Ma-rig-pa (Tibetan) Ignorance, nescience; equivalent of Sanskrit avidya.

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AVIDYA

Lit. "not knowing." The ignorance of non-enlightenment. Normal intellectual state. Ignorance comes in two flavors: simple "non" knowing vs. the more complex "wrong" knowing. Both kinds obscure illumination.

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gudaakesa:

gudaakesa (gudaakesha). Master of senses; thick-haired (Arjuna). A person who has overcome sloth, sleep, and ignorance.

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ashtanga-yoga:

ashtanga-yoga (ashtaanga-yoga). Eight-fold discipline of yoga to destroy ignorance and reach state of communion with Self, as taught by Sage Patanjali.

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Vikshepa:

Vikshepa: Ignorance which hides the truth, befogs the intellect, confounds reason, and clothes falsehood with the tinsel that attracts (SSS-III)

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Ajnana:

Ajnana: To speak of it (the one) as different is to reveal one's ignorance (BV-1), (BV-36), (BV).

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Asutosa:

Asutosa: Shiva, a special incarnation who is in charge of the mode of ignorance and the destruction of the material manifestation.

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Avidya klesha:

Avidya klesha: ignorance, lack of spiritual knowledge, the root cause of all afflictions

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Girisa - Gopisvara - Shiva:

Girisa - Gopisvara - Shiva: a special incarnation who is in charge of the mode of ignorance and the destruction of the material manifestation.

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thamoguna:

thamoguna. Quality of dullness, ignorance, delusion, inactivity, inertia, sloth. Associated with colour black. See guna.

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thamas:

thamas. Dullness, ignorance, delusion, inactivity, passivity, inertia, sloth. Associated with colour black. See guna.

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pashu:

Animal herd. Animal nature. Literally "a beast" but in the special sense meaning a human being who is ignorant and uninitiated.

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Guna:

This means qualities or attributes. There are three main gunas: sattva, raja and tama. Purity, passion and ignorance, respectively.

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Hari:

Literally means 'thief', but is actually used as a name for Krishna or god in much of India, as god takes away ignorance and misconception and gives eternal, blissful life full of knowledge.

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Chyang (Tibetan) Omniscience; Chyang-mi-shi-khon "ignorance" (Blavatsky's Letters to Sinnett 377)

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Avidya (Sanskrit). Opposed to Vidya, Knowledge. Ignorance which proceeds from, and is produced by the illusion of the Senses or Viparyaya.

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Ajnana (Sanskrit) or Agyana (Bengali). Non-knowledge; absence of knowledge rather than "ignorance" as generally translated. An Ajnani means a "profane".

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Tamas (Sanskrit). The quality of darkness, "foulness" and inertia; also of ignorance, as matter is blind. A term used in metaphysical philosophy. It is the lowest of the three gunas or fundamental qualities.

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Testimonium Paupertatis (Latin) Proof of poverty; also unconscious or involuntary admission of ignorance (SD 2:651).

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tamo-guna

Among the three modes of material nature, the mode of darkness. It causes ignorance, delusion, foolishness, and inertia.

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Nirguna - free from the influence of the material qualities of goodness, passion, and ignorance. In relationship to Sri Krsna, this implies that He is endowed with transcendental qualities.

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gunas

the three modes of material nature, or controlling principles, sattva-guna (goodness), rajo-guna (passion), and tamo-guna (ignorance).

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