Richard, my online Calgary buddy sent me a photo this morning of a bird sipping
water from a pool of water. Then I got it! The bird is real. But so is his
reflection in the pool of water. But it's real as a reflection not as a 3 D
bird. My whole brain feels better (-:
On Monday, November 11, 2013 11:47 PM, Richard J. Williams
<pundits...@gmail.com> wrote:
To be accurate, Adwaita Vedanta holds that maya is not real, yet it is not
unreal (in the sense that it is resented to you). An illusion is not absolutely
real because it is not based on permanence, but an illusion is real because it
is just false knowledge, like in a dream, or mistaking a rope for a snake.
"For those well versed in the Vedaanta the world is like a city of
Gaandharvas - an illusion."
Source:
'Gaudapada'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudapada
On 11/11/2013 1:57 PM, anartax...@yahoo.com wrote:
>But where did the quote come from? If Tom Egnes is the source, then Tom =
>Veda, and we can skip Indian literature altogether.
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>Another version of the idea is 'The world is unreal; Brahman is real; the
>world is Brahman'. This seems to be translation of a quotation by Shankara
>commenting on one of the Upanishads, but I do not know which one.
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>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote:
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>Xeno, I googled on brahman maya and there were lots of hits. There were also a
>lot of hits under brahman maya relationship. It seems to be quite
>controversial, some saying maya is not real and others saying it is real. And
>my favorite was the teacher who said it's pointless to try and understand it
>until one is enlightened. But I find it enjoyable to let the brain play with
>these ideas.
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>On Monday, November 11, 2013 1:30 PM, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote:
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>I haven't figured it out. I didn't reply to you before because you resorted to
>name calling.
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>On Monday, November 11, 2013 1:25 PM, "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> wrote:
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>So, Share, have you figured out where you made your mistake with "OTOH" in
>response to what I said? No? Or do you just not want to admit it?
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>---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote:
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>Xeno, fyi, I have Hellman's REAL Mayonnaise in my frig, wouldn't use anything
>else for tuna fish salad! As for the quote, MUM Sanskrit professor Dr. Tom
>Egenes shared it with our class during the 91-92 school year when I was taking
>the MA in SCI. It's one of those phrases that stuck with me because it's so
>unexpected, paradoxical, koany, etc.
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>Some say that
maya ruled by
tamas guna is
a covering,
ruled by rajo
guma is a
veil. But maya
ruled by sat
guna, it
actually said
to be a ladder
to ultimate
reality. Go
figure (-:
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>On Monday, November 11, 2013 12:45 PM, "anartaxius@..." <anartaxius@...> wrote:
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>Does anyone here know the source of the quote "My indestructible Maya"? On the
>Internet I find just a small collection of websites, FFL principally,
>mentioning the phrase, but no precise source. Since Share quoted it, I assume
>that she is picking it out of her memory rather than from a source text. I
>recall the phrase, but my feeble aging brain, cannot recall where I read or
>otherwise heard it.
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>Is this translated phrase from the Vedas (and which one? Rig, etc.), the
>Upanishads, or the Bhagavad-Gita? (in particular the MMY translation of the
>latter)
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>Whether Maya is real or not, it is certainly present here on FFL.
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>I have seen this product in refrigerators of meditators, "Vegenaise", a non
>animal derived product purporting to replace mayonnaise. Maybe itshould be
>called Mayannaise instead, except people would probably confuse it with the
>Mayan civilisation of Central America. But then, confusion is the whole
>purpose of Maya. Gotta love this universe for beating us up this way.
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