All that we saw in the vedanta sara di the cosmology of the universe is a transformation of maya. It's not that mind has been actually transformed into people and things and places. But what is the cause there which is transformed into all this? The cause, the transforming calls you if youid anything at all, you'll call it the sleep, which is like ignorance. So brahman itself, then is together, because maya and brahman are not separate. This very topic is explained in great detail and sophistication by gora pada acharia in the third chapter of the manduka carita - adita pracarana.