MAYA

The best thing about writing blogs merely for pleasure, is that it does not promote forced writing.

Having abstained from my pet past time for a while, I felt the itch to blog again which is when I thought about something a friend once mentioned -- that what we experience in this life, or, what we perceive to be our experiences in this life, including the emotions that wade through us, is ‘ Maya’ !

I was informed that life is transient ( I have heard this before) and that life events are mere illusions (how I wish!!).

Maya, I believe, is for those few among us who have ‘evolved’ beyond the ordinary after a lifetime pursuit of unworldliness! To an ordinary mortal like me, this our pulsating existence is very real.

Let me explain with a parallel. Man evolved from apes but it would be foolish to say that the various facets of the apes’ life is illusionary merely because the comparatively less- evolved creatures failed to reach their full potential.

Our existence today is linked to the time when life first stirred on earth. We remain baffled by the ‘African Eve’; we respectfully acknowledge and study the lives of our caveman ancestors whose saga is not illusionary, but continues to illuminate our lives, millions of years later, albeit in a remote way.They were the super heroes( the original kind -without sound effects), who honed their instincts to leave an indelible impression on the human brain, who instilled in mankind the everlasting truth that brain power is superior to muscle power and that survival is the ultimate goal.

Every life, with its wealth of experience, is a page that will go down in the collective history of the universe. Each tombstone speaks a story with a moral for those who would care to listen; it does not represent an illusion- but is a symbol of grounded reality !

Belief in Maya prompted the mystics to probe life. The concept of Maya provides solace to escapists - to a logical mind the dynamics of this life are achingly real!