Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

etc., one rests in bliss. Bliss and ecstasy permeate all.
One rests in oneself, happy and complete.
Then one begins to understand something further:
there is nothing other than Turiya, the Self. The Self,
Turiya, interpenetrates and pervades all the other
mental and physical states. There is nothing outside
of the Self—YOUR OWN EXPERIENCE OF YOU AT THE
DEEPEST LEVEL.
The proof is the bliss that penetrates every fiber of
your beingness; your body, your mind, your sense of
presence: all are enveloped in bliss, and you see that
there is nothing but YOU. It is all your show, your
emotions and moods, your body and mind, your self-
created world with your reaction to apparently
external events and beings. It is all you!
Then religious and secular mores vanish,
prescriptions and proscriptions vanish. Concepts vanish
as they are only the ravings within the mind which can
know billions of concepts, billions of theories of life
and love, science and magic. All disappear in the
experience of your bliss. All concepts are eaten by
your ecstasies. The heart then knows no boundaries,
no limits, no shoulds or should nots.
This is the real beginning of the spiritual
adventure, not its culmination or end. Self-realization
is the beginning of living in mystery, completely happy,