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Updated: May 3, 2025
That this is the meaning of maya in anandamaya we know from Panini IV, 3, 144. But according to Pa. V, 4, 21, maya has also the sense of 'abounding in'; as when we say 'the sacrifice is annamaya, i.e. abounds in food. And this may be its sense in 'anandamaya' also! Not so, the Purvapakshin replies.
The commentator explains that by saying that Maheswara is in the heart, etc., what is stated is that he is the several cases of which Jiva is made up while in his unemancipate state, viz., the Annamaya kosha, the pranamaya kosha, the Manomaya kosha, and the Vijnanmaya kosha. What is meant by Yogatman is that he is the Soul or essence of Yoga of the Chidachidgranthi, i.e., the Anandamaya kosha.
In 'annamaya, in an earlier part of the chapter, maya has the sense of 'made of', 'consisting of'; and for the sake of consistency, we must hence ascribe the same sense to it in 'anandamaya. And even if, in the latter word, it denoted abundance, this would not prove that the anandamaya is other than the individual soul.
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