Originally posted by Jesse Torres:
However, I believe that the script is largely based on Plato�s Allegory of the Cave.
Not very different from Maya.
One of the Maya's confusing definition:
The world - A relative reality
The world is not an illusion according to sankara. The world is relatively real (vyavaharika satta), while brahman is absolutely real (paramarthika satta). The world is the product of maya or avidya. The unchanging brahman appears as the changing world through maya. maya is a mysterious indescribable power of the lord which hides the real and manifests itself as the unreal: maya is not real, because it vanishes when you attain knowledge of the eternal. It is not unreal also, because it exists till knowledge dawns in you. The superimposition of the world on brahman is due to avidya or ignorance.
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http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/VedantaSchools/id/23127 Another one: more confusing/elaborated:
The World of Illusion (Maya) and the Resultant Ignorance (Avidya)
Our Mind Represents the World (and in fact only Senses a small fraction of Reality) and thus the World we see is an Illusion (Maya) and this Ignorance of the True Nature of Reality is Avidya. Conversely, liberation from ignorance to True Knowledge of Reality (Avidya, Prana) results in Nirvana (Moksa) a Freedom from Desire.
'In a psychological sense Maya is the human tendency to regard appearance as reality and reality as appearance. In an epistemological sense it signifies human ignorance concerning the difference between appearance and reality. In an ontological sense it refers to the creative power of Brahman.'
'At the higher level of comprehension it is possible to comprehend the ultimate oneness of reality; at the lower level, everyday experience leads us to think of reality as a multiplicity of individual persons and things and at this lower level there is no escape from samsara. Moksa, the release from samsara, is obtained only by an experiential realization of oneness at the higher level of comprehension. According to Sankara, the lower level of experience is Maya, often translated as illusion.'
'Release (Moksa) is not a mode of being which will be had after death in a special place or heaven. It consists in the transformation of the inner life which occurs after mystic union with the one, identical to direct awareness or knowledge (Vidya) of Brahman. It is not the destruction of the world but the shaking free from the false view of it which is Avidya.' (Collinson, Fifty Eastern Thinkers, 2000)
We do represent the world, a red apple is not really a red apple, it is a structure of many trillions of Spherical Standing Waves the size of the universe, whose Wave-Centers have evolved into this complex structure that has electrons / Wave-Centers trapped in particular frequency 'orbits' that resonantly couple with electrons in my eye due to oscillating interactions of their In and Out Waves. This particular frequency is represented to my mind as red. The Metaphysic of Space and Motion does not yet explain this representation, but it does explains the Cause of the Representation. Most importantly though, neither Space, nor (Wave) Motion are Representations, but are in fact 'What Exists' such that we can exist as Matter in Space and have a mind that 'Represents' these Spherical Standing Wave Motions of other Matter in Space.
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http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Hinduism-Hindu.htm#Hindu.Maya.Illusion Point is that, when we know its not reality still why do we chase it ??
Either we confess that we love the illusions which always gives pain, worry and materialistic tensions or we move ahead and take the blue pill.. in real sense, leave this world of pain and start journeying towards Moksha/Nirvana or whatever it is.
Does it take so much strength to take blue pill that though we know we are not living reality but still accept it as reality. :-
