Nevertheless, this unreal reality, this false truth apparently exists. It is unreal and false from the standpoint of God who is the only absolute Reality; it is real and true from the standpoint of the fettered creatures coursing in "sansar" (the world). These creatures have assumed a reality of their own; every fettered being is seemingly convinced of its own existence; this conviction flourishes in its ignorance of God's reality. There can be no such thing as co-existence of God and not-God; Reality and falsity cannot co-exist as cannot light and darkness. Therefore, where there is awareness of God's reality there is absence of one's own reality, and vice versa; where there is awareness of one's own existence or "haumai", there is absence of the awareness of God's existence. The Scripture says: ""Haumai jai ta kant samai" "God is realized only when one eradicates egoity" (GG, 750); literally, "(one) merges into (one's) Lord only when (her/his) egoity has disappeared".