An epiphany is considered to be something that is realized, an “Aha” moment; in actuality, it is the end of something that seems natural. No one has an epiphany; it may seem that someone has had a realization, but it is the realization of an ending to something that was.
The actual test comes when no one is left to know about it.
An epiphany or realization is the apparent movement of illusion coming to know itself through apparent change. There is no adding of anything; it is a realization that there is no one and nothing to add.
Nothing ever happens; it just appears so. It is the dreamer and the dream; the realization happening to someone is the same thing, so there is no actual context to talk about the end of a dream or the beginning of a realization of something.
Who will know about it when there is just the apparent happening?
At any given point, epiphany or not, it is already as it is. So, there is no process, just the evident moment happening. The end of it is now as if nothing is happening, but for the dream individual in a time/space, sequential appreciation of an apparent movement that something is happening.
The realization that nothing ever happens, and it is all a dream, is overlooked from the dream perspective. The experience of looking for something like self-realization or actual reality is the experience that something is lost and must be found.
What truly is longed for is the end of seeking, but in trying to end seeking in knowing and understanding the finding of something lost is seeking in itself. The end of seeking is “this,” just as it is. And this apparent physical reality, the dream and the dreamer on stage playing the role of living without constraint, limits, or any meaning or purpose, is also just a story. ‘No one is left to know.’
The “what is” has no answer because any question is an illusion, and any endpoint is the “what is.” Any outcome or answer is what is happening. And in truth, nothing is happening, and any ultimate answer would lead to nothing.