The concept of "Maya" is one of the evidences which shows to a sane mind that Hinduism has failed to show the right way.
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"Maya" means illusion. It actually says that, what you see around you are all false and it is like a dream. As in the dream you are present, similarly in the material world, you are also present and both are false.
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Actually you are the part and parcel of God which you can not feel because of your ignorance and desire of the world and becoming free from such worldly bondage is the ultimate goal of mankind which is called "Moksha" or "Mukti".
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In the purport of Bhagavad Gita, 4:35, Swami Prabhupada indicates such "Maya" saying that the feeling of being seperate from Krishna (God) is called "Maya".
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"The result of receiving knowledge from a self-realized soul, or one who knows things as they are, is learning that **all living beings are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krsna**.
***The sense of a separated existence from Krsna is called maya*** (ma—not, ya—this)....."[1]
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Now come to the point. When you are calling that everything around what you are seeing is like a dream and it is all false, then there is nothing serious to take any action as good or evil deed. That means all good or bad things are false, and so if you do evil deeds like killing, raping, doing adultery and fornication, stealing and so on, all these are just like dreams and falsehood which can be defined not as sin, but just the expression of "Ignorance."
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Now think deeply. When you have no solution of any problem, you simply try to avoid it when you are being asked about it. For example, if a student does not do his home task and if teacher asks him about that, he tries to avoid that giving excuses.
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Similarly the Vedic way of life can not show the right way to mankind and so when it is asked about the solution of sexual immorality and evil things of the world, the scholars simply avoid saying that all these are "Maya" or illusion.
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A western person once asked Swami Vivekananda about the reason or source of "Maya", but swamiji avoided that matter giving excuse that we can not know that as it is beyond our capacity to know.
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"The question — what is the cause of Mâyâ (illusion)? — has been asked for the last three thousand years; and the only answer is: when the world is able to formulate a logical question, we shall answer it.....
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**We can only say ignorance makes the illusion. The question is impossible.** Nothing can have worked on the Absolute. There was no cause. Not that we do not know, or that we are ignorant; but ***It is above knowledge, and cannot be brought down to the plane of knowledge***...."[2]
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Reference :
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[1] Purport of Bhagabat Gita, 4:35 by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the founder of ISKCON;
source: https://asitis.com/4/35.html
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[2] Complete Works of Vivekananda/Volume 5/Notes from Lectures and Discourses/THE CAUSE OF ILLUSION
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