The Concept of Maya | Vedanta Society of Southern California
Vedanta declares that our real nature is divine: pure, perfect, eternally free. We do not have to become Brahman, we are Brahman. Our true Self, the Atman, is one with Brahman.
Vedanta declares that our real nature is divine: pure, perfect, eternally free. We do not have to become Brahman, we are Brahman. Our true Self, the Atman, is one with Brahman. But if our real nature is divine, why then are we so appallingly unaware of it? The answer to this question lies in the concept of maya, or ignorance. Maya is the veil that covers our real nature and the real nature of the world around us. Maya is fundamentally inscrutable: we don’t know why it exists and we don’t know when it began. What we do know is that, like any form of ignorance, maya ceases to exist at the…
saved by
related reading
- Your self is not a spiritual obstacle | Vividnessvividness.live
- mind.pdfmast.queensu.ca
- राम निरंजन न्यारा रेblisswords.blogspot.com
- Neurotic Gradient Descent: (mis)Translating the Buddhaneuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com
- Advaita Vedanta - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
- verses versespoems.verses.xyz
- Neurotic Gradient Descent: (mis)Translating the Buddhaneuroticgradientdescent.blogspot.com
- Chapter Thirteenvedabase.io
- Baldwin in Brahmantheintrinsicperspective.com
- Couldn't Kill A Cobra | Are.naare.na
- Samsara | Slate Star Codexslatestarcodex.com
- Nonduality - Defining the Undefinable Nonduality—Defining the Undefinabledeconstructingyourself.com