Showing posts with label Maya (illusion). Show all posts
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2/27/2011

End Of The Illusion - SPIRITUAL AWAKENING - Get Ready For Changes

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Time has come for me to voice once again that which I have been seeing and experiencing for many years. As we are becoming more and more aware of the emergence of a paradigm that many believe has never been yet which is re-emerging, I am asking you to begin to re -- member the reasons you made a choice to incarnate in this time, in this space, in this dimension rather than the limitless other frequencies you could have chosen.


"In this remembrance, you will claim witness to the appearance in earth of the Angelic Human, yourself, who originally created self as a Guardian of this transmutational age in Planet Earth. And I stress transmutational rather than tranformational. This is a time of change from one state into another rather than a simple change within the same state of being. The Angelic Humans are one aspect of that transmutation. If you are reading this message, be assured, you are an Angelic Human -- one who knows itself as Source in physical form embodying a message that only he or she is able to bring to the earth in this time/space construct.


"While this may sound utterly fantastic to some, to those who experience it, my awareness comes as an enormous sense of relief when they are able to express how they see life on this planet from their frame of reference. It is no longer the time to remain silent. Now is your time to be, speak and act. As you announce your contribution into the hologram of the emerging paradigm, the transmutation accelerates concretizing its established resonance within your field of consciousness.


"And so, time has come for me to express my knowing once again and to make a formal calling to all who may feel the nudge that these words stir up within to come forward and make themselves known. It is no longer the future of this awakening. The sacred unfoldment of this planet is literally orchestrated by your knowing and your deeds. You are being asked to make a formal commitment to the manifestation of the longing in your heart; to experience a DNA Heart Activation that interweaves you into a Golden Chain of Light to encircle the earth within Enlightenment.

"Listen deeply inside to your heart's message. That which it speaks to you is that which will speak through you. Allow this message to well up within you in whatever form it may appear. Be present with it. Feel its call and demonstrate your sacred Essence through your actions and your words. Then, you fulfill the promise of the ages -- to return during this time and space bringing with you a message of remembrance, of enlightenment for the entire human race."

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Awakening and the Institutions of Religion
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In Lak'ech Ala K'in

The foundation of our economic crisis is spiritual, not financial. By sharing life-affirming stories of possibility and working together to restore the essential bonds of community, we humans can bring forth the life-affirming cultures and institutions of a new era and align ourselves with the sacred purpose revealed in creation's grand trajectory.
We have been living in a trance in a world of illusion. We have lost sight of our spiritual nature, just as we have lost sight of the distinction between money and real wealth. We have lost sight of ourselves as manifestations of the spiritual force of creation.

It is now within our means to unleash our positive potential and create the world of which we have dreamed for millennia. Success depends on an awakening to the truth that we humans are spiritual beings having a human experience. As our primary institutions for the examination of values, purpose, spirit, and the human place in creation, religious institutions of all faiths have a special and essential role in this awakening.

Today, our spiritual awakening is already underway, sometimes within our religious institutions, but more often beyond them—sometimes in spite of them. It is essential to our collective future that our religious institutions refashion themselves as centers of spiritual inquiry and community-building dedicated to drawing from the whole of human knowledge and experience to deepen our understanding of ourselves and our relationship to the larger whole of Creation. No other human institutions are comparably positioned to facilitate this awakening, give it visibility in the public discourse, and help it find coherence and direction.

For 5,000 years, we humans have wandered through the valley of the shadow of death. Perhaps it was part of our necessary learning, preparation for the next step in our own evolution as a self-aware species to which Creation granted the power to choose its own future. It is now ours to choose whether we take the step to species maturity and learn to share earth's abundance for the good of all, or suffer potential self-extinction in a daring but failed evolutionary experiment, and thereby turn back the evolutionary clock by millions of years.

We are privileged to live at the most dangerous but also the most exciting moment of creative opportunity in the whole of the human experience. There is no wall too tall. We have the power to turn this world around for the sake of ourselves, our children, and Creation's grand journey. It is up to us. We are the ones we've been waiting for.

David Korten, author

2/08/2011

Secrets of Mayan Calendar Unveiled By: Ian Xel Lungold

This is a must watch documentary for all those psychonauts who have been researching on the Mayan calendar and their prophecies. In this documentary, Lungold takes a complex subject like the Mayan Calendar and makes it easy for us to understand their prophecy on a spiritual level. He also explains the Mayan Calendar consists of the schedule of creation that can be overlaid with the past events in human history. This documentary is a recorded lecture in three parts in which, Lungold also answers some questions from the audience. This can also be used as a predictor of what to expect in our near future as we come closer to 2012. Well, we just got one year here. So, I'll say, it's never too late.

