Illusion v/s Ignorance
- Maya, Glamour: A life lived through the mind is a life of dreams. That is the meaning of the concept of MAYA. It does not say anything about the reality.
- Maya means “that which is not”
- World is not an illusion but our perception of the world is maya, illusion.
- Our fluctuating mind projects this temporary as permanent. From this understanding we create our world which is false, maya.
- Misperception: Ignorance is rooted in misperception. It is due to experiencing: the impermanent as permanent, the impure as pure, the painful as pleasant and non-Self as the Self.
- Root cause of five miseries is Avidya. Vidya means to know as it is. Avidya means to know things as they are not, misperception.
- In the Upaniṣads it comes to mean spiritual delusion and the non-knowledge of Brahman.
- Ignorance is not absence of knowledge; ignorance is absence of awareness.
- Illusion v/s Ignorance: Maya means glamour and Avidya means to know things as they are not, misperception.
- Illusion is the feeling that “I will not be able to live without the other. The other is the centre of my life.”
- Codependent, Independent, and Interdependent.
- THE state of ignorance is the cause of all delusions, of all unrealities, of all appearances, but to know more is not the state of knowledge.
- Unless knowing happens into your being, ignorance cannot be dissolved.
