Maya

Maya
Quotes from the teachings of Djwhal Khul:

Sanskrit, "Illusion." Of the principle of form or limitation. The result of manifestation. Generally used in a relative sense for phenomena or objective appearances that are created by the mind. Glossary

//Maya// is oft regarded as being of the same nature as the concept promulgated by the Christian Scientist that there is no such thing as matter. We are asked to regard the entire world phenomena as maya and to believe that its existence is simply an error of mortal mind, and a form of autosuggestion or self-hypnotism. Through this induced belief we force ourselves into a state of mind which recognizes that the tangible and the objective are only figments of man's imaginative mind. This, in its turn, is likewise a travesty of reality. GWP, p 20

//Maya// is vital in character and is a quality of force. It is essentially the energy of the human being as it swings into activity through the subjective influence of the mental illusion or astral glamor or of both in combination. GWP, p 26

Maya is the result of both glamor and illusion. It connotes, when present, an integrated personality and therefore the capacity to tune in on mental illusion and astral glamor. Where this condition is found, the problem of the disciple is one of the greatest in the world. What constitutes the prime difficulty of any disciple is the fact that the battleground of his life involves every aspect of his nature. The whole man is involved. Technically, the word MAYA should only be used in two cases:
 * 1) In reference to the united glamor-illusion to which a man who is an integrated personality responds.
 * 2) In speaking of the limitations of the planetary Logos of our planet. GWP, p 33


 * A dawning sense of //maya// arose in Lemurian days, but there was no real glamor and illusion.
 * //Glamor// arose in early Atlantean times.
 * //Illusion// arose among advanced human beings in later Atlantean days and will be a controlling factor in our Aryan race.
 * //The Dweller on the Threshold// arrives at full potency at the end of this race, the Aryan, and in the lives of all initiates prior to taking the third initiation. GWP, p 42

During the process of incarnation, the seer, the soul, is submerged in the great maya or illusion. He is imprisoned by his own thought forms and thought creations and in those of the three worlds also. YSP, p 169  **Glamor Upon Etheric Levels - Maya** We come now to a consideration of the ways and means whereby //maya// can be ended and the disciple stand free from //the influence of physical plane force.// In the above statement the whole story of maya can be found. [...] It is naturally necessary to realize that all manifestation on all levels is an expression of force, but the forces to which I refer here under the term maya are those uncontrolled energies, those undirected impulses which emanate from the world of prana and from the latent force of matter itself. These sweep a man into wrong activity and surround him with a whirlpool of effects and of conditions in which he is entirely helpless. [...] The problem of maya is complicated by the fact that upon the physical plane (as upon the astral plane, though this is as yet little realized) you have the battle of a pair of opposites. [...]  It might perhaps become clearer to your perception if I worded the truth about maya as follows: The latent impulses of the personality life, when divorced from and not under soul control, are blended with the pranic fluids within the periphery of the personality sphere of influence, and then become potent directed streams of force, seeking emergence into physical manifestation through the medium of the seven centers in the physical body.... GWP, p 54

 Quotes from readers:

Ruth writes: "Maya (Sanskrit) [from the verbal root ma to measure, form] Illusion, the non-eternal;

Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached 'reality'; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya" (SD 1:39-40)."

"Just as milliards of bright sparks dance on the waters of an ocean above which one and the same moon is shining, so our evanescent personalities -- the illusive envelopes of the immortal monad-ego -- twinkle and dance on the waves of Maya. They last and appear, as the thousands of sparks produced by the moon-beams, only so long as the Queen of the Night radiates her lustre on the running waters of life: the period of a Manvantara; and then they disappear, the beams -- symbols of our eternal Spiritual Egos -- alone surviving, re-merged in, and being, as they were before, one with the Mother-Source" (SD 1:237)."

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Mayans, Mayas {SD; FSO 3} (Maya-n Calendar.... ..there's a thought to ponder on)