What is Māyā?

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2025

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  • @jamesmoore4827
    @jamesmoore4827 3 года назад +151

    There is an old story from India about the God, Brahma, who was alone. Nothing existed but Brahma, and he was completely bored. Brahma decided to play a game, but there was no one to play the game with. So he created a beautiful goddess, Maya, just for the purpose of having fun. Once Maya existed and Brahma told her the purpose of her existence, she said, “Okay, let’s play the mot wonderful game, but you do what I tell you to do.” Brahma agreed and following Maya’s instructions, he created the whole universe, the sun and the stars, the moon and the planets. He created life on earth: the animals, the oceans, the atmosphere, everything.
    Maya said, “How beautiful is this world of illusion you created. Now I want you to create an animal that is so intelligent and aware that it can appreciate your own creation.” Finally Brahma created humans, and after he finished the creation, he asked Maya when the game was going to start.
    “We will start right now,” she said. She took Brahma and cut him into thousands of teeny, tiny pieces. She put a piece inside every human and said, “Now the game begins! I am going to make you forget what you are, and you are going to try and find yourself!” Maya created the Dream and still, even today, Brahma is trying to remember who he is. When you awake from the Dream, you become Brahma again and reclaim your divinity.

    • @jamesmoore4827
      @jamesmoore4827 3 года назад +5

      @Inner Peace Thanks. Though yes, I am aware of this. Brahma is what is known as the creator aspect of God, if you will. And Brahman is the all Supreme Reality, aka God. If I'm not mistaken?

    • @lazymonsta2007
      @lazymonsta2007 3 года назад +9

      @@jamesmoore4827 Yes. Shiva (nothingness) created Vishnu (Resource), Vinshu created Bhrahma (Creator)

    • @kubzero874
      @kubzero874 2 года назад +5

      @@lazymonsta2007 Id say theyre all the Same, nothingness is the source ad Well as creator.
      Its Zero
      Both all and nothing
      The sum of plus and minus (illusion/reality/maya)

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад +1

      James, Brahmaji created Saraswati with his magical powers because he needed a friend, a soul mate and Maa Saraswati is worshipped for knowledge given to her by Bramhaji. Maya was created later by mistake and she is human not divine.

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад

      @@lazymonsta2007 Bramhaji is the creator of the whole universe and created Saraswati first as his soul mate. Truth is as real as Sun though human beings may not accept and when they deny truth that is Maya-illusion. Maha Vishnu and Maha Lakshmi are God and Goddess and they have avatars or understand it as rebirth on earth for some purpose.

  • @lbell9695
    @lbell9695 2 года назад +7

    I'm trying to explain to my class about the essence of hinduism (which is NOT hindu mythology) so that analogy about dreams and maya was great thanks!

  • @noCRAPplz
    @noCRAPplz 3 года назад +21

    Wow! A foreigner explaining the Hindu concept of Maya ❤️ my grandmother's name was Maya..and I miss her so much ❤️

    • @SouravRoy-ts9zx
      @SouravRoy-ts9zx 2 года назад +3

      My grandmother's name is also Maya. She is with us, living a healthy life. I believe your grandmother is resting in Peace 🙏.

    • @BforBlitzkrieg
      @BforBlitzkrieg 2 года назад

      🙏🏼

  • @lanceanderson4531
    @lanceanderson4531 2 года назад +29

    The teachers of the Upanishads taught by example and analogy. One asks his student to bring him a fig.
    “Open it,” says the teacher. “What do you see there?”
    “Some very small seeds, sir.”
    “Open one of those small seeds. What do you see there?”
    “Nothing at all, sir.”
    “Truly from what you cannot see, the whole fig tree grows. That is Reality.
    That is Atman. That art Thou.”

