Maya (Sanskrit From a Proto-Indo-Iranian *m?y?, cognate to Avestan m?y? with an approximate meaning of "miraculous force", of uncertain etymology, either from a root may- "exchange", or from a root m?- "measure", among other suggestions; Mayrhofer, EWAia (1986-2001), s.v.), in Indian religions, is a polyvalent term. Maya, is the principal deity who creates, perpetuates and governs the phantasmagoria, illusion and dream of duality in the phenomenal Universe. For some mystics this manifestation is real, but it is a fleeting reality; it is a mistake, although a natural one, to believe that Maya represents a fundamental reality or Truth. Each person, each physical object, from the perspective of eternity is like a brief, disturbed drop of water from an unbounded ocean. The goal of enlightenment is to understand this ? more precisely, to experience this: to see intuitively that the distinction between the self and th

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