mahamaya
महामाया mahāmāyā'Great illusion'; a name of the Goddess as the cosmic power that both binds beings to the world and releases them, central to the Devi Mahatmya.
Where this term appears
- The 64 Śākta Tantras Lineages
The 64 Śākta Tantras are the Goddess-centred tantric scriptures, named in a famous verse of the Saundaryalaharī. The number 64 is a traditional and symbolic…
- What is Maya? The World as Appearance Essentials
She is Mahamaya , the Great Maya, the very power of the supreme reality to become a world, and that power is worshipped as the Goddess herself.
- Bhuvaneshvari: She Whose Body Is the World Treatise
…tuff of world-making, with prakriti , primordial nature, and with the Mahamaya of the Devi Mahatmya and Devi Bhagavata , the great power by which the formless takes form.
- The Goddess Takes the Field Treatise
She is Mahamaya , the great power of illusion that moves the cosmos, the ultimate reality, the source from which the gods themselves draw their strength.