Category:Controlled By Maya
Theme Analysis
The fundamental distinction between the Supreme Lord and the living entity is their relationship with the material energy. While the Lord is the master of maya, the minute living entity (jiva) is prone to be controlled by maya. This control manifests as the false identification with the material body and the subjection to birth, death, and threefold miseries. Srila Prabhupada uses this distinction to refute the Mayavadi philosophy which claims the soul is identical to God, posing the irrefutable question: "If you are God, how have you come under the control of maya?" The only means to escape this control is not through artificial speculation, but through surrendering to Krishna, which transfers the soul from the clutches of the illusory energy (maha-maya) to the protection of the internal energy (yoga-maya).
- The Distinction of Power: The Supreme Lord is the controller (Isvara) of the illusory energy, whereas the living entity is minute and subject to being controlled by maya; this difference eternally separates the two.
- The Mayavadi Fallacy: Srila Prabhupada exposes the flaw in impersonal philosophy by asking how the Supreme Absolute Truth could ever fall under the control of illusion; if God can be covered by maya, then maya would be greater than God.
- Symptoms of Conditioning: Being controlled by maya means falsely thinking oneself to be the master while actually being kicked by the laws of material nature and forced to transmigrate through various bodies.
- Liberation through Surrender: One cannot become the controller; one can only choose to be controlled by Krishna or by maya. Freedom from maya is achieved immediately upon surrendering to the Supreme Lord.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Liberation from Being Controlled By Māyā.
Pages in category "Controlled By Maya"
The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
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- Although one in quality with the Supreme Lord, the individual soul is under the control of maya. Mayavadi philosophers cannot distinguish between the controller and the controlled
- Anyone who is not devotee, who is not engaged in the service of the Lord, he is under the control of maya. And anyone who has surrendered to Krsna and is simply twenty-four hours engaged in the service of Krsna, he is not under the control of maya
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- Either you agree to be controlled by Krsna or you agree to be controlled by maya, but you cannot become controller
- Even eating, sleeping, mating can be utilized as Krsna consciousness if you follow the rules and regulation. There is facility. And as soon as you deviate, then you become subject to the control of maya
- Everyone is controlled. Either you are controlled directly by God, or you are controlled by His agency, maya. Being controlled by maya, you spoil your life; you remain in material existence one birth after another, changing your bodies
- Everyone is under the control of maya. Nobody is free. But there are two maya: yoga-maya and maha-maya. Maha-maya, this material world, and yoga-maya, the spiritual world
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- Having entered the material world, the pure soul becomes conditioned by the material atmosphere, which is created by the external energy under the control of Lord Visnu. Thus the living entity comes under the control of the external energy, daivi maya
- He (Krsna) has given us little independence because we are part and parcel of Krsna. Krsna is fully independent. He does not depend on anyone. But although we have got independence to a certain extent, but under the control of maya
- He (president Nixon) is thinking, "I am master." That is the position. Maya. One who is controlled by maya is thinking himself master, but he is a servant
I
- I am not absolute controller. The absolute controller means who is not controlled by anyone else. He (God) is never controlled by maya
- If I am creator of something, so I cannot be under that particular thing which is created. It is logical. So therefore, because the Supreme Brahman, or Bhagavan, is the creator of this material nature, He cannot be under the control of maya
- If one becomes Krsna conscious, then immediately he gets out of the control of maya. That is the sign. Otherwise, if I remain a blind man, how can I lead others
- Impersonalist philosophers (Mayavadis) maintain that both the living entity and God Himself are under the control of maya when they come into this material world. This is the fallacy of their philosophy - CC Intro
- In the SB (10.87.30) the personified Vedas pray to God, "O supreme eternal, if the living entities were equal with You and thus all-pervading and all-powerful like You, there would be no possibility of their being controlled by Your external energy, maya
- In this material world, Krsna does not change. Therefore His name is Acyuta. He never changes. He never falls down, because He is the controller of maya. And we are controlled by maya. That is the difference
- Isvara means controller. We are controlled by maya, but Krsna is the controller of maya. That is the difference. We are not controller; we are controlled
- It is duratyaya for the living entities, not for Krsna, because Krsna is the controller and we are controlled. Therefore in the next verse it is said, Jiva, we living entities, we are being controlled by this maya, sammohita. Sammohita means illusion
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- Maya is controlled by Krsna; Krsna is never controlled by maya. That is not very good theory. That is due to poor fund of knowledge. Krsna cannot be covered
