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.