SHIFT IN CONSCIOUSNESS

Swami Saradananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrisna, noted that after a person awakens spiritually, the world seems to him a mere appearance, like a mirage.

The person sees that even though there apparently is this world with its names and forms, it is, finally, but an illusion, is maya, is nothing. 

When he goes about his business in this world, he finds everything as before, surely, only he is no longer attracted to or attached to anything in it.