CONCEPT OF MAYA: In the saiva tenets the maya is with the jeevan. It is part of the jeeva and corrupts the jeeva. The maya is one of the primordial malams. The maya is thus a part of the soul. It gets cleansed and to make the soul purer and nearer to the absolute. In the adhvaitha schools the doctrine of maya has different connotations. Here the maya is omnipresent and delude the whole universe. The whole universe is thus in maya. This maya is like a dream of the paramathma. This universal dark force delude the minds of the soul. In both cases the maya causes delusions but in saiva doctrines the maya is part of the soul but in adhvaitha the maya is external and isa quality of the prapancha(universe). The purpose of cycling of the soul is emphasized in saiva doctrines whereas the cycling of the universe is emphasized in adhvaitha. In advaitha each cycling of the universe param manifeasts as the isvara and teaches the highest knowledge to the soul. This is called the sruthi. The sruthi (scriptures) are agamas. The vidya given by the smirithis do not remove the veil of maya. In the saiva schools the isvara is eternal and only the soul cycles. The maya is personal and the siva can remove the maya from the soul with the help of agamas.The agams are eternal and they are the ultimate knowledge pronounced by the sivam. Sankara accepts agams as a source of knowledge and says without which the soul will be in avidya. Similiarly the saiva doctrines accepts Vedas as general wisdom and agamas as systemic knowledge. This amount of reciprocation can be considered as the earliest vedatha –siddhantha samarasam. The vedhantha-siddhantha samaras am is an area to be furthered. In the modern context we know the findings of STEPHEN HAWKINGS and his theories on dark energies of the universe. This is is closer to the sankara's universal maya theory. Similiarly the evolutionary Darwinism and DNA studies come closer to siddhantha tradition. Speculative knowledge will always end up in scientific explorations and becomes theory laden some times. But the speculation never ceases. If it ceases then man becomes dogmatic. This dogmatism is indeed the maya in whatever way we define it.