Seeing waking as equal to dreaming, even the deluded is liberated; but creating the dream world anew through delusion, destroys his own Self.

The vimūḍha can liberate himself — the door is open — but punaḥ — again — drags him. Sṛṣṭi — creation — of the dream world is not conscious act but moha-kṛta — made by confusion. Each time the mind projects nāma-rūpa upon brahman, it recreates saṃsāra. Self-destruction (ātma-hāni) is not literal but functional: ātman is not destroyed, but its recognition is lost. It is like forgetting who you are: you continue being, but you operate as if you were not. Mukti is not a single event but continuous sādhana: it is not enough to see once that the world is dream; one must see it at every moment of projection. The yogin does not stop dreaming; he stops believing that the dream is reality.