Jesus said: ~ “Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.+

You are seeing the world which confronts you within the dualistic illusion or Maya. The dualistic illusion is created out of a single clay. that single clay is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Know what is you and the world in which you exist is in reality.

You and the world in which you exist are the product of ignorance.

When ignorance vanishes, there is neither 'you' nor the world in which you exist prevails as a reality because they have become one with the Soul, the Self, which is present in the form of consciousness.

That is why Jesus said: ~ “Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.

It means one has to know the world which confronts him confronts to realize his body and world are made of the same essence and that essence is Spirit or consciousness (father).

Sage Sankara says: ~ One must first know what is before him. If he cannot know that, what else can he know or understand? If he gives up the external world in his inquiry, he cannot get the whole truth.

VC~ 63. Without causing the objective universe to vanish and without knowing the truth of the Self, how is one to achieve Liberation by the mere utterance of the word Brahman? — It would result merely in an effort of speech.

In Self-awareness, the Soul will as objectless –awareness in the midst of the duality and then the duality will cease to exist as a reality.

The mind is nothing but objective existence. The seeker has to eliminate all the objective knowledge through wisdom and then objectless knowledge will alone remain. This is the nature of the Soul, the Self.

As for the well-known example of the hallucination of a snake in a coil of rope, the rope is real and the snake is unreal.

There is neither the snake nor the rope in Self-awareness.

Even after the truth of the snake is realized and the hallucination of a snake dismissed, there is still the reality of the rope persists.

Until the rope is recognized to be the Self, the Self-knowledge or Brahma Gnana or Atma Gnana is an impossibility.

The universe is like the snake, because, it is merely an illusion.

A deeper self-search reveals the fact that the universe is neither the snake nor the rope but is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The true nature of the Soul is objectless awareness.~Santthosh Kumaar