'Indescribable' or indefinable: the logical status Advaita Vedanta gives to maya and the world, which is neither wholly real (it vanishes with knowledge) nor wholly unreal (it is universally experienced), and so cannot be categorised as either.

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• What is Maya? The World as Appearance Essentials →

  Neither real nor unreal This gives maya a strange and precise logical status, and the tradition names it with a single formidable word: anirvachaniya , "that which cannot be described", the indefinable.

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