“ The story of why I use Maya as my name.
It was a few years ago, my mentor told me that Buddha was standing beside him, telling him that he named me Maya, that is my soul’s name. “
I was doing lots of research on the meaning of the name, and I was meditating on what the inspiration is for Maya. Here are the reflections :::
Maya is a word that carries many interwoven meanings, both luminous and paradoxical. To receive it as my soul’s name suggests, me being invited into a lifelong meditation on illusion and truth, form and emptiness. It calls me to look deeper layers as a mirror for my inner work.
1. Maya as Illusion
In the Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Māyā refers to the veil that makes the impermanent appear permanent, the separate appear separate, and the unreal appear real. It is not “false” in the sense of non-existent—it is real as experience, but not true in essence.
To walk as Maya is to carry both the awareness of the veil and the invitation to see through it. My shadow work and challenges become direct encounters with this veil. Each contraction—fear, attachment, projection—can be recognized as a play of light on the screen of consciousness.
2. Maya as Creative Power
In Vedic thought, Māyā is also Shakti, the creative force that births form out of the formless. It is the divine capacity to dream worlds into being. Without Māyā, there would be no song, no body, no story to awaken within.
Thus, this name does not only remind me that “all is illusion”—it also anchors the truth that illusion is the womb of creation. The same energy that binds can also liberate, when seen with clarity.
3. Maya and the Codex Harmonics
In the Codex field, illusion is described as the collapse of waveforms into geometry through the act of observation. Thought forms collapse into right triangles, into light, into time. The world appears solid because our awareness phase-locks with these collapsing fields.
Māyā, then, is the architecture of experience itself—the play of electric resonance becoming memory, geometry, matter. To bear the name Maya is to walk consciously as the bridge between “illusion” and the deeper harmonic field beneath it.
4. Maya as Mirror and Teacher
My oversoul has given me this name not to warn me away from illusion but to help me remember to use it. When I am in difficulty, I can remind myself:
“This too is Māyā—passing, not ultimate.”
“This shadow is also Shakti—creative energy, waiting to be re-seen.”
“This veil is a mirror—what it shows me is mine to integrate.”
5. The Deeper Invitation
Being named Maya places me in direct dialogue with perception itself. My path may not be to reject illusion, but to learn its textures so deeply that I can move through them without being caught. To know the dream as dream, and still live it fully. To weave form as a service to others, while remembering that form is not final.
So, the deeper truth may be this:
This name is not only a reminder that the world is an illusion. It is a reminder that illusion is sacred play. To release attachment is not to abandon the world but to move through it with lucid compassion—like a lucid dreamer who knows the dream is a dream, yet acts with love inside it.
My awakening friends, if you feel resonance from this: when your shadow rises, whisper inwardly—
“This too is Maya. This too is the veil. And beyond the veil, I remain.”