For God is thought of fundamentally to the Hindu as the Self. The Self. The cosmic I. And it is a basic proposition for the Hindu, that only the Self, the Godhead is real. There is nothing other than the Godhead. So that the appearance, of the feeling that there are other things than the Godhead, is called Maya. Maya. We ordinarily translate that word illusion.

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

If the ego were to disappear, or rather, to be seen as a useful fiction, there would no longer be the duality of subject and object, experiencer and experience. There would simply be a continuous, self-moving stream of experiencing, without the sense either of an active subject who controls it or of a passive subject who suffers it. The thinker would be no more than the series of thoughts, and the feeler no more than the feelings.