avarana
आवरण āvaraṇaIn Advaita Vedanta, the 'veiling' power of maya: the power that conceals the real, hiding Brahman from view, as dim light hides a rope. It works together with vikshepa, the projecting power.
Where this term appears
- What is Maya? The World as Appearance Essentials
The Advaita teachers analysed it into two powers, and the analysis is precise and beautiful, and it maps exactly onto the rope and the snake. The first power is avarana , "veiling" or "concealment".
- The Nuclear Scientist and the Temple Treatise
They would walk inward, through the petalled enclosures, past the avarana goddesses at each level, and reach the bindu - the dimensionless point at the centre of the diagram, which is the Goddess herself - by c…
- The Prophets among the authorities Treatise
Islamic figures are named throughout the printed popular Śābara corpus. *Paigambar*, the word for prophet, stands twice in the Delhi pocket paperback of 2016 and…
- The Temple Is a Cosmos Treatise
A Hindu temple is not merely a house for a single deity — it is a scale model of the whole peopled cosmos, and its sculpture is a systematic map of the divine…