Avidyā

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. non-wisdom; non-knowledge
  2. ignorance; unawareness; false-awareness
  3. in philosophy, that state of existence where one is unaware of one’s essential nature, or one’s true identity, and/or one’s true purpose of existence and one’s relationship with the universe.