![]() Sikhism does not subscribe to this extreme objectification of Maya in the Vedantic theory. Maya continues to exist for the rest of mankind as an objective entity. Only for a spiritually advanced individual Maya ceases to be, and Brahma alone remains. It is conceived as parallel to Brahm, for both are treated as beginningless (anadi) and beyond adequate expression in human terms.The world of names and forms is a product of Maya, which is indicative of its powers of creating illusion and of concealing reality. The Advailic conception of Maya endows it with unique and matchless powers. Maya is assumed to stand between man and reality, producing error and illusion in the human mind, and creating difficulties in the individual`s progress to a state of knowledge and bliss. ![]() As a philosophic category in the Indian tradition, Maya is interpreted variously as a veil or curtain concealing reality the phenomenal world as it appears over against things in themselves the grand illusion or the cosmic principle of illusion. ![]() ![]() MAYA, written and pronounced in Punjabi as maid. ![]()
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