Category:Activities of Maya
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that the activities of maya constitute the workings of the Lord's external energy, designed to bewilder the conditioned soul and keep them bound to the material world. This illusion functions through specific phases—covering the living entity's original knowledge and pulling them down into lower engagements—while simultaneously creating a false sense of autonomy and happiness in a temporary realm. Ultimately, however, these activities are not independent but act under the supreme direction of the Lord to rectify the rebellious souls or test the sincerity of the devotees.
- The Mechanics of Illusion: The activities of maya distort reality, much like a drunkard perceiving land as moving, and induce the living entity to mistake misery for happiness and temporary matter for permanent reality.
- Phases of Entanglement: Through her two primary potencies—covering (avaranatmika) and throwing (praksepatmika)—maya keeps the soul forgetful of God and entangled in fruitive work and sense gratification, particularly through the shackles of sex life.
- The Supreme Director: Although maya appears to act independently, she is an agent of the Supreme Lord; intelligent persons understand that behind her wonderful activities lies the hand of God, whereas the less intelligent are captivated by the illusion itself.
- The War Against Illusion: The Krsna consciousness movement is described as a declaration of war against the activities of maya, where the only effective defense is strictly following the spiritual master, chanting the holy names, and engaging fully in devotional service.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Activities of Māyā.
Pages in category "Activities of Maya"
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
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- A drunkard, for example, or a person with heart disease, sometimes feels that the land is moving. Similarly, the reflections of trees in a flowing river also appear to move. These are the actions of maya
- Although both Yogamaya and Mahamaya act in all material activities, doglike watchmen such as politicians and diplomats think that they are protecting their neighborhoods from the dangers of the outside world. These are the actions of maya
- As long as the powerful men of the world do not accept the origin of their respective powers, namely the Personality of Godhead, the actions of maya (illusion) will continue to act
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- I can understand from your letter that you are a quite fit soldier for fighting with Maya. Our Krishna Consciousness Movement is a declaration of war against the activities of Maya
- If you want to get out of the maya's activities, prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani, then you have to take to Krsna consciousness. There is no way out
- In all the activities of creation and annihilation, the living entity is entangled in fruitive activities, which are executed by the illusory energy, maya. He is exactly like a computer handled by the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- In pursuit of false activities, a human being is in the clutches of maya, or illusion
- In the kingdom of Maya you cannot stop the onslaught of her activities. The only protective measure is Krishna Consciousness. Otherwise there is no alternative
- In the material world, if a fragment is taken from an original object, the original object is reduced by the removal of that fragment. But the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not at all affected by the actions of maya
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- Maya has two phases of activities. One is called praksepatmika, and the other is called avaranatmika. Avaranatmika means "covering," and praksepatmika means "pulling down
- Maya is always placing the memories of our past sinful activities before us, and encouraging us to come once again into her clutches, but by always chanting HK and keeping our mind fixed on Krishna, he will give us the strength to resist her demands
- Maya saw me very successful within one year, so that I got so many sincere young flowers like yourself and others, so it was a great defeat to the activities of maya
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- The actions of maya are such that a powerful person, misled by the illusory, material energy, wrongly accepts himself as all in all and does not develop God consciousness
- The activities of the external energy, or maya, are exhibited after the creation of this cosmic world, and the original spiritual energy of Narayana was acting before the creation
- The impersonalist philosophers cannot understand the activities of the Lord. They think that all His activities are maya; therefore they are called Mayavadis
- The Lord and His pure devotees are always beyond the range of Maya's action. Even though they appear like action of Maya, we should understand their action of Yogamaya or the internal potency of the Lord
- These are the activities of maya, and since maya is also an agent of the Lord, it is indirectly the action of the Lord
- This (SB 1.7.5) is a description of maya’s action upon the conditioned soul
- To avoid this misconception (that Krsna's activities are maya) one has to directly cultivate knowledge about the holy name of the Lord. Mayavadi philosophers do not know this fact, and therefore they commit great offenses
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- Western country youngsters giving up illicit sex, intoxication, meat eating and gambling is certainly a great reverse in the activities of maya. Therefore she took advantage of my old age weakness and gave me a death dash
- When a living entity abandons the activities of maya and attains the position from which he can execute devotional service, his state is called svarupa-sthah, or complete liberation
- Within a second a very big, dark cloud may come and cause devastation immediately. That is possible. These are the wonderful activities of maya. But still, she is under the control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead