The opening chapter closes with its most radical ontological claim: the entire world (bhavābhāsa) is mere appearance, and its reality (satya) does not exist. This is the doctrine of māyā stated without hedging — the world is not partially real, not conditionally real, but unreal in the deepest sense. Only Brahman, the singular, stainless, full and supreme Consciousness (eka Brahman, aśuddha, pūrṇa, parama caitanya) is real. The concluding question — why do you let yourself be deceived? — is not rhetorical but an invitation to wake up, right now, from the dream of separateness. Chapter 1 has established the entire teaching in twenty verses; everything that follows is elaboration and reinforcement.