Listen to a lecture describing how "maya," of the many terms in the history of yoga that have made their way into our western vocabulary, stands out as particularly important. Virtually every usage we currently employ suggests something problematic that must be resolved, a world of illusion in which there is deception and mistaken identities. We'll trace here a more nuanced history of the concept and discover ways in which yoga traditions have found illusion to be far more than meets the eye.
