Moment to Speak

If one is known, the other is not far behind. If Reality is one, Truth is one, Existence is one, and Self is one, nothing else remains outside, including the illusionary unreal of Maya, visible only in the Samsāra Chakra (wheel of birth and death). It is all in One, complete, full, imperishable, eternal, and an infinitude of infinity. The scriptures clearly affirm the Reality of Existence and the non-relativeness of Absolute Truth.  If that's the case, exploring both reality and unreality aims to seek to realise the Source in the elevatory journey of Self-knowledge, salvation, and liberation. It is through demystification that one can unravel the veil of ignorance, from an outward projectory orientation that obscures one's identity to an inward journey towards self-realisation. It is not to know what I was or will be; rather, it is to realise that, through conscious effort, I am Brahmān . The scriptures succinctly say Reality is One that may be “ Prajñānam Brahma ” (Intelli...

The world is the Self's aberration away from itself, toward what it is not. This is what sage philosopher Swami Krishnananda asserts again and again. How can one become what one is not? It is logically an indefensible position; yet this is what happens. That is why they call it Maya —a kind of delusive operation, an illusion that is cast before us, an appearance of something that cannot happen at all. Yet, it still occurs in some inexplicable manner. The whole thing is a mystery. We refer to this mystery as Maya. This is what he says about the way of consciousness of the Purusha from its self. The essential nature becomes, Swami Krishnananda expounds, the more the Purusha (Cosmic Self, or pure consciousness) ramifies its rays towards objects or the forms of Prakriti (cosmic matter, insentient) externally, the less it remains as the Purusha and the more it appears to be the Prakriti , having imbibed the characteristics of Prakriti . Purusha becomes the Prakriti , as it were...