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In talking about how the sage sees the illusory world (mithya) as Real (satyam), Bhagavan explains, 

“He who sees the Self, sees only the Self in the world also. To the jnani it is immaterial whether the world appears or not. Whether it appears or not, his attention is always on the Self. 

It is like the letters and the paper on which the letters are printed. You are wholly engrossed with the letters and have no attention left for the paper. But the jnani thinks only of the paper as the real substratum, whether the letters appear on it or not.

- Sri Ramana Maharshi. 

Day by day with Bhagavan.