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Māyā Before It Meant Illusion
Everyone knows māyā means illusion. The Rigveda does not. In roughly eighty verses the word names a hard, practical power to make forms and measure things out, and gods and demons wield it in equal measure.
One Without a Second: How a Rigvedic Riddle Grew Into Advaita Vedanta
Three thousand years before Shankara, a Rigvedic poet ended a hymn on creation by admitting the one god who might know how it began probably does not. That admission, and a single half-line about truth being one, became the root system of India's most audacious philosophy.