an ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas
signified originally in the Veda the comprehensive and creative knowledge, wisdom that is from of old, afterwards taken in its second and derivative sense, cunning, magic, illusion; phenomenal consciousness, the power of self-illusion in brahman
Illusion Anything besides the Absolute Parabrahman (the ultimate Being, hidden in the depths on non-being ) is an illussion The first manifestation of this illussion is that primordial plane of which the hindu god Brahma is the personification
The illusion of the reality of sensory expressions and the feeling of being wrapped up in the material world and being attached to it
a family of American Indian languages spoken by Mayan peoples an ethnic minority speaking Mayan languages and living in Yucatan and adjacent areas
In Hinduism, maya (a Sanskrit word meaning "deception, illusion, appearance") is the power to produce, or the power that produces, the illusion that our separative self ("I am me, and you aren't"), its life, and its world are real Maya is sometimes perceived as a veil that deludes the Divine Mahamaya is the goddess who personifies this power See also samsara
illusion; the energy of the Supreme Lord that deludes living entities into forgetting their spiritual nature and forgetting God
force that shows the unreal as real and presents that which is temporary and short-lived as permanent and everlasting
A term of Vedanta philosophy denoting ignorance obscuring the vision of Reality; the cosmic illusion on account of which the One appears as many, the Absolute as the relative world
illusion, particularly the illusion of the transient, impermanent, phenomenal world
The glamour and illusion on the physical plane to which an integrated personality responds as the result of uncontrolled vital energies pouring through the etheric vehicle
1)Unreality, illusion, prakriti 2)The Hindu principle that all is an illusion and that ultimately the physical world, contacted through the conscious mind and the five senses, does not represent reality This philosophy is also taught by A Course in Miracles