THE Doctrine of Maya - HolyBooks.com

"""""""i8THE DOCTRINE OF MAYAVikarajanamm mayam astarupam ajam dhruvam,"where Maya is spoken of as bringing about the existence of the phenomenal world.The Sarv. Up. 1 readsKatham pratyagatrna paramatma atma maya ceti,"2where an inquiryis made into the meanings of thesefour terms including maya, and the answer isgivenin section 4 :Anadir antarvatni pramanapramanasadharana na satinasati na sadasati svayam avikarad vikarahetau nirupyamaneasati, anirupyamane sati laksanasunya samayety ucyate,"where the mysterious nature of mayais described.The Ramap. Up.,3 which is one of the sectarianUpanisads, speakingand Purusa, reads thusof Rama and Sita as Prakrtitato Ramo manavo mayayadhyatkonaparsve ramamaye (61).(17).thirty-two Upanisads, published [by the AnandasramaSanskrit Series, No. 29, Poona, 1895. The Cul. Up. contains only twenty-one slokas, divided into two khandas,and belongs to A.V., p. 230.1The Sarvopanisatsara is a small prose-treatise containing only five sections, in the last of which it gives a gooddescription of maya. See Ibid., p. 587-92.2The Great Lord is called may! here and in the following stanza. He is said to create the universe only by hismaya-sakti.3The Ramapurvatapamya Up. contains ninety-fourslokas divided into ten khandas. See ibid., pp. 487-529.