One Being Everywhere

Sage Vasishtha

In the company of the wise, self-knowledge arises; and at the same time the notion of the reality of the objects of perception as such wanes and eventually vanishes. When the world as object of perception fades away, only the supreme truth exists and the jiva or the individual personality is absorbed in it, as it does not find any object worth clinging to. The world as an object was never created, nor does it exist as such now, nor will it ever be so: it is only the one supreme being that exists at all time as the sole reality.

It is nothing but the pure space of consciousness: in it there is no division which could be referred to as 'This is the truth' and 'This is not real'. The wonderful manifestation of that infinite consciousness alone is regarded as the world, naught else. In it, the divisions like subject and object and substance and shadow are unwarranted arbitrary assumptions like the distinction made between  the sun's rays and sunlight. When in accordance with its own nature it closes and opens its eyes, as it were, there is what is known as dissolution and creation of the universe.