Audiobook Narration - Spirtual Hindu Tales
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tail one. The Illusion of Maya by Swami Vivekananda. According to the ancient teachings of Hinduism, the veil of Maya, or illusion prevents us from experiencing Thea Ultimate reality or God. And the same veil also creates the apparent multiplicity of the universe. Such is the double nature of Maya. Without this illusion, we would not exist. Therefore, it is thanks to Maya that we experience life as individual beings instead of experiencing it as the absolute one or God. The essence of Maya can be compared with a trick of a magician, as stated by the eighth century Hindu sage Addison Kara, who explained that once we experience enlightenment, the trick no longer affects us as the magician is not at any time affected by the magical illusion produced by himself because it is unreal. So is the highest self not affected by the illusory visions of his dream because they do not accompany the waking state and the state of dreamless sleep. The following Hindu tale about the power of Maya was written over a century ago by the celebrated Bengali monk Swami Vivekananda, 18 63 to 1902 who in the late 19th century introduced Hinduism in the Western world. It is said that the King of Gods, the powerful Indra Lord of Heaven, woke up one morning being a pig, nobody could explain it. But there he Waas, wallowing in mud with a sheep pig and a lot of baby pigs. And worst of all, he was very happy. When the gods saw his situation, they immediately approached him and said, Oh, Lord Indra, you are the king of the gods and have them under your command. Why are you here? And Indra raised his pig face and replied, Never mind. Don't worry about me. I'm all right here. I do not care for heaven while I have the sow and these little pigs. The poor gods were at their wits end, not knowing what else to Dio. After a time, they decided to slay all the pigs one after another. When all the pigs were dead, Lord Indra began to weep and mourn intensely. Then the gods ripped his pig body open and he came out of it and began to laugh. When he realized what a hideous dream he had had he the king of the gods to have become a pig and to think that pig life was the only life. Not only so but to have wanted the whole universe to come into pig life. The Peru Russia, when it identifies itself with nature, forgets that it is pure, an infinite. The Patricia does not love. It is love itself. It does not exist. It is existence itself. The soul does not know. It is knowledge itself. It is a mistake to say the soul loves exists or nose love, existence and knowledge are not the qualities of the Patricia, but its essence. When they get reflected upon something, you may call them the qualities of that something They're not the qualities but the essence of the Peru Sha the Great Ottman, the infinite being without birth or death. Established in its own glory, it appears to have become so degenerate that if you approach to tell it you are not a pig, it begins to squeal and bite. Thus it is with all in this Maya, this dream world where it is all misery weeping and crying where a few golden balls air rolled and the world scrambles after them. You were never bound by laws. Nature never had a bond for you. That is what the Yogi tells you. Have patience to learn it. And the Yogi shows how by junction, with nature and identifying itself with the mind and the world, the Patricia thinks itself miserable. Then the Yogi goes on to show you that the way out is through experience. You have to get all this experience, but finish it quickly. We have placed ourselves in this net and we'll have to get out. We have got ourselves caught in the trap and we will have to work out our freedom. So get this experience of husbands and wives and friends and little loves. You will get through them safely if you never forget what you really are. Never forget this is only a momentary state and that we have to pass through it. Experience is the one great teacher experience of pleasure and pain. But no, it is only experience. It leads step by step to that state where all things become small and the Peru sha so great that the whole universe seems as a drop in the ocean and falls off by its nothingness. We have to go through different experiences, but let us never forget the ideal