In ‘Vivekacūḍāmaṇi’ Śaṅkarācārya elaborately proves and asserts, there is no māyā nor ‘ignorance’ other than our own mind; the mind is nothing but a grosser and, therefore, a more perceptible expression of avidyā: ‘Apart from the mind there is no ignorance (avidyā). The mind itself is the ‘ignorance’ which is the cause for the bondage of rebirth.
