Satyopanisad

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Swami! How are we to get over maya or illusion?

 

There is no maya. It is your own creation. How is it then you want to get over

that, which does not exist at all?

 

In the night time, seeing a rope, you mistake it for a serpent and you are very

much fear-stricken. Later on, enquiry reveals that it is only a rope and not a

serpent. What you should know here are two points. Neither the snake disappears

nor does the rope come especially to give you relief. All along, it has been a

rope only. You are the only one who is mistaken by taking a rope for a serpent.

So also, the reality is brahman or atma and the rest is bhrama, or illusion or

imagination.