Cosmic Play

The gods, as previously mentioned, are seen as artists and the universe is the creation of their imagination, so in addition to being a divi

Later Indian philosophers, however, had a different view of maya, and they often used the term maya to convey “the mind’s pernicious and mis

Zimmer gives an example from the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna, which speaks to the playful nature of the Goddess’s maya and why she lets so

While we are on the subject of the poetic basis of consciousness, language springs from this as well, and thus belongs in this way to the Di

Hindu mythology is sometimes confusing, because the Divine has many aliases reflecting different aspects of itself. Everything is a manifes

Considering opposites is itself often oppositional. The monotheistic religions have definite value judgments attached good/evil, right/wron

Just what is maya? Maya is a Sanskrit word meaning the divine power of illusion, the principle of appearance, the marvelous power of creatio

McLean (1995) explains that the lila of the Goddess has been described like the game: playful but unpredictable, and yet the consequences of

A favorite “move” in depth psychology is to dive deeply into words. Lockhart (1983) in Words as Eggs talks about this in depth! Essentiall

Muktananda (1971) describes the universe as a Play of Consciousness. The playful nature of the Divine is ancient and pervasive, going back