What is this universe (samsara), what is this illusion to the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self?

What is this universe (samsara), what is this illusion to the formless soul or consciousness, the innermost self? Consciousness and the universe both are one in essence ultimately. Only people who are stuck to the reality of the universe think the body as body, ego as ego and the world as world. It never strikes to them the waking experience in which they exist along with their world also as unreal as dream.

The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place and the waking becomes unreal when waking entity gets wisdom and realizes it is not the self but the 'self' is the formless witness (soul) of the three states. The consciousness is within the three states as their formless substance and it is apart from the three states as their formless witness. It is apart because it is not and entity or identity within the three states.

The person, who stamped their foot on the ground to refute to show the world, is real, ignore that in dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.

When wisdom dawns, the soul, the innermost self, wakes up in its formless non-dual true nature in the midst of duality (waking). For a Gnani the body, ego and the universe are mere mirage created out of consciousness. -FORMLESS PATH