Mo[c]ksha

A scene from MATRIX:
Neo: Is Matrix real?
Morpehus: Real? If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then 'real' is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
Neo: I thought it wasn't real.
Morpheus: Your mind makes it real.

Substitute any other word for the word 'Matrix' and u can learn a few universal truths.. U will begin to understand if there is an 'unreal' world..

Don't u feel sometimes that u had been thinking too deep on only one side and u r damn sure that what u feel will never be wrong.. and suddenly what happens? The opposite of what u thought prevailed.. Ur mind will never be able to accept tat.. But that's how it is.. U get an uncanny feel around u.. and ur mind refuses to forget it.. Let alone accept it.. Why is tat so? What went wrong?

Hmmm.. The reality is nothing went wrong.. It just happened.. What is unwarranted is u pondering over it.. Ur perception is not letting u move.. something was not really there.. u thought it was there.. and u got cheated by none other than urself..

Welcome to the planet called 'Maya' or 'Illusion' or 'Earth'..

Well many people think Maya or Illusion is something which doesn't exist.. or which is 'unreal'.. well if you thought that was the answer i wood suggest u wake up from your illusion..

So what is MAYA then?
MAYA is a state of mind.. It is not completely unreal. But it disappears with the onset of knowledge. So it is not real either. Because something real cant change.. Thus, it is different from both the real and the unreal.. MAYA does two things. It hides the real from you. Simultaneously it projects the universe or the unmanifest to you.

Well you may well get a thought why should I suddenly write about something totally abstract and blabber some nonsense..

All I can tell you have not experienced enough.. else u wood not dare contradict me.. It is all around u except that u might have been too busy that to pay attention to it.. Or I would say you had not spoken with yourself for quite sometime..

Write CAT and u will believe what the world is like.. Its been long since i saw CAT as only an exam.. It is a powerful teacher.. A teacher who will teach u lessons hard enough that even ur bones can feel the penetration.. I m not telling about ur maths or ur english prowess.. but what is that u r made of apart from the blood and bones that everyone has.. I came across a chinese proverb which says 'You r blind if u see only with ur eyes'.. you need a catalyst to prove that to you.. here CAT is that catalyst to me.. i was thinking on these lines after my string of bad scores.. Why is that my mind believes something which is not real, but doesn't believe what is real? Mocks are just a test.. my real test is only in november.. but am i not able to shred my thinking on my scores.. The answer 'MAYA'..

I can explain the syndrome with a story.

You are in a room with poor lighting.. u can see things albeit not in its entirety.. u see a snake near you.. Its long and winding.. u start sweating profusely and call for help.. before help comes, u become pale and ur thoughts make u half dead.. U begin to wonder 'will that snake bite me?' 'will i survive even if it bites me?' 'is this the only snake here or more hidden?' 'will it chase me if i run?' will i be able to escape'... hundreds of thoughts in a few microseconds.. and before things get any worse, help comes in the form of a light.. the light shows you that it wasn't a snake but a rope in the shape of a snake..

You find your friend MAYA here.. Concealed and unmanifest, but living for real.. The rope appears as a snake no doubt, but actually there is no snake there, ever. Even when it appeared to be there, it was not there. But you did really get scared on 'seeing' the snake and only when help came in the form of better lighting did you realize that what 'was there' all the time there was only a rope. but even after light comes and shows the rope in its entirety, u refuse to get convinced.. Your Maya has not disappeared.. Ur so convinced that its still a snake.. u stamp on it n ur doubt factor reduces.. but the incident stays real in ur mind forever..

So what do we learn here?
The snake appears on the rope, the rope does not undergo any change, but the snake is supported by the rope(meaning, without the rope there is no snake). But in reality the snake was never there and so it is also true to say that the snake is not in the rope.

To the question: Where is the snake?, the answer is: it is in the rope.
To the question: Is the snake there?, the answer is, there is no snake, the snake was never in the rope.

A beautiful line has been mentioned in the GITA regarding this :
'Everything that is perceptible is pervaded and permeated by Me, who is unmanifested. All the beings are established in Me but not I in them; they are not in Me either'

In short, Everything is in Me; and nothing is in Me.

This is the cosmic mystery of the existence of the Universe.
It is and is not - sad-asad-vilakshaNa, MAYA!!

So I have found what is my MAYA.. Have you found yours?

I guess, my whole post on Mo[c]ksha can be condensed in a few lines..
If you thought MATRIX was just a film, ur stuck in a very bad illusion.. If you say MATRIX is hinduism personified then u r in reality..