As soon as there is realization (awakening to the fact) that we are not separate entities but Consciousness Itself (with sentience acting as the means for cognizing the manifestation), the illusion of separateness— the cause of our suffering and bondage— disappears. There is then the clear apperception that unmanifested, we are Noumenon, and while manifested, we are appearance— no more separate than substance and its form (gold and the gold ornament). Manifestation arises from the Unmanifest and in due course sinks back into the Unmanifest. The human beings as individuals are really quite irrelevant, except, of course, as illusory characters in a dream play which is known as “life.”
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