|| Maya || by Swami Sarvapriyananda(Part-3)

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Maya_ by Swami Sarvapriyananda This what you said let me say yes ah now listen and then he proceeds to shred non-duality and non-dualism to pieces over the next few pages

so his main attack is on Maya Maya gets a poor rapid rep you know Maya's not all bad Sri Ramakrishna says Maya is of ADEA Maya and with dia Maya avid dia Maya is that which traps us in samsara he says calmly or crows the lust and anger and greed and jealousy and pride these are of it the Amaya the Maya of ignorant but there is with Diya Maya, there's the Maya of knowledge also which is very kind vairagya the conviction that there is an ultimate reality the dispassion for temporal things and trying to eternal

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Maya_ by Swami Sarvapriyananda so vidya Mayan, in fact, the way out of Maya is also through Maya Swami Vivekananda says you cannot escape the machine you must learn how to work the machine then it will set you free

so give up via video Maya take up with the Amaya which is basically what we call spirituality and that then The machine sets you free

so I am not all bad but Ramanuja trains his guns on Maya Sevenfold objection if you listen to the objections your whole understanding your whole faith in non-dualism will be shaken the whole house of non-dualism begins to tremble and that and crumble under these tremendous attacks what are these attacks seven subdivide Honoka party the seven great inconsistencies in Maya he says what are they just as a taste I haven't started yet but if you if you know this it will give you a good insight into what Vivekananda was doing when you when he is beginning to see and this is Maya and this is what are the seven great inconsistencies in Maya Maya itself is inconsistency

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Maya_ by Swami Sarvapriyananda so what are the seven great inconsistencies in the theory of Maya first he says the word he uses is a new property means inconsistency or illogicality

so first one is called our Shreya no poverty the locus of Maya where is this precious ignorant of yours is it in brahman but how can ignorant be there in Brahman Brahman is the absolute reality it's like saying there is darkness in the Sun can't be but it can't be therein in the Jeeva in the individual being there only two places where ignorance can be in us or in the ultimate reality where is it but it can't be in us also because of Brahman according to you the non-dualists Brahman alone is appearing as the Jeeva because of ignorance

so ignorant must precede the existence of the Jeeva where is your ignorance dear sir this is our shreya no Parvati the next swarupa No and what is this ignorant is it real is it unreal what is nature of this ignorance swarupa and there's a very powerful attack there then the third one you our answer was if you now remember it cannot be said to exist it cannot be said to not exist such as abdominal Virginia the third one is unknown in Virginia no Parvati an attack directly on this what you are saying is a logical inconsistency the thing is I either true or false in logic there is the law of the the excluded middle you can't say it is both true and false you can't say it is neither true nor false no

so you cannot say on in Virginia that it cannot be expressed as sin is not and in Virginia no property third fourth T Road on a new property it says Maya obscures Brahman Ignorance obscures Brahman how can the absolute existence consciousness bliss how can it be obscured how can you think of anything hiding makes it dawg a hahaha means disappears vanishes how can Brahman vanish because of something like Maya it's impossible you might as well shut your eyes and say the Sun has vanished No

Maya by Swami Sarvapriyananda

Maya_ by Swami Sarvapriyananda so the impossibility of Maya obscuring or veiling Brahman zeroed on a new property and then it goes on to speak about the bhava rupa to opah bhakti you said Maya is a positive something because of it remember it as a function of obscuring and projecting yes our and of in shape but that's not reasonable ignorance is simply the absence of the knowledge you know or you do not know is this absence of knowledge you that's the absence of knowledge is not knowing what is this positive not knowing bhava rupa to a no-party then the sixth one never Takano Parvati what will remove this

so-called ignorance according to you the knowledge of Nirguna Brahman, I am Brahman what kind of Brahmin Brahmin beyond all attributes all qualities all adjectives but according to Ramanuja who is atheist the ultimate reality has many qualities you can't talk about an unqualified reality because there's a very logical point here anything that you know must have certain characteristics otherwise how will you know it as it is like this so it means this list of characteristics

so near guru Brahman Brahman without any characteristics are impossible there is no such thing only Brahman Brahman means God God has many characteristics omnipotence omniscience omnipresence all loving all benevolent and

