Awakening, Enlightenment, and Self-realization are one and the same thing.+

Awakening, Enlightenment, and Self-realization are one and the same thing. knowing the Athma, the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution."

Sage Sankara says only through direct knowledge of non-duality enlightenment can be achieved.

Self-realization could not be brought about merely by giving up the idea that there is an individual Self, which functions through the body. The 'Self' does not function through the body.

All the functions of the body take place within the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is present in the form of the mind. The mind is not within the body, but the body and the world are within the mind.

Till one thinks the mind is within the body it is impossible to realize the ‘Self, which is beyond form, time, and space. The form, time, and space, together are the mind. Form, time, and space are present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as a waking or dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality).

Self-realization is the only way to God-realization.

Realizing the ‘Self’ is not 'you' but the ‘Self is the 'Soul' is Self-realization. The existence of the world in which we exist is dependent on the ‘I’.

Without the ‘I’ the world, in which we exist cease to exist. The ‘I’ hides the truth.

Bhagavad Gita: ~ “You must first see the ‘I’ as illusory before you see others as illusory. ~ CH.2 v.16

Remember this: Self-realization is to realize the ‘Self’ is not ‘I’ but the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. The ‘Self’ is not limited to the body because it is not within the body but it pervades everything and everywhere in the world in which we exist. Limiting the Soul, the innermost ‘Self’ to the physical body is an error because the Soul is the ever-formless, timeless, and spaceless existence.

The ‘Self is not the body and the ‘Self’ is not within the body. The Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness, is nothing but the cause of the world in which we exist and it is uncaused.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ “The universe rises from the Soul, the Self like bubbles from the sea. Thus know the Self to be One and in this way enter into the state of dissolution."

The sun, the moon, the stars, and the planets shine because of the Soul or Spirit.

The Soul shines and all things else shine as a result. Everything in the universe reflects but that light of the Soul which is present in the form of consciousness.

Merely knowing the truth is not enough to escape from the tangle of illusion.

The mind is in the form of the universe. From the standpoint of the Soul the Self the universe is merely an illusion. The illusion arises from ignorance.

Enlightenment comes with detachment from the illusion by realizing the experience of form, time and space are one in essence.

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Awakening is the Soul waking up from the sleep of ignorance, and remaining in its own awareness in the midst of diversity.

There is unity in diversity when the Soul remains in its own awareness.

Awakening is freedom from experiencing the illusion as a reality.

Awakening is Soulcentric Gnana.

Awakening happens when the Soul, the Self, witnesses the whole universe in which you exist from a non-dualistic or Advaitic perspective.

From the non-dualistic perspective, you and your experience of the universe are made of the same stuff. That stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness.

Thus, the Soul or the consciousness is the ultimate truth or Brahman. And Brahman is God in truth.

Self-realization is God-realization.

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Spiritual awakening happens when the seeker has a full and firm conviction of ‘the truth hidden by the 'I'. :

Your existence is a reality within the dualistic illusion. You and his experience of the world are created out of single stuff. That stuff is the Soul, which is present in the form of consciousness. Knowledge of that single stuff is Self-knowledge.

The world in which we exist is both real and unreal. It is real because it is a manifestation of consciousness, but is unreal, in the sense, that it is not absolute and eternal like consciousness itself.

People's approach is more practical, and they stuck with the reality of the world, they take it as real. That is why all the confusion.

When reality appears this ignorance which one thinks as reality becomes unreal.

We exist within the world which appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (non-duality). Thus, we have to realize what is it that appears as duality (waking or dream) disappears as nonduality (deep sleep).

The duality and nonduality are one in essence. That essence is the consciousness (Soul). Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal. And the world in which we exist is merely an illusion. Without consciousness, the world, in which we exist ceases to exist.

A person, who stamped his foot on the ground to refute to show the world, is real, ignores that in a dream he would do exactly the same--stamp his dream foot on the ground and assert it to be real.

Spiritual awakening happens when the Soul, the 'Self’ remains in its own awareness. Spiritual Awakening does not involve losing your practical life within the practical world but only exposes the unreal nature of the world in which you exist.

There is no need to fear losing the world in which you exist. In “Self’-awareness the illusory bondage of form, time, and space becomes an illusion in the midst of the form, time, and space.

Nothing is lost. People think if they accept the world as an illusion they are going to lose (things, homes, jobs, careers, family, friends, etc.).

The dream becomes unreal when waking takes place. Similarly, the waking becomes unreal when wisdom dawns. Wisdom dawns, when the Soul. The Soul, the “Self’ remains in its own awareness.

Spiritual awakening happens when the seeker has a full and firm conviction of ‘what is the truth?’ and ‘what is ‘what is untruth?’. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar