The sayings in this section have been collected from various sources like the Valmiki Ramayana, Adhyatma Ramayana and the Yoga Vasishtha Ramayana.
The mistaking of the body for the Self is called Maya. This Maya is responsible for the creation of samsara.
Maya has got two forms, Vikshepa and Avarana. By the former, Vikshepa, Maya creates the whole world from Mahatattwa down to Brahma as also the gross and subtle bodies. By the other form, Avarana, Maya covers the knowledge of the Atman.
On account of false imagination, just as a rope is mistaken for a snake, so also the Supreme Self is mistaken for this universe by the power of Maya. If we think deeply, the universe disappears and Brahman alone remains.
Whatever man always hears, sees, or thinks is non-real, just as the things seen in the dream and the castles in the air built by the mind are not real.
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