--- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Behalf Of authfriend > > Angela Mailander > <mailander111@> wrote: > > > > Couple points: > > That the material world is an illusion was understood in the > > popular mind to mean the world is a mirage, i.e. not really > > there. Shankara made the term clear long before MMY > > MMY attributed his teaching on this to Shankara, > Angela. He didn't pretend it was his own idea. > > The "illusion" of maya isn't that the relative > exists, but that the relative isn't Brahman. > > Not that the relative isn't Brahman, but that it's > commonly mistaken as something other than Brahman.
Yes, that's what I was saying. That the relative is something other than Brahman is the illusion.
