Ken, you are too kind. Thank you so much!

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Thank you so much for your very kind assessment of my work. I'm just a guy trying to figure things out, and feeling his way through. It's so gratifying to learn that your work has resonance with others. Enjoy the rest of the channel. You'd probably love my book too.

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Thank you so much Saket. I really appreciate it.

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Mine too!

Hope you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much Randy, for watching and for commenting. Go to my channel's home page and start with the playlists -- that way the videos play in order.

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Everything you percieve or can be percieved is maya, even your aversion of maya is maya. Beyond maya is the reality, timelessness, spacelessness and stillness of Brahman

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Thank you so much Evan! There are a LOT more videos like this on my channel. 🙏🏼

Chris, mine was a gift too--from one of my students who served in the military overseas and brought it home from Asia, then realized he didn't really have room for it, so he gave to his world religions teacher. Cool! He is Lord Rama, one of the most significant avatars (incarnations) of Lord Vishnu (along with Krishna). Here's a little more details: www.britannica.com/topic/Sita

Keith, you are asking some really great questions here!

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Erin, my views are hard to pin down. Perhaps the word "panoramic" fits best. In more technical terms, I'm an agnostic Christian-Hindu-Buddhist-Daoist panentheist mystic with big love for Kabbalah, Zen, and the Sufis. I love the Christian mystics--they softened my long-held resistance to Christianity, and in fact, for the last few years I've been an Episcopalian. I really enjoy the formal ritual and liturgy, blended with the Progressive theology and liberal social justice emphasis Episcopalians are known for. I think of it as liberal Christianity for over-educated people. But the fact of the matter is I love all religious traditions and spiritual stances, while loathing institutional coercion and theological arrogance. My favorite people are humble, passionate, awake, alive, kind, and curious. So I aspire to be that. Some days I even get close. How about you Erin--where are you at on the ideological spectrum these days?

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Janeiro, you have asked THE great question, not only about Maya, but about all world religions and mythologies -- WHY? If everything out here in the fragmented world came from the One, why did the One split itself up? And why do we humans live in a state of imperfect knowing, lost in a fog of illusion? Of course there is no answer. But we can approach it this way -- that when the Formless Infinite took form here in the temporal realm, It necessarily shattered into fragmentation, the same way white light, when passing through a prism, splits up into the different colors. Perhaps human consciousness is the "prism" through which the singularity of God scatters into a million, seemingly irreconcilable pieces. That is why we close our eyes, grow still, and in the depths of our own consciousness beneath the waves of the thought stream, we begin to Realize that We Are That. So it's key to remember that maya is not evil, or a mistake -- it is an inevitable distortion that arise when the One becomes the many.

@@PeterBolland So intriguing! And I think that, that ability you speak of to realize our true nature as the One is enough to suffice the question as to why the One would split itself as we actually aren’t split at all! Amazing, thank you for sharing your knowledge and replying!

Interesting take!

It's hard to disagree with that.

you got it .

For sure, but without the sinister, evil, alien overlords enslaving us as batteries.

I suppose all of the three-dimensional embodied world is.

@@PeterBolland : It never cease to amuse me how people reflect on Maya and how perceived reality is an illusion, but then hold up the brain and the central nervous system as responsible for creating this illusion. The very artifice whose reality is questioned is held up as being responsible for creating the artifice, it's bizarre.

The outside world only exists inside the head; including the head itself.

That stuff about Putin being a secret British agent carrying out the secret plan cooked up by the British royal family to rule all of earth? Or is this a flat earth thing? Or an underground civilization of lizard people thing? Or that stuff about all alleged space travel having been faked? You're going to have to be more specific.

Thinking everything is an illusion in the ego world, kinda made me enter this derealization phase.

It sounds like it may be time for a long walk on the beach, or in the woods, or in the garden. Touch the earth. "Maya" does not mean that everything is fake, or that the ego is fake. We exist--that is undeniable. And finally, commit an act of service for another. Cook someone a great meal. I love philosophy, but it's time to get back into our bodies, and our hearts, and into this miracle of being alive.

@@PeterBolland i know these, but i dont want to function out of egoic self, therefore this state, but is there a way to function out of pure self and to dissolve the ego and also not get into these weird mind states?

Yes and no.

@@PeterBolland how its yes and no

​@@Tiffanysmith339 his parents are brahman so no they are not maya. The fact that we perceive them as different to Self, then yes the term parents is maya.

That is the paradox isn't it, that changelessness and change arise from the same source. That's why the conceptual mind is ill-equipped to understand or solve these puzzles. It's simply the wrong tool.

@@PeterBolland I sometimes believe that the limitation is in the human brain, it is not that developed to fully understand all the secrets of nature.

Maya is brahman too!

@@xp_money7847 brahman trapped by brahman 😂😂😂 funny

@@adarshsoni5323 thats why maybe its called the creative power or leela

Uh oh. You just erased God's omnipotence. (Or ran smack into the paradoxes that necessarily arise when you drag the ineffable down into conceptual form).

@@PeterBolland I didn't even spell Brahman right too.