Maya has two functions. It obscures the reality, brahman, it veils the reality and does not allow you to know yourself as you are. My eye is that which is destroyed by knowledge. If i do not know my real self, as a dwaitovelant claims, i'm ignorant of my real self,. then i need knowledge, ganam of my realself, and that will remove ignorance. Ignorance is not just an absence of knowledge; it's a positive something. Bava rupum, it's not an absence. These are all very controversial. But this is something that we have borrowed from sankia cosmology, satu
Swami Sarvapriyananda gives a discourse on the nature of Maya (Ignorance). This lecture is part of a series of talks inspired by Swami Vivekananda's Jnana Yoga.