' Maya '...

"Suppose you come along and mistake a string for a snake. This mistake creates maya.

But, if you see that the string is only a string and nothing else, is maya gone?

No, because the accompanying suppositions and fears — 'What sort of a serpent is it? How long? Will it bite?' — these are maya.

In the end, when it is found that it is only a string, you laugh at your false presupposition because your fears are gone — the illusion is removed.

In the same way, when one attains Realization, he laughs at these false notions of maya — the world and all its connections — for he knows that they are totally false and not real."



Lord Meher
Online revised edition, p. 684