One should understand that this world is a misconception, a diversion for the mind, visible but temporary, and flickering like a fire brand. Brahman is one consciousness but manifest as many. The three states arising by the guṇas create various transformations, but these are temporary like a dream. After realizing the difference of the ātmā from the three states with which it has no relation, one should see the conception of this world to be endowed with an illusory nature, arising from the identity of I and mine. One should see it as an object of interest for the mind (manasaḥ vilāsam) caused by imposing conceptions of I and mine out of illusion. Manasaḥ vilāsam can also mean “the universe in which there is great dancing (lāsa) of the mind.” The world is temporary and extremely fickle, full of movement, like a fire brand. “But from perceiving this duality in the world, one cannot attain realization of non-dual Brahman.” Brahman is one consciousness (ekaṁ vijṣānam) but is manifested in various ways. But this is not a variety in the spiritual substance itself, since the three states are created by the guṇas through māyā, and are temporary like a dream.