What if Yoga itself is an illusion ? Maybe, it was created to understand other illusions. The final stage of Yoga, Samadhi, can be another kind of cosmic manifestation. A manifestation where time is not linear. After reaching Samadhi, one can feel non-linearity of time. We can have experience beyond space-time but experience beyond space-time can be some kind of matrix, some kind of an illusion.
And we can’t deny this possibility. We are just plunging from one illusion to another and will never know the absolute reality. In conclusion, Yoga doesn’t ensure us that we are going to know the absolute reality but surely it leads us to amazing possibilities that will enrich our experience.
Without swimming across the sea of maya, one would never arrive at the shore of reality. Maya is the manifestation of Brahman, Absolute Reality. The day when somebody's consciousness is not touched or tricked by Maya, he has touched the Brahman. Maya is an examining process of somebody's authenticity.
Only in the world of appearances & fluctuations of perceptions, yoga is relevant. Unless something is broken, it can not be fixed, Without disintegration, can there be an Integration. If the things are not fallen apart, broken & separated, how the Union(yoga) is supposed to happen? In order to be found , one has to be completely lost.
If Maya is the sea of suffering, Yoga is the boat to cross it to reach the shore of Brahman. Yoga can never be separated from maya. It's not Yoga & Maya...it's YogaMaya----two complementary aspects of one phenomenon.