Maya (illusion) From the akshara the void called akasha originated when the self begins to vibrate as void Akasa, as the energy from that onward it becomes two. The higher self is brahmam and lower self is maya. Whatever we know, hear and see all are in the maya. The world speaks of these seeming characharam (animate and in animate begins) as maya, that is not correct. The seeming begins is not maya. All these only exist in maya. Maya is the base for all these things. If there is no maya all these things do not exist. The meaning of maya is , “that is that which is not” or maya is the negation of or that is the self, the akshara, the vidya the bodha, the janana, the nithya and the arivu. The entity which is the arivu, the Jeeva Sakthi, Vibrtes and is destroyed by flowing out from oneself as vayu is called maya. (Swamiji’s order)