Both individual consciousness and universal consciousness are reflections of Atman in Maya.
Maya is like a cloud. Thoughtforms in the buddhi are like the water droplets making up this cloud.
Reflected consciousness in Maya is like the sky reflecting in the water droplets.
Consciousness reflecting universally in Maya is called Isvara, Inner Controller, Grand Unified Equation, Maker and Material of the Cosmos.
Isvara dwells in deep sleep as the sacred omniscient ruler of all and our place of bliss.
Notes on Pancadasi 6:155-164
Both Māyā as such and the impressions of Buddhi are Īśvara’s upādhi—the identification with the former gives unity to Īśvara and that with the latter brings in variety. ~Swahananda
In the reality of Brahman without a second, this entire universe with Īśvara, Jīvas and all other objects animate or inanimate, is like a dream. ~Pancadasi 6.211 (tr-Swahananda)
"One who has known Īśvara to be the controller of things knows his Self as non-attached. This knowledge of the non-attachment of the Self is the cause of release." ~Vidyaranya
Further Reading:
Isvara and the Bliss Sheath (Pancadasi 6: 155-170) Notes by Swahananda & Krishnananda
Free Will and the Will of Isvara (Pancadasi 6:174-179 with Commentary by Krishnananda)
Knowledge of Reality and Not Otherwise (Pancadasi 6: 209-219 & Commentary by Krishnananda)
We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~The Tempest (Act 4, Scene 1)
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