Maya and avidya

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Bhagavatpadabhyudaya by Lakshmana Suri (study) [by Lathika M. P.]

Maya has the power of concealing things, it projects the unreal as real and vice versa. Since maya is thus deceptive in character, it is called avidya (ignorance) or false knowledge. Shankaracarya and other Advaita Vedantins speak of maya and avidya interchangeably. Avidya is regarded as prior to maya, because maya pre-supposes avidya (ignorance). This also means that maya disappears when avidya is destroyed by the knowledge of Brahman....

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Cidgaganacandrika (study) [by S. Mahalakshmi]

Three impurities (malas) reside in Maya as per Shaiva system and not in Svatantrya Shakti. Though being one, Svatantrya Shakti and Maya differ in the sense that Svatantrya Shakti is that state of energy which can produce the power of going down and coming up again, both at will, whereas Maya will only give you the strength of coming down and not the ability of rising up again. This is the reality of the state of Maya, which binds him....

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Vivekachudamani [by Shankara]

avyaktanamni parameshashaktih anadyavidya trigunatmika para | karyanumeya sudhiyaiva maya yaya jagatsarvamidam prasuyate || 108 || 108. Avidya (Nescience) or Maya, called also the Undifferentiated, is the power of the Lord. She is without beginning, is made up of the three Gunas and is superior to the effects (as their cause). She is to be inferred by one of clear intellect only from the effects She produces. It is She who brings forth this whole universe....

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