Maya And Leela: Utility In Life’s Futility by Santosh Jha (christmas read aloud .txt) 📖

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By Santosh Jha

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Copyright 2013 Santosh Jha

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Table of Contents

Let Us Talk Like Friends: Welcome Note

Maya: The Confusion of Illusion

Maya Smiles As Self’s Leela Enthralls

Au Fait With Probabilistic Superposition

Saunters Of Systemic Shoves

The Immortality of Causal Me

Singularity Of Purpose In All Wisdoms

Maya’s Viraat Swaroop: Cosmic Viewpoint

Ultimate Ingenuity To Unravel Maya

Welcome, Don’t Reject Maya

Road To Song And Dance Of Maya

Obscure Joys of Entangled Communication

The God Within

We All Are Seeds

Being Our Own Media And Regulator

Accept My Gratitude

About The Author

Other Titles By The Author

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Thrilled to have you with me!

I feel truly happy to tell you that this, I do not intend to be a book. Rather, it is like friends chatting up, sharing whatever we can together to enhance the wellness space.

It is my humble belief that any person, in whatever state of consciousness and positioning, is in some special ways, better than a wisdom-book, for the purpose of life & living learning. I must tell you, I have learnt and more importantly, unlearnt, primarily from people. Books somehow are people-material in text-format.

Almost everything, which has a utility at one stage of life, stands a good chance of qualifying for futility later. For all thinking people, the larger conflict of life and living experiences is unraveled and expressed in multi-dimensional cyclicality of utility and futility.

The inquisitive mind and its curious energy cannot leave a thinking person to rest in perpetuity of peace as the world we live in is colossal and the questions of life and living conflicts and conundrums are infinite. We shall see that this unsettling energy is a huge gift.

Most of us, who live in modern contemporary world of complexities, have questions as what a good and righteous person should consider as ‘perpetual-utility’ in life, amidst the general feeling of futility of everything around. What is this singular life and living positioning, which can make us live the life in a state of consciousness, endowed with true utilities, shunning away all those futilities, which land us in pain and regret?

Hundreds of years back, spiritualism and philosophy offered us answers but in time, they have lost trust with us somehow, as they seem to ‘misfit’ with modern ideas. We shall talk about these issues in the light of a ‘new thinking’, which assimilates and integrates all wisdoms – spiritualism, philosophy and science.

It is such a beautifully satisfying fact that core ideas of all wisdoms are similar, only varying in their interpretative details. We shall also talk about this similarity here.

However, first, we have to come down to one common premise, which shall help us is the fruition of the issue at hand – Being In Perpetuity Of Consciousness Positioning Of Utility In Futility.

There has to be a humble admittance – Any word, however well meant and well spelt, is a possible suspect of ‘misrepresentation’. There is a simple reason.

Do you remember when your flight is about to land, the pilot aborts the landing, jolting your peace, just because something as insignificant as a ‘stray dog’ happens to be on the runway?

You already know, how similar is the fate of human words, which we all accept as the best and worthy carriers of human ‘intentions’. This airplane of human words, carrying good and noble intentions need to make a good, smooth and safe landing on the runway of another human’s mind and consciousness, which again is worthy and hugely able.

Still, the good intentioned words sometimes fail to land on the mind of others, as there is some ‘insignificant’, yet potentially fatal obstacle standing midway the runway!

It is believed, “If the hypothesis is right, the idea is accepted as right”. If two people have an assimilative and integrative attitude, one can easily see that root trouble is in subjectivity of the hypotheses. This helps in resolution of conflict of ideas.

Friendship is one positioning, where assimilation and integration about divergent hypotheses has larger accommodative space. A seed is more objectively accommodative in space than a grown up tree. Friendship is seed positioning.

That is why, at the very start, I very affectionately requested you to be my friend and accept this all as one long conversation between friends. Kindly, accept this not as a book but a ‘confabulation’ between friends. This, I am confident, shall engender smoothness of navigation and fruition of the entire exercise.

With all humility and sincerity at my behest, I wish to tell you, it needs to be said that there is only one person on the earth, who can say that he has understood. Otherwise, this domain is reserved for a metaphor called God. This is not available for humans.

It is also a heart-felt realization that our very worthy ancestors, who had the intelligence and courage to face the worst, life made them to, so that we inherit a better beautiful world, have already said almost all good things. What I can do is present them in new set of words with novelty of references.

The only justification of me telling them is that all goodness and wellness ideas and words need to be repeated and retold, to add to their all-pervasiveness.

At the age of 54, I can say with innocence that getting old is such a beautiful and satisfying experience. It makes the ‘self’ accept the ‘utility and fruition’ of holistic, assimilative and integrative consciousness. Getting old has probably pushed ‘me’ close to the ‘eligibility’ of perhaps beginning to understand as what essentially is there to be understood!

I chat up with you to share with you whatever is part of my consciousness. All wisdoms say, human is designed to live in state of ‘flux’, a state of instinctive semi consciousness. To jolt oneself out of this, one must challenge itself; something humanity has done since millions of years. What stays with you is what sinks in. Wisdom is what we internalize.

