Ashram Talks Podcast #5.

For thousands of years there has been a philosophical exchange between east and west.

Today I wanna contrast the similarities between the greek Philosopher Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the philosophy in Vedic Upanishads.

Describing the different levels of perception that lead to a clear vision of reality by freeing oneself from dogmatic paradigms.

The concept of living in illusion.

In sanskrit the word माया  'Maya' is very significative because it shows the unreality disguised as reality, for example when the merchant while crossing the dessert sees an illusory mirage of water taking it for a real oasis.

The moments we live currently are times of reality-perception change, where we can go deeper to find out the essence of reality, the world of essence, depicted by Plato as the world of ideas, called in Vedanta 'The Vaikuntha Planets'.