The universe is limitless, unimaginable complex and variegated. "Whence it has come? Why it has come? What exactly is it's intrinsic nature?" are questions that spontaneously arise in the mind of its observer. That they are not answerable by inference is known to science. It is only the Veda that can answer them. It says "Brahman is the ultimate cause of the Universe. It is the one without a second. It is absolutely indescribable. Prakrti or maya is it's intrinsic power through which it assumes the form of the universe for the benefit of jivas. In each aeon called Kalpa, the universe is born out of Brahman, lives in Brahman and dissolves in Brahman. Therefore, Brahman is the ultimate cause, i.e. the intrinsic nature of the universe. The universe is changing - Asatya, but Brahman is unchanging - Satya". It goes even beyond and says that the observer of the universe is himself Brahman and one who realizes it attains total freedom from all bondage. Bhagavan Sankara has written the PrasthanatrayaBhasyas elucidating this thesis. He describes the universe as Mithya, Anirvacaniya and Asatya at three different levels of teaching. These adjectives are exclusively different. Thinking that they refer to the same idea, some people have stuck to the adjective Mithya and then tried to reconcile the other two with it using logic that is sometimes funny sometimes exasperating. Nothing in the Bhasyas needs to be reconciled by devious logic. They are already complete, immaculate and unambiguous. This book exhibits the seemlessness of Sankara's presentation, which helps the reader to plunge into sadhana with conviction.

P.S-The origin of all the errors in the presentation of Vedanta has been traced to a huge blunder committed in the understanding of the first word of the first sentence in Brahma SutraBhasya. See Sreyaskari- a commentary on the Catussutri by the same author.