The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1515 page)

y
means a delusion or an illusion such as that produced by a magician. The phenomenal world is illusory, m
y
, with the
M
dhyamaka
arguing that the separate dharmas themselves are conditioned and have no being of their own, and the Yog
c
ra/
Vijñ
nav
da
school regarding the dharmas as merely ideas or representations.
Among Sikhs, the teaching of the
Gur
s
is that m
y
is a real part of God's creation. However, the attractions of m
y
(i.e., wealth, physical love, etc.) are also, in the end, delusory and cannot accompany a person beyond death.