It is wrong perception that sees a bracelet in gold. The mere appearance becomes the cause for such wrong perception. This maya is but a figure of speech, the appearance has the same relation to the supreme self that a wave has to the ocean. When one sees this truth, the appearance ceases to be a delusion. It is on account of ignorance that this long-dream world-appearance appears to be real: thus does the jiva come into being. But when the truth is realized, it is seen that all this is the self.
Whatever be the notion that one entertains, it is the self alone that appears as that notion. This universe is the result of the notions thus entertained by countless such individuals. The original notion entertained by Brahma has come to be experienced by the jiva as a solid reality. But when one attains the purity of consciousness similar to that of Brahma, one sees all this as a long dream.
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