Nothing ever exists separate from Being-Consciousness. When this illusion is completely known, the universe becomes mithyā [appearance].

The negation “na jātu” — never — is absolute and timeless. It does not say that separation does not exist temporarily, but that at no moment — past, present, or future — has there been or will there be anything separate from Being-Consciousness. This eliminates any possibility of naive realism, emergent dualism, or theism that places God as an entity separate from the world.

“Parijñāta” — completely known — distinguishes between superficial knowledge and a knowledge that has penetrated to the very roots. It is not enough to know intellectually that everything is Consciousness; it is necessary for this understanding to be as immediate as the knowledge that fire burns. When bhrama — the fundamental illusion — is parijñāta, it no longer produces any effects.

“Mithyā viśvamayo bhavet” — the universe becomes mithyā — is the formulation that has generated the most debate in the history of Advaita. Does it mean the universe disappears? No. It means its mode of existence is revealed as dependent (paratantra), not independent (svatantra). Mithyā is not non-existence; it is dependent-existence, just as a mirage depends on the sun, the ground, and the eye. The universe does not cease to appear; it ceases to appear as something with an existence of its own.