One realizes that all of existence is a manifestation of consciousness; that ultimately everything is made out of consciousness. This can happen only when one transcends identity with the body. There are many ways that this realization appears. One is the perception that there is an infinite and boundless ocean of presence-consciousness-love, and that all physical forms appear to arise out of this substratum. One’s body and the rest of the universe appear as forms arising out of this primordial substance. One feels direct affinity and divine Love for everybody and everything. Another way of seeing this fact is the direct perception that everything is made out of Love. The body, the walls, the air, the space, the atoms, all seem to be made out of the same continuum, which is this Cosmic Consciousness. There is unity and oneness, although there is variety and difference. A third way is in relation to the Impersonal Emptiness and the Personal Essence., One is aware of total emptiness, and out of this emptiness there manifests, as if from nowhere, this divinely beautiful consciousness that then condenses in one drop, which is the incomparable Personal Essence. All beings and physical forms are seen as condensations from this Love that is sometimes experienced as grace. 

Another meaning is that we feel we are a person, a real person. It turns out that this person is not reducible. “Person” is a Platonic idea or form, the prototype of the person, which is similar to being a true individual. Here we are a person of Being, a person of presence. Presence is manifesting itself as a person. But it is also a human person. A person, then, is not just spirit, but something additional to spirit. It is not just pure consciousness or awareness, but something more. The vastness or infinite expanse of impersonal emptiness or consciousness cannot be a person; only an individual being can be a person. However, these transcendent dimensions of true nature can express themselves as a person in the form of a human being, a person of the same quality as the fundamental consciousness. In the Hindu Vedas, this is recognized as the god Krishna, who is a person, not just an impersonal vastness like the Brahman. If pure consciousness or spirit does not manifest in individual beings it cannot know or experience itself, or express its qualities and wisdoms. A person is the acme of the development of a being.