VEDANTA FOR BEGINNERS -1.12. SWAMI SIVANANDA
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28/04/2020.
1. Introduction - 12..
12.The Nature Of Maya :
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Maya is Trigunatmika. Tamoguna is darkness and inertia. Rajoguna is passion and activity.
Sattvaguna is divine light and purity.
You cannot detect your own faults on account of the force of Avidya. Avidya is the name for
Maya in the individual or the Jiva. You always think that you are free from defects, that you are full of virtuous qualities, that you are the most perfect man in the world. This is Maya.
Maya is Satya or truth for a worldly-minded man. It is Anirvachaneeya or inexpressible for
a Viveki or a man of discrimination. It is Tuccha or nothing for a liberated sage or Jivanmukta who is identifying himself with Satchidananda Brahman.
Vasanas and Trishnas, desires and cravings, can be destroyed in toto only by annihilating
Avidya or Ajnana, the source for this Samsara, just as a tree can be destroyed only by annihilating its root. If you cut the branches of a tree, again they will grow. So you must pluck out the root itself.
Avidya can be destroyed by knowledge of the Imperishable or Brahman, and not by indiscriminate suppression of the senses.
Destruction of Avidya will lead to the destruction of Raga-Dvesha. Raga and Dvesha are the
modifications or effects of Avidya or ignorance.
Ajnana is absence of the Knowledge of Brahman. Just as the trees born on the soil of the
mountain hide the mountain, just as the clouds born through the sun’s rays hide the sun itself, so
also Ajnana born from the Sakti of Brahman hides the Chaitanya or Brahman.
Ajnana is twofold: Toola and Moola. Toola-Ajnana is ignorance in regard to the objects
outside. Moola-Ajnana is ignorance covering the Self within.
NEXT : The Projection Of The World
To be continued ...
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28/04/2020.
1. Introduction - 12..
12.The Nature Of Maya :
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Maya is Trigunatmika. Tamoguna is darkness and inertia. Rajoguna is passion and activity.
Sattvaguna is divine light and purity.
You cannot detect your own faults on account of the force of Avidya. Avidya is the name for
Maya in the individual or the Jiva. You always think that you are free from defects, that you are full of virtuous qualities, that you are the most perfect man in the world. This is Maya.
Maya is Satya or truth for a worldly-minded man. It is Anirvachaneeya or inexpressible for
a Viveki or a man of discrimination. It is Tuccha or nothing for a liberated sage or Jivanmukta who is identifying himself with Satchidananda Brahman.
Vasanas and Trishnas, desires and cravings, can be destroyed in toto only by annihilating
Avidya or Ajnana, the source for this Samsara, just as a tree can be destroyed only by annihilating its root. If you cut the branches of a tree, again they will grow. So you must pluck out the root itself.
Avidya can be destroyed by knowledge of the Imperishable or Brahman, and not by indiscriminate suppression of the senses.
Destruction of Avidya will lead to the destruction of Raga-Dvesha. Raga and Dvesha are the
modifications or effects of Avidya or ignorance.
Ajnana is absence of the Knowledge of Brahman. Just as the trees born on the soil of the
mountain hide the mountain, just as the clouds born through the sun’s rays hide the sun itself, so
also Ajnana born from the Sakti of Brahman hides the Chaitanya or Brahman.
Ajnana is twofold: Toola and Moola. Toola-Ajnana is ignorance in regard to the objects
outside. Moola-Ajnana is ignorance covering the Self within.
NEXT : The Projection Of The World
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