If we consider “I” and the “world” to be real, any possibility of going beyond to an underlying unity is unreal. If, however, the underlying unity is real, then “I” and the “world” are just ways in which this unity shows itself, and the reality of “I” and the “world” is relative.

When we are no longer identified with the idea of ourselves, the entire relationship between subject and object, knower and known, undergoes a sudden and revolutionary change. It becomes a real relationship, a mutuality in which the subject creates the object just as much as the object creates the subject. The knower no longer feels himself to be