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Part One


Part Two


Part Three




The content of this blog is well researched and written by Divine ૐ Tattva (Abhinav Agarwal) and Astral ૐ Anveshta.

2012 Science or Superstition - Full Documentary





Documentary Description

The expanded companion book to the #1 documentary film about 2012!
The 2012 meme has evolved beyond any debates about the relevance of the Maya Long Count calendar to the lives of contemporary human beings. 2012 is about us on planet Earth at this time.
December 21, 2012: will the world really change forever on this date, the end of a 5,125-year calendar last used over a thousand years ago?
Certainly Hollywood would like you to think so. Indeed, a not-so-small industry has arisen around the date, hawking everything from t-shirts to teleseminars.
Clearing a path between fantasy and reality, Alexandra Bruce surveys the entire 2012 landscape, asking questions such as:
  • Is the Earth losing its Mojo?
  • How did 2012 come to mean "The End of Time"?
  • Did psychedelics facilitate the Maya "Cosmovision"?
  • Should we worry about Earth Crustal Displacement?
  • What the hell is "Planet X"?
Uniquely amongst a vast array of 2012 literature, this book features interviews with the leading experts—including Graham Hancock, John Major Jenkins, Daniel Pinchbeck and many others—and insightful, detailed analysis of the broad spectrum of opinion, debate, research and myth regarding the most compelling "end times" prediction of the 21st century.

About the Author

Alexandra Bruce's articles on urban legends, metaphysical and quantum physics themes have been published in Paranoia Magazine, Steamshovel Press, Borderland Sciences and Disinfo.com. She is the author of "Beyond The Bleep: The Definitive Unauthorized Guide To 'What The Bleep Do We Know!?" and "Beyond The Secret: The Definitive Unauthorized Guide To 'The Secret'"
 

9/18/2010

Mayan Calendar Explained By; Ian Xel Lungold

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The Galactic Butterfly

Ian Xel Lungold:

This symbol is called the Galactic Butterfly which is said to represent all of the consciousness that has ever existed in this galaxy.
This is all of our physical ancesto

rs both human, animal, reptile, fish, shell fish, plants as well as the consciousness which organized all of the raw material from a whirling disk into stars then planets and solar systems.
Big Meaning. So big that the original May

a had no symbol for this. In their civilization it was like having no name for God. Just knowing the concept was good enough.
Later this pattern was devised by Toltec or Zapatec weavers as a pattern for blankets and this is where Jose Arguelles came across it. He called it Hunab Ku. The indigenous peoples call it "The Galactic Butterfly".

To the Maya Butterflies are seen as ancestors returning for a visit to physicality. Wearing one of these symbols is very powerful as it broadcasts your reaching to actively join the consciousness of our galaxy.






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6/23/2010

You are a Powerful Creative Being





When Light is Here, darkness disappears. Darkness does not escape; it does not exist at all. It is only an absence of light. Ego is just like darkness & has no existence of its own. It is only the absence of Awareness. Observe it. And once we know the Basic problem of humanity, it is not difficult at all to dissolve it. In fact, in the very finding it dissolves, because your Awareness becomes a light unto itself.











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4/04/2010

Maya (illusion)

Maya (Sanskrit माया māyāa[›]), has multiple meanings, within a Hindu or Sikh context, the word refers to concepts of "illusion". Maya, is the principal concept which manifests, perpetuates and governs the illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics this manifestation is real. [1] Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this — more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and the Universe is a false dichotomy. The distinction between consciousness and physical matter, between mind and body (refer bodymind), is the result of an unenlightened perspective.

[edit] Maya in Hinduism
The word origin of maya is derived from the Sanskrit roots ma ("not") and ya, generally translated as an indicative article meaning "that." The mystic teachings in Vedanta are centered on a fundamental truth that cannot be reduced to a concept or word for the ordinary mind to manipulate. Rather, the human experience and mind are themselves a tiny fragment of this truth. In this tradition, no mind-object can be identified as absolute truth, such that one may say "That's it." So, to keep the mind from attaching to incomplete fragments of reality, a speaker could use this term to indicate that truth is "Not that."

