The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1435 page)

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Mah
nya
(Skt., ‘great’ + ‘emptiness’). Hindu
ved
nta
understanding of the complete emptying of duality when it is realized that there are no self-subsistent objects to create a dual relationship, e.g. of seer and seen. Cf. also the Buddhist development of
nyat
.
Mahat
(Skt., ‘the great one’). In
S
khya
(and other non-theistic) philosophy, the first evolution of
m
laprak
ti
, synonymous with
buddhi
(‘intellect’). Mahat contains all individual buddhis and all potential matter of the gross universe in its cosmic extent as the first manifest principle (
tattva
). Mahat in turn produces
aha
k
ra
, the ego principle.

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