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experience but as the experiencer, not as the object but as subjectivity.
Soren Kierkegaard has said 'Truth is subjectivity'. That's exactly how it is. Objectivity is a lie, it is false. So when there is no thought, no experience, no object, no content in the mind, and your consciousness is just bare, naked, pure -- pure of all content, just contentless, ~ mirror mirroring nothing -- then you know what is real. That mirror mirroring nothing is reality. For that one has to go deeper and deeper into one's own being. There are layers and layers of many things; all those layers have to be eliminated.
When I say 'all is unreal' it is just a device to eliminate all those layers. Once it is said and understood that everything is unreal, one starts moving inwards; there is no point in moving outwards. Then it doesn't make any difference whether you succeed in the outside world or you fail -- all is unreal. Then it doesn't matter much whether you have money or not. It doesn't matter whether you are respected or not, whether you are known or you live an unknown life. Nothing matters.
If things are unreal then all is the same good dreams, sweet dreams or nightmares. Then nothing is moral and nothing is immoral. It gives a great freedom it gives great detachment, and one simply starts falling into one's own inner abyss. One day one comes to the centre of it, the centre of all. That centre is real. In the East we have called that centre 'brahma', god, the absolute, or whatsoever name you want you can choose -- call it the 'soul', the 'truth', 'nirvana', 'enlightenment'.
Enlightenment is nothing but seeing this fact, that only one's subjectivity is a certainty; everything else is unreal. You are -- that is the only truth about which we can be absolutely certain.
Your question is relevant, meaningful. Now start asking 'Who am I?' Translate the question into 'Who am I?' and you will come to know one day what is real.
[A sannyasin is upset about leaving for the West.]
It is difficult to leave me but you are only leaving on the outside and that is not leaving at all. Now that contact has happened where I can be with you anywhere. You
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