[Advaita-l] vidya,avidya,Brahman and holography

[Shyam]

Pranams.
I have discussed this previously and have provided my perspective in simplistic terms - I have uploaded that post onto my blog.
http://www.adi-shankara.org/2009/09/maya-and-avidya.html

Hari OM
Shyam

--- On Thu, 10/1/09, srikanta <srikanta at nie.ac.in> wrote:

> From: srikanta <srikanta at nie.ac.in>
> Subject: [Advaita-l] vidya,avidya,Brahman and holography
> To: advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org
> Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, 1:24 AM
> Sri.Michel Shepherd
> I am sorry that you have misconstued the meaning of
> "Maya".Maya means that
> which is not,Ya ma sa maya.For 'Maya'to have its power,it
> is necessary
> that the Jiva must have avidya.That avidya is abourt
> Brahman.Then what is
> Maya?Is it a power associated with Brahman or separate from
> it.If it is 
> associated with Brahman,then how is it it is sublated for
> the
> Jivanmukta?If it is not associated with Brahman,then it has
> reality.In
> order to place this type of indeterminacy,Maya has been
> conferred the
> status of "anirvacaniya khyati".The sadasadvilakshnatva of
> Maya has it
> power of avarana and viksepa.
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>           N.Srikanta.
> 
> 
> 
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