In Hinduism, Maya is to be seen through, like an epiphany, in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of samsara). Ahamkar (ego-consciousness) and karma are seen as part of the binding forces of Maya. Maya may be understood as the phenomenal Universe of perceived duality, a lesser reality-lens superimposed on the unity of Brahman. It is said to be created by the divine by the application of the Lila (creative energy/material cycle, manifested as a veil - the basis of dualism). The sanskaras of perceived duality perpetuate samsara.[citation needed]

[edit] Maya in Hindu philosophy
In Advaita Vedanta philosophy, Maya is the limited, purely physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become entangled. Maya is held to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self — the Cosmic Spirit also known as Brahman. The concept of Maya was introduced by the great ninth century Hindu philosopher Adi Shankara.[2] Many philosophies or religions seek to "pierce the veil" of Maya in order to glimpse the transcendent truth, from which the illusion of a physical reality springs, drawing from the idea that first came to life in the Hindu stream of Vedanta.

Maya is neither true nor untrue. Since Brahman is the only truth, Maya cannot be true. Since Maya causes the material world to be seen it is true in itself but is untrue in comparison to the Brahman. On the other hand, maya is not false. It is true in itself but untrue in comparison with the absolute truth. In this sense, reality includes maya and the Brahman. The goal of spiritual enlightenment ought to see Brahman and maya and distinguish between them. Hence, Maya is described as indescribable. Maya has two principal functions — one is to veil Brahman and obscure and conceal it from our consciousness. The other is to present and promulgate the material world and the veil of duality instead of Brahman. The veil of Maya may be pierced and with diligence and grace, may be permanently rent. Consider an illusion of a rope being mistaken for a snake in the darkness. Just as this illusion gets destroyed when true knowledge of the rope is perceived, similarly, Maya gets destroyed for a person when they perceive Brahman with transcendental knowledge. A metaphor is also given — when the reflection of Brahman falls on Maya, Brahman appears as God (the Supreme Lord). Pragmatically, where the duality of the world is regarded as true, Maya becomes the divine magical power of the Supreme Lord. Maya is the veritable fabric of duality and she performs this role at the behest of the Supreme Lord. God is not bound by Maya, just as magicians do not believe the illusions of their own magic.

By Sri Shankaracharya

The Supreme Self (or Ultimate Reality) who is Pure Consciousness perceived Himself by Selfhood (i.e. Existence with "I"-Consciousness). He became endowed with the name "I". From that arose the basis of difference.
He exists verily in two parts, on account of which, the two could become husband and wife. Therefore, this space is ever filled up completely by the woman (or the feminine principle) surely.
And He, this Supreme Self thought (or reflected). Thence, human beings were born. Thus say the Upanishads through the statement of sage Yajnavalkya to his wife.
From the experience of bliss for a long time, there arose in the Supreme Self a certain state like deep sleep. From that (state) Maya (or the illusive power of the Supreme Self) was born just as a dream arises in sleep.
This Maya is without the characteristics of (or different from) Reality or unreality, without beginning and dependent on the Reality that is the Supreme Self. She, who is of the form of the Three Guna (qualities or energies of Nature) brings forth the Universe with movable and immovable (objects).
As for Maya, it is invisible (or not experienced by the senses). How can it produce a thing that is visible (or experienced by the senses)? How is a visible piece of cloth produced here by threads of invisible nature?
Though the emission of ejaculate onto sleeping garments or bedclothes is yielded by the natural experience of copulation in a wet dream, the stain of the garment is perceived as real upon waking whilst the copulation and lovemaking was not true or real. Both sexual partners in the dream are unreal as they are but dream bodies, and the sexual union and conjugation was illusory, but the emission of the generative fluid was real. This is a metaphor for the resolution of duality into lucid unity.
Thus Maya is invisible (or beyond sense-perception). (But) this universe which is its effect, is visible (or perceived by the senses). This would be Maya which, on its part, becomes the producer of joy by its own destruction.
Like night (or darkness) Maya is extremely insurmountable (or extremely difficult to be understood). Its nature is not perceived here. Even as it is being observed carefully (or being investigated) by sages, it vanishes like lightning.
Maya (the illusive power) is what is obtained in Brahman (or the Ultimate Reality). Avidya (or nescience or spiritual ignorance) is said to be dependent on Jiva (the individual soul or individualised consciousness). Mind is the knot which joins Consciousness and matter.
Space enclosed by a pot, or a jar or a hut or a wall has their several appellations (eg.,pot space, jar space etc.). Like that, Consciousness (or the Self) covered here by Avidya (or nescience) is spoken of as jiva (the individual soul).
Objection: How indeed could ignorance become a covering (or an obscure factor) for Brahman (or the Supreme Spirit) who is Pure Consciousness, as if the darkness arising from the night (could become a concealing factor) for the sun which is self-luminous?
As the sun is hidden by clouds produced by the solar rays but surely, the character of the day is not hidden by those modified dense collection of clouds, so the Self, though pure, (or undefiled) is veiled for a long time by ignorance. But its power of Consciousness in living beings, which is established in this world, is not veiled.
[edit] Understanding Maya through Bhagavad Gita verses
Spoken by Krisna (also spelled Krishna) to Arjuna on the battlefield of Kurukshetra Bhagavad Gita, Ch.14, Verse 3. "My womb is the great Nature (Prakriti or MAYA). In that I place the germ (embryo of life). Thence is the birth of all beings".

Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 14, Verse 4 "Whatever forms are born, O Arjuna, in any womb whatsoever, the great Brahma (Nature) is their womb and I am the seed-giving father."

Explanation: Prakriti (Nature), made up of the three qualities (Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas), is the material cause of all beings.

In the great Prakriti, I place the seed for the birth of Brahma (the creator, also known as Hiranyagarbha, or Ishwar, or the conditioned Brahman); and the seed gives birth to all beings. The birth of Brahma (the creator) gives rise to the birth of beings.

The primordial Nature (prakriti) gives birth to Brahma, who creates all beings.

(I am the father; the primordial Nature is the mother).

Bhagavad Gita, Ch.13, verse 26. "Wherever a being is born, whether unmoving or moving, know thou Arjuna, that it is from the union between the field and the knower of the field". (Purusha is the knower of the field; Prakriti is the field; Shiva is another name for the knower of the field and Shakti is the field; Spirit is another name for the knower of the field and Matter (Prakriti) is the field).

Bhagavad Gita, Ch. 7, Verse 5. "I am endowed with two Shaktis, namely the superior and the inferior natures; the field and its knower (spirit is the knower of the field; matter is the field.) I unite these two".

Bhagavad Gita Ch.7, Verse 6. "Know these two- my higher and lower natures- as the womb of all beings. Therefore, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe".

Bhagavad Gita, Ch.13, Verse 29. "He sees, who sees that all actions are performed by nature alone, and that the Self is action less".

(The Self is the silent witness).

Bhagavad Gita, Ch.9, Verse 17. "I am the father of this world, the mother, the dispenser of the fruits of actions and the grandfather; the one thing to be known, the purifier, the sacred monosyllable (AUM), and also the Rg, the Sama and the Yajur Vedas".

Bhagavad Gita, Ch.18, Verse 61. "The sovereign Lord dwells in the heart space of beings and moves them to act by his divine Maya, as though mounted on a machine".

[edit] Maya in Hindu Mythology
Maya may also be visualized as a guise or aspect of the Divine Mother (Devi)or Devi Mahamaya concept of Hinduism.

In Hinduism, Maya is also seen as a form of Laksmi, a Divine Goddess. Her most famous explication is seen in the Devi Mahatmyam, where she is known as Mahamaya. Because of its association with the goddess, Maya is now a commonly used girl's name in India and amongst the Indian diaspora around the world [3].

Essentially, Mahamaya (great Maya) both blinds us in delusion (moha) and has the power to free us from it. Maya, superimposed on Brahman, the one divine ground and essence of monist Hinduism, is envisioned as one with Laxmi, Durga, etc. A great modern (19th century) Hindu sage who often spoke of Maya as being the same as the Shakti principle of Hinduism was Shri Ramakrishna.

In the Hindu scripture 'Devi Mahatmyam,' Mahamaya (Great Maya) is said to cover Vishnu's eyes in Yoganidra (Divine Sleep) during cycles of existence when all is resolved into one. By exhorting Mahamaya to release Her illusory hold on Vishnu, Brahma is able to bring Vishnu to aid him in killing two demons, Madhu and Kaitabh, who have manifested from Vishnu's sleeping form. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa often spoke of Mother Maya and combined deep Hindu allegory with the idea that Maya is a lesser reality that must be overcome so that one is able to realize his or her true Self.

Maya, in Her form as Mahalaxmi, also known as Durga, was called upon when the gods and goddesses were helpless against the attacks of the demon Mahisasura. The combined material energy of all the gods, including Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, created Her. She is thus said to possess the combined material power of all the gods and goddesses. The gods gave her ornaments, weapons, and her bearer, the lion. She was unassailable. She fought a fierce battle against the demon Mahisasura and his huge army. She defeated the demon's army, killed the demon, and hence restored peace and order to the world. Thus She is, even now, the protector of the Universe, which is lying in her lap.

