Reality of the world

¶ Guru Nanak calls the world both true and false in the same hymn. Is maya an illusion or a trap?

At the gurdwara every morning, the Asa di Var is sung, and in it Guru Nanak says two things that seem to clash. In one place: sache tere khand, sache brahmand, "True are your realms, true are your universes". The world is…