Ramana Maharshi About Maya And Mind

D: It is stated that the existence of the world is false,an illusion, Maya, but we see the world day after day.How can it be false?

B: By false it is meant that the conception of the world is a superimposition on reality, as the idea of a snake is superimposed on the reality of a rope, in darkness (in ignorance). That is Maya, illusion.

D: What is Maya? Illusion?

B: Seeing ice without seeing that it is water is illusion,Maya. Therefore saying things like killing the mind or anything like that also has no meaning, for after all mind also is part and parcel of the Self.

Resting in the Self or inhering in the Self is mukti, getting rid of Maya.Maya is not a separate entity. Absence of light is called darkness,so also absence of Knowledge, Illumination etc., is called ignorance, illusion or Maya.

Source: CRUMBS FROM HIS TABLE By RAMANANANDA SWARNAGIRI