Why The Monk Laughed: PART II

By N.Natarajan

This book should be read after reading a few times, the book Why did the Monk Laugh? (PART I);
While PART I explains several issues on Life of Ordinary and Life of Seekers!
This book tells all about MAYA that was not discussed at this length. Normally even educated and learning Scriptures are not clear ough about what is MAYA.
When you have a thorough knowledge on Maya, you can almost win it.
By winning Maya, you can get SPIRITUAL POWERS that are super Human problems!
The longer and larger goal of Seekers is not limited to Spiritual Powers, but , to SALVATION, MUKTI

• Language: English
• Publisher: N.Natarajan
• Release date: Dec 14, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463959961

N.Natarajan

Electronics Engineer, tech trainer, author .A certain event in my early life changed my pursuit from normal material life everyone else and became a seeker. I was seen as a Mad guy as I went around trying to find a Man-of-knowledge. A great Spiritual master, Swamy Rama of Himalayan Institute was my first guru. He made me realize that there is none who can answer all my questions and that several Gurus will appear before me and educate me and vanish. It happened in all these years.For my own use I made notes and that I published as free e-books so that people who are in their spiritual journey benefit from my experience. I have written about Spiritual and Religious titles (Spirituality is not Religion) some in Tamil and others in English.AT some point the poor and poverty came into my attention. I learnt Economics , Politics, the way Human mind work and Education - they are all linked to Poor and Poverty.I never priced my writing. Because I believe that knowledge should not be sold. After all I got them from several noble souls and not mine.Recently for the recent title: Three ways of Living (First of the three book series that help one pursue (1) Celestial Pleasure (2) Yogic Power and (3) Salvation I made it that the reader may decide the price.I am happy to find five readers opted to pay USD 4.95.I am working-out the way that the sale proceeds of my writings (ebooks) reach the trust that builds and manages the Memorial for Kanchi Seer Chandra Sekara Saraswathi, in Orikkai. Tamilnadu.Worked for telephones Madurai. 1968 to 71, TERLS ISRO Trivandrum. 1971 to 75. Isro Sriharikotta 1976 to 78Min of Planning govt computer center Delhi, 1978 to 82.DoE (NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTER). Delhi six months 1982 june -1983 Dec.CMC LTD DELHI AND. CMC LTD CORP R&D Hyderabad 1983 to 1997.Rendezvous on Chip Secunderabad 1997 to 2000.Sophists Technologies Hyderabad 2001. To 2003.Robert Bosch India bangalore. 2003 to 2004.Freelance Tech trainer, author,. from 2004 to now.So for written 31 titles and 5 more on the preparation.The topics include: short stories Religion and spirituality, Education - Economics - poverty and - politics are disasters to the society.My 40 year long Spiritual journey, I realize, has come to an end. I am sharing my learning with readers.

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(Kindly Read - Why the Monk Laughed? - Part one  before you read this Part II)

Title

Why the Monk Laughed??? Part II

Author:

N.Natarajan

Genre:

SPIRITUALITY

Year of publication 2018

The discussion between the tourists and the Monk continues from the Part I of the book titled, Why the Monk laughed ?

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Why do the Monks always laugh?

Chapter 2 What is Maya?

Chapter 3 More on Maya

Chapter 4 Maya in Eastern Scriptures

Chapter 5 Maya of Sense Perception

Chapter 6 Maya of Avidya

Chapter 7 In the God's Factory

Chapter 8 A story from Tiripura Rahasyam

Chapter 9 Hemalekha on beauty and pleasure

Chapter 10 Desire, a matter of mind

Chapter 11 Knowledge needs to be internalized, to benefit from it.

Chapter 12 Stop the mind! Get the powers.

Chapter 13 Contains several information on the Spiritual path!

Introduction

Seeker Vs Normal lives

The book is not for normal people - The normal human beings -Rebirth -Truth revealed - Maya misleads lives – Salvation.

(The book will not interest people leading normal lives).

The book, Why the monk Laughed, is written with the intention of helping the Seekers of truth (truth also imply god, salvation - a.k.a Mukthi - a.k.a freedom from the cycle of birth-and-death). They are insignificant in number, who are known as seekers (of Knowledge).

Who are the normal human beings

Those who are not seekers of truth are normal human beings. They also seek. But what they seek are material possessions, wealth fame and Official positions in the society and more importantly, the sense derived pleasures. They are not called seekers! They are normal lives.

Born, live through the life enjoying the Sense Derived Pleasures and enduring the pains that follow the pleasure. Most normal people may not be aware of rebirth.

Some may not believe is someone tell them that lives are in a birth-death cycle.

That implies that the normal lives have no serious problem in remaining in Birth-Death cycle.

They are attached to this world. The lives and objects and the desire for pleasures they find in the world they live in.

This is because, they are unaware of any other world and the pleasures there in.

Rebirth

Men-of-knowledge, and the scriptures made by them tell us that lives are born millions of times in various forms. Sometimes as animals, insects, birds and human being. After millions of rebirth, the lives are tired of being in the birth death cycle! They do not enjoy the possessions and sense derived pleasures any more.

Truth revealed.

Certain incidents in life expose to lives some truth that the world they know are far bigger than they always thought. Men-of-knowledge call it movement of the Veil of Maya.

Often they are ignored as a bad dream or imagination.

Very few people follow it and realise that the world must be far too larger than what it normally look to usl

Maya misleads lives

Men-of-knowledge tell us that the world is far larger than what we perceive. But a force or phenomenon reveal us an insignificant part of the world. They named it as Maya.

What is this Maya?

Religion explained that very force as a Goddess, one of the two consorts of the Creator Brahma! Maya is the goddess who hide the truth, the other consort Gayatri who reveals the truth to those who seek. Spirituality explains Maya as a phenomenon.

Salvation

Maya need to be won over to get liberated from the cycle of birth and death. To win over Maya, one seeks to gain knowledge on Maya.

There are several ways to gain the knowledge on Maya. There is one path where one does not require the knowledge on Maya. That is the path of Devotion.

We will start with understanding what is Maya with information collected from various sources. See them through the lens of science available today.

That could help a seeker, not in the path of Bhakti or devotion, fast track their journey.

Chapter 1 Why do the Monks always laugh?

Why the monks laugh - Story of two B uddhist monks - Spiritualists are compassionate – Lives need to run - Our knowledge – Avidya a.k.a Wrong knowledge a.k.a - Addiction is a big barrier to cross.

Why the monks laugh?

Tourist: Why do you Monks always laugh?

Monk: Monks laugh for two reasons. Before I give the reason, let me tell you a story first!

My answer will be better understood after I tell you the story.

Here goes a wonderful little story about two monks who lived together in a monastery for many years; they were great friends.

The story of Two Buddhist monks

Then they died within a few months of one another. One of them got reborn in the heaven realms, the other monk is reborn as a worm in a dung pile.

The one up in the heaven realms was having a wonderful time, enjoying all the heavenly pleasures. But he started thinking about his friend.