In Indian mythology, Mâyâ, the illusion, is considered as the sister of Lord Vishnu, the protector among the divine trinity: Brahmâ – the creator, Vishnu – the preserver and Shîva – the destroyer. They are the three important manifestations of the Nâdha Brahman, the ultimate reality, the origin of creation, which wears the form of sound. They occupy certain sort of ‘posts’ than being gods. Or, in other words, they represent three important phases of the life cycle of any objects: birth, existence, and death. A star born out of gaseous stellar clouds by acquiring gravity, starts to fuse hydrogen to fuel it’s existence, and finally dies either as supernova burst or neutron star, or black hole (one fine day even the neutron star or black hole dies out). This divine trinity applies from humans, five elements, protons to even the large scale cosmos.
Vishnu sometimes does the job of creation and destruction to maintain harmony (dharma), but it is more or less like a human body creates and destroys cells between ultimate beginning and ultimate annihilation, that is during its existence. He employs the power of his sister, Mâyâ, the illusion to fine tune his job to hide the secrets of birth, death and existence. And makes the humans a bunch of morons for thinking that they possess the dominating intellectual superiority among other beings.
Mâyâ creates an illusionary world, where a 4D space looks ultimately real for a being who is gifted to sense just only the 4Ds and this applies to 2D, 3D up to nD. In other words, whatever the capacity of a given species to sense things, it is unable to look beyond it’s capacity and the world within it’s range of ability looks supreme real to that species. Par example, for humans, what we see, sense, invent, our maths seem real, but for the species who can sense 6Ds, all our observations seem ridiculous and primitive.
The dance of Mâyâ is everywhere. Observe, how just the distance reduce our ability to see things differently. A sun or moon close to our earth, at the same time distanced by few astronomical units looks no more like a sphere, but a round two dimensional disk. The stars further away, look point like single dimensional objects. If I am a scorpion, from earth perspective the constellation may look like a scorpion. But if we bring the entire constellation in 3D or nD to our table, from X axis perspective it may look like a peacock and Y axis it may look like a tiger.
Strange even, how the same distance distorts the time and makes us believe the past as present when we observe the stars. A star viewed from earth dieing today is actually died out millions of years ago and the light simply took such a long time to reach earth due to the mind boggling intergalactic distance. But we see it as an event of that night!
The color of my red sweater looks red to you and me. But for an ox, which is color blind or for a butterfly, which can see even beyond the VIBGYOR spectrum, my attire looks differently. For a being which is equipped with sophisticated organs to see and sense 4Ds and much more see my red pull differently. So, the red garment looks red to only the human beings. But not forcibly for all the beings on earth, let alone other species of this entire cosmos.
It is just because of the dance of Mâyâ, Newton’s theory became false when Einstein revealed his models of relativity. One great day Einstein’s theory will definitely become absurd when someone starts to see things differently. It is just because of the dance of Mâyâ, so many technologies became obsolete. What we have devised so far, our modern mathematics, our modern science and research, all are just hopeless tools, which help us to lead just a comfortable life for humans (just only for humans) on this planet earth, but not to find the truth behind our life on this mighty cosmos.
Is it possible to find the elementary particle of this illusion? Just like the graviton for gravity? It seems that Mâyâ continues to dance her dance of illusion in this consumption driven stale modern mad world, which contributes a large number of devolution factors affecting our genes. That is why the wise Hindu philosophers said in one Upanishad:
Vishnu sometimes does the job of creation and destruction to maintain harmony (dharma), but it is more or less like a human body creates and destroys cells between ultimate beginning and ultimate annihilation, that is during its existence. He employs the power of his sister, Mâyâ, the illusion to fine tune his job to hide the secrets of birth, death and existence. And makes the humans a bunch of morons for thinking that they possess the dominating intellectual superiority among other beings.
Mâyâ creates an illusionary world, where a 4D space looks ultimately real for a being who is gifted to sense just only the 4Ds and this applies to 2D, 3D up to nD. In other words, whatever the capacity of a given species to sense things, it is unable to look beyond it’s capacity and the world within it’s range of ability looks supreme real to that species. Par example, for humans, what we see, sense, invent, our maths seem real, but for the species who can sense 6Ds, all our observations seem ridiculous and primitive.
The dance of Mâyâ is everywhere. Observe, how just the distance reduce our ability to see things differently. A sun or moon close to our earth, at the same time distanced by few astronomical units looks no more like a sphere, but a round two dimensional disk. The stars further away, look point like single dimensional objects. If I am a scorpion, from earth perspective the constellation may look like a scorpion. But if we bring the entire constellation in 3D or nD to our table, from X axis perspective it may look like a peacock and Y axis it may look like a tiger.
