Avidya/Maya

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Re: On avidya

 

advaitin , kuntimaddi sadananda

<kuntimaddisada wrote:

 

But what eludes me is the cause of avidya. Is it simply " Gods Will " ?

 

The posts in this thread are explaining to beginners like me the

existence and nature of avidya.

 

As per vedanta we have cycles with pralaya in between. pralaya or

folding of manifestation has no avidya(am I right?). But when the

cycle of manifestation starts which is avidya itself. So the obvious

question is why are there these cycles?

 

Thank you very much

 

Sudesh.

 

Namaste Sudesh,

 

There are supposedly two types of pralaya; pralaya and mahapralaya. In pralaya

the material and some subtle are subsumed and in Mahapralaya even the subtle is

subsumed.

Obviously in the pralaya Brahman has attributes that still exist in subtle form,

the material being in potential. In Mahapralaya even the subtle is subsumed and

is also in potentiality. Otherwise it would not be said that the Jiva takes

form again in a new universe.

 

There is no beginning to all this, Avidya/Maya but there is an end in

Realisation.. So there is always a creator, even in potentiality, until the

illusion is lifted.

 

All knowledge can only be Avidya or Nescience, for it is of the mind, and is

dropped with the mind. At this point there is no God's Will for that is mind as

well...Hu.

 

If you read the poem by S-Maharaj it explains it all succintly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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