Whether we see a landscape or a screen depends on the way we see, not what we see. First we see a landscape; then we recognise the screen; then we see the screen as a landscape. First we see only a multiplicity and diversity of objects; then we recognise the presence of awareness; then we see awareness as the totality of objective experience. This is what the Sufis mean when they say, ‘There is only God’s face.’ And this is what Ramana Maharshi referred to when he said, ‘The world is unreal; only Brahman is real; Brahman is the world.’ From this perspective, experience no longer veils
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