17 Jun 2021
[Ms. Thrylokya asked: Swāmi, You have said that Māyā is the power of God, which appears as a hurdle in your spiritual journey, but, māyā helps you by increasing the intensity of your devotion to God through creation of hurdles. Māyā also creates hurdles to a soul who has worldly goals (such as to become a CEO, a billionaire, an artist, etc). Many successful Entrepreneurs say that one should cross all the hurdles to reach worldly success. How different are both of these?]
Swāmi replied:- You have taken different contexts of different souls and hence, this confusion is coming. For a Spiritual aspirant, Māyā breaks the devotion by creating fascination to worldly bonds and in this context; Māyā is helping that soul by giving an interval so that the speed of the devotion becomes tremendous after the interval. For a worldly person, trying to achieve certain worldly goals, some hurdles appear, which have to be crossed by him to achieve the success. But, in this context, the goal as well as the hurdle is made of Māyā only and this entire context is in the same homogeneous phase of Māyā only. The above example is heterogeneous because the goal is God (one phase) and the hurdles are worldly fascinations (another phase). If you differentiate the homogeneity and heterogeneity in both these examples, confusion will disappear.
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