Like a reflection, the image shines — this entire world

Pratibimba — reflection — is the complement of bimba — original image. The relationship is not one of illusion but of dependence: the reflection depends on the original, the original does not depend on the reflection. The world depends on consciousness for its appearance; consciousness does not depend on the world for its existence. Break the mirror and the reflection ceases, but the face it reflected is unchanged. Vasiṣṭha does not say the mirror is unreal — he says you are the face, not the reflection.