Brahman alone appears with names and forms in this form, in this way. But what causes it to appear as the world? Adeta vedanta uses the term maya, maya power of brahman which projects brahman as this world. One of the great cashmir saints a woman la leseri, shelade do,. La reseri, what a beautiful way she pseased. Had thes little poems. She says, not knowing the self, the real self, it's like, i don't know what what water is, though i drown in the ocean, and the moment i know, i am the ocean. Iam drowning in the ocean.
Question and Answer session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on Dec 31st, 2017.