The world in which you exist is a reality within the waking experience but the waking experience is merely an illusion.+

 The world in which you exist is a reality within the waking experience. In the same way, the dream entity and dream world are a reality within the dream.

You are not the witness of the three states but the Soul, the Self, witnesses the coming and going of the three states.

The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is the substratum and witness of the three states. Thus, it is erroneous to view and judge the ultimate truth on the base of the waking entity, which is not the witness of the coming and going of the three states.

The waking appears and disappears, in the same way as the dream. The source of the waking or dream is the Soul. Therefore, the source itself is the Self.

Thus, the truth has to be based on the source of the three states. There is no man, no world; no God exists from the standpoint of the Soul, the 'Self' because the waking experience is merely an illusion created out of the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar