GCSE Religious Studies · key term

Maya

Definition

Illusion: a distorted understanding of reality in which temporary worldly things become more important than God.

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AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062

Paper 1

Illusion: the misleading appearance of the changing material world that conceals ultimate reality.
Maya is often translated as ‘illusion’. It describes how the world of appearances can conceal ultimate reality. The material world changes constantly, yet people can treat possessions, pleasure or status as if they offered permanent security.
Revise: Matter and Cosmology
Illusion or misleading appearance that prevents people from recognising ultimate reality.
Revise: Free Will and Suffering
Revise: Stages of Liberation

AQA Religious Studies A past papers

Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies · C120

Paper 1, Paper 3

An illusion that obscures spiritual understanding, including identifying possessions and relationships as wholly 'I and mine'.
In this context, maya means an illusion that obscures spiritual understanding.
Revise: Sexual Relationships in Hinduism
Illusion: misunderstanding reality, such as identifying the spiritual self entirely with the temporary body or treating temporary possessions as lasting sources of happiness.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in Hinduism
Illusion that misleads a person into treating temporary worldly things as more important than God.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in Sikhism

2 more notes

Illusion or the power that obscures spiritual reality, encouraging people to mistake temporary material things for ultimate reality.
Revise: Human Life
Worldly illusion and attachment which can distract a person from awareness of God.
Revise: The Nature of God

Eduqas Religious Studies past papers

Exam tips

1
Explain maya as a misleading appearance of reality, not simply the claim that nothing exists.
2
Do not describe maya as meaning that God's creation is evil, or worldly attachment as meaning that loving one's family is wrong.
3
Distinguish maya, an illusion about reality, from paapa, sinful action.

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GCSE Religious Studies · key term

Maya

Definition

Illusion: a distorted understanding of reality in which temporary worldly things become more important than God.

Used by AQA and Eduqas

How each exam board covers it

AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062

Paper 1

Illusion: the misleading appearance of the changing material world that conceals ultimate reality.
Maya is often translated as ‘illusion’. It describes how the world of appearances can conceal ultimate reality. The material world changes constantly, yet people can treat possessions, pleasure or status as if they offered permanent security.
Revise: Matter and Cosmology
Illusion or misleading appearance that prevents people from recognising ultimate reality.
Revise: Free Will and Suffering
Revise: Stages of Liberation

AQA Religious Studies A past papers

Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies · C120

Paper 1, Paper 3

An illusion that obscures spiritual understanding, including identifying possessions and relationships as wholly 'I and mine'.
In this context, maya means an illusion that obscures spiritual understanding.
Revise: Sexual Relationships in Hinduism
Illusion: misunderstanding reality, such as identifying the spiritual self entirely with the temporary body or treating temporary possessions as lasting sources of happiness.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in Hinduism
Illusion that misleads a person into treating temporary worldly things as more important than God.
Revise: Good, Evil and Suffering in Sikhism

2 more notes

Illusion or the power that obscures spiritual reality, encouraging people to mistake temporary material things for ultimate reality.
Revise: Human Life
Worldly illusion and attachment which can distract a person from awareness of God.
Revise: The Nature of God

Eduqas Religious Studies past papers

Exam tips

1
Explain maya as a misleading appearance of reality, not simply the claim that nothing exists.
2
Do not describe maya as meaning that God's creation is evil, or worldly attachment as meaning that loving one's family is wrong.
3
Distinguish maya, an illusion about reality, from paapa, sinful action.

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Definition

How each exam board covers it

AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062

Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies · C120

Exam tips

Related key terms

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Definition

How each exam board covers it

AQA GCSE Religious Studies A · 8062

Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies · C120

Exam tips

Related key terms

Revise Religious Studies with GradeGen