The distinction between the world and its Lord is verbal and false. In the indivisible, infinite consciousness, no such distinction is meaningful. On account of the illusory notions of time and space, somewhere at some time gold appears to have become a bracelet; even so does the notion of a creation arise in consciousness. When thus even duality is non-existent, investigation into the causal relationship between the creator and this creation becomes meaningless. An imaginary city is imagination, not a city. This world-appearance is appearance, not the world. (SOURCE: Yoga Vasistha)