avidyā
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nescience
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Paramārthasāra
Nescience, the root error of superimposing duality onto the non-dual Self.
Just so, the error of constructing duality is {{avidyā|nescience, the root of the rope-snake error}};
The three-stranded {{avidyā|nescience}} produces creation upon the consciousness-natured Self, which is all-pervading, [ever] established, the support of all;
Those deluded ones who here worship the {{avidyā|nescience}} fashioned by worldly convention — they, having the nature of [endless] birth and death, come to blind darkness and suffer.
Sāṃkhyatattvavivecana
Nescience (avidyā), the beginningless false cognition of the Self in the non-Self, identified as the root cause of transmigration and removed only by discriminative knowledge.
But the {{vivekakhyāti|discriminative discernment}} simply destroys nescience;
For it is the cognition "I am fair, an agent, happy, suffering," and the like, that is nescience—established by śruti, smṛti, and reasoning to be the cause of the calamity of transmigration;
] "The {{avidyā|nescience}} that has the form of the cognition of [the] Self in the non-Self—how can it be destroyed by discriminative knowledge whose qualificand is the Self, given the difference of mode and so forth [between them]?