Maya reduced to ashes by Knowledge is non existent

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ADVAITA BODHA DEEPIKA[LAMP OF NON-DUAL KNOWLEDGE][Originally

Sri Shankaracharya and other great Sages hadwritten several works like the commentary on the Vedanta Sutrasand thus furnished the methods for those engaged in Self enquiryto accomplish their purpose.From those, Sri Karapatra Swami later condensed thesalient

points

into

Sanskrit

verse

in

a

work

of

twelve

chapters,called Sri Advaita

Bodha Deepika.Still later, some great man seems to have translated thisinto Tamil prose. For some unknown reasons only some eightchapters

of

the

same

are

found

published.]THE REMOVAL OFSUPERIMPOSITION36-38. Disciple: How can a single thing appear in two differentways?Master: Brahman, the non-dual-Pure-Being, presents itself as thejagat before enquiry, and shows itself in Its true form after enquiry.See how before proper consideration clay appears a potand afterwards as clay only; or gold appears as ornaments andthen is found to be only gold. Similarly with Brahman too. Afterenquiry Brahman is realised to be unitary, non-dual, impartite,and unchanged in the past, present or future. In It there isnothing like Maya, or its effect, such as the jagat. This realisationis known as the Supreme Knowledge and the limit of Ignorance.Thus is described the `limit' of Maya.39. D.: What is the `fruit' of Maya?M.: That it fruitlessly vanishes into nothing, is its fruit.A hare's horn is mere sound having no significance. So it is withMaya, mere sound without any meaning. Realised sages havefound it so.40-43. D.: Then why do not all agree on this point?M.: The ignorant believe it to be real. Those who arethoughtful will say it is indescribable. Realised sages say that it isnon existent like the hare's horn. It thus appears in these threeways. People will speak of it from their own points of view.D.: Why do the ignorant consider it real?M.: Even when a lie is told to frighten a child, that there isa spirit, the child believes it to be true. Similarly the ignorantare dazed by Maya and believe it to be real. Those who enquireinto the nature of the Real Brahman and of the unreal jagat inthe light of the scriptures, finding Maya different from eitherand unable to determine its nature, say it is indescribable. Butsages who had attained Supreme Knowledge through enquiry,say, "Like a mother burnt down to ashes by her daughter, Mayareduced to ashes by Knowledge is non existent at any time."