Re: How can maya lead to knowledge of brahman
Originally Posted by
markandeya 108 dasa
Namaste Jopmala Ji,
Its great question and I certainly have not figured that one out. Recently a friend who is very learned in Advaita said
quote "Our Consciousness which is part of the problem cannot bring about a solution to the fundamental questions about life."
Seems obvious at first and there is great truth in this, but then again how can we start to evolve into that state which is beyond all of this when we are in a conditioned cycle.
For some reason this has caused some dilemma in my approach and has had me thinking for a while. If all energies are shakti and shakti is always in union with Shiva~ Brahman, how can they not open an understanding about Him or Brahman or the totality. It seems impossible to jump from being embodied to full realization of the disembodied state.
Mind, sense and intellect or the factors of compound consciousness are not equipped in and of themself to understand that which is beyond them, unless there is realization of that which is working beyond them, in the cosmic reality these forces of the working senses are under the direction of the devas, and beyond the devas is the total full being who is fully aware of all and not disturbed or moved by them.
Recently I have been listening to some talks on Kena Upanishad and one of the questions in Kena is to ask what deva set motion of the eye, the hearing and other working senses, so perhaps what is being spoken is to gradually open in stages to finally arrive at full realization, gradually peel back the layers of what is beyond or behind the working senses, then the cosmos with devatta beings who still are to different degrees covered or under the direction of maya and do not have full knowledge ( if thats the correct way of saying ), so there is a further peeling back to reach the source or Brahman.
So perhaps through practice sadhana/meditation we search first to know what is the force behind the working senses, then we reach the deva realms, then we keep seeking to know what is behind the devas as they have universal duties and are not fully complete in and of them self, there is still something beyond all of this, until finally we reach the unlimited uncompounded eternally liberated realization of Brahman.
In some of my findings I have seen that the means of travel from one level of understanding to another is samadhi, dharma is contained in the body and mind, so these dharma's in body and mind will reveal something within nama and rupa but will then automatically or instinctively push one to seek further or what lies behind these and so the journey goes on.
Its also a consideration that when the mind and senses are purified by what is behind them, if one does become jivanmukta in this life then the ordinary working senses will become divine and can help in the liberation of other beings, or one enters divine life in full union with Brahman.
Its a high goal for the embodied, jivanmukta seems almost impossible.
Thats probably not the type of response your looking for, but this is how your question resonates at this time with me.
Pranam
Namaste..
I agree with you and thanks for refrenses.. I was typing so didn't read your post..
Pranam
Aasato ma sat gamay
tamaso ma jotirgamay
mrityorma amrutamgamay
(Bring me from asat to sat, bring me from darkness (ignorance) to light (knowledge), bring me from death to immortality)
Om Namah Shivay
Om Vishnave Namah
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