Cosmic Play

Just what is the nature of this play? Did the Divine know what it was doing? Could this all be one horrible mistake? As we have just seen a

In the “Haunted Mansion” at Disneyland, after entering you are shown into a room, and then the walls close, and as the room begins to lower

It's very involved, actually, and literally. As we have seen, according to Hindu philosophy, the phenomenal world, which we take to be real

As participators in the creative, transformative power of the imagination, we make our own illusory reality, "mini-maya" through visual arts

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