The uncaused one causes the chain of cause and effect || Acharya Prashant (2016)

Question: Sir, is everything Maya except for the Absolute?

Acharya Prashant: No, don’t make any exceptions.

Just say–Everything is Maya.

In a sentence that talks of Maya, there is no need to touch the Absolute. The moment you talk of the Absolute in the same breath as Maya, the Absolute is then Maya.

So it suffices to simply say that- ‘Ah! It is Maya’.

Then what is the absolute?

It need not be said, but if one is too curious, it suffices to say that Absolute is that which enables you to make this statement. The statement is- All is Maya. So, the Absolute will not be contained in this statement; the Absolute will be behind this statement. The Absolute would be the space in which this little statement is being made.