And the creation proceeding from it is only an illusion.
There is only one absolute Unity really existing, and existing without plurality.

But he is like one asleep.

Krishna, in the Gita, says: 'These works (the universe) confine not me, for I am like one who sitteth aloof uninterested in them all.' The universe is therefore all illusion, holding a position between something and nothing.

It is real as an illusion, but unreal as being.

It is not true, because it has no essence; but not false, because its existence, even as illusion, is from God.