advaita as per adishankara.

in advaita or monysm there is only one conscience. for example take a glass full of water.take a pot full of water, take well  water, then a lake water, then a river water, then a sea water. here what is common is water.hence waterness is the satyam. we see the world thru name and form which is really a maya. in fact a projection. due to avidya. we feel we are jeeva again due to avidya. shankara says in reality u are that brahman. ther is only one consciousness in the world.  advaita establishes the relation between jeeva and Brahman. pl refer aham brahmasmi. here i the jeeva and the Brahman depends upon asmi the existence. it connects both jeeva with brahman. therefore existence  is common for both jeeva and brahman. hence everything in the universe is nothing but brahman alone.  this brahma vada is advaita.