Are you convinced that there’s no ‘You’ and there’s no ‘Me’? Recalling what Nisargadatta Maharaj said: “It is not like this: Because I am real, you are unreal. It is like this: Because I am unreal, everything is unreal.” That’s why, you are not!
But, it is not up to me to try to convince you about that. It must come from within, through self-enquiry. Enlightenment, or Realization that you so desire is nothing more than having the strongest conviction possible that you are not a person, and your feeling of “I am” is the way you experience the illusory veil of consciousness. The body and the mind are what separate ‘You’ from Reality.

How to remove that obstacle? Take Maharaj’s following words as your starting point: “You know that you are not the body, not the mind, and not the name given to you by someone else. You are consciousness and it has no form.”
Then, whatever happens happens through the play of consciousness. Firmly believing in this will remove from you the terror of feeling responsible for all good and bad that happens around you, in the so-called world. Moreover, nothing is there that you can an authorship of – you are not the doer, it’s all play of the consciousness. Don’t worry, the same consciousness will take care that your behavior is not foolhardy and that you live a “sane” life, whatever it means.

I believe that there’s no Stan; there’s no Stan’s will; my past is something that I can neither take credit nor be blamed for. I watch consciousness going through its motions, and filling my time with actions. None of them are initiated by me, none are of my doing. There’s no identity called Stan, although people still use this name to communicate with what they perceive as ‘I.’ For the time being, they consider themselves as being someone, a personality, of a lesser or greater importance. What is in fact happening is the all-pervading consciousness assuming innumerable forms, talking to itself. I know, I am not it (the consciousness) for I can observe it. My stand is beyond it, although I can identify ‘I’ standing there. There’s no definable identity, there’s no name, past, links, relations, dependencies. Time doesn’t reach there. My presence there doesn’t even give me a sense of belonging here, or being a part of something glorious, ideal, infinite, etc. In fact, whatever the feelings, there are not really mine – it is the consciousness experiencing itself.

There’s really nothing you can do, to remove yourself from the illusory veil thrown over you by the consciousness. But you can free yourself right now, by realizing that this consciousness is temporary, and you – the Absolute, only for a moment caught in the Maya, are of the Eternal and Immutable nature. Even these words are only concepts, and an attempt to describe the indescribable.
Use this consciousness as your only means to get beyond it. Yes, convince it of its unreality, and it will let go its shackles that bound you from the moment you accepted your beingness, your ‘I am.’

Having convinced the consciousness that it owns my body and mind only, and my I-I (to use Ramana Maharshi’s definition) lies outside of its sphere of influence, I feel free, relaxed and unfazed by what many perceive as threats, dangers, achievements, wins, good and bad news, etc. They are the feelings of someone who watches a show, a spectacle with actors playing on stage, their roles worse of better; where after the final curtain I will leave as if nothing has happened, and go home.
While you might think that the stage is your home here and now, and you dread the thought of ever leaving it, I know my home is beyond. There are my roots, my origin, my eternal standing. When the cloud of consciousness finally goes, I will not be talking to you. There will be no ‘You’ and no ‘Me,’ only the Absolute.