Indra Jāla – The Maya Matrix
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- Technique by Lord Bhairava in Vijnana Bhairava Tantra
In the tantra, the phrase ‘Indra Jāla’ comes at 3 places – once in dhāraṇa 77 and twice in dhāraṇa 107. Here, the Jāla can be related as ‘the matrix or web’ and ‘indra’ can be directly related to Māyā, the world of illusionary pleasures, i.e. indra’s plane of artificial ignorance.
Indra-jālamayaṁ viśvaṁ nyastaṁ vā citrakarmavat ।
bhramadvā dhyāyataḥ sarvaṁ paśyataśca sukhodgamaḥ ॥ 102 ॥
~ dhāraṇā 77
Just see that this whole universe is indra jāla, the matrix of artificial ignorance, which is an illusionary, perceptional world. (It is not the existential reality. It is only a movie.) Or see and visualize that this whole universe is only a very well-drawn painting in one’s own Self [nyastaṁ vā citra-karmavat]. Or visualize that ALL this world is moving constantly from one space to another, it is not destroyed, it is a movement.
When one cognizes and contemplates [dhyāyataḥ] in this way, then occurs the awakening or rising of bliss, sukha udgamaḥ.
(Note:
- Swami Lakshman Joo – defines the ‘Indra Jāla’ as ‘world of magic or magic trick’.
- This is Śāktopāya – first dhyāna technique, then perceiving, and then the experience of ‘sukha-udgamaḥ’.
- The whole universe is an expansion of one’s own Self, it is not a separated or divided or broken existence. When it is perceived as differentiated, relative existence, then it is appears as the Māya Matrix, the Indra Jāla, the perceptional reality)
atattvaṁ indra jālam-idam sarvamavasthitam ।
kiṁ tattvam-indrajālasya iti dārḍhyācchamaṁ vrajet ॥ 133 ॥
~ dhāraṇa 107
Everything that is perceived as existing and established in this world is atattvam, it is not existential reality; it is Indra Jāla, the matrix of artificial ignorance (māyā), which is only a perceptional illusion. What essence or truth exists in this Indra jāla? By analyzing thus, being firmly established, attain (the space of Śāmbhava).
(This is Śambhavopāya.)