda then this tremendous contradiction in the knowledge we feel that we can know and we are knowing more and more and more but as we go forward we run into paradoxes we run into eternal time is his words we run into in measurable space and the endless walls of causation time-space and causation seems to him as in bind us and set a limit to our knowledge I was reading Kurt gödel there's a biography written by Rebecca Goldstein, she's a professor here in Barnard College
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so she in the introduction she says she says the great discoveries in physics of the 20th century look at the names Einstein's theory of relativity hi Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty girdle's theorem of incompleteness look at the names
so when she writes that I just it struck me suddenly relativity uncertainty incompleteness these are the very words used by the ancient philosophers to describe Maya and these are the final almost discoveries of physics in the twentieth century John Barrow sort a book called impossibility where he shows in every field as the field advance is far enough as it advances you get the feeling we'll know everything but as it advances far enough deep enough you end up with certain insoluble contradictions paradoxes the limits to knowledge, by the way, it's interesting in the first week of April here in New York in the new school there's going to be a workshop two-day workshop and guess what the title is unknowing unknowability Keit session unknowability in lifes in social sciences unknowability in physics unknowability in mathematics John Meadows is speaking Rebecca Goshen is speaking also and it's open to the public in a new school fourth and fifth April unknowability the limits to the knowledge I was in the Shiva and the yoga ashram in the Bahamas in a few a couple of weeks ago not for a cruise for giving talks and there was this mathematician from Oxford who was going to give talks afterward Marcus Rousset I and the subject of his talk was on science the subject was what we cannot know
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so the limits to the knowledge we kinda say we feel we should be able to know but very soon we come up against the more we know the more we see we do not know and this is Maya the limits to knowledge our senses drag us out outwards to see to hear to smell to experience this world to taste this world and sense pleasure promises enjoyment and satisfaction and Happiness and gives us some satisfaction too but always unfulfilled the more we try the more our hunger and our Berenice increases Somerset mom very beautiful he says that that court the more single-mindedly you chase pleasure more you find nothing pleasing anymore the limits to the Vivekananda says we are drawn yet we are drawn again and again like moths to the fire and we keep after knowing this also we keep repeating those behaviors those learned patterns of behavior his words until crippled we are swept away by death and this is Maya the limits of sense pleasures with every breath we feel we are free we have the freedom
I am acting of my own will and yet when I investigate when I try to act in life do something in life I run up against barriers I there are limits to my free will the more I investigate and this is one of one perpetual favorite for philosophers through in the east and the West throughout the world throughout history is their free will because we feel there is free will and yet science seems to say determinism that there cannot be free will religion says all is God's will not yours philosophical investigation even new neuroscience investigations and the Liberty experiments are not
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so many kinds of ideas have been generated which all of it seemed to show that we do not have free will this every breath we feel we are free and the universe telling us, again and again, we are not free at all and this is Maya so American to say
so this is Maya then he says happiness our pursuit of happiness the more we change social reforms feudalism unhappiness we change it into communism into capitalism into socialism baker the denial of death he calls them our bloody utopias as we try to get happiness from this world and make great changes in this world we seem to redistribute misery that's all Swami Vivekananda says like rheumatism you chase it from here it goes there we just read distributing misery and this is Maya he says as we increase the power of enjoyment, we are increasing the power of suffering to in he says he says in geometric progression little bit of increase in the power of enjoyment, multiple times increase in the power of suffering he says who can enjoy food like a dog eating but the dog suffers also tremendously this is the primitive man in the cave Stone Age society but you know I could take a cut on the hand it would heal him very soon very Hardy but crude will be completely unable to enjoy the products of our Broadway and the museum mile knob makes no difference to that person but in them, he says the modern man cultured and refined can has a power of enjoyment and aesthetic sensibilities multiplied much fold but a pinprick can kill him and I was thinking in our modern context is a lot of psychological studies going on the new generation of children coming up protected nurtured to be super kids no exposure to dirt excellent ability to infections the number of studies are showing multiple kinds of allergies are coming of why where did these energies come from they're coming because they were not exposed to nature no contact with but not just physical vulnerability emotional vulnerability all the time saying you're great you're the greatest if you've done if you give you got it right you're the greatest if you got it wrong you're still pretty great and shielded from failure shielded from criticism shielded from any kind of humiliation nothing, there are hard knocks of life shielded by parents the result is when these children come out into society a little bit of criticism a little bit of failure automatic it's going to bound to happen a little suffering physical and if fall apart they become they become outraged and indignant and why is this happening to me how like a little child who has never been scolded the first time the child is called it throws a tantrum how can you do this to me, it's like but suffering is often necessary for growth I don't know if the example is appropriate this is one I heard this several years ago the Japanese are fond of a particular sea fish which is very tasty so they decided that they are going to cultivate it in in enclosed fishery lagoons you know
