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Antariksha Instructs
(Power of Maya and worship of the Lord is described)
The king Nimi asked, “What is then this Maya of the Supreme Lord which deludes even the most intelligent and those who have gained the light of knowledge? Your words full of the wisdom of the Lord have a soothing and beneficent effect on me, who is scorched up in the fire of Samsara. I can never get tired of hearing the same. I am not satiated by drinking the nectar of your words which describe the glories of Hari, the medicine for that unbearable heat and suffering of this mundane existence.”
Antariksha said: “Maya of the Lord is that which causes the creation, preservation and dissolution of this universe. It is through Maya only that the Lord becomes many. It is the cause of Jiva’s erroneous idea that the pure Brahman which transcends the three Gunas is endowed with a body and subject to the sway of the Gunas.
“The first and Supreme Person, the Cause of all creation created out of these great Bhutas, all things great and small, so that the Jiva may realise himself to be none but Brahman.
“He then entered the Jivas and made the men joy the Gunas. He is enthroned behind the mind and acts as the powerhouse from which the Jiva is able to function through the mind and the ten senses. The Lord Himself appears as the mind and the senses.
“The Jiva enjoys the sense objects through the senses illumined by the Antaryamin or Inner Ruler. He becomes attached to the body and objects. He thinks that this body is his own Self and identifies himself with the body. On account of egoism, he gets entangled in the never-ending whirl of births and deaths.
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