MAYA - THE WORLD AS AN ILLUSION (Alan Watts) 

Yes - Blessed it Be.

not true.. atman is brahman.. soul is only jeevatma..

I had a dream about these 4 celestial spheres telling me we're all connected. And got a couple more messages.. everything is an illusion and as above so below. I had never heard that saying. Now I'm obsessed 😀

Yes we are

What is it that is vibrating?

@@NoxDeadly everything? 🤔

​@@NoxDeadly The question itself is wrong because Vibration means the is-ness or the being-ness. But vibration itself doesn't vibrate. Rather its due to vibration everything vibrates or comes into being-ness or is-ness. Vibration means Maya, and Maya is a non-dualistic concept that cannot be classified as something that is or something that is not. Therefore, Maya cannot be expressible or classified. The reason language fails to express the concept of Maya is because language can be used to express duality only. The limitation of language is it cannot express non-duality.

Ric Flo Alan Watts can definitely enhance one’s perspective on life. Have you ever read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius? Its the only book in existence today that anyone can read that was actually written by a Roman Emperor. Good stuff.

@@vinn995 Search Maha-Vishnu And Study About it! And you'll know the truth🙇🏻

@@vinn995 thank you. I have just found the audiobook on RU-vid, I will listen to it this week

The west? This is only one guy thinking along such way!

No, it's a confused notion held by some contemporaries of Watts. They made similar notions of the origin of Christianity as well. Reductionism at it's most confused state.

People forgot how advanced and rich the old world was. Time has hidden and people have forgotten about how great India and the east once was.

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It's a ilusion the way of you think about those things, the value of you put on, keep you attached and in attachment are suffering. Sorry for my English I'm Brazilian 😉

Everything is illusion. The way humans perceive time itself is false nd one example of Maya. Time changes , warps in space nd affected by gravity. It is not universal. Again everything that we have named is maya as we have named them to identify actually none of the names are true. A tree is tree cz we decided to call it a tree. Only thing that is common in all physical world is Atman(soul) that is unchangeable. We can think of atman as Atom. Every physical being has Carbon atoms it's common for everyrhing in that way we are all same.

That's called : Hard Solipsism! 🍄🔑🧩

It’s like seeing a rope and mistaking it for a snake. When you realize the truth of the rope, the snake disappears. But the rope was always there. In the same way there is a true reality but we are all misperceiving that reality. We don’t see what it really is and so we are in maya.

... Maya was not for against anybody Maya is a contextual ground of looking at the world as a program of understanding that our individual identities are not identities at all for so the context of someone having a requirement for my so as to realise Brahman by rejecting it is absolutely stupid!!... Maya simply means the world is a program of interconnected construction of energy that is why mahamaya and adishakti almost became synonymous tho they are not,maiya simply means that everything around us is a construct our ideas of ego does not take into account our biological actions does not take into account that there may be food getting digested in our bellies it is always an idea about a self or an idea about ourselves that others have which constitutes who I am in the normal discussions but Maya came into being for the dishes only because that maiya is something that is I am is capable fire is as much energy as water otherwise firewood and burn and there wouldn't be an idea of making Hydro power plants.... The human his physical body causal body the organisms and inanimate objects everything is a construct of energy everything is a constructor program and what we know as existence is just an interconnected play of programs from there the direct that the five basic programs at the panchamahabhutas to the stools are the five basic constructs of energy based on which every other energy construct lies uponso that which is transient that which is ever changing that which is the ever running the non stopping and that which is the interconnected play became a point of contemplation for rishis then they called it Maya, now from the context of advaita vedanta the idea of realising bhagwan does not arise because we make a clear distinction between the saguna Brahman and the nirguna Brahman the saguna Brahman is is the highest Shakti and the intended consciousness punctual embodiment, nirguna Brahman on the other hand is the background of everything that happens the water behind the ocean the particles behind the desert all the cells of wood behind the trees this is the closest analogy we can give to the context of advaita vedanta.....as Sri Ramakrishna said that enlightenment is nothing but a jug of water destroying its jug so that there is no water no Jack just the ocean if there is a jug of water floating on the ocean and the Jug got destroyed then there is no context of a jug, jug full of water because that construct is killed in the first place only thing that remains is the ocean that is what Sri Ramakrishna called enlightenment!!!!!!...... So this context is a very meticulous detail and the sublime one which cannot be realised by a sweeping statement so I would suggest to you read the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna to begin with then look out for maharishi Abhinav Gupta or Adi shankaracharya!!!.....that which is truth is not different for you me or the ratio it is for everyone and even king like janak Maharaj was an enlightened being ucking like allama mahaprabhu was one of the greatest yogis..... So advaita vedanta being only for the ones who want to realise 10 not for the ones who do not want to realise does not make any sense because we all have our karma rooted it will go on the weight is we will go on repeating the same nonsense over and over again and take the elusive clash of individual life so it is for everybody everybody this game does not end until we end it so there are ways in Indian mysticism by which you can stay in the family in the situations of your daily life and still progress spiritually there are three methods of Kashmir division one is shambhav upay for the Yogis,the Shakti upay for the ones were equally at home with intelligence art craft and so forth as well as spiritual development and there is anava upay ...... Which is for the people who are not so much into spirituality but usually engrossed in the world but still want to make spiritual progress there is also certain forms of tantra which you can practice at home without any help from the outside which is absolutely internal based show the context of Indian mysticism is huge even someone like guru padmasambhava of Buddhism has ways for the people who are householders so these things in Indian mysticism has been explored wide and huge and that does not require the kind of frivolous 20 comment that you have suggested so please don't trivialise things increase your vocabulary about mystical knowledge and also about the various multitude of forms that exist meaning Indian mysticism before making statements......