  • @ht7461
    @ht7461 3 года назад +5

    Hari Om. Outstanding! Thanks for sharing! Para Brahman Ki-Jai, jai, jai

  • @alizulqarnain5346
    @alizulqarnain5346 3 года назад +61

    Wisdom of this lesson... There is no person ... There is no identity... It's an illusion ... One of the teachings of shiva shakti meaning is that's it's all an illusion... Shiva taught paravti there is no person ...

    • @Adonis626
      @Adonis626 2 года назад

      Exactly. This all is just a illusion, in reality we are part of that Supreme Brahman & in the end each one of us will merge into him.

    • @username-ze9fx
      @username-ze9fx 2 года назад +2

      What? Where did Shiva taught that? Krishna in Bhagavad Gita 2.12 said, "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."
      If it is as you say then who are Shiva and Shakti? How do they have an identity as Shiva and Shakti?

    • @lordatum8139
      @lordatum8139 2 года назад +3

      @@username-ze9fx some call him shiva, some call him allah, some call him atum (Egypt), some call him Yahweh etc

    • @Mad_Man888
      @Mad_Man888 Год назад +2

      @@username-ze9fx shiva means nothing

    • @curiousme113
      @curiousme113 Год назад

      Who's illusion?
      To whom or what does the illusion belong and how does continuously create a linear illusion of billions & billions detailed lives; human,animal and plants? Not to mention the dirt. Terra Firma. The Sea. The Universe. The multiverse. The weather.
      How?

  • @happyhealthyhadlee
    @happyhealthyhadlee 2 года назад +5

    This is such an awesome explanation of Maya! Thank you for making it so entertaining and easy to understand!

  • @Learningandhelping100
    @Learningandhelping100 2 месяца назад +2

    Wow. This is amazing way of explaining

  • @Ravikumar-vh5tb
    @Ravikumar-vh5tb 4 года назад +8

    Simple and beautiful video..
    Thanks..
    Shivoham..

  • @ObeySilence
    @ObeySilence 4 года назад +11

    I dont find the background music too loud. Very nicely crafted video! And very relevant now amidst the covid19 crisis

  • @tatsavitar7281
    @tatsavitar7281 3 года назад +48

    You showed lord bramha as ultimate Brahman.
    But Brahman is one and all.
    Lord Brahma is his one part.

    • @yugaljailia8643
      @yugaljailia8643 3 года назад

      Who is his ?
      Vishnu?

    • @tatsavitar7281
      @tatsavitar7281 3 года назад +8

      @@yugaljailia8643 brahman when doing creation becomes Bramha and when doing management of creation becomes Vishnu, when doing destruction to restart becomes Shiva.
      In the end of creation bramha merges into Vishnu and Vishnu becomes Shiva and Shiva with form becomes Formless Eternal Shiva. And formless eternal Shiva is Brahman.

    • @yugaljailia8643
      @yugaljailia8643 3 года назад +1

      @@tatsavitar7281 bro....like seriously idk but Hinduism is very tough to understand 🙌🏼

    • @tatsavitar7281
      @tatsavitar7281 3 года назад +3

      @@yugaljailia8643 not tough you have to read from basics. Like
      Katopnishad,
      Patanjali yoga sutra
      Bhagwad geeta
      Mandukya upanishads
      Bahirav vigyan sutra,
      Yoga Vashistha ( very practical and best for questioning person)

    • @tatsavitar7281
      @tatsavitar7281 3 года назад

      @@yugaljailia8643 if you know english and hindi then you can get these books easily.
      Bhagwad geeta and yoga vashishta are sufficient and for practitioner yoga sutra of patanjali, bhairav vigyan sutra, hath yoga pradipika.
      Remember this is about Tat.

  • @rishabhthakur8773
    @rishabhthakur8773 2 года назад +5

    We are giving many examples to define Maya...
    And this is Maya

  • @codyraymiller
    @codyraymiller 8 месяцев назад

    Wow! This video really helped me understand a lot. Thank you!

