Sacrilege?

Sri Tandavaraya Swami

Disciple:

My Lord! Is it not blasphemy to deny as unreal the lotus-seated Creator and the other gods, the great men of the world, holy waters like the Ganges, the places of pilgrimage, the holy occasions, the four vedas with their six auxiliaries, the mantras and austerities?

Master: 

If it be sacrilege to deny dream-visions as false, it would sacrilege too to deny the world which derives its existences from illusion. If, on the other hand, it is right to deny dream-visions, it is only right to deny the world also which is derived from illusion. 

If the puranas hold as men of merit the ignorant who regard the false as true, does any shastra attach censure to the jnani for calling the truth, truth? 

Maya, which appears as the elements and the modifications with different names and forms, is false. Only the Self which is all diffusive as sat-chit-ananda, is the Truth.