Advaita Vedanta

You must have heard the old Vedic example of snake-rope illusion. Due to fog or any other reason, a person sees the rope as a snake. But when he comes to know that there's no snake, he sees the rope only. Here rope and snake signifies cosmic power and cosmic illusion. When one sees the snake, there's no rope at all and vice versa.

Though we've got complete freedom on all the levels, but we're still far away from the truth unless we don't see the truth as it exists i.e. we must posses the vision, which can penetrate the 'maya' and can see the rope (Brahman) in its true form. We can create the world around us good or bad. Still it's not the truth. This world is neither good nor bad. We must be able to see it as Brahma itself.

Good or bad, virtue or sin; all these exist within the boundaries of this world. Our aim should be to go beyond the world, because the effect of illusion cannot be destroyed by another illusion. It's the truth only, which can destroy illusion. And Vedanta shows us the paths to go beyond it.