Shankara's Bhaskia: A Microcosm of Vedanta Philosophy

For every passage emphasizing the illusory nature of all things other than Brahman, we can find another passage suggesting that Brahman does really produce the world we see around us by taking on form. What is the point of all these assertions if this supposed things made by Brahman and also the individual self are nothing but illusions? A more sympathetic reader than Bhaskara might take refuge in historical explanations. On this reading, his Bhaskia would be like a microcosm of the Vedanta tradition as a whole. That is Shankara really so thoughtless as to compile disparate materials like this without even thinking to be consistent.