The Absolute Brahman is beyond the reach of Vidya (knowledge) as well as of Avidya (ignorance), which keeps one away from the realization of the Absolute. The absolute Brahman is beyond the reach of Maya, while Maya is either Vidya or Avidya. Vidya-Maya and Avidya-Maya both exist in this world.  

As there are knowledge (Jnana) and Devotion (Bhakti), so also there are lust and greed for wealth. Good and evil, virtue and vice, are to be found in this world of relativity; but Brahman is unaffected by them. They exist in relation to Jiva (individual ego), but cannot touch the Absolute Brahman.

Brahman may be compared to the light of a lamp. As by the same light one may read Holy Scriptures and another may forge a document, while the light remains unaffected by the good and evil deeds, so is the Absolute Brahman untouched by the good and evil of the world. He is like the Sun who shines equally upon the virtuous and the wicked.

Who can describe what the absolute Brahman is? Whatever can be uttered by the mouth has become defiled as it were, like the leavings of food.

The Revealed Scriptures, Vedas, Tantras, Puranas, and all Holy Books have become defiled as it were, like the leavings of food, for they have been uttered by human mouths. But there is one thing that is never defiled in this manner and that is the Absolute Brahman.

No one has ever succeeded in describing the Absolute by words of mouth. Brahman is unspeakable, indescribable, unthinkable.

- The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna -