For Schuon, the quintessence of pure metaphysics can be summarized by the following vedantic statement, although the Advaita Vedanta's perspective finds its equivalent in the teachings of Ibn Arabi, Meister Eckhart or Plotinus: "Brahma satyam jagan mithya jivo brahmaiva na'parah" (Brahman is real, the world is illusory, the self is not different from Brahman).