    • @b.l.0427
      @b.l.0427 4 месяца назад

      It only contain 0.1% knowledge

  • @rsmedia4623
    @rsmedia4623 2 месяца назад +1

    It is mentioned in dakshinamurthy stotram

  • @edu.33
    @edu.33 9 месяцев назад +4

    maybe i am wrong or right but i think maya is not wrong or something we need to despise. i think it's part of this world. it allows us to be human, to be alive

  • @MoshiLQalea
    @MoshiLQalea 8 месяцев назад +1

    It is hell. There comes a time when you have had enough and just want go "home" with God and surrender to Him.

    • @Robwrote
      @Robwrote 4 месяца назад +1

      Holy shit. I keep thinking lately “I can’t wait to go home” even when I’m sitting at home on the couch, and have felt the same thing you just said…

  • @ThaSoloist
    @ThaSoloist 3 года назад +1

    i enjoyed this. very clear and to the point.

  • @heneralluna8417
    @heneralluna8417 4 года назад +7

    i just hope everyone i meet in this simulation i wont meet them again after i log out from this world

    • @LawrenceIsLight
      @LawrenceIsLight 9 месяцев назад

      Said the same thing but at the same time it's all love ❤️

  • @balajiraog1
    @balajiraog1 Год назад +2

    Hi team, You have prepared a nice video on Maya for beginners, Thanks for working on such videos.
    As many will inherit this knowledge from your videos, kindly get them reviewed by 1 or more before releasing them. Be it Images or words. Here are 2 which I could identify.
    At 0:23 - You showed the Image of Lord Brahma in place of 'BrahmaN'. Brahman has NO FORM. Instead, You could have shown a Glow of light...!
    At 2:58 - You Showed & pronounced Brahmasi in place of "BrahmasMi".
    Kindly correct them if possible...!

  • @domingosmsande9153
    @domingosmsande9153 7 месяцев назад +1

    "Maya" literally means "to measure", "to evaluate". Who am I? What is the universe? What is the source of all the phenomena, of all that appears? The evaluation depends on knowledge, which is always incomplete. Therefore, the evaluation, the measurement, is "what is not". If one takes the idea, the concept, as the truth, one is living under illusion. That is why the word "maya" is related with illusion.
    Without this illusion, there is absolutely no separation, no division. The form and the non-form, the manifest and the unmanifested are the same life-consciousness.

  • @dp7641
    @dp7641 3 года назад +4

    E.x of Maya is
    When our any closed person die we cry for one two days but after one month's we laugh it's all made by Maya

  • @martinshannon7632
    @martinshannon7632 Год назад +1

    Thanks

  • @devinramos6317
    @devinramos6317 3 года назад +1

    Wow!!!♥️♥️♥️♥️🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @Mm33289
    @Mm33289 9 месяцев назад +1

    Yep thats me❤

  • @arunimasaha9292
    @arunimasaha9292 3 года назад +1

    so beautifully explained

  • @clotekconstruction4052
    @clotekconstruction4052 5 лет назад +4

    I agree with Mel W...music too loud and distracting. Great concept. Congrats!

  • @yugaljailia8643
    @yugaljailia8643 3 года назад +1

    Wonderful video

  • @SanjuSanju-me2tn
    @SanjuSanju-me2tn 3 года назад +1

    99% of RUclips video have a background music even though the video is not music related. I still don't understand why it's required??

  • @melweismann
    @melweismann 5 лет назад +3

    A great new look at this concept but frankly the background music is distracting me from considering a complex (at first) idea...

  • @zfg07
    @zfg07 3 года назад +9

    0:24 Brahman is NOT brahma the creator

    • @buddhanigarendra7393
      @buddhanigarendra7393 3 года назад +4

      Brahma is one of the Supreme forms of the Brahman aka Saguna Brahman depicting Nirguna is impossible as he is Formless and everything itself

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад +1

      @@buddhanigarendra7393 Brahman is one of Bramhaji's creation and has to die one day. God Brahma is creator of the whole universe, bramhand and Amar, never dies.

