"Ishwara, Jiva and Jagat are the creation of Maya or ignorance."----Sri Sri Babathakur

Sri Sri Babathakur the personification of divine grace is catering for mankind the ambrosia He discovered in the unfathomable depth of Samadhi i.e. trance throught His life.
He says Ishwara is nothing other than the Conciousness-Absolute Itself, appearing as the manifested Godhead under the influence of Mind or Maya but Ishwara is Mayadhish i.e. the Lord of Maya. He says Maya is Shuddha sattvaguna i.e. it is absolutely free from the influence of raja and tamagun. He also sees Ishwara as nimitya karan or instrumental cause in the creation.
Jiva or monad He says is nothing other than the Consciousness-Absolute Itself, appearing as such under the hypnotic influence of malin sattvaguna i.e. sattvagun tinted with raja and tamaguna and thus not pure sattvagun or suddha sattvagun. Jiva or monad is under the control of Maya. Though He points out that the three gunas viz. sattva, raja and tama are never found seperately. They are always found to be as admixture of the three, constantly compiting to increse one's influence on the other two. It would be interesting to note that when anyone of the three gunas is mentioned specially it is the admixture of the three gunas only where the influence of the guna mentioned is predominent among the three in the mixture. He also referres Jiva as sanyog karan or conjunctional cause.
Jagat as defined by Sri Sri Babathakur is nothing other than the Consciousness-Absolute Itself appearing to be so under the influence of raja and tamaguna. Jagat thus is the upadan karan or the material cause and is the gross-most among Ishwara, Jiva and Jagat in the creation of Maya or ignorance.