(‘miraculous power’; later meaning ‘deception’) In Vedic times a designation for the power of the gods, a power created by → Viu as a female primeval principle, from which the world is generated. In the Upaniads, the...

Lit. illusion, and popularly used in this sense. Philosophically, whereas that alone which is changeless and eternal is real (see Dharmakāya), the phenomenal universe, subject to differentiation and impermanence, is māyā. (See Moha.) (2)...

illusion; magic; phenomenal reality; the illusory nature of phenomenal reality; the creative power of God, often represented by his female consort and virtually identical with his...

a name of the Goddess, especially under her aspect as Durgā, called also Māyādevī and...

Maya (Sanskrit माया māyā[1] ), in Indian religions, is a polyvalent term. Maya, is the principal deity who creates, perpetuates and governs the phantasmagoria, illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics this...