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад +1

      Keshavji you are right Brahman is just a human form who has to die one fine day. God Brahma is immortal, Amar, never dies.

  • @keithstump1712
    @keithstump1712 Год назад +2

    This video does not explain the mechanism of maya. Where and how does the illusion arise?Why do we all see the same iillusion?

    • @tookie36
      @tookie36 Год назад +1

      Different language is used but it seems as if the nature of god is the answer. God is love, infinite, and this also means god is creative. One aspect of this creative force is the illusion/leela.
      And illusion doesn’t mean not real. Creation is real. It’s one of god’s forms which we are currently experiencing under maya with the sense of seperateness

  • @Jerimiah-x8f
    @Jerimiah-x8f 10 месяцев назад +1

    Look into Jireh Maya

  • @paragdutta7808
    @paragdutta7808 10 месяцев назад +1

    The picture is of four faced God Brombha. God of creation. 0.25 m.
    Bramvo is pure consciousness and It has no image at all.

  • @whb1153
    @whb1153 2 года назад +3

    Not a Buddhist here(I'm a Christian). I like this, though.

    • @Camelotsmoon
      @Camelotsmoon Год назад +3

      Just replace the Hindu references (like Brahma into the father, and Brahman into God) with abrahamic ones and it's the samething. They don't care what names we give them, just that we have an understanding of what's going on. They don't have identities like we do... Or at least God doesn't. The amount of different names not only have beings on Earth have given them, but beings who live elsewhere have as well.. it doesn't much matter.
      I had an interesting experience in the store with my grandmother the other day. I've been practicing a lot of Hindu god worship lately and my grandmother is Christian... I saw a pair of shoes that were called "Brahma", and then later on I saw a book that said "God is with you.".. it literally doesn't matter what you call them, they don't care.

    • @whb1153
      @whb1153 Год назад

      @@Camelotsmoon Hey there! Thanks for your reply, and good luck with your dive into Hindu related practices and observances.
      In line with that, I (myself) have a curious nature when it comes to stuff like Ayurveda, the chakra system, etc. Stuff along the lines of holistic/alternative/integrative approaches to wellness (although, I'll admit, I need to be better at putting stuff like that to use).

    • @Camelotsmoon
      @Camelotsmoon Год назад +1

      @@whb1153 Yeah. There's a lot of interesting stuff there. If you dive into the chakra system and Hinduism, you're going to notice a lot of similarities between some practices the abrahamic faiths and Hindus do.
      An interesting fact is the Hindus mention that there are 108 chakras you can manipulate in the body, then there are 4 more total in the body, plus another 2 outside for a total of 114. There are prayer beads called "malas" that are at least 3000 years old that Hindus and Buddhists use to keep count when uttering mantras 108 times (and they have some other lesser uses). Now if you've ever counted the beads on a Catholic rosary there are 54 beads on the neck, and 6 (counting the mother Mary bead) going down to the cross... 54x2 is 108+6 is 114. The rosary is only about 400 years old. The Catholics knowingly or unknowingly using a process that's at least 3,000 years old to energetically connect to mother Mary, Jesus and other saints.
      That's just one interesting thing about all this. I wish you luck, if you can pick apart the processes every faith uses and compare each one, you're going to find a lot of similarities. The Kabbalahistic Jews used to have many more tantric processes (like the Hindus do today) to contact angels and such interestingly, but the languages and processes were lost sadly. Enoch tried to bring some things back, however it seems he got a bit distracted and then written out of the bible lol.

    • @whb1153
      @whb1153 Год назад +2

      @@Camelotsmoon Hey there again! I appreciate your reply, along with your cool, comparative rundown and commentary of different customs according to different faiths. Maybe a sorta "midlife crisis" is making me examine these things nowadays-- who knows??! 😋✌️

    • @lopezbill6132
      @lopezbill6132 Год назад +1

      I'm a christain and I'm not a buddist in fact I don't hold myself to any religion but the religion of love. When I found my spiritual enlightenment It was as if God led me back to who i truly am and I found the kingdom of God within me.

