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are by the action of the imaginative faculties. For example, the theory of ghosts, real or imaginary, is there to frighten one but not another. Those who are in fear of ghosts are often found to be harmed by them. But the fact is that they are actually harmed by themselves through the ghost. Similarly treating maya as a ghost, it is really not the maya that puts us to harm but our own self through the agency of maya. Our boat is sailing on the glassy surface of maya which is spreading forth both its wings to take us in, in order to present us to the Master. Our existence in the world would never have been possible had there not been this network of maya. Should such a thing of merit and value ever be reviled and cursed? Those who do so lack proper understanding of its value and utility. For this reason alone it presents to them an ugly picture of its own. If we attach ourselves to the brighter side of it, it will make us brighter still. It serves no purpose at all to remain here after getting away from maya, but the proper course would be to adhere firmly to the One, the Real, and ignore everything else as of no serious importance. In this way everything needed for the
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