Maya Illusion Quotes

• In matter-ism (materialism), there can be nothing wrong with the world since there is no right way for the world to be in the first place. Everything is just matter in motion and that's that. In Mind-ism (monism) there's a different route to the same problem. There cannot be a problem of evil, even in principle, since in Mind-ism even morality is maya; illusion. In neither story, then (if we're to be consistent with their principles), can the issue of evil be raised. But in real life the problem comes up all the time. That's the difficulty.

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  Greg Koukl

  Real   Issues   Evil  

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

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  George Harrison

  Karma   Illusion   Individual  

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.

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  Sri Chinmoy

  Powerful   Space   Soul  

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.331, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

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  H. P. Blavatsky

  Reality   Ideas   Ego  

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

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• Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you suppose you will find in me your ideal? Do you think it so easy to have me become your lover? Do you think the friendship of me would be unalloy'd satisfaction? Do you think I am trusty and faithful? Do you see no further than this façade—this smooth and tolerant manner of me? Do you suppose yourself advancing on real ground toward a real heroic man? Have you no thought, O dreamer, that it may be all maya, illusion?

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  Walt Whitman

  Real   Men   Thinking  

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Leaves of Grass”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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