Commentary Maya is regarded as an illusion, and illusion is such only to one who regards that illusion as the reality. A careful study of these two stanzas reveals to us several great truths. Evildoers are so because they are deluded and their knowledge is destroyed by this illusion. But their own reality cannot be destroyed by this or even by the worst sin or evil, as Krishna never tires of repeating.
Sin is only a product of delusion demanding nothing sensational or spectacular to remove it.
We must awaken ourselves to the fact that as long as we are in the grip of the delusion of the three modes of nature, the gunas, we shall go on erring. The fact that people are different and that stupidity, dynamism or piety prevail in this universe, is divine nature manifesting in a particular form. The arising of this vision enables us to cross this illusion. Yet, they have the power to delude us. This illusory power is divine and hence outside the pale of rationalization.