Maya is something to be seen through
ma•ya
pronunciation: [mä’yä]
—n. Hinduism.
- wealth and riches.
- the power, as of a god, to produce illusions.
- the production of an illusion.
- (in Vedantic philosophy) the illusion of the reality of sensory experience and of the experienced qualities and attributes of oneself.
- (cap.) Also called Mahamaya. a goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena.
In Hinduism, is a term describing many things. Maya is the phenomenal world of separate objects and people, which creates for some the illusion that it is the only reality. In Hindu mythology, Maya is the name of the goddess Devi, the consort of Shiva, a Divine Goddess. Also known as a forecaster.
In Buddhist myth, Queen Maya was the birth mother of the historical Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha).
In Greek, it’s related to Maayan (spring) and to the Aramaic word for ‘water’.
In English, Maya known as one of native Americans tribes who built a great civilization in southern Mexico and Latin America.
Maya is something to be seen through in order to achieve moksha (liberation of the soul from the cycle of death and rebirth). For me, the statement may mean, if I do any good it will bring gifts, otherwise if I do any bad it will bring suffer. and I will always do any good, heu.
