Sage Sankara:~ “The world, filled with attachments and aversions, and the rest, is like a dream: it appears to be real as long as one is ignorant.+

Sage Sankara says: ~ Whatever thing remains eternal is true, and whatever is non-eternal is untrue. Since the world is created and destroyed, it is not true.

Advaitic Truth is the thing that is unchanging. Since the world is changing, it is not true.

Whatever is independent of space and time is true, and whatever has space and time in itself is untrue.

Just as one sees dreams in sleep, he sees a kind of super-dream when he is waking. The world is compared to this conscious dream.

The world is believed to be a superimposition of the Brahman. Superimposition cannot be true.

On the other hand, Sage Sankara claims that the world is not absolutely false. It appears false only when compared to Brahman. In the pragmatic state, the world is completely true, which occurs as long as we are under the influence of Maya. The world cannot be both true and false at the same time; hence, Sage Sankara has classified the world as indescribable. The following points suggest that, according to Sage Sankara, the world is not false (Sage Sankara himself gave most of the arguments)

This Māyāvāda of Sage Sankara was highly criticized and misunderstood. Bhaskaracharya described Sage Sankara to be indebted to the Buddhists for his concept of Maya. (The term Maya, however, appears in the Bhagavad Gita 7.14 and also in many Upanishads).

The concept of Māyā seems to be a hypothesis. Since, according to the Upanishads only Brahman is real, but we see the material world to be real, Sage Sankara explained the anomaly by the concept of this illusionary power Māyā.

Sage Sankara:~ “The world, filled with attachments and aversions, and the rest, is like a dream: it appears to be real as long as one is ignorant, but becomes unreal when one is awake.

Sage Sankara:~ “As fire is the direct cause of cooking, so knowledge, and not any other form of discipline, is the direct cause of Liberation; for Liberation cannot be attained without Knowledge." (Self-Knowledge).

Sage Sankara: ~ As the moon appears to be moving when the clouds move in the sky, so also to the non-discriminating. Atman appears to be active when, in reality, the senses are active.

The Soul is the Self. The Soul is present in the form of consciousness. Consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman or God in truth. Consciousness alone is real; the world is merely an illusion.

The world in which we exist has no independent existence apart from consciousness. The world in which we exist is not different from consciousness because the world is created out of consciousness.

The Soul, the Self, is eternal, impersonal awareness, one without the second. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar