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"Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world."
Self-realization is the awakening to your true nature—the recognition that you are not your thoughts, emotions, mind and body, or personal identity, but the awareness in which all experience arises and passes. In this seeing, the illusion of separateness dissolves, and a quiet sense of oneness with all of life begins to emerge.
The path to realization is unique for each person. Some are drawn to self-inquiry, others to meditation, devotion, or service. But the essence of all true paths is the same: a turning inward, a quiet uncovering of the awareness that has always been here.
"Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself."
This isn’t a path of self-improvement. It’s a path of self-recognition.
"When you speak of a path, where are you now? and where do you want to go? If these are known, then we can talk of the path. Know first where you are and what you are. There is nothing to be reached. You are always as you really are. But you don’t realise it. That is all."
Non-duality means “not two.” Reality is not made of separate selves and objects, but one indivisible whole. You are not a person inside a body looking out at the world—you are the open, changeless awareness in which all of life appears.
Yes, practice is important. Sitting in silence, inquiring into the “I,” turning inward—these are vital. But they are not what awaken you. They simply clear the noise so grace can be heard.
"The mind creates time and space, and takes its own creations for reality. All is here and now, but we do not see it. Truly, all is in me and by me. There is nothing else. The very idea of “else” is a disaster and a calamity."
"Never forget the truth about satsang. Every word, every breathe, every moment of Silence, every joke, everything makes up satsang. And this is your Spiritual unfoldment. This is what causes you to evolve, to grow, to transcend."
Sadhana means spiritual practice—but not in the sense of gaining something. You don’t practice to become enlightened. You practice to become still enough to let go. To become clear enough to see what’s already here.
Sadhana can take many forms—meditation, devotion, breathwork, self-inquiry, silence. But eventually, you realize: it’s all sadhana. Every act, every thought, every breath is an opportunity to return to truth. Even cooking food, driving to work, or feeling sadness becomes sacred when done with awareness.
There is no right way—only sincerity. You keep showing up. You become still. You become quiet. You stay present. Then, when the time is right, the inner guru—the Self—pulls the mind inward, and awakening unfolds on its own.
"The deeper you go within yourself, the quieter you become. And that's your sadhana. That's all you have to do."
Spiritual bypassing is the tendency to use spiritual beliefs, practices, or language to avoid facing unresolved emotional wounds, psychological discomfort, or personal responsibility. It is a subtle and often unconscious escape from the raw human experience, masked in the language of transcendence, non-attachment, or enlightenment.
But true spirituality does not reject the human experience. It includes everything. Non-duality is not an excuse to avoid healing; it is an invitation to meet everything within—without resistance, without denial.
Bypassing can look like:
"Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true."
"The ego is a veil between humans and God."
Self-inquiry is the practice of turning awareness inward to discover what is truly here. Taught and embodied by Sri Ramana Maharshi, it is one of the most direct and radical tools for awakening. It doesn’t offer more knowledge—it removes the one who seeks it.
The question is simple: Who am I?
You may begin with questions like:
Each question turns you inward, back toward the silent witness. The aim is not to arrive at an answer, but to see what remains when the questioner disappears. You’re not solving problems—you’re dissolving the one who has them.
"The question 'Who am I?' is not really meant to get an answer, the question 'Who am I?' is meant to dissolve the questioner."
Awakening is the seeing-through of the ego—not by the ego, but by that which is prior to it. It is the recognition that the “I” we take ourselves to be is not who we are. We are not the body, not the thoughts, not the one trying to awaken. We are the awareness in which all of this appears.
True awakening is not an event; it is a shift in identity. It is the moment consciousness recognizes itself, free of filters and projections. This recognition is immediate, simple, and obvious—and yet it transforms everything.
Awakening reveals:
Not an altered state: It is not a trance, vision, or mystical experience. Those come and go. Awakening is to what does not come and go.
Not the end of all thoughts or emotions: Life continues. But one no longer identifies with the passing waves.
Not about becoming special or enlightened: True awakening is the falling away of the idea of being special, of being someone who has awakened.
Not something to achieve: It’s not a goal. It is already here. It only seems distant because we overlook what is always present.
The unfolding of awakening is rarely a single moment. It often comes in glimpses—temporary shifts where the veil lifts. These glimpses reveal the truth, but the mind quickly tries to reclaim them as personal. The deepening of awakening is the ongoing surrender of that tendency.
The unfolding may include:
"In a true awakening, it is realized very clearly that even the awakening itself is not personal. It is a universal spirit or universal consciousness that wakes up to itself."
The dark night of the soul is not the absence of awakening—it is its deepening. It often comes after an initial realization, when the light of truth begins to burn through what remains of the false self. It is a sacred undoing, a period of stripping away illusions, identities, attachments, and everything the ego once clung to for safety.
