MAYA


MAYA. माया
In the Vedas, the term Maya has the same meaning as the term Prajñā, which can be translated by something like: the conscious, INFINITE and vital no-thing that is the essence to everything.

 Since conscious and vital no-thing is aspect of INFINITY, those who have experienced what I'm talking about would only need me to speak about INFINITY, spreading through its limited manifestations.

 For the Advaita Vedanta the term Maya means the illusion of the forms through which the conscious, INFINITE and vital no-thing expresses itself.

 Yet, these two apparently different meanings given by the Vedas on the one hand and by the Advaita Vedanta on the other, are not contradictory. Their complementarity is curiously explained by Quantum Physics that demonstrates the INFINITY of Reality's essence (Alain Aspect Experiment).

 INFINITY "IS" everything. Yet, this "ISness" by definition implies an experience that necessitates consciousness. Indeed, either you experience your own ISness within your body or you witness the ISness of people and things around you, but in both cases ISness is realized IN and BY a consciousness and outside consciousness there is nothing at all.

 Therefore we can say that the essence of Reality is something totally limitless that is also absolutely conscious. This is very close to the description of Prajna, or Maya: a conscious, INFINITE, and vital no-thing. And since this INFINITE consciousness is the essence of Reality it is everything there "IS", including our essence we experience as BEING in us.

 The new physicists like Lucien Hardy, Christopher Fuchs, Jeffrey Bub or Alexei Grinbaum, tell us the universe we know, see and touch, is but virtual Data about Reality's essence which, since it is INFINITE, remains beyond measurement. And a Data implies a consciousness which decodes and understands the Data, right ? Otherwise Data for whom ?

 The world we know is but a kind of digital illusion, what the Advaita Vedanta calls Maya, and the Reality of this Maya is this conscious, INFINITE and vital no-thing which is everything there "IS", and gives its "ISness" to the illusory forms throught which it expresses itself. This verifies that the Vedas and the Advaita Vedanta say the same very thing but from different perspectives.

 Now, when we are identified with our thoughts, this identity is illusory and we only "think" it is Real. Since then on it is predictable that we confuse the limited illusion of Maya's expression with Reality's INFINITE essence. It is also understandable that we expand this virtual, limited and illusory realm through our computers. Indeed, to be enclosed into a thoughts-bubble is a very narrow place to be, and since we do not find the way back to BEING in us which is Reality's INFINITY, our escape into the computer virtual space is expectable. The way out of this "suffocating dream" is to return to BEING in us which is the conscious, INFINITE and vital no-thing called Maya or Prajñā by the Vedas and Reality's INFINITE essence by the New Physics.



Patrick Ali Pahlavi

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