'Framework of Illusion'

There are two schools of thought: the Vedānta and the Purana. 

According to the Vedānta this world is a 'framework of illusion', that is to say, it is all illusory, like a dream. 

But according to the Purana, the books of devotion, God Himself has become the twenty-four cosmic principles. Worship God both within and without. 

As long as God keeps the awareness of 'I' in us, so long do sense-objects exist; and we cannot very well speak of the world as a dream. 

There is fire in the hearth; therefore the rice and pulse and potatoes and the other vegetables jump about in the pot. They jump about as if to say: 'We are here! We are jumping!' 

This body is the pot. The mind and intelligence are the water. The objects of the senses are the rice, potatoes, and other vegetables. The 'I-consciousness' identified with the senses says, 'I am jumping about.' 

And Satchidananda is the fire.  

- Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, P 243 

                       (10 June 1883)