Experience of Maya

One of the functions of maya is that it divides our experiences into two at the minimum. That is: nature-man, body-mind, man-God, society-individual, ruler-ruled etc. The market economy following the footsteps of maya bifurcates the whole world into ‘buyer and seller’. It conceals market as a place of conflicts of interests between the buyer and the seller. Market economy advises both the buyer and the seller to aim at the maximum profit. Since both of them aims at the maximum gain, conflict of interests is a natural outcome. Wherever there is conflict, the first causality is the elimination of consensus. Where there is no consensus and coexistence, contentment cannot be experienced. Naturally, market creates not a society but a mob of unsatisfied individuals left alone in a private world where the entry to the others has been strictly prohibited. This amounts to a state of anarchy where there is no unity. According to Mahabharatha (Indian Epic) the first and foremost duty of a king is to unify the subjects and maintain equilibrium of the Nature. The maintenance of equilibrium of the Nature can be attained only if we are able to find out a common space between the ruled and the ruler. This fact has often been cunningly ignored or accidentally forgotten by the rulers. Naturally they would think that they are absolutely free and the ‘wealth of nations’ is at their command. But every ruler has to bear in mind that he is not absolutely free and is a popper because a ruler can act only on the basis of advises given by his colleagues and executive officers, who have been decided by the rules, regulations and precedents framed by the generations known and unknown. As far as the ‘wealth of nations’ is concerned, the ruler is only a custodian who is expected to keep it for the present generation and the generations to come. This fact has often been forgotten by the rulers even in a democratic set up. Those who forget this simple fact is under the influence of maya and he or she wrongly thinks that there is nothing common between the ruled and the ruler. A man in the market always thinks in terms of divided interests. As a seller he wants to get the maximum price and as a buyer he wants to get things at the bare minimum. The man in both the buyer and the seller is oscillating in between the maximum and the minimum. Since he is always on momentum, he would never be able to fix himself anywhere. This divided interest really creates the problem of divided personality in one and the same person. That means, the same person appears as many in different occasions and he forgets the fact that he is an indivisible unity of body, mind and something more than that. When he appears as many in various contexts, he becomes a post-modern man.