What is Māyā?

Māyā is “illusion,” a core concept in the Advaita Vedānta or “non-dual” school of Vedic thought. It’s key to understanding the way you construct the world through false perception. Māyā is thinking you’re separate from the Divine. Enlightenment is realizing this isn’t true. There’s a deeper reality that transcends the changing world. In the Vedas, it’s called Brahman—Pure Consciousness.

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[jamesmoore]

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.

[ht]

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

[Learningandhelping]

Wow. This is amazing way of explaining

[lbell]

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!

[lanceanderson]

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.”

[alizulqarnain]

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 ...

[Ravikumar-vhtb]

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

[happyhealthyhadlee]

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

[noCRAPplz]

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

[codyraymiller]

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

[rishabhthakur]

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

[rsmedia]

It is mentioned in dakshinamurthy stotram

[ObeySilence]

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

[tatsavitar]

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

[MoshiLQalea]

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

[edu.]

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

[ThaSoloist]

i enjoyed this. very clear and to the point.

[balajiraog]

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...!

[heneralluna]

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

[dp]

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