avidya

American

[uh-vid-yah] / əˈvɪd jɑ /

noun

Hinduism, Buddhism.

ignorance of the identity of oneself with Brahman, resulting in imprisonment within the cycle of birth and death.

Etymology

Origin of avidya

< Sanskrit avidyā ignorance, equivalent to a- a- ⁶ + vidyā; see vidya

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What is meant by avidya being without beginning, is that it forms no link in the Karmic chain leading to succession of births and deaths, it is evolved by a law embodied in prakriti itself.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

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