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	Maya (illusion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Maya is believed to be an illusion, a veiling of the true, unitary Self, also known as Brahman.
		In Hinduism, Maya must be seen through in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of death and rebirth) - ahamkar (ego-consciousness) and karma are seen as part of the binding forces of Maya.
		Maya is seen as the phenomenal universe, a lesser reality-lens superimposed on the one Brahman that leads us to think of the phenomenal cosmos as real.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_(illusion) (687 words)

	Maya (Hinduism) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Hinduism, Maya must be seen through in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of death and rebirth)—ahamkar (ego-consciousness) and karma are seen as part of the binding forces of Maya.
		Maya is equated with Nature or the visible universe consisting of the three modes of energy- Sattwa or harmony, Rajas or activity and Tamas or inertia.
		Maya, superimposed on Brahman, the one divine ground and essence of monist Hinduism, is envisioned as one with Kali, Durga, etc. A great modern (19th century) Hindu sage who often spoke of Maya as being the same as the Shakti principle of Hinduism was Shri Ramakrishna.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maya_(Hinduism) (2240 words)

	Glamour Maya Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Illusion is a soul activity, and is the result of the mind aspect of all incarnated personalities in manifestation.
		Maya is the term given to these uncontrolled energies, forces, and impulses which emanate from the world of prana, and from the latent force of matter itself.
		Glamour, maya, illusion, and the expression; the dweller on the threshold, all stand for the same general concept, or some differentiation of that same concept.
	www.iamuniversity.org /projects/temples/djwhalkhulmaya.html (3863 words)

	maya - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about maya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maya pottery was the wonder of contemporary neighbouring peoples in Central America: one example of it was found 1,600 km/1,000 miles south of the site of manufacture.
		The Maya were originally ruled by a theocracy supported by taxation and tribute; they traded with their neighbours to the north and south.
		Maya beliefs were based on land, which was held in common until the arrival of the Spanish.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /maya (867 words)

	Maya- the grand illusion
		It is in the hall of illusions that the seeds of the great Mahabharata war were actually sown which germinated and ultimately consumed the whole Kuru family bringing them untold misery and great destruction.
		Maya or illusion is a very potent instrument of the Divine Prakriti, the Primal Nature.
		Under the influence of illusion, indulging in egoistic actions, accepting the sense of doership, with a desire to enjoy the fruit of actions, the being becomes subject to the laws of karma and dharma and returns again and again to the world of mortality.
	www.hinduwebsite.com /maya.htm (1081 words)

	Maya, Goddess of Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Maya is also worshipped in Nepal, Tibet, Asia, and the Himalayas.
		Here she is depicted lifting the veils of earthly form to reveal the true nature of the universe.
		Wholeness is nurtured when you accept where you are and forgive yourself, become aware of the illusion, then consciously lift the veils to experience the reality.
	www.angelfire.com /va/goddesses/maya.html (219 words)

	Maya - Illusion
		Men are deluded through her maya and have become attached to the world.
		As long as the sleep and the illusion last, the experience of the dream and the mirage appear to be real.
		On account of maya, the infinite soul, or the Godhead, identifies itself with the finite, material forms and becomes individualised.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/hinduism/21133/2 (464 words)

	The Name "Maya"
		Maya Katherine Buffett-Davis is also named for Maya Deren, a pioneer of avant-garde and experimental cinema from the middle of the twentieth century.
		Maya is one of those active powers: the constant movement of the universe, pervasive to the atomic level.
		Maya is not a negative force, but can be a mesh through which we perceive the ultimate reality of existence -- if we are not distracted by her magnificent creativeness and complexity.
	www.menlo.com /folks/davis/Maya_Web/Maya_Name.html (1414 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Glamor - A World Problem - I - The Nature of Glamor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Today illusion is so potent, that few people whose minds are in any way developed but are controlled by these vast illusory thought-forms, which have their roots and draw their life from the lower personality life and desire nature of the masses of men.
		The illusion is also precipitated more potently than would otherwise be the case by the effort of many devoted idealistic men to impose these distorted thought-forms upon the mental bodies of the masses.
		Maya is the result of both glamor and illusion.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/glamour/glam1013.html (780 words)

	Maya or Illusion in Hinduism Philosophy
		Maya is the illusion of existance in duality.
		Maya Shakti is the power which brings forth the evolution of the phenomenal world.
		Two is therefore the number of maya or illusion, the universal play of cosmic energy.
	www.sanatansociety.org /yoga_and_meditation/hinduism_philosophy_maya_illusion.htm (967 words)

	Concept of "Maya"
		The attitude of shaivas towards the concept of Maya is positive, affirmative in the sense that as long as the equation between shiva and shakti is disturbed, it has to be there.
		Hence the conception of Maya as outlined by the vedantists is above the average quotient of intelligence possessed by an ordinary man. Shaivism, on the other band, has given a straight and simple definition of Maya, in consonance with the average intelligence obtaining in an ordinary mortal.
		To conclude, with Shaivas, Maya is a psychic disorder, a passing phase, while with the vedantins it is a mental aberration entwining the human mind and intellect permanently; they treat this world being entrenched in the mire of Maya as a waking dream.
	www.koausa.org /Glimpses/Maya.html (2699 words)