- Maya, the illusory energy, is under the control of Krsna, so how could maya control Him? One who thinks that Krsna, like us, is controlled by maya is described in Bhagavad-gita as mudha, a fool (avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam) - BG 9.11
- Mayavada philosophy, that "At the present moment, I am under the control of maya, but as soon as I become free from the control of maya, then I become the Supreme," therefore they cannot answer - If you are Supreme, why you are under the clutches of maya
- Mayavadi theory is, "I am Krsna. I am God. Now I am overpowered by maya, & as soon as I become free from maya, again I become Krsna." But question is, - If you are Krsna or God, then why you became under the control of maya? What kind of God you are
O
- One who is controlled by maya, he's thinking himself master, but he's servant. And a devotee, he'll never thinks himself, "I am master." "I am servant." That is the difference between maya and not maya
- Our vision is different. We are not under the control of maya. At least we should be like that. Then we remain in the transcendental state
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- Pious activities means to be controlled by Krsna, and impious activities means to be controlled by maya. We have to be controlled. Our position is such that we cannot become controller. That is not possible
- Pisaci paile yena mati-cchana haya, mayar grasta jivera sei dasa upajaya. One who is under the control of maya, he speaks like ghostly-haunted man - all nonsense
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- The conditioned soul is always fearful due to being controlled by the external potency; therefore the conditioned soul should always pray to the almighty Lord to conquer the external potency (maya) so that she will no longer manifest her powers
- The Devi, this material energy, has captured everyone, and she is there . . . the more one sleeps, that means he's under the control of maya. And the more he is not sleeping, he's free from maya
- The impersonalist, they think, we are cent percent one with the Lord or the Supreme Absolute Truth, but that is not a fact. If one is cent percent one with the Supreme Lord, then how he has come under the control of maya? This question, they cannot answer
- The individual living entity never has complete knowledge; otherwise, how could he have come under the control of maya
- The individual living entity never has sufficient knowledge; otherwise, how could he have come under the control of maya, or the material energy? The word "sufficient" can be accepted, therefore, only in proportion to the magnitude of the living entity
- The living beings who have come to the material world against the will of the Supreme Being are under the control of a supreme power called maya-sakti, the deputed agent of the Lord, who is meant to pinch the conditioned souls by threefold miseries
- The Lord is addressed as isvara, the controller of maya. He is not controlled by maya
- The Mayavada philosophy says that, - We are now under the control of maya. Therefore we have forgotten that we are all Gods
- The sense enjoyment of all animals, men and demigods within the purview of the material universe is controlled by the supernatural force called the prakrti, or daivi-maya
- They (devotees) are not under the control of maya. They are controlled directly of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore they have no fear. The Krsna says, - Anyone who surrenders unto Me, I take charge of him
- Those who are under the control of maya, and specifically under the control of lusty desires, are called maya-mrga. Indeed, everyone in the conditional stage of material life is a maya-mrga
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- We are Brahman, undoubtedly, but we are not the biggest. Therefore we are prone to be under the control of maya. But Supreme Brahman, He's never under
- We are compelled to take birth because of Krsna's external, material energy, but Krsna is not controlled by the maya, or energy, of anyone else, and therefore He does not take birth in such a condition
- We are compelled to take birth. Krsna does not take birth in such condition. Atma-mayaya. Because maya is under the control of Krsna. So how maya can control Krsna? One who thinks that Krsna is also like us, controlled by maya, they are called mudhas
- We are controlled by maya, but Krsna is the controller of maya. That is the difference. We are not controller; we are controlled
- We are under the control of maya, and we can get out of it also, as it is said in the Bhagavad-gita, mam eva ya prapadyante mayam etam taranti - Anyone who surrenders unto Me he gets out of the control of maya
- We are under the control of maya, material nature, and it is not possible to avoid it (punishment from Yamaraja). We have become infected by the disease of material nature, and no artificial means will save us
- Why you have become under the control of maya? Then maya is greater than God. Then how you can become God? Maya is greater than God. - So they cannot answer this. Because their theory is foolish, they cannot answer all these things
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- You are under the control of maya, material nature. You try to avoid it some way or other, but it is not possible. Just like if you have infected some disease, artificial means will not save you
- You cannot change. But you can change by one process. What is that? Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te. If you surrender to Krsna, then you can get out of this control of maya