The fact is that you don’t have to return to it but that you have only to realise that you are there. You cannot recognise your original nature whilst being there, because you can’t see things as they are due to illusions.
Clarifying your mind means clear your mind of all illusions. In other words, you reach the state that you can see and hear everything as it is without being deluded by words and forms. Then, you realise that you are already in your original nature and that you have never left it.
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