Advaita loves paradoxes. Truth is in flagrant disguise with a false nose, an exploding cigar, and a dubious mustache. Look closer is the watchword of the seeker. There’s this:
“The Self which is of the nature of being always attained, does not depend on anything else in order to be acquired. The acquisition that depends on other things (eg. effort etc.) is due to Ignorance (and so vanishes when the means to which it is due vanishes).( #6 Sankara’s ‘Upadesa Sahasri’ Chap. 17)
Magic and its vanishment or prestige is generally achieved by distraction at a crucial moment. You are looking in the wrong place at the right time while the sleight is performed. Thinking that this material attainment will give you completion you fall short. Of course, as Advaita irritatingly observes, these goals are worked towards using instrumental methods and are tainted by that time bound causality. What is always on does not have to be switched on. It is, I am - Tat Tvam Asi - Thou Art That.
Sit, don’t chase your mind into a coruscating future. Lapse into the glow of desiring as such. Leave the stuff.
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