A. It means that getting literal and intellectual understanding about the true-Self is easy, but that seeing and realising it directly in person through the physical body is difficult.
This is a critical teaching that we should not mistake intellectual understanding for enlightenment.
No matter how plausible and logical intellectual understanding may be, it is no better than being deluded by illusions unless we can see the true-Self.
Ancient masters would say that this is like serving a thief as one’s father.
They also warned that we should not lose true ease by getting what is easy. They meant that we shouldn’t make the mistake of losing true ease, enlightenment by striving for intellectual understanding which is easy to get.
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