two viewpoints...

There are two viewpoints:

a qualified truth for the lower stage of aspirants which admits duality;

and the complete viewpoint of nonduality for the highest student;

thus for practical life, when dealing with other people or when engaged in some activity,

those in the first stage must accept the notion of the world being real,

because of expediency; yet even so, when they are alone or when keeping quiet, inactive,

they ought to revert back to regarding the world, which includes one's own body as a part of it, as idea.

Only for the sage is the truth always present, no matter whether he is with others,

whether he is working, or whether he is in trance, and this truth is continuous awareness of one Reality alone and one Self alone.


— Notebooks Category 19: The Reign of Relativity > Chapter 2: The Double Standpoint > # 40
Paul Brunton