  • @MichaelaReyesLemus-os1kw
    @MichaelaReyesLemus-os1kw Год назад +1

  • @vinodgadekar7324
    @vinodgadekar7324 3 года назад +2

    Good narration, in short .

  • @1redblue93
    @1redblue93 3 года назад +1

    What is the meaning then?

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад

      Maya is I feel I am great but my greatness is limited because of my death and I am not God who is immortal, Amar, who never dies.

    • @ArjunSingh_29
      @ArjunSingh_29 Год назад +1

      The meaning is to understand the illusion which looks like a reality and take a knowledgen of that by scriptures or meditation and get freedom from the maya(illusion) . And that's called as enlightenment

  • @vivekkann4313
    @vivekkann4313 2 года назад +2

    In simple words"we are in a simulation"

  • @knowthyself6816
    @knowthyself6816 2 года назад +1

    There are 4 mahavakyas
    Aham bramhasmi - I am bramhan
    Tat tvam asi- you are bramhan
    Prajnanam bramha- Consciousness is bramhan
    Ayam atman bramhan- the Self is bramhan

  • @adityashekhar2564
    @adityashekhar2564 4 года назад +12

    Maya is neither true nor untrue..because in the Trinity of time space and causation you will always perceive perishable components.

    • @Dharmicaction
      @Dharmicaction 4 года назад +3

      Maya is absolutely real. Maya is the cause of illusion but it does not mean Maya = Illusion. Maya is the creative shakthi of Shiva. Without maya or shakthi, shiva is shava (corpse). In other words, Shiva and Maya (intelligent energy) always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen. Ma means to create or produce in Sanskrit.

    • @adityashekhar2564
      @adityashekhar2564 4 года назад +1

      @@Dharmicaction eko brahma dvitiyo nasti.

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад

      Yes Aditya, Maya is human we all have in us but not divine. We respect Maa, but she has limited powers, whereas God Bramha has the power to create without bodies, that is how he created Saraswati, his soulmate.

  • @knowthyselfaum6574
    @knowthyselfaum6574 2 года назад

    Ignorance(Maya), I often forget about my mother, the Universal mother, mother of all mothers; she is in the from of my ego, she is in the form of my mother, my father, my mentor, my brother, my wife, my Kid, my thoughts and everything perceivable through my five senses; how can i ever be, untill I am Confined to the body made of five elements, just the way the Cosmos in made. She keeps teaching me again & again, she is an excellent teacher (Guru), she never lets me down, she never lets me, unitill I learn.....unlearn, she holds my hands, takes me to the destination, the One which l am unaware off, what all I can know is my mother and only to that extent as much as she reveals herself to me .....how to address You Oh! mother, I have no words.....🙏

  • @skcreations3390
    @skcreations3390 3 года назад +1

    Everything on Earth that is brahm maya

    • @surajhema6484
      @surajhema6484 2 года назад

      Bramha and bramhe are different. One is creator, other is misbelief, e.g. if I think I am Bramha because I can create something I am Maya, temporary, not with any magical, superb powers.

  • @surajhema6484
    @surajhema6484 2 года назад

    Maya is lie, BRAMHA is truth and truth is SUN. We may not accept but No one can hide the truth. Jai Brahmaji. 🌞

  • @mearihant
    @mearihant 3 месяца назад

    Sankaracarya just made people distracted from Krsna

  • @buddhanigarendra7393
    @buddhanigarendra7393 3 года назад +3

    Matrix was inspired by advainta vedanta definitely

  • @lightsshade433
    @lightsshade433 9 месяцев назад

    If maya means illusion then how is it from God, God's nature is true not lies maya is illusion, illusion means something not ture, not ture means lies

