--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Couple points: > That the material world is an illusion was understood in the popular mind to mean the world is a mirage, i.e. not really there. Shankara made the term clear long before MMY
MMY attributed his teaching on this to Shankara, Angela. He didn't pretend it was his own idea. The "illusion" of maya isn't that the relative exists, but that the relative isn't Brahman. MMY, as I recall, said "maya" meant "that which is not"--meaning the relative as not-Brahman, i.e., maya is that which is not not-Brahman.
