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Date Posted: 13:22:01 06/16/03 Mon
Author: Mukul
Subject: Matrix is not about Christianity, but Hinduism.

Ho! Hum! ……… another review on the Matrix??……..why now!!!

That’s what you may ask??

But wait…..this is NOT a review about the movie, who starred in it, how it was made, how the s-fx were out-of-this-world……….rather it is what the movie tells us…….and how the movie holds ideologies that echo those in …(hold your breath! )…… Hinduism

To find out more ………. Read on !!!

It began with me seeing the Matrix and contemplating……..why, oh! why does this Wachowsky Brothers’ baby tell me something that I already seem to know!! I saw that the concept was amazing, but why was it seeming so familiar??
This drove me to the extent of catching hold of a cd of the film and loading it onto my PC. After scrutinizing the film on an average of once every week for a year on one hand, and with my quest for spiritual reading on the other I finally, FINALLY, FINALLY found what I was looking for….what the film told me that I distantly seemed to know!!

I found that the concept of the film was hinged on Hinduism.

Now please understand that this is not an attempt to glorify or propogate any form of religion or religious beliefs. It is just an analogy of what I thought I saw in the film to what I think I percieve the religion of Hinduism to be.


In the film

Morpheus tells Neo,
’’What if you were to wake up from a dream which was so real that you found it difficult to differentiate between the dream world, and the real world?’’

’’What is real? How do you define real? If real is what you see, or touch, or feel, then, real is merely electrical impulses interpreted by your brain!’’


Hinduism says

The reality of this world is illusion…..Maya. Everything around us is Maya, things we see, taste, touch,…..everything. All around us, Maya is believed to be a dream that Lord Vishnu is seeing as he sleeps.

In the film

Morpheus and gang are transported from the real world to the digital world through computer wizardry. What they see of themselves in the digital world is a mental projection of themselves.


Hinduism says

We live in this dream world, oblivious of reality. When one comprehends reality, that he and The Almighty are one, he renounces all his belongings, his ego and his identity because he realizes that all material belongings, his material ego and his earthly entity is just his imagination ( Mithya ) of what he thinks he is.

He realizes that everything around him is ’’mithya’’, only The Almighty is real.


In the film

Little Boy-who-bent-the-spoon tells Neo, ’’To bend the spoon, you need to understand reality…….there is no spoon…….then you will realize that it is not the spoon that bends, it is yourself

In the end, when Neo finally understands reality, and sees the world around as a computer program, he is virtually all-knowing and omnipotent ( able to stop bullets and the likes! )


Hinduism says

So also, when a man realizes The Eternal Truth, he attains Divine Knowledge, ’’Nirvana’’. He conquers all fear, all difficulties, all pain, all sorrow. He experiences Eternal peace, Eternal Knowledge and Eternal Happiness.
In fact, the state in which Neo is depicted in the film is somewhat similar to what the scriptures tell us about Buddha and Mahavir on attaining Nirvana.

All this and many other analogies which cannot be sufficiently be put into words led me to believe that the film, ‘The Matrix’, besides being a technological masterpiece is unbelievably inspired from the Hindu scriptures.

I understand that few, if not none may agree to what I have said above. Some may think I have lost my mind, to others it may seem that I am renouncing the world tomorrow.
But the sole motive behind this review is nothing but to share with you readers, what I saw in ‘The Matrix, what disturbed but subtly eluded me, and what I finally came to realize through some really intense research on the subject of Spiritualism and Hinduism and relating it to……

.The Message In The Matrix !!!

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