Madhava:

Madhava (Maadhava). God (name for Krishna); Master of illusion (maya), Lord of Lakshmi.

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Swayam-prabha:

Swayam-prabha (Svayam-prabhaa). Celibate daughter of Maya, a demoness.

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hrim:

a mantra of maya shakti. Pronounced "Hreem".

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Kosha:

Kosha ("casing"): any one of five "envelopes" surrounding the transcendental Self (atman) and thus blocking its light: anna-maya-kosha ("envelope made of food," the physical body), prana-maya-kosha ("envelope made of life force"), mano-maya-kosha ("envelope made of mind"), vijnana-maya-kosha ("envelope made of consciousness"), and ananda-maya-kosha ("envelope made of bliss"); some older traditions regard the last kosha as identical with the Self (atman)

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Avidya:

Avidya: ignorance; nescience; a Sakti or  illusive power in Brahman which is sometimes regarded as one with  Maya and sometimes as different from it. It forms the condition of  the individual soul and is otherwise called Ajnana or Asuddha-Maya.  It forms the Karana Sarira of Jiva. It is Malina or impure Sattva.

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Illusion. In Occultism everything finite (like the universe and all in it) is called illusion or maya.

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Jasa-sakti - the material or external potency also known as maya.

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Suddha-jnana - knowledge of the relationship between Bhagavan, the jivas, and maya.

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Upadhi:

Upadhi. Similar to Maya. The illusion we place over reality. Smash Upadhi and enlightenment occurs.

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Hrim:

Hrim. A mantra of Maya Shakti. Pronounced "Hreem".

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Mayavi, Mayavin (Sanskrit) [from maya illusion]

Illusory; frequently anglicized as mayavic.

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Thripura:

Thripura. A phantom city built by Maya (illusion) in the sky, earth, and ether for the demons; it was destroyed by Siva.

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Illusion Positive unreality, or that which is wholly and completely deceptive without basis in reality; as such some philosophers consider it to be rooted in the human mind itself, subjective or interior rather than external or objective. As thus understood, illusion falls far short of the significance of the Sanskrit maya, for which it is used as a translation. For the sense of maya is that of appearance rising out of reality, not something opposed to reality.

It is evident that, if the universe can be said to exist at all, we must allow that illusion in the sense of maya has existence, a relative or temporary reality, for it obviously originates from and shadows forth the reality within and behind it.

It is not that reality itself, but its multiform appearances. To say that the world in which we live, and all the people and beings and things in it, are an illusion, does not mean that all this is an empty dream; it means that what is so real to us, as long as we are conscious on this plane, will be seen as a maya or deceptive appearance from our viewpoint when we become conscious on a higher and more inclusive plane.

See also MAYA

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Arya-Bhata (Sanskrit) The earliest Hindu algerbraist and astronomer, with the exception of Asura Maya (q.v.); the author of a work called Arya Siddhanta, a system of Astronomy.

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Para-sakti - Sri Bhagavan’s superior potency which has three divisions: cit, tatastha, and maya.

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Vastava-vastu - any really existing or abiding substance; that which is grounded in transcendence; Bhagavan, His atomic parts (the jivas) , and His potency (maya).

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Devaki-nandana Krishna

“the darling son of Devaki.”

deva-maya

the external energy of the Lord.

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Chaya-sakti - Sri Bhagavan’s shadow potency known as maya which binds the living entities in the material world.

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Atman:

Atman. The highest or true self as distinct from the consciousness or ego. Shiva embodied. There is no difference between Atman and Paramatman except that caused by Maya. The Atman is not necessarily embodied.

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Mayasabha (Sanskrit) [from maya illusion + sabha assembly]

An assemblage of illusions; one of the wonderful gifts given to the Pandavas in the Mahabharata by Mayasura.

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Gupta-maya (Sanskrit) (from gupta secret + maya illusion)

Secret illusion; the art used by Hindu street "magicians" to make mango trees appear to grow rapidly, to allow a boy to climb a rope fastened in the clouds, etc. Blavatsky holds that such phenomena arise from the psychological power of the "magician" to project a fascination or glamour on the spectators. (BCW 12:321, 326)

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Mother Nature The productive and generative powers of cosmic spirit, considered from the human standpoint as a feminine agent in universal nature, and hence often called the Great Mother, the Immaculate Virgin, space, the cosmic deep, mula-maya or root-maya, etc.

The first stage of manifestation is the representation of the plain or empty disk, cosmic infinitude; the second stage is the First Logos or the disk with the central point; and the third stage, to which Mother Nature refers, is the disk with the horizontal diameter, or the Second or Manifest-Unmanifest Logos.

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