this one is is one of the most beautiful material that come out of hindu philosophy
and the only resolution to the human condition why the pure pristine brahman manifest is this
cantorous jagged cruel world that we're going to encounter why or why and whenever this question
has been thrown at the rishis when people are enlightened they say they run away they say my god
there is a there is a permanent this is how some of you are going to define a layer it's nice for
us to explore it with the the definition of why was it follows this is an illusion that's how we
defined it he said something in the evening you're walking and you see a piece of rope and in the
evening darkness you think it's a snake coming you know dude bite me and you ah you forget frighten
he said maya is the illusion that we hear regarding nature of reality so that is how
adi shankara wrote in the word maya nothing wrong that's the best example he could give and
viva kanan can be much more deeper vision he said do you know what my eyes it's not some illusion
because the illusion you can overcome some of this you see you are you know driving in a road in this
desert area and at the end of it you can see some you know water sparkling see there's water there
you know it's not it's just the sunlight that is kind of in a way being kind of diverted from the
sky into your eyes and make you feel there's water there so then you can overcome it you
can use some kind of technology whereby you can overcome that illusion of the the water in the
end of the road so that you can overcome but that is if you like adi shankar's idea kind of fails
or kind of is reduced but vivekananda came with a different definition you say there is a permanent
disjoint between what is and what it appears as underpinning is brahman you say oh this is brahman
nothing but brahman but you know i don't see that and there's a part why not what's the what's the
disjoint there must be some link this must be causing that there's no causal link either so this
this joint permanent disjoint which you cannot overcome is called maya that is why this is called
the googly of the googlies he's saying there is no way you can explain this this joint that is there
with these voties and what it appears as now you may think mr lakani and you say this is go
passed away 100 years back now what is your take my take is even deeper if you can use that word
you say i come from physics and the best example of maya i discovered is quantum there's a heart
of physics the physical of most physical science is physics at the heart of physics 6 is phenomena
since 1920 is called quantum and people go don't tell me don't just as you say don't ask about maya
when you go to any scientific genuine scientist say explain this quantum they'll say go away
richard feyman a very very astute scientist a very lovely personality by the way he was a womanizer
he used to go around to every university and said now what is quantum not a single
hand would go off of any scientist anywhere in any university it's still the same so this idea
of maya that we are kind of struggling with is the same thing being struggled with in quantum
physics and it's not being sorted out now this is nearly hundred years not been sorted out
so what is quantum all about maya is saying underpinning this reality despite appearance
it's all physical surely you know richard dawkins all physical you know electrons and protons and
quarks and all that and super string oh then he's so physical physicality that is how the universe
is made of all these little things can join up together and produces complex things including
human beings these are the purely materialistic vision and suddenly quantum comes from nowhere and
knocks the heck out of he's saying no underpinning to reality says quantum physics the father of kana
physics werner heisenberg and erwin schrodinger said if we guarantee it's not material
see but how do you explain it see the same issue underpinning something different from
what it appears is what's the link that's we don't know we have to define that no they can't
there's there's a permanent disjoint between what is and what it appears as it's called
this important issue of you know in quantum physics called the the way you collapse problem so
this remains there in quantum physics it's nothing but they're rediscovering maya using physics i
love it i love physics and i love hinduism so i'm kind of enjoying this kind of tussle between
physics trying to explain the quantum and the idea of maya that comes from ancient eating the hindus
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