The mystery of unity, which is the unmanifest Absolute, and of the phenomena that appear in duality, cannot be understood by the divided mind.

Everything becomes irrelevant and unnecessary once it is clearly realized that the world of senses and the Absolute - the manifested and the unmanifested - are both what we are; that is, consciousness, where one aspect is movement and the other is stillness and tranquility. In other words, truth, to the extent that it can be understood, is simple: what we appear to be will always be an appearance in consciousness (what seemed to be); and what we are has always been what we are - and were - before the existence of "Time" (Infinity - Timelessness); and what we are, being pure subjectivity, cannot see what we truly are except as what we appear to be (that is, only as an appearance). To say it again: what we are is consciousness-at-rest; what we appear to be is an appearance in consciousness, the objectification of the subject.

R.S. Balsekar