What is Illusion?

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My cousin sister recently asked me a question.What is illusion?My answer to that was 'Everything is'.But she seemed not so satisfied with the answer for she wanted a proper discussion on 'maya'-the bengali translation of illusion.Well by now most of my readers know what I am going to write about today.To begin with I will just say that I have not read anything on this subject so far,so what I write about here is nothing but how I perceive this and hence it includes no big surprises and no jaw dropping incidents.In other words,this is going to be very normal.Magic has got illusion in it so the magicians are able to dupe us and similarly what we see is as well very much a part of illusion,so does 'God' dupe us?Well we don't know about it because God's very existence is a big puzzle and that too can be categorized as an illusion for the normal people like us have not seen him but still we believe in his miraculous powers and go on spending on him two three rupees whenever in our day to day life we kind of encounter God's idol in the temples and to be very honest that makes me feel that God is the biggest beggar one gets to see daily and our generosity towards him arises more because we need him to get our job done just like we need maids in India to do our work for us which we are lazy at.Anyway,the point is God is illusion and his gender too,for that matter.We see light,we hear sound and we close our eyes and ears and we are away from both light and sound.Illusion.It is temporary.We have scientific explanations to define them or how they are producer, but why does things become visible in the presence of light and why does vibration produce sound?These questions automatically gets involved with or has one answer-God creates it all.So if God is illusion,so is his creations,even us because we come from dust,die and become dust again.The number of years we live on earth echoes like a magician telling a little child that s/he is going to count till three and the bunny will vanish and that counting is very much like the number of days we live and once its done with the clicking of two fingers by the magician,the smokiness(I dn't knw if there is such a word as this),visible right above the fingers of the magician is very much like the dust we are converted to after our death.Now let me come to sleep.Yes,sleeping as Shakespeare said is the nourish giving factor of our lives.Well what is it?Is not sleep too an illusion.It comes to us and sometimes it does not and when it does not our eyes get heavy,our head gets jammed.Why?Yes,back to God.A plus B equals to C and C equals to A plus B.As I said,there is nothing much I can say about illusion yet I was able to write so much about it.Do you know whats bothers me now?The question that if this piece of writing too forms a part of illusion? P.S-This reminds me that few days back I updated a status on Facebook and that was 'Illusion is the greatest of all pleasures'.

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