Strange even, how the same distance distorts the time and makes us believe the past as present when we observe the stars. A star viewed from earth dieing today is actually died out millions of years ago and the light simply took such a long time to reach earth due to the mind boggling intergalactic distance. But we see it as an event of that night!
The color of my red sweater looks red to you and me. But for an ox, which is color blind or for a butterfly, which can see even beyond the VIBGYOR spectrum, my attire looks differently. For a being which is equipped with sophisticated organs to see and sense 4Ds and much more see my red pull differently. So, the red garment looks red to only the human beings. But not forcibly for all the beings on earth, let alone other species of this entire cosmos.
It is just because of the dance of Mâyâ, Newton’s theory became false when Einstein revealed his models of relativity. One great day Einstein’s theory will definitely become absurd when someone starts to see things differently. It is just because of the dance of Mâyâ, so many technologies became obsolete. What we have devised so far, our modern mathematics, our modern science and research, all are just hopeless tools, which help us to lead just a comfortable life for humans (just only for humans) on this planet earth, but not to find the truth behind our life on this mighty cosmos.
Is it possible to find the elementary particle of this illusion? Just like the graviton for gravity? It seems that Mâyâ continues to dance her dance of illusion in this consumption driven stale modern mad world, which contributes a large number of devolution factors affecting our genes. That is why the wise Hindu philosophers said in one Upanishad:
Om, asato ma sad gamaya
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
Mrtyor ma mrtam gamaya
Om, Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
Mrtyor ma mrtam gamaya
Om, Shanthi, Shanthi, Shanthi
Oh! Om, the ultimate reality, From delusion lead me to truth, From darkness lead me to light, From death lead me to immortality. Oh! Om, you who wear the formal form of music, the sacred sound of this mighty cosmos, Shanthi, peace, to the interior world, Shanthi to the exterior world, Shanthi to the world which I have no ability to sense.
Karmany evaadhikaraste ma phalesu kadacana
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Paritramaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam
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You might consider this your graviton equivalent…silence. Ayurveda has a simple way of explaining the extremely confusing narrations in Indian mythology –and I mean confusing because in some books Vishnu is attributed all three tasks, as creator, preserver and destroyer-. But in simple terms, in terms of Gunas, sattvas, rajas and tamas, everything that existed, exists, or will exist falls into one or all of these categories, with a little of each, or predominantly one in particular. Excellent observations on Maya and relativity… the different possibilities of perceiving reality, from the eyes of a butterfly to a dolphin’s point of view, are all valid. Quantum physics has a new approach, beyond Einstein’s relativity. Science has been teaching us that the universe (or perhaps pluriverse, according to Dr. Michio Kaku) is made up of solid particles and waves. Electrons in the atom are particles, sound and light are waves….buuuuut, physicists discovered that a subatomic particle is part of a wave packet. The “behaviour” of a wave is continuous, but wave packets appear as concentrations of energy. Then, only when you ask: where is it? The wave packet is a particle, but when one ponders on its momentum, it is perceived as a wave. So, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle simply states that it is both a wave and a particle!
It is only after observation, that reality or potential reality falls into a given entity. And coupling this concept to a Jewish mathematician who stated that there is no distance or time between two points, things appear separate in space and time but according to his eight-dimensional hyperspace, this is always zero.
I learned from an Indian botanist who loves to watch the sky that the way the solar system really works is light years from the way we have been taught in school. His theory proposes that instead of planets orbiting the sun in ellipses, they actually follow the sun in spiral form, same applies for the moon, otherwise we would have lunar eclipses every month and we do not.
I loved your remark on humans being morons as we think we dominate all other beings given our euphemistic “rationality”. This is why it was necessary to label ourselves Homo Sapiens Sapiens, yes twice, just in case…because we are playing God. S. Freud says human adults invented God as an illusion to comfort themselves against their defenselessness after they leave their parents’ home. Hummm….with development at any cost, pollution, genetic modifications, cloning…we want to reach Mars on multimillion dollar missions but we haven’t eradicated poverty, I would dare say God , Vishnu, Allah, et al must be hiding in shame. F. Fukuyama calls it the End of History; beyond free-markets there is only one option, return to the primitive models of economy....that is if we, in our selfish illusion, do not destroy our very real planet first.