[Advaita-l] Maya

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

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On Fri, 24 Jun 2011, anselmo hernandez wrote:

> I have a question about mAyA, I don´t understand very well if SaMkara 
> defined it or not ?

Maya cannot really be defined well as it is that which confounds 
knowledge.

  And also, there is a mAyA for brahma, brahmA and 
> the jIva ?  

If by Brahma you mean God as the creator then yes.  It is only maya which 
makes the idea of jiva as seperate from Brahman possible in the first 
place.


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