Maya

That which can be measured is maya!

In ancient Sanskrit: Miyate anaya iti maya. The etymology of “measure” traces to the word “maya.” When we measure, categorize, label, objectify and make concrete / discrete, we are in the illusion of “reality,” in maya. When we can experience and be in the essence of something without having to explain it as this or that, we are close(r) to truth, in Oneness, in Love.

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Curiosity and Wonder

Curiosity is the beginning of mind… Wonder is the end of mind!

Curiosity is the mother of science, and wonder is the mother of spirituality. (Wonder encompasses curiosity, so science is, of course, within the realm of the spiritual.) Curiosity asks, Why?, and wonder exclaims, Aha! Curiosity wants to explain, wonder simply experiences. Curiosity wants to change it or “make it better,” and wonder allows it to be and thereby creates the new!

Curiosity begins our expansion, and wonder completes it.

[Excerpted / adapted from a discourse by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on the Ashtavakra Gita.]

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