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What is Avidya according to Advaita Vedanta?
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The effect of avidya is to suppress the real nature of things and present something else in its place. In effect it is not different from Maya (pronounced MÄyÄ) or illusion. Avidya relates to the individual Self (Ä€tman), while Maya is an adjunct of the cosmic Self (Brahman). In both cases it connotes the principle of differentiation of an experienced reality into the subject ('I') and an object, as is implicit in human thinking. Avidya stands for that delusion which breaks up the original unity (refer: nonduality) of what is real and presents it as subject and object and as doer and result of the deed. What keeps humanity
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