Essays of gurudeva

माया के स्वरूप और भेद – भाग १

Essays of gurudeva, माया का स्वरूप

माया विभेदबुद्धि की जननी है । जैसे समुद्र तरङ्गें कभी एक अन्य से तथा कभी वेलाभूमि से स्पर्द्धा करते हुए रुन्धित (आवरित – रु॒धिँ॑र् आ॒वर॑णे) करते हैं, जिससे वह परिमित (सीमित) हो जाते हैं तथा भिन्न प्रतीत होते हैं, उसीप्रकार माया सबका शक्ति सङ्कुचित करते हुए वस्तुस्वरूप को उसीप्रकार आच्छादित कर भ्रमदृष्टि सृष्टि करता है, जिसप्रकार अस्त समय में जैसे सूर्य अपना रश्मि को संहृत कर अन्धकार को जन्म देते हैं । माया ब्रह्म का शक्ति होने से सर्वप्रथम ब्रह्म का स्वरूप जानना चाहिए ।

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Reality, Space, Time, Motion & Causality

Essays of gurudeva, Mind, Perception, Intelligence

What is reality? Some say reality must be well defined according to nonhuman entities that lack any understanding of human concepts like particle, observation, etc. For some there are two views of reality: external or the bird’s eye view like the overview of a physicist studying its mathematical structure and inside or the frog in the well view of an observer living in the structure.

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Principles of donation – दान रहस्य

Essays of gurudeva

The two causes for daana are true affection or devotion or liking (श्रद्धा) and capacity (शक्ति). Donations without genuine affection are not cause for dharma, but leads to sin. Capacity for donation means the surplus amount from one’s legitimate earnings after meeting the commitments towards those dependent on the giver. You can give away your own share, but you cannot give away the shares of others dependent on you. Nine types of money have been prohibited from giving in donation even in extreme emergency.

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