	The Great Illusion - Maya
		The Maya is the shadow of God, and the cause of Birth, Death and Egoism.
		Maya bound person is one who is selfish, leads a life of uncontrolled instincts, passions, drives and cravings for material possessions and his sensual pleasures and falls an easy prey to all types of temptations.
		Maya is destructive as is the fire of the womb.
	srec.gurmat.info /srecarticles/thegreatillusionmaya.html (5461 words)

	Maya and Illusion
		But the theory of Maya forms one of the pillars upon which the Vedanta rests; it is, therefore, necessary that it should be properly understood.
		The theory of Maya was manipulated a little by the Buddhists too, but in the hands of the Buddhists it became very much like what is called Idealism, and that is the meaning that is now generally given to the word Maya.
		Maya is not a theory; it is simply a statement of facts about the universe as it exists, and to understand Maya we must go back to the Samhitas and begin with the conception in the germ.
	www.spiritual-teachers.com /vevekantalks/maya.htm (4477 words)

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		The Hindu conception of the dynamic (female) and the Buddhist one of the dynamic (male) do not coincide in their soteriological function; the Hindu stresses the distinction between samsara (the worldly existence) and kaivalya (emancipation), whereas Vajrayana Buddhism stresses the identity of samsara and nirvana systematically and rigorously.
		Illusion, trick, wile; a term favored by Mahayana writers to describe the apparent "reality" of samsara, which being only relatively real, or dependent on causes and conditions, is like an illusion (not nonexistent but deceptive), a magic show, a trick, a bubble, or a mirage, since it lacks any substantial independent reality, and soon disappears.
		The concept of maya is used in opposition to that of the immutable, essential absolute, which is symbolized by the dharmakaya (trikaya).
	www.luckymojo.com /esoteric/religion/buddhism/0005.mayaill.ny (1406 words)

	Ascension Class 10
		One of the absolute keys to dispelling illusion is to learn to "hold the mind steady in the Light." Most people in the world let their minds wander willy nilly and do not keep them focused.
		The two keys for the disciple are to bring all of the chakras under the inspiration of the soul and to transmute the forces of the lower chakras, which control the personality, into the energies of the chakras above the heart, which respond automatically to the inspiration of the soul.
		The third initiation is the mastery of the physical, emotional, and mental bodies, hence the mastery of maya, glamour and illusion.
	www.drjoshuadavidstone.com /aclasses/asclass10.htm (4135 words)

	Maya [or Illusion]
		Maya or illusion is an element which enters into all finite things, for everything that exists has only a relative, not an absolute reality, since the appearance which the hidden noumenon assumes for any observer depends upon his power of cognition.
		To the untrained eye of the savage, a painting is at first an unmeaning confusion of streaks and daubs of colour, while an educated eye sees instantly a face or a landscape.
		She is the primary embodiment of the transcendent principle, and as such the mother of all names and forms, who deludes the world with Her illusion and conjures up the magic of creation, preservation, and destruction.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/Maya.html (1536 words)

	fUSION Anomaly. Maya
		The Mayas believed that the universe had been, and would continue to be, created and destroyed multiple times, and that each such cycle lasted somewhat longer than 5000 years.
		By their estimate, the current universe would be destroyed in the equivalent of the year AD The Mayas conceived of the earth as the back of a giant alligatorlike reptile floating in a pool.
		Inca or Maya treasure - during the conquering of the Americas by the Europeans in the 17th and 18th centuries, much of the wealth of the Incas and Mayas disappeared.
	fusionanomaly.net /maya.html (3109 words)

	Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Glamor - A World Problem - I - Glamor on the Mental Plane - Illusion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The word illusion is frequently lightly used to signify lack of knowledge, unsettled opinions, glamor, misunderstandings, psychic bewilderment, the dominance of the lower psychic powers, and many other forms of the world illusion.
		But the time has come when the word must be used with a developed discriminating sense, and when the disciple must know clearly and comprehend the nature of that phenomenal miasma in which humanity moves.
		Illusion, for our purposes, can be understood to signify the reaction of the undisciplined mind to the newly contacted world of ideas.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /netnews/bk/glamour/glam1021.html (550 words)

	The Divine Illusive Power
		Maya is the perceptive faculty of every Ego which considers itself a Unit, separate from and independent of the One Infinite Eternal Sat or "be-ness."
		Esoteric philosophy, regarding as Maya (or the illusion of ignorance) every finite thing, must necessarily view in the same light every intra-Cosmic planet and body, as being something organized, hence finite.
		Prakriti (Nature) is ever called Maya, illusion, and is doomed to disappear with the rest, the gods included, at the hour of the Pralaya.
	www.wisdomworld.org /additional/ListOfCollatedArticles/TheDivineIllusivePower.html (1521 words)

