Brahman shines here as this universe; nothing else shines. Seeing that itself, one becomes liberated in that very instant.

The formula exhausts itself: upon sufficient repetition, it ceases to be a formula and transmutes into structure. The jīvanmukta does not “see” brahman within the world, but rather beholds the world as brahman: the direction of vision is inverted. It is not that a concealed reality lurks behind appearance, but rather that appearance itself is reality beheld through the eyes of ignorance.