Maya_ by Swami Sarvapriyananda so and so forth Ananta guna Gana Kalyana gonna he says in Sanskrit brahman is a repository of infinite auspicious qualities

so this because there is no such thing as net guna brahman there is no knowledge of net gonna brahman possible and

so overcoming a Jana is not possible never Takano Parvati and finally he says never it T&O Parvati there is no possibility of going beyond if there is such a my I which you are speaking about beginningless Maya there is no possibility of going beyond this my if it is there you are finished you are forever trapped in it and there's there are reasons why Sevenfold tremendous attack if you actually read the objections in detail you'll be convinced it's gone non-dualism it will he's gone I remember and it's not related but funny many many years ago when we become monks and these young people who become monks immediately it arouses tremendous opposition among parents and especially more than the parents the uncles and auntie's and

so often they come charging to get their boy back from the monastery that's there's a story of how true it is somebody came I want to talk to the person in charge here we went to the main monastery because of I have a runaway without my permission

so I want to talk to the person in charge so that he will send my boy back who is the person in charge oh he's a general secretary of the order but no good talking to him why because he also ran away from home here without him know why I'm saying this is once when I was a novice noob Ramachari in the place where I joined another prematurely the young man joined from the same place I had come from a place

so his parents came looking and his father was a big man in the police the department he came with a detective fully convinced that his boy had been kidnapped now the Swami in charge he said I'm too busy to he didn't want to speak with him and then he said you speak that language and told me you speak that language go speak with them and the by their son disappeared he didn't want to speak with his parents didn't want to confront them

so I was facing this really furious mother and father luckily they didn't seek the detective on me but another parent had come with all sorts of arguments why you should not be a monk and why you should come back in to back home and they couldn't tell their son from whom they'd prepared all those arguments

so they got hold of me and they tried out all their arguments on me, why should why shouldn't be a monk and go back later on in the evening the Swami asked me how did it go I said I don't know about that boy but I'm convinced I told them you even if your son doesn't come back I'm sold I'm coming back with you and in spite of the fury this might you will be scared if you read this these tremendous attacks on non-dualism you think that's gone but wait there are answers to all these questions remarkably good answers, in fact, it's available in English too there's a book seven great untenable professor John Grimes, he's in Canada in Alberta he has collected these all these arguments and given a very lucid English translation

so and it's useful if you read that you begin to get a deeper understanding of non-duality if your position is attacked and you can defend it successfully you have understood your position even more deeply

so you get a much deeper understanding of non-duality when you face these questions and then you understand Maya in depth now all this is very philosophical tremendously dialectical logical what Vivekananda does is you will see some things the same the idea of inconsistency contradictory Ness paradox he brings it to our life and it points out in our life instead of talking the language of the logic he points out the language of life and shows Maya in our lives one by one and this is my I am this is Maya and this is Maya I counted 17 times 17 times let me give you some examples of powerful language there is the tremendous fact of death

I'm quoting him there's the tremendous fact of death everything dies all our progress our wealth our achievement our knowledge all goes to death cities crumbled cities are overtaken by forests in India we have a saying a thousand years a city a thousand years of forest same the place he says mountains crumble to dust planets are blown and into dust and they become parts of the atmospheres of other planets these are his actual words and today we know tremendous explosions of supernovae and entire solar systems wiped out death the poet Rabindranath Tagore says a leaf dry leaf falls from the tree into a pond setting of ripples these ripples spread out into the universe among the stars and galaxies change and death everywhere Vivekananda says Saints die and sinners die kings die and paupers die the learner die and the ignorant time all must die and yet there is this tremendous clinging to life we know it is certain that we will die and yet the most