Thursday 24 January 2013

Self-Realization-One's Own Journey from self to Self-Liberation


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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