God said the word, and the word was made flesh.

The Ego does not exist! Yet it is present at all times.

The ego is unreal: it is just an idea. It is but an idea of ourselves of who we are. An idea of several fragmented parts, that which over a period clings to us and is seen to be us. The real you is an organism, but an organism that exists in harmony with the environment. By itself this living organism cannot exist. It exists as a part of the whole.

Just as the skin covers our physical bodies, our ego is the skin of our mental processes. Just as the physical skin gives us a distinct sense of what we are and what exists outside us, the ego describes a distinct ‘I’ versus that which is outside.  The ego is a linguistic fiction: it describes a thing: a noun. A noun is an object. A thing is finally a ‘unit of thought’ – a concept. Your mind creates this to help you make sense: to support rational choices. But what is rational: demand feeding or scheduled feeding? Both is an idea. Ideas change over time.

So why do we have a penchant for things? We need to unitise something to help us get clarity. We need this to analyze, for our mind to work things out. How many things does it take to call us human? We use a unit to describe the basic element that makes up the whole. The head, upper torso, lower body are all segmentations created: in reality they don’t exist. Classification is to enable us to think through: by themselves they are not a reality. At what stage does the neck become the upper torso or a part of the head? The atom is a unit for material, and so on and so forth. An attempt is being made to think in simple terms.

In our attempt to measure, to figure out things, we try and arrive at a unit to measure. To make sense of it. All forms are then sought to be measured by its unit in order to understand it. We need for us to make the intangible, tangible.

The human body is constantly changing, in perpetual ‘amness’. Yet, we are deluded with the object, get attached to it, cling to it. Become overly possessive with that ‘thing’.

In the beginning was the word…said the bible. It begins with the concept. When does something begin, when does something end? Yet we need to create an arbitrary distinction, we choose to categorize, into distinct segments in order to describe more precisely, and that allows us to explore it more distinctly.

Yet it is critical, that at all times, that we recognize that the actual environment cannot be split into parts: they are all interconnected. Like mechanisms in the clock, each one can be described in part, but together it all ‘hangs in’. There is no separateness that exists.  We are almost in a state of hypnosis, seduced by language most of the time. To transcend, one needs to go out of one’s mind. Literally. This would require an awakening to the true structure of one’s consciousness.

Thinking is an art, an acquired skill. It requires diligence. It needs to be developed. Truth is, our brain does most of the thinking for us. If we do not understand our own brains, it seems our brains are more sophisticated than we are. Our brains continue to take in all the sensory inputs from outside and analyses it all the time. Truth is, one cannot catch hold of the physical world, it does not exist. In it reductionist form, it is but an atom, and even lower just an energy wave: it exists but not in the way it appears. Yet, we have a desire to explain away things. What is, only describes what you are. The observer is the observed, said J. Krishnamurthy. That which is outside, is a maya: an assumed to be an illusion. A dream like state. That’s not true.

The foundation of maya comes from the its original sanskrit root: measure, metre, matter, metric. Equating the realities of the physical world to ‘measure’ – to find an equation. Maya is art, skill in creating something, different vision of the universe. All enabling us to see the world in different ways and in infinite ways.

All laws of nature do not exist in nature, they at best measure nature. Gravity is a metric or the law devised to measure. That an apple does fall, the law of gravity is devised: it just happens to describe what is regularly observed. The law follows the phenomena, the phenomena is not caused by laws of gravity. If a stone moves up, it would have been called the balloon effect. The fact that a stone does not balloon up but falls to the ground, we have the law of gravity. The effects are explained by a cause, or it it? Or that the pattern is explained by a law, which is causal. 'What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our nature of questioning." W. Heisenberg

In fact to believe in a rigid law, is dangerous. Legal law is not the ‘letter of the law’ but have know the ‘spirit of the law’: the sense of justice, the equity principle is key. A judge needs to apply these principles, not just enforce the letter. This is not being tough mindedness: it is just inflexibility.

We live our lives in stories, idioms, notions and symbols. These do not exist just in one time or epoch but across time. It is our collective consciousness as referred to by Carl Jung. Our notions come from the ideas of our times. Psychoanalysis derives its notions from Newtonian Physics. Meditation more from Quantum Physics. Earlier, biology of the human being derived most of its insights from Mechanics.

Fact is, that a notion is a function of its time. All notions is but an idea. What would an advanced conversation be if there were indeed no concepts: no words. A combination of a heart mind conversation.

The part contains the whole: the whole exists in each part. We are complete. What God created whole, man divides.

Extracted material: Maya has 3 variant forms: Maiya, Miah and Miya. 

Maya: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary on Maya 

maya: (Sanskrit) "Consisting of; made of," as in manomaya, "made of mind." 

From the verb root ma, "to measure, to limit, give form." The principle of appearance or manifestation of God's power or "mirific energy," "that which measures." The substance emanated from Siva through which the world of form is manifested. Hence all creation is also termed maya. It is the cosmic creative force, the principle of manifestation, ever in the process of creation, preservation and dissolution. 

See: loka, mind (universal), mirific. 

The Upanishads underscore maya's captivating nature, which blinds souls to the transcendent Truth. In Shankara's Vedantic interpretation, maya is taken as pure illusion or unreality. In Saivism it is one of the three bonds (pasha) that limit the soul and thereby facilitate its evolution. For Saivites and most other nondualists, it is understood not as illusion but as relative reality, in contrast to the unchanging Absolute Reality. 

In the Saiva Siddhanta system, there are three main divisions of maya, the pure, the pure-impure and the impure realms. Pure or shuddha maya consists of the first five tattvas - Siva tattva, Shakti tattva, Sadasiva tattva, Ishvara tattva and Shuddhavidya tattva. The pure-impure realm consists of the next seven tattvas. The impure realm consists of the maya tattva and all of its evolutes - from the kala tattva to prithivi, the element earth. Thus, in relation to the physical universe, maya is the principle of ever-changing matter. In Vaishnavism, maya is one of the nine Shaktis of Vishnu. 

See: loka, mind (universal), mirific, tattva, world.