Srimad Bhagavad - Gita

======================================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19/10/2019. 2.The Search For Wholeness -4 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The avarana, as it is called in Vedantic parlance, is a screen over the reality which keeps us out of touch with it. That is what is known as ignorance. We are not only screened away from what is there but are presented with what is not there, so that we are made a double fool. Not only are we ignorant of the presence of God, but we are conscious of the presence of a world outside, so we are deceived in two ways. There is a double deception taking place at the same time. Not only are we completely cut off from the vital root essence , the sparent of all thing , which is sustaining us here— 'mata dhata pitamahaḥ...