I share with you whatever I have internalized in my life.

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Maya: The Confusion of Illusion

The higher consciousness of frictionless reception alone has the eligibility to accept that this is sheer joy. For an average consciousness, instinctively inclined towards reactionary positioning, it shall look like we are labeling the energy of confusion about life and living realism as joy.

No doubt, this energy of ‘confusion’, as accepted in popular culture, is the undercurrent. However, we are talking about the human inventiveness and asymmetrical artistry of ‘playful-metaphorization’ of this ‘confusion and chaos’ into something ‘meaningfully and intuitively enjoyable’, in time-space situationality, which stands as the sheer joy.

Vishnu, the protector God in Hindu religious faith, says it in the most revered ancient book of wisdom named Geeta, ‘sansaar chhanbhangur hai par mithya nahi hai’ (the world is ephemeral but not unreal/untrue)’. ‘Ye maya, naashwaan-nashwar sahi, magar, nirarthak aur niruddeshya nahi (the life and living realisms are transient and mortal but not meaningless and purposeless)’.

This is somehow also what the supposedly most intelligent person ever in the history of humanity, Udhishthir, the legendary wise man of Mahabharat epic, while answering to the ‘yaksha-prashnas’ (angel’s questions) said. When the angel asked him, “kim ascharyam”( what is the greatest wonder of the world), Udhishthir replied, ‘har pal, har oar, har vastu ke naashwaan hone ke spasht saakhchhya hone ke bawzood, maya-sansaar ki nirarthakta sthaapit nahi ho paati (every moment, everywhere, there are irrefutable proofs of everything being mortal, still, the uselessness and purposelessness of life does not get established)’.

How can it be, when ‘God’ himself is ‘saying’ that it is not useless! It can never be as never ever one can expect and accept uselessness and purposelessness being created and orchestrated by God. Anyways, how can one label the brilliant energy of billions of years of evolution as waste, useless and untrue? Yes, ephemeral and mortal is everything.

Just see, how religion, philosophy and science, which have been positioned in the popular culture as competing and mutually exclusive, are singular on the most important question of life – the utility and purpose of life! It is not amazing; it is simply an innocent truth.

This is the greatest wonder as well as the greatest joy and satisfaction! The infinite and intrinsic inventiveness and artistry of humanity, despite the mortality and transient situationalism of the life and living realisms, is the wonder even God fails to understand and unravel. This has been mentioned in the ancient Indian religious traditions.

How beautifully satisfying! The ‘joker’ plays its ‘tricks’ in the ‘circus of life’ and everyone laughs. Truth also claps along with the audience. Everyone is happy and thrilled! What is untrue and useless, even when the show of the circus is ephemeral?

The joker of life’s randomization throws up its rainbowish tricks and tantrums and, everyone is happily part of the show’s symmetry. Some may laugh, some may weep but all participate in this randomization show.

This energy of inventiveness in response to the randomization of life’s show can be anything but not untrue and purposeless. Had it been, the life would have wrapped up the show millions of years before. In ancient Indian traditions, this randomized and ephemeral life show has been referred as ‘maya’ and the energy of inventiveness of all living being, especially humans has been labeled as ‘leela’. We shall talk about these two ideas in totality with a holistic, assimilative and integrative perspective, using ideas from all wisdoms – old and new.

Scientists sum up the above ideas nicely. They say, “Any species sustains and survives because of the energy of the intelligence of its inventiveness and it is this very intelligence, which leads the species to its extinction and end”.

The logic is simple, though sounds unpleasantly inappropriate. The life realism is ‘mortal’ because it is not ‘useless and purposeless’. Had it been useless, there would not have been life. Moreover, as it is not unreal and untrue, it shall be created and mitigated in a cyclic order of infinity.

This realism is the exalted positioning that every human has to attain. This is the position of sat-chit-anand (absolute existence, absolute consciousness and absolute bliss). This position is symmetrical with the realization that if there is a God, the cosmic energy of creation; it is this energy of inventiveness. Moreover, if there is a Devil or Destroyer, it is the same energy of inventiveness. This is the non-dualistic consciousness of sat-chit-anand positioning amid the conflict of dualism. All religions say, ‘god is in everything’.

The big question now is; how to understand the energy of this maya structure? Where rests this energy? It seems, this energy is that of inventiveness and its source is the human instinct. This instinct has all the doors of inventiveness. It is important to understand the mechanism of this instinct well.

However, before we begin to understand the mechanism of instinct, it has to be admitted that this process of understanding is also subject to ‘human inventiveness and symmetrical artistry of playful-metaphorization of confusion and chaos into something meaningfully and intuitively enjoyable, in time-space situationality’. This cyclic interplay of maya structures is mesmerizing.

In addition to the above conundrum, the fact remains that we are in a state of realism where there is a huge debate about ‘instincts’ and its role in human destinies. The psychologists and sociologists now argue that humans are no more instinctive. The reason they extend is:

To be considered instinctual a behavior must:

a) be automatic

b) be irresistible

c) occur at some point in development

d) be triggered by some event in the environment

e) occur