It can feel like grief, despair, confusion, or even meaninglessness. The joy and clarity of awakening may seem distant. There may be a sense of being lost, groundless, or emotionally raw. This is not failure. This is grace—working in reverse.
In the dark night, life no longer supports the old ways of being. Spiritual ideas no longer comfort. What once worked, no longer does. But something deeper is happening: the roots of separation are being pulled out.
What to do?
"The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours."
Awakening is not the end of the path. It is the beginning of seeing clearly. What was sought is revealed to be ever-present. Yet, even after this deep recognition, life continues—and so do the patterns of the body-mind.
Living from awakening is not about maintaining a spiritual state or appearing detached. It is about being radically honest, open, and present in ordinary life. It is about responding rather than reacting, acting from clarity rather than habit, and allowing love and wisdom to guide action.
Awakening is not a finish line. It is not the achievement of perfection. It is the collapse of the search, the end of becoming. But the unfolding continues—subtly, quietly. There may be waves of purification, refinements of perception, and deepening into stillness.
Life keeps moving. Awakening is realized once, but lived moment to moment. There is no one left to awaken further—yet the mystery keeps deepening.
To learn more, here is an “After Awakening” playlist of videos on You Tube.
"With awakening there also comes a total reorganization of the way we perceive life—or at least the beginning of a reorganization. This is because awakening itself, while beautiful and amazing, often brings with it a sense of disorientation. Even though you as the One have awakened, there is still your whole human structure—your body, your mind, and your personality. Awakening can often be experienced as very disorienting to this human structure."
At the heart of spiritual realization is the clear seeing that you are not the mind, not the body, not the doer. These are appearances—fluid expressions arising within the field of awareness. When they are clung to as identity, suffering arises. When let go, what remains is peace.
Most of life is lived within the structure of thought and form. The belief is that we are our story, our emotions, our conditioning, our memories. But none of these define the Self. You are the one aware of the mind, not the mind itself. You are the space in which the body appears, not the body itself.
To go beyond the mind and body is not to escape them or reject them, but to stop mistaking them for who you are. It is a shift from doing to being, from becoming to resting. Awareness doesn’t need to be achieved—it simply needs to be noticed. It is always here, untouched by what arises and dissolves.
In this stillness, clarity dawns. What is essential reveals itself. Truth is not hidden—it is only obscured by identification. When effort falls away, what remains is simple, silent presence.
"Be sure to calm your mind. Make the mind as serene as a still lake. Then reality comes by itself. Happiness comes by itself. Peace comes by itself. Love comes by itself. Freedom comes by itself. These words are synonyms. All this happens without your thinking about it. But first you have to get rid of the idea that I am the body, or the mind, or the doer. And then everything will happen by itself."
It is not cold detachment but total intimacy with existence. Everything is seen clearly, held lightly, and loved fully, because nothing is held as “mine.” Without resistance, the wave merges with the ocean. What remains is vastness, simplicity, and silence.
"You have invested everything in one basket, self-realization, and, in the end, suddenly you discover that there is no self to discover, no self to realize – and you say to yourself "What the hell have I been doing all my life?!" That blasts you."
To return to silence is to return to what you are—not the self of memory or story, but the awareness that quietly watches it all. This stillness has never left. It cannot leave. Only attention was drawn to the noise.
This is the final truth: what you are is not found in thought, not an experience, not a state. You are not the silence. You are the source of silence. That which allows all things to be.
Return to that—and go beyond.
"You can never find out for yourself by reading, or by meditating, or by discussing scripture, or by trying to prove a point, or by thinking you've got it. It is only when the noise in your head stops, only when the chattering stops, and you go beyond silence."
What we call free will is often just the illusion of choice appearing after the fact. The thought “I decided to do this” comes after the action was already underway. In this light, free will is not something we possess — it is an idea created by the ego to maintain the illusion of control.
If you’re not the doer, then what’s moving life? What’s guiding this unfolding?
"Destiny refers only to name and form. Since you are neither body nor mind, destiny has no control over you. You are completely free."
Awakening is often a glimpse — a crack in the armor of identity. But the process of embodying that realization can take time. Patterns of thought and emotion may resurface. Life continues. There is no “arrival,” just a deeper and deeper falling away of illusion.
"Seekers continue to practice all kinds of self-torture without realizing that such ‘spiritual practice’ is a reinforcement of the very ego that prevents them from their natural, free state. Enlightenment is total emptiness of mind. There’s nothing you can do to get it. Any effort you make can only be an hindrance to it."
This is the simplicity of truth: there is no path to enlightenment, because you are already that which you seek. The mind may still have its stories and dreams of becoming more, but beyond those, in the stillness of your own being, there is no “more.” There is no future, no progress. There is only this—the now, the eternal presence that has always been.
"Freedom is not something you attain. It is the realization that there is nothing to attain."