Acharya Prashant explains that Maya is everything that can come into your experience. When you say, "I knew, I saw, I heard, I touched, it happened to me," all of that is Maya. This applies not only to gross objects but also to subtle thoughts and imaginations. Whatever subject you can contemplate is Maya. The connection of Maya is not with the object itself, but with the one who experiences the object. If Maya's connection were with objects, there would be at least one object outside of Maya, but there is not. Maya does not spare any object because it is not concerned with the object; it is concerned with the experiencer. The problem is not in the objects, but in us, the experiencers. We are such that we cannot see anything clearly, we cannot understand any object as it is. Therefore, whatever we understand about any object is Maya. We distort what is in our field of experience. But to say we distort is only half the story, because to distort something, there must be a whole, original thing to begin with. We do not even know if there is an original, whole thing. Maya is not just distortion; it is also imagination. It makes you see what is not there. Maya is the ego considering its own experience as the touchstone of truth. This is the ego's arrogance, to believe that what it experiences is true, and what it does not, is not. This is Maya. The speaker then explains the three levels of reality: imagination (personal subjectivity), fact (social, objective reality), and Truth (the ultimate, unchangeable reality). Most people live in the realm of imagination. He quotes Kabir Saheb, who said there are two types of Maya: one that unites with the Ultimate (Ram) and another that leads to hell. This means the ego, which is Maya, has two possible directions. One is the extroverted ego, which moves towards its own projections and imaginations, leading to bondage in the world. The other is the ego that realizes nothing is found outside and seeks liberation, which is the Maya that leads to the Ultimate. The world itself is the means to liberation. It is like a river that can either drown you or help you cross to the other shore. The world is also like a shopping mall that has many things that can bind you, but it also has a bookstore with scriptures like the Upanishads and the Gita that can liberate you. The choice of what to pick up from the world is yours. Ultimately, the speaker concludes that "I" am Maya; the ego is Maya. Therefore, liberation from Maya is liberation from oneself—from one's own beliefs, assertions, and experiences. The ultimate prayer is to be saved from oneself.