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Many people are of the notions that if they ask, “who I am? Who I am?” then the hold of maya will break. If it were to break like that, then many spiritual people will get enlightened. It is called avarana or screen or matrix as my teacher calls it. Let us see the different ways the maya breaks. Maya can be compared to hold or snare. One can cut it step by step. Of course some people for the sake of theory will argue it as an illusion. Take money. The moment one gets the money, fear, doubt and confusion arises. Many people will become confident, cool and some go to extent of oh and ha. This shows the grip of matrix or maya is already in operation. If one looks money as energy, one looks at the universal flow of money which will loosen the hold of maya. Many people consider money as the root cause for all evils. This shows that the mind is disturbed with Maya’s hold. Money is paper. It is identification ignorance about the laws of giving and receiving where one gets fear with money. Money will always come with a purpose. The moment one realises this, then when ever money comes, purpose will come. It will be spent without our planning and concern and one will free the hold of money. People- whenever one look at the people, we have the memory, love, hate, appreciation, negativity etc with regard to people. If some one praises, we think they are the best and if some one were to tell the truth, we will hate them. We do not see interaction as the interaction of energies and interaction of souls. We see it as interaction of personality. Many men are very afraid of love. The moment you see that every interaction tests and polishes our conduct there by polishing our love. All the rules, roles, gender, colour, skin, memory, past, future etc disappear. We simply accept people as they are. Life - when one looks at life, we think we are going to live for ever and we never remember death. The yogi sees death, old age and sickness. When one constantly reminds of death, old age and sickness, one will loose focus on small things, small fights and meaningless routines. Objects- when one sees objects as tools to aid sadhana, one loses interest in having black berry or Mercedes Benz. Possessing objects which does not help in our sadhana does not interest us. Subtle sense of the world- The universe sends messages, signals on the path and many of us doubt such a subtle world exist itself. Once you start opening yourself to the subtle world, the world looks different. Flowing in tao or dharma or with intuition than using the mind helps our energy to evolve faster, happier and easier. Normal People see every thing as models and routines. Many people think planning, mind, strategy, tactics will work. God operates through coincidence, surprise and unpreparedness. I realised that dream less sleep happens if one penetrates the casual body in sleep and maintain awareness. Of course expecting the act of thinking who I am and that too in English to break the sleep is foolish. My teacher says that shabdabaan or the power of mantra breaks the hold of sleep. In sex people do not look at the other person as god and forget even remembering prayers. To make sex sacred, one must break the hold of maya. Of course it is tough and even condemned by people with ignorance The yogi whether he is house holder or sanyasi uses every incident, people and situation to evolve and perfect the sadhana. Many people do introspection when some thing goes wrong. A yogi is aware of inner rumblings all the time. Work - when you realise what ever you do is the way of offering of god and evolution of the soul, work becomes connected meaningful and loving. We stop trying to prove a point and run behind money. We see the unfolding of plan of god. This is one of the ways of breaking maya in work When
you meet people ask this question “what if I die now? What happens
when he dies? All this deceit, posturing, planning and wickedness,
will it help some one. What brings peace? Love or this kind of one
man ship? When you look yourself in the mirror can you see aging has caught you up, hair has gone gray, teeth have become shaky and legs are weak etc? When you look at the women can you see her love, Her pain, her longing? If you look at the person can you see the destiny pattern why that person is connected with your life? How you are meant to serve him? What is karmic interaction? Slowly one realises that grip of maya is already loosened. Step by step, purifying the mind with prayer and inner vichara (Self enquiry), one breaks the hold of the maya. I dedicate
this article to the holy feet of my teacher for his long life.
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