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LalithA SahasranAma [215] MahAmAyA

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MahAmAyA : The Great Illusion.

 

Because she causes confusion to Brahma, etc. The MArk Pr.

Says, "that divine Devi, MahAmAyA, forcibly draws away the minds of

even the sages and leads [them] into confusion." The KAlikA Pr. also

says, "She who always makes him devoid of knowledge, the being who

possessed knowledge [of his real nature] whilst in the womb,

compelled him to take birth by means of the winds of delivery and

leads him by reason of the samskAra of previous births to desire of

food etc; thence into confusion egotism, doubt, subsequently him

again and again to undergo [the stages of] anger, distress and

greediness and then leads him into [sensual] desire and causing

anxiety day and night, producing sometimes pleasures and sometimes

pain, is called the MahAmAyA [ great illusion}; hence she is the

ruler of the universe."

 

or According to one lexicon mAyA means pride and compassion; then

mahAmAyA means full of compassion.

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry

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