madonnafra
11-05-2003, 05:21 AM
This is some information that I found the other day in the book Autobiography
of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. The subject that he was discussing was
Maya. Here are the fascinating details that he told us about the true meaning
of Maya.
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"It should not be imagined that the truth about Maya was understood only by
the rishis. The Old Testament Prophets called Maya by the name of Satan (lit.,
in Hebrew, "the adversary") The Greek Testament as an equivalent for Satan,
uses diabolos or devil. Satan or Maya is the Cosmic Magician who produces
multiplicity of forms to hide the One Formless Verity. In God's plan and play
(lila), the sole function of Satan or Maya is to attempt to divert man from
Spirit to matter, from Reality to unreality.
Christ describes Maya picturesquely as a devil, a murderer, and a liar. "The
devil...was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it" (John 8:44).
The devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8) That is,
the manifestation of the Christ Consciousness within man's own being,
effortlessly destroys the illusions or "works of the devil".
Maya is "from the beginning" because of its structural inherence in the
phenomenal worlds. These are ever in transitional flux as antithesis to the
Divine
Immutability."
Chapter 30 page 322
Blessings,
Gayle
GS5555
Texas Wind
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of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda. The subject that he was discussing was
Maya. Here are the fascinating details that he told us about the true meaning
of Maya.
************************************************** ********
"It should not be imagined that the truth about Maya was understood only by
the rishis. The Old Testament Prophets called Maya by the name of Satan (lit.,
in Hebrew, "the adversary") The Greek Testament as an equivalent for Satan,
uses diabolos or devil. Satan or Maya is the Cosmic Magician who produces
multiplicity of forms to hide the One Formless Verity. In God's plan and play
(lila), the sole function of Satan or Maya is to attempt to divert man from
Spirit to matter, from Reality to unreality.
Christ describes Maya picturesquely as a devil, a murderer, and a liar. "The
devil...was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because
there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own:
for he is a liar, and the father of it" (John 8:44).
The devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was
manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. (I John 3:8) That is,
the manifestation of the Christ Consciousness within man's own being,
effortlessly destroys the illusions or "works of the devil".
Maya is "from the beginning" because of its structural inherence in the
phenomenal worlds. These are ever in transitional flux as antithesis to the
Divine
Immutability."
Chapter 30 page 322
Blessings,
Gayle
GS5555
Texas Wind
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