Māyā as Cosmic Ignorance: A Philosophical Inquiry into Avidyā in Advaita Vedānta
Research Review Journal of Social Science December 31, 2023 Sandip Kumar Pati
This essay explores the Advaita Vedānta's concept of Māyā as cosmic ignorance and its connection to avidyā, emphasizing how these concepts explain reality, perception, and emancipation. It contends that Māyā is a sophisticated philosophical theory that explains the appearance of plurality in a fundamentally non-dual world rather than just an illusion. Avidyā functions at the individual level as...