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term Maya' in a sense altogether different
from that in which Sankara employs it. And
why? Dr. Thibaut replies-" That the world
perceived by waking men is Maya even in a
higher sense than the world presented to the
dreaming consciousness is an undoubted fact of
the Sankara Vedanta." Exactly so, and it is to
mark this difference that the Sutrakara uses
the compound word "maya-matram,
not maya by itself. While the jagrat (waking)
and sushupti (sleeping) states are maya (illusory)
svapna (dreaming) state is mayamatra, emphati-
cally, exceptionally and exclusively illusory.
Neither of the two alternative opinions stated
by Dr. Thibaut regarding Badarayana's concep-
tion of Maya is correct. It is clear, therefore,
that Badarayana did hold the doctrine of the
illusive character of the world and that he did
use maya in a sense identical with that in which
Sankara employs it. This is made clearer still
when we consider the reason assigned by the
Sutra for calling the state of dream mayamatra,
and not simply maya.
That reason is
"कात्स्न्यैनानभिव्यक्तस्वरूपत्वात् " "on account of its
nature not manifesting all the attributes of
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term Maya' in a sense altogether different
from that in which Sankara employs it. And
why? Dr. Thibaut replies-" That the world
perceived by waking men is Maya even in a
higher sense than the world presented to the
dreaming consciousness is an undoubted fact of
the Sankara Vedanta." Exactly so, and it is to
mark this difference that the Sutrakara uses
the compound word "maya-matram,
not maya by itself. While the jagrat (waking)
and sushupti (sleeping) states are maya (illusory)
svapna (dreaming) state is mayamatra, emphati-
cally, exceptionally and exclusively illusory.
Neither of the two alternative opinions stated
by Dr. Thibaut regarding Badarayana's concep-
tion of Maya is correct. It is clear, therefore,
that Badarayana did hold the doctrine of the
illusive character of the world and that he did
use maya in a sense identical with that in which
Sankara employs it. This is made clearer still
when we consider the reason assigned by the
Sutra for calling the state of dream mayamatra,
and not simply maya.
That reason is
"कात्स्न्यैनानभिव्यक्तस्वरूपत्वात् " "on account of its
nature not manifesting all the attributes of