Spiritual Quotes

Maya (illusionary vision) means ignorance of the (eternal) ‘elements’ of the ‘things’.

Not seeing the “Original Self (the true self)”, but seeing something else; that is called maya (illusionary vision).

Not Knowing who You Yourself really are, that is the greatest of all illusion (maya). Once agnan (ignorance of One's Real form as the Self) is removed, the illusion disappears!

If a stone falls from a mountain and hurts you, people do not say anything to the stone, but if a person ends up hitting you, then people end up creating an uproar! People believe that the person is alive! In reality, both the stone and the person are the same, but people cannot understand that, right?! That verily is Bhagwan’s maya (power or phenomenon of the illusion)! That is exactly what entraps people! The Gnanis (the Self-realized Ones who can help others attain the Self) have referred to that [the apparent person or the worldly entity] as the prakruti (the non-Self complex). There is no Self in it. It is just like a brick wall!

The objects or the eyes are not [the cause for] the maya (the illusion that deceives the Self), however, the pull that is experienced through the sense organs, that is the maya!

Maya (ignorance of One's Real form as the Self) is the one that makes you take birth, maya is the one who makes you get married, and maya is also the one who makes you die. However, the only condition here is that the 'reign' is not of maya. The 'reign' is yours. It cannot happen without you desiring it. Whatever you signed off on in the past life, is what maya is giving as an effect in this life.

The One whose ego has come to an end, He verily is the Parmatma (the absolute Self)! The ego itself is the maya (ignorance of One's Real form as the Self; wrong belief).

Maya means ignorance of One's Real form as the Self!

Maya (illusion; ignorance of the Self) means to not see the Real form of the eternal elements as they are, but to see them in a completely different form.

Happiness that is devoid of maya (ignorance of One’s real form as the Self) is considered as true happiness.