mala
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
impurity · āṇava, māyīya, kārma mala
in the texts
Paramārthasāra
The threefold contaminating impurity (atomizing, māyā-derived, and karmic) that, with the sheaths and body, veils the Self.
Here the highest [innermost] covering is the impurity (mala);
Just as a seed freed from husk, hull, and beard does not [any longer] produce a sprout, so too the Self, freed from the [threefold impurity of] aṇava [atomizing], māyīya, and kārma [malas], surely produces no sprout of [further] existence.
Vrhaspatitattva
Impurity, the unconscious stain that causes Śivatattva to lose its all-knowing, all-doing power and become ātmā.
The *Śivatattva*, whose nature is *prota* (transcendent) in *māyā*, becomes stained by *mala* (impurity).