It is only with total humility, and in absolute stillness of mind that we can know what indeed we are.
There is no mystery whatever - only inability to perceive the obvious.
Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea.
All the evil in the world, and all the unhappiness, comes from the I-concept.
As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born.
Realisation is a matter of becoming conscious of that which is already realised.