Ignorance

 Many religions regard the evils of human condition as a result of ignorance. Being ignorant of the truth about ultimate reality and the purpose of life, people’s values become confused and consequently they act wrongly. This even binds people to the wheel of birth and death. The veil of illusion obscures the faculty of insight.

Svetasvatara upanishad 1.6-8

The universe is a wheel, the wheel of Brahman.upon it are all creatures that are subject to birth death and rebirth. It goes on and on in circle and never stops. As long as the individual self thinks it is separate from the lord, it revolves upon the wheel in bondage to the laws of birth death and rebirth.

The lord supports this universe, which is made up of the perishable and the imperishable, the manifest and unmanliest. The individual soul, forgetful of the lord attaches itself to pleasure and thus is bound.

Maitre upanishad4.2

Also Bhagvat Gita 7.25

Few see through the veil of maya.

Katha upanishad 1.2.5

Fools dwelling in darkness, but thinking themselves wise and erudite, go round and round, by various tortuous paths, like the blind led by the blind.

Idolarity allegiance to the false values that substitute for god.

Basavanagudi vacant. 615-16

Bhagvan Gita 9.11-12

Fools misjudge me when I take a human form, because they do not know my supreme state as lord of beings. Unconscious they fall prey to beguiling nature. For there hopes are vain and so are their rituals and their search for wisdom.