Acharya Prashant explains that Truth has been called the master of Maya (illusion). Maya is that which appears to us, whose existence we become fully convinced of, but after some time, or in another place or situation, we find that what seemed so true either no longer exists or has changed. This is called Maya. Maya is seeing pseudo-subjects through inappropriate instruments from a wrong center and then establishing faith in them. A three-fold mistake occurs in this process. First, the seer (the doer) is wrong. The seer is wrong because, at the moment of seeing, their intention is not to see the Truth. Their intention is to see in such a way that the seer's own existence remains intact and secure. This is seeing with dishonesty; there is no truthfulness in it. One who sees like this does not even want to see; they want to deceive themselves. Second, the instrument of seeing is inappropriate. Our instrument for perceiving all experiences is our senses. The senses work in a very limited field and in a very fixed way. Truth is complete, but the senses can never know the complete thing. The ears cannot hear everything, the eyes cannot see everything, the mind cannot remember everything, and the intellect can never do a complete analysis. The body cannot be present everywhere or at all times. All the instruments of the body are tremendously limited and incomplete. Third, the object being seen is a deception. The object is related to the seer. You do not see everything; you choose what to see. Even if you see something unplanned by chance, you give it meaning according to yourself. So, what is seen is your reflection. If you are wrong, how can your reflection be right? These three mistakes combined result in what is called Maya. We are completely in the grip of Maya; we are slaves to Maya. And here, Truth is being called the master of Maya. The implication is to tell the sick mind, which thinks it is very clever and that there is nothing above it, that its principle is wrong. The Upanishads challenge the mind's notion that it is supreme. The mind is a slave to Maya, but it has the potential to become the master of Maya. This potential will not be realized until the mind abandons its false notion of superiority. The one who becomes the master of Maya is the only one worthy of reverence. That is the Truth, that is God. The Upanishads are telling the mind that you are sitting very low, but you can be very high. First, accept that you are low. It is very difficult for you to accept this because your notion is that you are the master of all you survey. The Upanishads say, you are not. You are a very limited, narrow, and petty entity. But it is not your destiny to remain limited, narrow, and petty. The one who is a captive of Maya today can become the master of Maya tomorrow. But that potential will not be realized until you let go of your false notion.