What this means is that the intellect isn't even necessary to understand what reality is. Being reality is the only way. Reality will never be separate.
To take an imaginary step out of reality, in other words, to create a separate identity and also a "world" out there for this identity to look at, this is the illusion.
Ramana Maharshi said that knowing is being. It can be really frustrating to ease the investment in a mental self/world in order to experience the always already present reality beneath, within, as all there is.
This is why we are thankful to the ego. In the end the ego is the source of our pain and suffering to such a degree that we are guided back again and again to giving up thought-identity. We relax. We come full-stop in the mind. And here we are.
Rest as this beingness. If there has to be a practice of any sort, it might as well be this.
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