

‘Avyaktha’ means, that which is there but not yet available to our reach or our understanding. The 24th principle is called Avyktha Prakṛti, which is also called as Māyā. In the Samkhya school (one of six astika) there are twenty-four principles in Prakriti, with the twenty-fifth principle called Puruṣa. But this optical illusion made people write poems, songs, and paintings of the blue sky. For example, the sky is blue, but there is no real object called sky with the color blue, it’s an optical illusion, an illusion of the senses due to phenomena in Prakriti. This illusion of reality is also called as world-appearance. A form (like a shape) is nothing but one of many phenomena in Prakriti (Prakṛti), its ever-changing, giving us countless interpretations. Māyā, as defined by Sanātana Ḍharma literature, is to be under an illusion that makes us associate a name ( nāma) with a form ( rūpa), or in other words an illusion of perception of this reality.