	Hinduism and the concept of maya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While all this is going on in the whole wide world, at the microscopic level, millions of atoms, cells and molecules in the bodies shift and change their positions or get destroyed.
		It is an illusion to believe that this world is the same always, or that the people we deal with are the same all the time.
		The world is therefore an illusion, not because it does not exist in the physical sense, but because it is unstable, ever changing, impermanent, unreliable and most important of all never the same.
	hinduwebsite.com /hinduism/h_maya.htm (755 words)

	DECEPTIVE MAYA (MAAYEE MAYA CHHALL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fallen in the sway of Maya's illusion, we take an impermanent thing to be a permanent, a fake to be a real, a false to be a truth, an endfull to be an endless, an unlimited to be a limited, an infinite to be a finite, and so on.
		Maya is akin to a net or trap utilized for capturing birds or fish.
		Maya's offspring are false ego-sense, lust, anger, greed, attachment, self-conceit, enviousness, jealousy, stubborn mindedness, and their numerous variations.
	www.gurbani.org /webart14.htm (3773 words)

	Untitled
		All the individualised, finite beings one sees in the universe are manifestations of the non-dual soul through maya; but as maya has no absolute reality, the individual soul created by it not, ultimately speaking, real.
		Thus, the trick of maya is to convince people that differences in the world are all that exist and thus blind them to reality of Brahman and the oneness of existence.
		Finally, when the veil of maya is lifted, people are in the ultimately desired state of eternal being with Brahman.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/hinduism/21133 (1198 words)

	Maya Deren
		Maya Deren is recognizable as the woman with the enigmatic expression at the window, silently observing from within.
		Buddhists understand Maya to mean 'illusion', in Sanskrit it translates as 'mother' and in Greek mythology Maya is the messenger of the Gods.
		In Martina Kudlacek's recent video In The Mirror of Maya Deren, this notion is coldly dispelled with the dreadful assertion that Deren died of a cerebral hemorrhage due to a combination of malnutrition and a predilection for amphetamines and sleeping pills.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/deren.html (3677 words)

	Advaita Vedanta, illusion (Maya) and liberation (Mukti)
		Consequently, within Maya has to be found the entire tangible reality, the very issue of liberation being possible only within the realm of Maya.
		The origin of Maya according to Advaita Vedanta is a question without an answer appearing as a non-relevant issue for the purpose of spiritual liberation (Mukti).
		Thus the comprehension of the illusory nature of Maya is synonym to the understanding of Ishvara that is a level of spiritual growth leading to liberation, according to Advaita Vedanta.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/3588/advaita.htm (515 words)

	Maya and Illusion
		The oldest idea of Maya that we find in the Vedic literature is the sense of delusion; but then the real theory had not been reached.
		We read in the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, "Know nature to be Maya and the Ruler of this Maya is the Lord Himself." Coming to our philosophers, we find that this word Maya has been manipulated in various fashions, until we come to the great Shankaracharya.
		Maya is a statement of the fact of this universe, of how it is going on.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Olympus/5208/jnanayoga/illusion.html (5350 words)

	Hinduism and the concept of Maya (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		According to the concept of maya, the very existence of an individual as a separate entity is unreal.
		As long as the individual thinks that he is different from the rest of the creation and strives to work for his own ends, protecting, furthering nurturing and defending his own ego or individuality, he suffers from illusion and his ego continues its journey into an unknown future shaped by his endless actions and desires.
		It is also suggested that the concept of maya was not part of original vedic religion, but was taken from Buddhism subsequently.
	hinduwebsite.com /beliefinmaya.htm (919 words)

	Creation & Maya
		Maya (Sanskrit: "wizardry," or "illusion") is a fundamental concept in Hindu philosophy, notably, in the Advaita (Non-dualist) school of the orthodox system of Vedanta.
		Maya denotes the power of wizardry with which a God can make human beings believe in what turns out to be an illusion; by extension it later came to mean the powerful force that creates the cosmic illusion that the phenomenal world is real.
		Maya, as per Hindu thought, is illusion, and what mankind understands to be reality is in fact the dream of Brahma.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /dantsmith/nexu31.htm (8601 words)

	Maya -Shakti - Prakriti
		Maya can be destroyed by the realisation of the pure Brahman, the one without a second, just as the mistaken idea of a snake is removed by the discrimination of the rope.
		By her maya, worldly people become entangled in worldly maya, and again through her grace they attain their liberation.
		As the Mahanirvana Tantra says: "To facilitate concentration of mind and for the speedy fulfilment of aspirations, the glorious Kali, the mother of TIME, who is really without form, is invested with forms consistent with her attributes and activities".
	www.hinduism.co.za /maya-sha.htm (7216 words)

	Differences between Hinduism and Buddhism
		Maya is the belief that everything, which one sees in this world is illusion, a product of the individual's own failed interpretation and self-delusion.
		That no one perceives a given thing in the same way could be said to mean that is has no objective reality, only a subjective one existing solely in the mind of the perceiver.
		To one, the self is the key to inner understanding and acceptance of one's place in the world (dharma), to the other, self is an illusion, which brings out the worst in people.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /differences_between_hinduism_and.htm (1442 words)

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