Reading Notes: 7 Secrets of Vishnu, Mohini's Secret, Part A

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Expansion of Lord Vishnu (energy) into every component of the universe

 First video
These are quick notes from the first video of 7 Secrets of Vishnu. The symbolism of Vishnu, Mohini, and core ideas of Hinduism are discussed generally. Spiritual growth need not exclude material growth.

Central theme of Vishnu lore: spiritual reality (purusha = human) wrapped in material reality (prakriti = nature). Only humans have ability to reflect, imagine, choose (not sure I agree with that) their paths. Both material and spiritual realities are intertwined and complementary, shown frequently as a human couple (dampatya adorning temple walls).

Common nouns become proper nouns: purusha becomes Purusha (God). Vishnu (spiritual) and Lakshmi (material) are the yin and yang of reality.

 Adi-Ananta-Sensha
The serpant Narayana sleeps upon
Adi - one, waking, first perception of time
Anantna - infinity, fully woke, ultimate sensation and full awareness of time
Sensha - zero, sleeping, nothingness and no sense of time passing


Second video
The Brahma sits in a lotus blooming from Narayana's naval, the child emerging from his mother's womb. A distinction from Prakriti to Purusha occurs, and the birth of human consciousness with it.

"Aham bhrahmasmi" means both "I am Brahma" and "I am brahman"
1st: acknowledgement of the finite truth unraveled
2nd: aspiration for the infinite truth that awaits unravelling

The power of imagination is used as a key factor in determining separation from the animals, and the fear of mortality is passed along from Brahma to all of his descendents (us).

Vishnu shuns fear-inducing situations, and yearns for comforting situations in nature, which is how Maya came to be, a mental aspect of material reality. Brahma uses Maya as a ruler and means to quantify Shatarupa (the natural world)  and overcome fear. Maya's changing aspects mean that no one thing is certain for all time, and a shifting set of morals and priorities based on the environment.

Maya is often taken to mean delusion (so could Brahma be simply deluding himself?) Brahmanda is Brahma's version of reality, his constructed subjective material reality arrived at with the assistance of Maya. Maya is also described as that which allows man to feel superior to Prakriti.

The right to domesticate nature and create culture (which is Brahmanda) is argued to be possessed by all mankind due to their ability to imagine (an ability from Maya). Man creates society in the quest for meaning, and therefore Brahma becomes creator.

The slumbering god, like us when we sleep, is completely unaware of the subjective reality.

Vishnu is very different from Brahma, and does not use Maya for assistance. Vishnu requires no help or construction of artificial realities as he sees the world plain and as it is (perhaps not very emotional?), and may choose to engage with Maya in the form of a human avatar (Rama, Krishna).

Threefold relationship: Narayan exists without knowledge of Maya, Vishnu is aware of Maya but does not need her (occasionally uses her subjective reality to engage the human world as an avatar in the tangible world - he becomes both Mohan, the deluder, and Mohini, the enchantress).



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