The Sage has no thinking mind and therefore there are no ‘others’ for him.
The ultimate truth is so simple; it is nothing more than being in one’s natural, original state.
There must be a subject to know the good and evil. Thatsubject is the ego.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
The Self is here and now, it is the only Reality. There is nothing else.
If you hold this feeling of ‘I’ long enough and strongly enough, the false ‘I’ will vanish leaving only the unbroken awareness of the real, immanent ‘I’, consciousness itself