Search results for "Avidya" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Shankara identified two polar aspects which compose maya: firstly avidya, (ignorance) and secondly vidya (knowledge). Avidya leads human beings ...13 KB (2,085 words) - 02:19, 9 November 2022
- karma. In other forms of Hinduism, it is avidya (ignorance) of one's ... (hatred), trishna (desire or craving) and avidya (delusion). ...14 KB (2,256 words) - 02:15, 23 December 2022
- nature of God, due to beginningless ignorance (avidya). When a human being realizes his or her fundamental dependence on God, he or she can attain moksha ...14 KB (2,041 words) - 17:24, 12 February 2024
- and Bliss in varying proportions. Avidya (ignorance, absence of knowledge ... qualities are not obscured by ignorance (avidya); mundane (samsarin) souls ...15 KB (2,305 words) - 14:14, 3 May 2023
- the race between Vidya (knowledge, perception) and Avidya (ignorance, blurred perception). The Tantraloka or Light on the Tantras, which appears ...14 KB (2,124 words) - 04:48, 14 June 2023
- called the antahkarana, whose source is avidya. In perception, when a sense ... in the displacement of a false outlook (avidya) with a right outlook (vidya ...32 KB (4,839 words) - 06:20, 15 June 2023
- brow of the goddess Durga, a slayer of demons or avidya, during one of the battles between the divine and anti-divine forces. In this context, Kali is ...16 KB (2,621 words) - 02:27, 5 October 2022
- When the reflection of atman falls on Avidya (ignorance), atman becomes jīva—a living being with a body and senses. Each jiva feels as if ...19 KB (2,943 words) - 06:21, 15 June 2023
- Avidya, the ignorance of one’s true nature and relationship with God, is the cause of karma, and of attachment to the senses, body and matter ...20 KB (3,196 words) - 04:44, 15 November 2022
- quot; of ignorance (Pali, avijja; Sanskrit, avidya), allowing one to have the illusion of "possessing" ever dynamic and spacious wisdom ...34 KB (5,011 words) - 22:42, 29 January 2023
- act wrongly, for they are living in nescience, avidya, the darkness of ignorance. Thus, sin in Hinduism is an adharmic course of action that automatically ...36 KB (5,730 words) - 22:21, 29 January 2023
- (yoga), the atman is freed of ignorance (avidya) and is forever liberated from samsara. Shankara taught that worship of an Isvara (or personal ...61 KB (9,460 words) - 19:05, 17 March 2022
- and painful, perpetuated by desire and avidya (ignorance), and the resulting karma. Norman C. McClelland, Encyclopedia of Reincarnation and Karma ...93 KB (13,393 words) - 18:33, 22 November 2023
