{"id":23435,"date":"2016-01-11T17:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dandavats.tumblr.com\/post\/137093612366"},"modified":"2017-01-27T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T11:26:57","slug":"is-maya-the-same-as-durgayes-and-no-the-engineer-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=23435","title":{"rendered":"Is Maya the same as Durga?\nYes and no. The engineer of the&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41307\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads6\/tumblr_o0sqwnvZ8H1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o0sqwnvZ8H1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_o0sqwnvZ8H1sbj0vuo1_500-187x187.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is Maya the same as Durga?<br \/>\nYes and no. The engineer of the universe, Brahma, mentions Durga as Krishna\u2019s illusory energy\u2014Maya\u2014in his collection of prayers to Krishna known as the Brahma-samhita. The commentary to Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.2.48 discusses this:<br \/>\n\u201c\u2026the Brahma-samhita (5.44) says, sristhi-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-shaktir eka chayeva yasya bhuvanani bibharti durga. Maya is like a shadow of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who serves Him in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this world. Just as a shadow has no independent power of movement but follows the substance that casts the shadow, the illusory energy of the Lord has no independent power, but bewilders the living entities according to the Lord\u2019s desire. One of Krishna\u2019s opulences is that He is supremely detached; when a living entity wants to forget Him, Krishna immediately employs His illusory energy to facilitate the foolishness of the conditioned soul.\u201d<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/JMvCts\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/JMvCts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/40.media.tumblr.com\/954725556c441b196709d9370c96b69e\/tumblr_o0sqwnvZ8H1sbj0vuo1_500.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Is Maya the same as Durga?<br \/>\nYes and no. The engineer of the universe, Brahma, mentions Durga as Krishna&rsquo;s illusory energy&mdash;Maya&mdash;in his collection of prayers to Krishna known as the Brahma-samhita. The commentary to Srimad-Bhagavatam, 11.2.48 discusses this:<br \/>\n&ldquo;&hellip;the Brahma-samhita (5.44) says, sristhi-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-shaktir eka chayeva yasya bhuvanani bibharti durga. Maya is like a shadow of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who serves Him in the creation, maintenance and annihilation of this world. Just as a shadow has no independent power of movement but follows the substance that casts the shadow, the illusory energy of the Lord has no independent power, but bewilders the living entities according to the Lord&rsquo;s desire. One of Krishna&rsquo;s opulences is that He is supremely detached; when a living entity wants to forget Him, Krishna immediately employs His illusory energy to facilitate the foolishness of the conditioned soul.&rdquo;<br \/>\nTo read the entire article click here: <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/JMvCts\">http:\/\/goo.gl\/JMvCts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recent-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41308,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23435\/revisions\/41308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}