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so that they can cultivate much more instead of trying to go out to she see and trying to catch those ones have a whole crop of them so they cultivated and they got a bountiful crop of those yield of those that particular kind of fish but there was no taste anymore in those fishes they're bigger but more of them but no taste you know what is wrong why aren't they tasty and then they discovered in the sea the chase those fish are chased by sharks and then the chase they did their fear they produce a particular kind of hormone or something which gives taste so what they did was a solution they introduced a baby shark to that little to that Lagoon and so that maybe shark you can't eat
so in Freudian psychoanalysis and this is New York the at one time it was in fashion everybody like says my guru is my is my therapist everybody had a therapist and pricier the more well-placed you are censor and if you say you have a problem yes is a solution if you say yeah you don't have a problem I'm all right about more serious problem repression you suppress it somebody asked Freud actually, did they ask what is not what is normal because whatever you say you're abnormal there's something wrong with you and fried give a beautiful definition of normality he said the ability to do your work and to love
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Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda
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Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so if you are functional in your life more or less you can just take care of your business you your life and you can relate to others normally then you're normally a very beautiful definition actually so the in that book he says this tremendous fear of death is there it haunts us which we repress it and you know in Freudian the psychoanalysis you cannot repress anything forever it comes out
so it comes out he says in the form of what he calls immortality projects all the great endeavors of human life from raising a family to making a business to conquering an empire all of that is our struggle to conquer death I know I will die and my reaction is this I suppress it and my reaction is this whether it's children or a big organization or an empire or art writing a book becoming famous I will live on but they are all doomed to failure because of the kind of immortality we want this is not that kind of immortality or nationalism I will die for my country and I will be immortal as the person who died for his country but this is not really in our hearts this is not what we want what do we want we want to live like this, not in that kind of immortality Woody Allen here he somebody asked him to do you want
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| Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so you want to become immortal on the silver screen you want to live forever in your movies and your books and he said typically would yell and he said no I want to live forever in my apartment that is true we don't want really that kind of immortality we all try to get it but that's a poor substitute for what we secretly want we want to exist this clinging to life this is Maya he says swami Vivekananda then this tremendous contradiction in the knowledge we feel that we can know and we are knowing more and more and more but as we go forward we run into paradoxes we run into eternal time is his words we run into in measurable space and the endless walls of causation time-space and causation seems to him as in bind us and set a limit to our knowledge I was reading Kurt gödel there's a biography written by Rebecca Goldstein, she's a professor here in Barnard College
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| Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so she in the introduction she says she says the great discoveries in physics of the 20th century look at the names Einstein's theory of relativity hi Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty girdle's theorem of incompleteness look at the names
so when she writes that I just it struck me suddenly relativity uncertainty incompleteness these are the very words used by the ancient philosophers to describe Maya and these are the final almost discoveries of physics in the twentieth century John Barrow sort a book called impossibility where he shows in every field as the field advance is far enough as it advances you get the feeling we'll know everything but as it advances far enough deep enough you end up with certain insoluble contradictions paradoxes the limits to knowledge, by the way, it's interesting in the first week of April here in New York in the new school there's going to be a workshop two-day workshop and guess what the title is unknowing unknowability Keit session unknowability in lifes in social sciences unknowability in physics unknowability in mathematics John Meadows is speaking Rebecca Goshen is speaking also and it's open to the public in a new school fourth and fifth April unknowability the limits to the knowledge I was in the Shiva and the yoga ashram in the Bahamas in a few a couple of weeks ago not for a cruise for giving talks and there was this mathematician from Oxford who was going to give talks afterward Marcus Rousset I and the subject of his talk was on science the subject was what we cannot know
