In this text below : Eknath Eswaran : defines "Maya" and Unity in Diversity
There are three states of consciousness - Waking, Dreaming , Dreamless Sleep -
Each has a higher order of reality-
Beyond the three, there is a fourth state -"Turiya" - Unitive State
Now : in the Waking Life - Dream of Separate - merely physical existence
- refers to Maya
a kind of magic - the creative power of Godhead ,
the primal creative energy that makes unity appear
as the World of innumerable separate things
with "Name" and "Form"
Another Definition : of Maya :
Mind observes the so called outside world and reports that it consists of
multiplicity of separate objects in a framework of time , space and causality
because these are the conditions of perception!
Due to Maya - Mind looks at Unity and reports Diversity !
Looks at timelines and reports Transience!
or mistake is that in taking this for Ultimate reality like a dreamer
thinking that nothing is real except his Dream!
So, when mind is transcended : a higher mode : Turiya : Fourth state of Consciousness-
the Duality disappears
This is what Physics says as well : World of name and form (Nama and Roopa)
exists only as condition of perception ;
at the subatomic level - separate phenomena - dissolve into a flux of energy!
Effect of Maya is similar :
Name and Form is just Unity appearing as Multiplicity!