Maya is not illusion as it is popularly interpreted.
Maya is real, yet it is not real. It is real in that the Real is behind it and gives it its appearance of reality.
That which is real in Maya is the Reality in and through Maya.
Yet the Reality is never seen; and hence that which is seen is unreal, and it has no real independent existence of itself, but is dependent upon the Real for its existence.
Maya then is a paradox -- real, yet not real, an illusion, yet not an illusion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘The Reality and Shadow’,
Notes of Class Talks and Lectures
Maya is real, yet it is not real. It is real in that the Real is behind it and gives it its appearance of reality.
That which is real in Maya is the Reality in and through Maya.
Yet the Reality is never seen; and hence that which is seen is unreal, and it has no real independent existence of itself, but is dependent upon the Real for its existence.
Maya then is a paradox -- real, yet not real, an illusion, yet not an illusion.
- Swami Vivekananda,
‘The Reality and Shadow’,
Notes of Class Talks and Lectures
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