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| Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so the limits to the knowledge we kinda say we feel we should be able to know but very soon we come up against the more we know the more we see we do not know and this is Maya the limits to knowledge our senses drag us out outwards to see to hear to smell to experience this world to taste this world and sense pleasure promises enjoyment and satisfaction and Happiness and gives us some satisfaction too but always unfulfilled the more we try the more our hunger and our Berenice increases Somerset mom very beautiful he says that that court the more single-mindedly you chase pleasure more you find nothing pleasing anymore the limits to the Vivekananda says we are drawn yet we are drawn again and again like moths to the fire and we keep after knowing this also we keep repeating those behaviors those learned patterns of behavior his words until crippled we are swept away by death and this is Maya the limits of sense pleasures with every breath we feel we are free we have the freedom
I am acting of my own will and yet when I investigate when I try to act in life do something in life I run up against barriers I there are limits to my free will the more I investigate and this is one of one perpetual favorite for philosophers through in the east and the West throughout the world throughout history is their free will because we feel there is free will and yet science seems to say determinism that there cannot be free will religion says all is God's will not yours philosophical investigation even new neuroscience investigations and the Liberty experiments are not
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| Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so many kinds of ideas have been generated which all of it seemed to show that we do not have free will this every breath we feel we are free and the universe telling us, again and again, we are not free at all and this is Maya so American to say
so this is Maya then he says happiness our pursuit of happiness the more we change social reforms feudalism unhappiness we change it into communism into capitalism into socialism baker the denial of death he calls them our bloody utopias as we try to get happiness from this world and make great changes in this world we seem to redistribute misery that's all Swami Vivekananda says like rheumatism you chase it from here it goes there we just read distributing misery and this is Maya he says as we increase the power of enjoyment, we are increasing the power of suffering to in he says he says in geometric progression little bit of increase in the power of enjoyment, multiple times increase in the power of suffering he says who can enjoy food like a dog eating but the dog suffers also tremendously this is the primitive man in the cave Stone Age society but you know I could take a cut on the hand it would heal him very soon very Hardy but crude will be completely unable to enjoy the products of our Broadway and the museum mile knob makes no difference to that person but in them, he says the modern man cultured and refined can has a power of enjoyment and aesthetic sensibilities multiplied much fold but a pinprick can kill him and I was thinking in our modern context is a lot of psychological studies going on the new generation of children coming up protected nurtured to be super kids no exposure to dirt excellent ability to infections the number of studies are showing multiple kinds of allergies are coming of why where did these energies come from they're coming because they were not exposed to nature no contact with but not just physical vulnerability emotional vulnerability all the time saying you're great you're the greatest if you've done if you give you got it right you're the greatest if you got it wrong you're still pretty great and shielded from failure shielded from criticism shielded from any kind of humiliation nothing, there are hard knocks of life shielded by parents the result is when these children come out into society a little bit of criticism a little bit of failure automatic it's going to bound to happen a little suffering physical and if fall apart they become they become outraged and indignant and why is this happening to me how like a little child who has never been scolded the first time the child is called it throws a tantrum how can you do this to me, it's like but suffering is often necessary for growth I don't know if the example is appropriate this is one I heard this several years ago the Japanese are fond of a particular sea fish which is very tasty so they decided that they are going to cultivate it in in enclosed fishery lagoons you know
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| Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda so that they can cultivate much more instead of trying to go out to she see and trying to catch those ones have a whole crop of them so they cultivated and they got a bountiful crop of those yield of those that particular kind of fish but there was no taste anymore in those fishes they're bigger but more of them but no taste you know what is wrong why aren't they tasty and then they discovered in the sea the chase those fish are chased by sharks and then the chase they did their fear they produce a particular kind of hormone or something which gives taste so what they did was a solution they introduced a baby shark to that little to that Lagoon and so that maybe shark you can't eat
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