    • @MayaEmmerShamallah
      @MayaEmmerShamallah 8 месяцев назад

      Example: You are in the night dark room yet your vision of your u have a Maya experience casts a shadowy being that isn’t there in your room and say it appears as a shadow of a skinny woman, and turn on the lights but nobody is there and few seconds or minutes later your sisters friend a stranger unexpected visit opens the door who happens to be a skinny woman. You know it’s a lie when you told yourself that the person was in your room but there wasn’t but happened until after that you saw that it came true. Illusion is a word with much definitions and meaning it isn’t simple to some people. an illustration is also an illusion because the cartoon for example isn’t real it’s just something to express its character to capture behavior or exaggerate detail that makes them stand out. So the illusion can be from God something that can happen after yet a lie at first glance until revealed that it was something that will happen. In Spanish Illusion is used in term of hope also as a lie also it is a versatile word.

  • @upontruth6166
    @upontruth6166 3 года назад +3

    Descartes leaves the chat..

  • @alizulqarnain5346
    @alizulqarnain5346 3 года назад

    Wisdom of shiva conciousness.. is the Maya or illusion of the world ... When Maya or illusion or identity is no more... They wake up from the dream of illusion and identity

  • @wallace3199
    @wallace3199 Год назад +3

    Brahman not equals God Brahma

  • @jelenakopajtic3872
    @jelenakopajtic3872 Год назад

    Make titles!

  • @nandishsavar6563
    @nandishsavar6563 Год назад +1

    this video is so much misspelt and wrong in terms of actual teachings, Sanskrit slokas are manipulated, the kings are British Kingdom based and it's not brahmasi, or soham, it's aham 'brahmasmi', and 'shivoham' 🤷🤷

  • @namah4399
    @namah4399 Год назад

    0:25
    Please don't show the picture of the demigod Brahmaa
    Brahmaa and Brmhn are actually two differemt things
    Brahmaa is a demigod of creation
    And Brmhn is that ultimate reality it is that truth which we have to realise in our lifetimes
    Brmhn has nothing to do with a creator god or heaven or hell or things like that
    It is pure realisation ❤

    • @b.l.0427
      @b.l.0427 4 месяца назад

      Concept of God is different in Hinduism Indra is god , bramha is bhagwan bramhn is paramathma

    • @namah4399
      @namah4399 4 месяца назад

      @@b.l.0427 you know nothing

    • @b.l.0427
      @b.l.0427 4 месяца назад

      @@namah4399 I am a Hindu who is reading grantas for a long time

    • @b.l.0427
      @b.l.0427 4 месяца назад

      @@namah4399 deva= god bhawan is not exist in abrahamic fates

  • @rajiv4753
    @rajiv4753 4 года назад +1

    Hmm

  • @lokeshshukla9180
    @lokeshshukla9180 2 года назад +1

    Heisenberg had the answer.

  • @generativewaves4493
    @generativewaves4493 4 года назад +4

    But eek the "kingdom" visuals... Why "Europeonize" Indian culture? When did the vedics appear in Camelot? SO confused.

    • @alexanderadavar6439
      @alexanderadavar6439 3 года назад +5

      Shouldn't matter I guess, if the attachment is all an illusion

    • @Nova67827
      @Nova67827 3 года назад +2

      King janaka was a real person too

  • @cocoquinn2966
    @cocoquinn2966 4 года назад +6

    Umm my name is maya

  • @sage5098
    @sage5098 2 года назад +1

    W

  • @zenmasterjay1
    @zenmasterjay1 Год назад +1

    All is Brahman experiencing Brahman.... and maya.

  • @12villages
    @12villages 2 года назад +1

    I think we're in someones aquarium

  • @ayuohsufchad
    @ayuohsufchad 3 года назад

    This is over exaggerated

  • @gunner9936
    @gunner9936 6 месяцев назад

    Funny how they evade so hard not to say this us Hinduism.