Can anyone explain me how Matrix Trilogy is linked with Hindu Mythology?

The makers have spent a lot of time in analysing the facts in Hinduism, which stresses on 'There is no two' and so any thing is possible by an individual.Can anyone explain me how Matrix Trilogy is linked with Hindu Mythology?
The Matrix has been an alarmingly hit Hollywood movie that has seeped through the corners of the world, generating billions of dollars of revenue. This action masterpiece created by the Wachowski brothers has produced millions of fans around the world. But the Matrix trilogy has a deeper meaning than just guns and bullets. This is one interpretation of The Matrix.





There are many parallels between The Matrix trilogy and Hindu philosophy. The Matrix can even be considered as an example to better understand some of the concepts of Hinduism. Maya, Moksha, the concept of God and the balance of good and bad can all be understood through its well-known story. For those who haven鈥檛 seen the movies, The Matrix is about a computer hacker (Neo) who is given the knowledge by Morpheus that the world he was living in is not real, and just a simulation created by machines of the future. He races to save the city of the real world (Zion), created by others like him, from the machines.





Let鈥檚 start from the beginning of the story. Neo, a computer hacker, is wondering about what The Matrix is, after he hears about it in a chat room. It haunts him for a long time, until he meets Trinity, aide of Morpheus, who tells him how to find out. Neo asks her, ';What is the Matrix?';, to which Trinity replies, ';Twelve years ago I met [Morpheus], a great man, who said that no one could be told the answer to that question. That they had to see it, to believe it.'; Morpheus here acts as a guru or teacher, a realized one who leads his followers to truth. He tells Neo exactly what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa said to Swami Vivekananda鈥檚 question, ';What is God?'; Hinduism says that God cannot be explained鈥he truth can only be experienced.





Then in the story, Morpheus shows and explains to Neo about the Matrix, the world from which he was living in before he got to the real world. Neo asks, ';This isn't real?'; To which Morpheus replies, ';What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about your senses, what you feel, taste, smell, or see, then all you're talking about are electrical signals interpreted by your brain.';





In Hinduism, this concept of the ';Matrix'; is called Maya. It is said that the world we live in is just an illusion, created by our minds. Our senses, feelings and emotions are just illusions we trick ourselves into believing in. In explaining Maya, Sankara very often refers to the example of the rope and the snake. As long as one mistakes a rope for a snake, he is frightened and reacts to the rope as if it were a real snake. When he realizes that what he sees is only a rope, he laughs.





The Hindu concept of God is the state in which one realizes that the world is just a Matrix, or Maya, and that everything around him is an illusion. This state is called Moksha, or Nirvana, which Neo attains in the movie after he realizes what the Matrix is.





Then, in the second movie, the maker calls Neo ';an unbalanced equation';. By this he is saying exactly what Hinduism believes. Good cannot be alone in this world. Without Bad, the earth will not spin. There has to be a balance of good and evil, of creation and destruction. One of our Gods, Shiva is called the destructor. Destruction is also necessary because ';Everything that has a beginning has an end.';





Maybe the Wachowski brothers did not think of Hinduism when they created the widely known Matrix trilogy. But Hinduism is such a scientific way of life that it automatically applies to the modern world. To fully realize Hindu philosophy, we must do what a well known phrase says 鈥?';Wake up, Neo.';Can anyone explain me how Matrix Trilogy is linked with Hindu Mythology?
finding The One within
After the first one the Matrix sort of descended into pretentious bollocks.





As for a link with Hindu mythology i'm not too sure.
Kumaraa has given a good comparitive explaination...just want to correct him at on point...


Lord Shiva is not destroyer of Humans...He isthe destroyer of Universe..When Hindus speak about creator, Preserver, Destroyer --- it is being mentioned in d context of Universe n not humans....Shivji is not '; evil';....that is a wrong explaination...actually according to Hinduism..there is no ';evil'; of ';leader of evil';....there can b evil people ( bcause of their karma)...but ultimately everything is of Good i.e God - Shiva, Bramha, Vishnu..