To regard impure things, such as lustfulness and untruthfulness, as pure is the second kind of Ignorance (Avidyaa). “The false notion that the transient world and worldly things (such as bodies) are eternal or in other words that the world of effects, that we see and feel, has always been existing and will continue to exist for ever, and that by virtue of the power of yoga, the physical bodies of godly men become imperishable, is the first kind of ignorance (Avidyaa). “He who realizes the nature of Vidyaa -true knowledge – and of Avidyaa – good moral life and Divine contemplation – simultaneously conquers death by virtue of Avidyaa and obtains Immortality by virtue of Vidyaa.” YAJUR VEDA. ![]() KNOWLEDGE AND IGNORANCE, EMANCIPATION AND BONDAGE
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