This standing between knowledge and ignorance, this mystic
twilight, the mingling of truth and falsehood -- and where they meet -- no one
knows.
We are walking in the midst of a dream, half sleeping, half waking,
passing all our lives in a haze; this is the fate of everyone of us. This is
the fate of all sense-knowledge.
This is the fate of all philosophy, of all
boasted science, of all boasted human knowledge.
This is the universe. … …
This eternal play of light and darkness -- indiscriminate,
indistinguishable, inseparable -- is always there. A fact, yet at the same time
not a fact; awake and at the same time asleep.
This is a statement of facts,
and this is what is called Maya. We are born in this Maya, we live in it, we
think in it, we dream in it. … …
everything that is bound by the laws of time,
space and causation is within Maya.
- Swami Vivekananda,
Jnana-Yoga, London
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