What is Self Realization?
The words self realization and enlightenment are often used synonymously in spiritual literature to refer to the liberation of an individual from the sense of limitation brought about by identification with conditioned beliefs, opinions, fears, desires, and habits. Because there are two major enlightenment traditions, Sanatana Dharma and Buddhism, and since there are many enlightenment schools within each tradition—and liberated individuals are free to formulate liberation in ways that are natural to them—it would be virtually impossible to arrive at a definition of either term that everyone could agree on. However, if you consider enlightenment from the perspective of the eternal quest of individuals for freedom irrespective of their tradition, or indeed, if their enlightenment came about outside one of the established traditions, two stages are observable, one of which could be appropriately called self realization and the other enlightenment.
Because both self realization and enlightenment are rare phenomena, it is important to understand how they relate to our normal state of consciousness which could be called ‘endarkenment.’ Endarkenment is the belief that the self is limited, inadequate and incomplete and that freedom from limitation involves the pursuit of desired objects and the avoidance of feared objects in the world. At a certain point, the individual comes to realize that no matter how much experience he or she can garner, the experienced objects and activities do not result in a state of permanent liberation. This is usually an unpleasant realization and often results in profound disillusionment. It is frequently referred to as the dark night of the soul in religious literature or ‘hitting bottom’ in popular culture.
Most react to this crisis by sinking into distracting habits, ingesting mind numbing substances and/or pursuing frivolous entertainments. But for unknown reasons, a few are blessed with a variety of peculiar and invariably confusing religious or spiritual experiences that lead to the idea of self realization or enlightenment.
Oh My God!
OMG I’m
so glad you actually found this!
Can I tell you of
your Nature?
Oh would that I
could!
If you were here with
me now
I would like to say
It’s In Your Face!!
I would say,
You are already
Enlightened!!
I will show you that
you are!!
The crowd around
would cry Liar!!
They too are no less
Enlightened than you or I Am.
We just cannot
believe
the True Nature of
our own Beholding.
For what is In Your
Face,
That vision appearing
before you,
Is nothing other than
Your own Enlightened
Nature.
I can show you how it
Is,
Not something for you
to believe
But something for you
to Know.
You will not fight
it,
But what you think is
you most surely will.
But then, what you
think is you
Isn’t what it thinks
it is,
Rather it is they.
they that get you
around;
they that are your
body;
they that are your
senses;
they that are your
brain;
they that are your
conceptualizing mind;
they that are your
ego self notions;
they that are your
soul;
they that are your
etheric spirit;
they are YOUR vehicles.
they are not YOU!
YOU are pure
Consciousness-Manifestation-Awareness!
What in the
world is THAT?
THAT is your
complete, moment to moment, Awareness Experience,
and It is not in
the world.
It is about the
world, most certainly,
but in the
world It is not!!
Understand most
certainly, the world is there,
and Your vehicles are
part of it;
but, even if
just for a moment, suspend your interest in the world,
and simply
pay attention to Awareness of your Experience (of it).
Like the images
appearing on a TV screen,
And the surround
sound that goes with them,
Recordings of camera
and eye played out before you,
Displays of light and
color,
Of Sound and fury,
Of Love and Kindness.
This experience your
Awareness engages
is what you have.
What else do you have
but this?
All this YOU are
experiencing,
Simply display
arising,
Manifesting as empty
appearances,
Arising in YOUR Consciousness
nature,
Appearing to YOUR Consciousness
Awareness.
This empty Display of
Appearances,
This Awareness of it,
This Consciousness in
which these both are arising,
ALL THIS AS ONE IS
YOU!!
Empty Manifestations
of Consciousness Luminosity,
All in Consciousness
freely arising,
All in Consciousness
freely dispersing.
YOU are that
Consciousness-Manifestation-Awareness!
Consciousness-Manifestation-Awareness,
Timeless, utterly
beyond worldly existence, birth and death,
Infinite in potential
for Manifestation,
Personal as Awareness
arising,
Perfectly and
Completely ONE as pure Consciousness
You are That Singular
Consciousness Awareness.
