II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

माया दोय प्रकार की, जो कोय जानै खाय I
एक मिलावै राम को, एक नरक ले जाय II

"Kabir says, the world consists of the illusory duality of knowledge and ignorance. This universe is created by the Mahamaya [the inscrutable Power of Illusion] of God. Mahamaya contains both Vidyamaya, the illusion of knowledge, and Avidyamaya, the illusion of ignorance.
Both Vidya and Avidya are aspects of maya, the cosmic power of Brahman. It is the Vidya component of maya that is responsible for the generation of spiritual knowledge, through the help of which one cultivates such virtues as the taste for holy company, knowledge, devotion, love and renunciation. It is the meditation on the Self.
Avidya on the other hand is the knowledge other than that of the Self. It consists of all sciences, arts, skills, learning of languages and other disciplines, and art forms. Avidya is also the human ignorance about God's nature, by which one is perpetually deluded into doing the rounds of birth and death. This Avidya is the misidentification of real knowledge, which is one's real nature. 
Ignorance is the great mother of all misery, and the fundamental ignorance is to think that
"I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate." As soon as this idea of separation comes, it opens the door to all mischief and leads to all misery.
Summing up, one must contemplate on and be aware of the Self by using both Avidya and Vidya. Through Avidya one crosses mortality and by Vidya one attains immortality. Immortality is release from births and deaths i.e., from the rise and set of egoistic mind. Egoistic mind and self-consciousness are responsible for all the disturbances the individual experiences and suffers. Thus knowledge about both Vidya and Avidya is necessary for one to meditate on the Self and live as Self in and with calmness."

II श्रीराम जय राम जय जय राम II

II श्रीसद्गुरूचरणार्पणमस्तु II