Remain As Sacchidananda To Dispel Maya

Disciple:

Why should the power which is unreal, be said to exist?

Master:

Good natured son! Look how the grasses and their like which appear insentient, put forth blossoms and bear crops. But for the consciousness pervading them all, the mobile and immobile beings would lose their immemorial nature. See the wonder, how the embryos in eggs develop into birds of so many hues! But for the governance of an unseen force, all (the laws of nature) would be blotted out, like a kingdom without a king. Fire would turn into water; a bitter thing taste sweet; even the degraded recite the Vedas; the immovable mountain ranges float like clouds in the air; all the oceans become sandy wastes and there would be no fixity anywhere.

Disciple:

O Master who are the transcendent Reality! how can this power of consciousness (maya) which cannot be seen or known or expressed by anyone in words, and forms the root-cause of diverse names and forms, be rooted out? Otherwise how is brahman to be meditated upon as the non-dual Reality, to gain deliverance?

Master:

What becomes of the well-known qualities of air, water or fire when they are checked by amulets or incantations? If you stay as sat-chit-ananda, free from other thoughts, maya becomes extinct. No other method can be found in the whole range of Vedas. What remains unmanifest in clay, becomes manifest (as a pot). For the practical purposes of life, the word makes earth a pot and destroys it. To discard names and forms and recognize the clay, is true knowledge. In the same manner discard the fancied notions of plurality of beings and realize the Self as pure Consciousness.