Idea of maya or illusion was for those who is aspiring for realizing INFINITE or god, so that they can focus properly without distractions of world. For all others world is reality.....

@@johndsouza1839 if you had the pleasure of concluding that in those very sentences then vi root systems 108 upanishads Brahma sutras other sutras vedangas bhasi as would not have been necessary maiya is much more than that even that which you call reality is my it is transient Maya means a play , Maya means different kinds of constructs that energy takes in space and time like you put in animation , animated reality is what Maya means it does not mean an illusion , and the very nature of cause effect transience interplay of elements all of that is animated in nature and by definition Maya there is no such thing as mice for the ones worth suffering for jnana and a reality for others, for both it is Maya one just sees the underpinning reality behind it an animated transient play a which is process through the five senses is my industry that has its rules laws cause effect everything there is not denial, the philosophy of Maya does not teacher denial I would suggest you see a sparsh yoga by swami sarvapriyananda to get a better grasp also Alan Watts has a very elaborate lecture on maya !!...

@Assman Butt Maya is the cause of illusion (which is nothing but immanent Shiva's confusion with thoughts and body and the subject/object split) but it does NOT mean Maya = Illusion. Ma means to create or produce in Sanskirt. Maya is the creative Shakthi of Shiva. So, Maya is absolutely real. Without Maya or Shakthi, shiva is shava (corpse). In other words, Shiva and Maya always exist together for the perpetual duality cycles to happen

It is not definitely a mother, it is not a word, it is not a womb, it is not a giving birth thing, linguistic gynocentrism hurts...

@@xyster7 How would you say it?

@@frankcallo6630 Undoubtedly, Maya in Sanskrit is not synonymous with 'mother.' It's not a word that represents a womb or signifies giving birth. The concept is far removed from the gynocentric interpretation, which can often lead to misconceptions and potential misunderstandings. And I'm saying that using words. And here is laying the issue: you can not describe anything using concepts (collections of words).

@xyster7 so, why talk about it at all. I'm not trying to be difficult or dense here, but it seems to me that if there is nothing we can categorically say about it, then it must be approached, if at all, through poetry. Then all we can say is we like, or do not like, the style of the poetry. So instead of trying to school people on the "correct metaphor", when there IS no such metaphor, why not share your own metaphor. Again, how would YOU say it?

Although I might have avoided waxing poetic/romantic for the sake of making the intended point, namely, that Maya, however conceived, is more real than that which allegedly obscures.

Woman are maya..😢

zeus peter=devas pitr everything came from sanskrit

Yes. I agree. This material world is total rubbish