Devi Mahamaya is also a Kuldev of the Gowd Saraswat Brahmins of Goa, India.

[edit] Buddhism
See also: Reality in Buddhism
The concept that the world is an illusion is controversial in Buddhism. In the Dzogchen tradition the perceived reality is considered literally unreal. As a prominent contemporary teacher puts it: "In a real sense, all the visions that we see in our lifetime are like a big dream [...]".[4] In this context, the term 'visions' denotes not only visual perceptions, but appearances perceived through all senses, including sounds, smells, tastes and tactile sensations.

Different schools and traditions in Tibetan Buddhism give different explanations of the mechanism producing the illusion usually called "reality".[5]

“ The real sky is (knowing) that samsara and nirvana are merely an illusory display[6]. ”
—Mipham Rinpoche, Quintessential Instructions of Mind, p. 117


[edit] Maya in Sikhism
In Sikhism, the world is transitory and a passing phase. However, it is viewed as relatively real.[7] God is viewed as the only reality, but within God exist both conscious souls and unconscious objects; these created objects are also real.[7] The events which occur in nature are real but the effects they generate are unreal. Maya is as the events are real yet Maya is not as the effects are unreal. Consider the following examples. In the moonless night, a rope laying on the ground may be mistaken for a snake. We know that the rope alone is real, not the snake. However, the non-apprehension of the rope gives rise to the misapprehension of the snake. Once the darkness is removed, the rope alone remains; the snake disappears. Similarly, in the darkness of the night, a pole may be mistaken for a ghost. As the darkness is removed, the ghost disappears; only the pole remains as reality.

Sakti adher jevarhee bhram chookaa nihchal siv ghari vaasaa.
In the darkness of Maya, I mistook the rope for the snake, but that is over, and now I dwell in the eternal home of the Lord .
(sggs 332).
Raaj bhuiang prasang jaise hahi ab kashu maram janaaiaa.
Like the story of the rope mistaken for a snake, the mystery has now been explained to me. Like the many bracelets, which I mistakenly thought were gold; now, I do not say what I said then . (sggs 658).[8]
One understanding of the snake or serpent is its relation to money, it is said even in the story of Adam and Eve that they were tempted by the devil in the form of a serpent, in other ancient mythologies the symbol of the snake was affialated with money, even today the double serpent symbol is present in the symbol of the dolar, when we think money we think of $, which was formed by snake symbols. Maya in modern Punjabi refers to Money, however in the Guru Granth Sahib it is referring to the granded scheme of the illusion of the world of what we see, touch, i.e. Materialism, and from this Maya everything else of evil, indulgence and ravishing evil lusts are born, but rejecting Maya a person of secularity can take first steps towards spiruality.

Janam baritha jāṯ rang mā▫i▫ā kai. ||1|| rahā▫o.
You are squandering this life uselessly in the love of Maya.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib M.5 Guru Arjan Dev ANG 12


The teachings of the Sikh Gurus push the idea of sewa (selfless service) and simran (praying/praying to God/Meditating/remembering ones true death hence remembering God). The depths of these two concepts and the answer to all of Sikhism comes from Sangat (congregation), by joining the congregation of true Saints one is saved. The extract (shabad) from Guru Granth Sahib is talking about how the world is indulged in Materialism and all wonder around.

Mā▫i▫ā mohi visāri▫ā jagaṯ piṯā parṯipāl.
In attachment to Maya, they have forgotten the Father, the Cherisher of the World.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib M3 Guru Amar Das ANG 30


Ih sarīr mā▫i▫ā kā puṯlā vicẖ ha▫umai ḏustī pā▫ī.
This body is the puppet of Maya. The evil of egotism is within it.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib M3 Guru Amar Das


Bābā mā▫i▫ā bẖaram bẖulā▫e.
O Baba, Maya deceives with its illusion.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib M1 Guru Nanak Dev ANG60
"For that which we cannot see, feel, smell, touch, or understand, we do not believe. For this, we are merely fools walking on the grounds of great potential with no comprehension of what is."

- Buddhist monk quotation[9]
[edit] Notes
^ a: From a Proto-Indo-Iranian *māyā, cognate to Avestan māyā with an approximate meaning of "miraculous force", of uncertain etymology, either from a root may- "exchange", or from a root mā- "measure", among other suggestions; Mayrhofer, EWAia (1986-2001), s.v.[10]