Maya means absence of Krsna consciousness. This is maya, absence of Krsna consciousness. When you forget Krsna, this is maya. When we remember Krsna, know Krsna, there is no maya. Just like you have experience that you go through the cloud and then come to the sunshine, there is no more cloud. So below the cloud there is darkness, there is... We cannot see the sun. So the sunshine is profuse sunshine. Not that cloud can cover the sunshine. Similarly, Krsna is all-pervading. Andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham. Krsna is within the universe, within the atoms, everywhere. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61]. Every heart, there is Krsna. But we cannot see Krsna. Simply, somehow or other, we have been covered by the illusion of maya. That's it. So as soon as we come to the Krsna consciousness atmosphere, shining atmosphere, then there is no maya. Maya is illusion.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
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