In this silence the pure awareness becomes distinct not that the mind makes it distinct. The veil come which the mind was generating has for the time being slipped away. You are the sun to keep the pot and sun analogy or simile again and then apply it to yourself. If the mind is like a pot what is it that it can't illumin but which is shining on it continuously? When you stop with that you will reach the selfyou will realize the mind will be plunged into samad.