Maya is not falsehood but the power that makes the one appear as many. Shankara's famous rope-snake: in dim light, a rope appears to be a snake. The rope is real, the snake is not, but the fear is genuine. Maya operates through avidya (ignorance) and superimposition (adhyasa). Hex 4 (Youthful Folly) is the mountain spring at the foot of the mountain — water that cannot yet see where it is going. The I-Ching's judgment says: 'It is not I who seek the young fool; the young fool seeks me.' Maya is not imposed from outside; we seek our own illusions. Hex 36 (Darkening of the Light) is the condition maya produces: the light buried within the earth, intelligence forced underground by confusion. The exit from maya is not more knowledge but a different kind of seeing — what Shankara called viveka, discrimination between the real and the unreal.