Your Mother IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
Your Great-Great
Grandmother was,
And yet IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
I AM That Singular
Consciousness Awareness.
My Soul-Mate IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
The Christ IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
Krishna IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
Moses IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
Mohamed IS That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
Gautama Buddha and
all the Buddhas that have ever been,
and shall ever be, ARE That
Singular Consciousness Awareness.
The ONE and
only ONE, known as God, Allah, or by any other name,
IS That Singular
Consciousness Awareness,
And all the beings,
from most magnificent to least insignificant,
Who have ever been,
are now, or shall ever be
ARE That SAME
Singular Consciousness Awareness,
YOUR VERY OWN, IN
YOUR FACE,
this very moment and
every moment
That ever has been
and ever shall be,
self-same Singular
CONSCIOUSNESS-MANIFESATION-AWARENESS,
THAT YOU ARE!!
Oh, how I would like
to tell you this,
And show your
incredulous nature how utterly true it is,
But then, perhaps it
doesn’t matter after all
If I don’t, or if I
can’t tell you
What I just told you,
Because you are going
to know it anyway,
Someway, someday;
And anyway what
difference does it make?
It makes at least the
difference it has made for simple ordinary me,
Which is why I yearn
for you to know as well.
You as
Consciousness-Manifestation-Awareness
Are like an
unrequited love for This Consciousness-Awareness;
When you too know we
both are One Singular Consciousness-Awareness,
Then we are that One
together.
When you don’t or
didn’t know that we are One,
We were still One,
but One being divided, One being pulled apart,
Caught up in the
stress of conflicting conceptual self notions,
Misidentified with
our worldly vehicles, both gross and subtle,
Missing our sweet
common bond
In Perfect and
Complete Singular Consciousness Awareness.
Yes We
Are All One together in this,
And isn’t it time we
knew it all together,
And thus behaved accordingly
towards one-another?
So there You Are,
All before you,
within you, thinking you,
All you are
beholding, sensing, feeling, thinking,
Aware of Your
Awareness,
Open, Realizing
What it is that you
are really seeing!
Empty Self-Luminous
Consciousness Appearances
With Awareness
self-Arising,
Together One
As Pure
Consciousness-Awareness Being,
As Immortal YOU Being
Immortal YOU
In Steadfast
Compassionate Joyful Loving Kindness
Towards All as One
and One as Being.
We feel the Welcome
Here and Now;
Awareness merged in
vast Openness,
Filling vast Cosmic
Being
With our heart-felt
Love . . .
Requited!
It is our habitual
inclination to remain forever trapped in the DNA objective hypnosis. Even though we now know the condition of our
circumstance and the fact that we ARE pure Consciousness-Awareness, we find it difficult to
remain in our natural state, Consciousness-Awareness, while we engage the
worlds of matter, mind and spirit in otherwise meaningful and necessary activities. The only remedy is to gradually shift our habitual
state from the DNA hypnosis Conceptual state to the Pure CLEAR Awareness state. This is only accomplished by repeatedly
recognizing the conceptual hypnosis and responding by resetting the CLEAR
Awareness, awareness of consciousness awareness, identifying with this CLEAR
Awareness. Gradually the CLEAR Awareness will become, first
little by little and then more and more, one’s habitual resident state, and on
until the habit of maintaining focus in the CLEAR Awareness state becomes the
permanent habit of actually Being this CLEAR Awareness state. There is only one way for us to accomplish this,
now that we know what it is that we need to do: with loving appreciation for
the CLEAR in the name of God, Allah, or according to the language of one’s
choice; we need to let Awareness settle in Consciousness-Awareness, letting
awareness be of all that is arising in consciousness from the grossest to the
most subtle. Whenever awareness strays into the objective
hypnosis, come back to it and Be the Awareness. Continue in this way as long as you can, brief
though it might be. The moment you realize you have lost awareness of
Awareness, come back to it and again Be the Awareness of All that is arising in
Consciousness. This is the practice, returning to it again and
again, continuing unending,
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