He who ceases to contemplate other things, who retires into solitude, annihilates his desires, and subjects his passions, he understands that Spirit is the One and the Eternal.

The wise man annihilates all sensible things in spiritual things, and contemplates that one Spirit who resembles pure space.

Brahma is without size, quality, character, or division." According to this philosophy (says Bunsen) the world is the Not-Being.

It is, says Sankara, "appearance without Being; it is like the deception of a dream." "The soul itself," he adds, "has no actual being." There is an essay on Vedantism in a book published in Calcutta, 1854, by a young Hindoo, Shoshee Chunder Dutt, which describes the creation as proceeding from Maya, in this way: "Dissatisfied with his own solitude, Brahma feels a desire to create worlds, and then the volition ceases so far as he is concerned, and he sinks again into his apathetic happiness, while the desire, thus willed into existence, assumes an active character.
It becomes Maya, and by this was the universe created, without exertion on the part of Brahma.

This passing wish of Brahma carried, however, no reality with it.