My Musings

Maya. The Illusion. The great dream of the Paramatma. The source of all creation. Maya is perhaps the most misunderstood concept in Hinduism, with many believing that it is either that the entire creation is but an illusion or that the existence of man is pointless, he is but a tool in the greater will of god, and Maya is man’s delusion of control. Since the entire concept is metaphysical, there is no right or wrong, but perhaps, in my opinion, the interpretation that most suits the concept of Maya is explained by the concept of society. Scientifically speaking, life is a sum of dead things. The cell is the smallest living thing, but the individual components of the cell are each not living. The beauty of nature and life exists in that fact that things which individually cannot be classified as living, join up to form life as we know. It evolves with time, adapting to the changing world, becoming more complex and sophisticated, and becoming more diverse as time grows. A fundamental a...

  Ravana, Dashanana, Lankapathi. A many of many names and many more words, Ravana had it all- ten heads worth knowledge of Vedas, Puranas and Fine Arts, 20 hands worth power, a city of Gold to rule. He had knowledge, power and money. During his days, knowledge was free to those who sought it, provided they had the dedication, wealth came to those who worked for it and power came to those talented enough to wield it. Yet the combination of the 3 failed to assist Ravana in his battle against Rama. The lack of character cost him a city of gold, his powerful army and finally his life. Money couldn’t buy him victory. This is a very good example that money can’t buy everything. Rama purely won by the strength of his character.  However, the argument that the world has become more money centric is used by many to disprove the above argument. Knowledge has a monetary price and value, and to come to power, you need to have money to campaign in democracy or money to pay the army in a co...

 Ignorance is bliss. Who hasn’t heard this quote, and who hasn’t felt it. Every human great and ordinary, rich and poor, the powerful and powerless have all been a prey to ignorance at some point in their life. The British Viceroys were initially ignorant towards popular discontentment in India, the Japanese were ignorant towards the possible response for Pearl Harbor, Alexander the Great was ignorant towards the tiredness of his troops during his campaign, and for a long time, we were ignorant thinking the earth was flat and the center of the universe. There are many kinds of ignorance, ignorance towards knowledge, ignorance towards financial activities, ignorance of reality and so on and so forth. There are so many kinds of ignorance, one can dedicate their life researching about them, but at the end, all can be effectively summed up as the ignorance of truth. Truth is the dispeller of ignorance, the pill, bitter or sweet, to cure you of blindness to reality, to let you see cle...