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MÂYÂ (LOWER ASPECT)A symbol of the illusiveness of the lower planes, which are the inverted reflection below of the Truth above. “The great intellectual truth, which the Upanishads taught before Kant, that this entire universe, with its relations in space, its consequent manifoldness and dependence upon the mind that apprehends, rests solely upon an illusion (mâyâ), natural indeed to us owing to the limitations of our intellect; and that there is in truth one Being alone, eternal, exalted above space and time, multiplicity and change, self-revealing in all the forms of nature, and by me, who myself then also am one and undivided, discovered and realised within as my very Self, as the ātman.” – P. Deussen, Philosophy of the Upanishads, p. 48. “How keenly, as one grows older, the idea enforces itself on the heart that all the events and experiences of this life are but Mâyâ. How clearly one sees that all the light of this world is but a false radiance, and that all its seeming realities are the tricks and shows of illusion! Nothing is; everything passes, flits by, and vanishes.” – Anna Kingsford, Life, Vol. II, p. 174. “The world is a spiritual world, merely employing matter for its manifestations.” – H. Drummond, Ascent of Man, p. 420. “Ever since I was a little child I have been impressed by the unreality of the material world and the events which are taking place in it. I can well remember, as a boy, the strange feeling I often had that I was not at home in it, that it was unsubstantial – a mirage which might easily disappear – and that in any case the true world was somehow hidden behind it and occasionally shining through. In the strenuous activities of later life all this feeling lessened, though it wholly never left me, and now it has come back with almost the same intensity as in childhood. And since my spiritual life has deepened and matured somewhat, I find myself growing more aloof from the appearances and pre‑occupations of the visible world, and concentrating more and more upon the permanent realities underlying it and the purpose of my being here. Not that I take no account of the present world or tell myself that it does not matter. On the contrary, I feel that it matters far more deeply than at present we are able to realise: but it does not matter in the way it seems to matter; it matters for something else. All that we say or do, feel, think, or know, matters in relation to the eternal and not otherwise.” – R. J. Campbell, Serm., The Sense of the Eternal. |
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