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Updated: June 19, 2025
'Maya, in such passages, really denotes that which produces various wonderful effects, and it is in this sense that Prakriti is called Maya. Up. Samh. Gi. 'consisting of the gunas, shows that what is meant is Prakriti consisting of the three gunas.
At the time of creation, on the other hand, there reveal themselves in Prakriti Goodness and the other gunas, it divides itself according to names and forms, and then is called the 'Evolved, and so on, and, transforming itself into fire, water, and earth, it appears as red, white, and black. In its causal condition it is aja, i.e. unborn, in its effected condition it is 'caused by light, i.e.
Hence it follows that this world, consisting of the three gunas, has for its only cause the Pradhana, which is constituted by those three gunas in a state of equipoise. Against this argumentation the Sutra says, 'Not that which is inferred, on account of the impossibility of construction, and on account of activity. 'Inference' means 'that which is inferred, i.e. the Pradhana.
The text, from Smriti, which was alleged as proving that the gunas only possess active power, refers to the fact that in all activities lying within the sphere of the samsara, the activity of the Self is due not to its own nature but to its contact with the different gunas. The activity of the gunas, therefore, must be viewed not as permanent, but occasional only. Gi.
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