Hare Krishna !
There is no difference between Maya and False Ego. Both are of the same party. Symptoms of each of them is that they are of temporary nature, they don't last for eternity. You have to ask only this simple question : Whether it is permanent or temporary in nature? You will yourself answer if it is Maya (temporary) or Bhakti (Permanent).
Thank you for your replies... I recenty concluded (ignorantly) that the false ego was our wanting to enjoy, because we like to be the enjoyer. Where as maya is the "energy" that we want to enjoy. For example, When we dream we love to be in the sleep state, so I thought the act of etxra sleep is false ego (feeling qualifyed to have more) and the Maya was the energy makes us think that the sleep is so good.
That is how I am able to realize what is my fault (false ego) and since I realize it it makes it a lot easier to appreciate Krishna and understand how deeply in ignorance. But then again I am a neophyte so just saw similarity's in how Christians blame everything on the devil and I thought it would be somewhat cliche to say maya made me do it.
However wrong I probably am it makes me more accountable, again please it excuse my logic
hmm tough one , a very senior devotee can only answer, I think maya means when we assume the unreal to be real like body to be real when we know we are not this body, and false ego means when we assume to be the proprietor of all that things we survey. these are my opinions, may not be corect as per shashtras so you need to check. Keith prabhuji.
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Q. WHAT DOES MAYA MEANS ?
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Q. 338. HOW ARE WE CAPTURED BY MAYA ?
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Q. 334. IS MAYA LIKE A SHADOW ?
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Q. 358. HOW ARE WE DICTATED BY MAYA, THE ILLUSORY ENERGY ?
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Q 216. HOW CAN A DEVOTEE EASILY CROSS OVER MAYA ?
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Q. 332. WHO CANNOT BE TOUCHED BY MAYA ?
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Q. 333. WHO IS A VICTIM OF MAYA ?
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Q. 335. WHAT IS THE LAST SNARE OF MAYA ?
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Q. 336. WHAT IS DAIVI-MAYA MEANT FOR ?
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Q. WHAT IS anna-maya and WHAT IS vijnana-maya ?
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Q. WHAT IS JNANA-MAYA, PRANA-MAYA and MAN0-MAYA ?
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THE ACTIONS OR ACTIVITIES OF MAYA and THE ALLUREMENT OF MAYA.
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Q. WHO IS MAYA-DEVI ?
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Q. WHO ARE UNDER THE SPELL OF MAYA ? part 1.
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Q. WHO ARE UNDER THE SPELL OF MAYA ? part 2.
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THE INFLUENCE OF MAYA. part 1.
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THE INFLUENCE OF MAYA. part 2.
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Q. WHAT IS MAHAMAYA ? part 1.
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Q. WHAT IS MAHAMAYA ? part 2.
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Q. WHAT IS YOGAMAYA ? part 1.
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Q. WHAT IS YOGAMAYA ? part 2.
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Q. WHAT IS YOGAMAYA ? part 3.
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Q. WHAT IS EGO ?
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Q. WHAT IS MATERIAL EGO ?
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Q. WHAT IS FALSE EGO ?
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Q. WHAT IS REAL EGO ?
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EGO AND EGOISM.
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There is no difference between Maya and False Ego. Both are of the same party. Symptoms of each of them is that they are of temporary nature, they don't last for eternity. You have to ask only this simple question : Whether it is permanent or temporary in nature? You will yourself answer if it is Maya (temporary) or Bhakti (Permanent).
The symptoms are all the symptoms of the material world.
That is how I am able to realize what is my fault (false ego) and since I realize it it makes it a lot easier to appreciate Krishna and understand how deeply in ignorance. But then again I am a neophyte so just saw similarity's in how Christians blame everything on the devil and I thought it would be somewhat cliche to say maya made me do it.
However wrong I probably am it makes me more accountable, again please it excuse my logic
Ys,
Keith