1) Indian religion 
ignorance, or not-knowledge. (See Ajnyana, the word is the same.)
(from the article `jnana`) ...or reality. The cognitive experience of the supreme object sets the soul free from the transmigratory life and the polarities this imposes upon ... ...craving arises out of sensation (vedan), and sensation arises out of contact (spara), so that man is faced with a series of conditions leading ... ...imme...