Next is what connects us to the environment, which gains its highest potential of observinghood, thanks to the refinement of the machinery of perception that has just been described and reaches its height in God Consciousness, or Glorified Cosmic Consciousness.

When the Observer is known in its infinite value—that is, the Self knows itself as Pure Consciousness—and the machinery of perception, the mechanics of knowing, also rises to its full capability and is able to perceive infinite value in all aspects of one’s interactions and all objects that one observes, then Unity Consciousness is automatically attained. This is when the following Vedic aphorisms become not just beautiful words but a living reality—“I am That, Thou art That, all this is nothing but That, That alone is.”

Unity is complete enlightenment, the spontaneous uncontrived ability to look at nature and the entire creation from the perspective of Wholeness.