Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

and as Robert and Nisargadatta both said, living absent
the sting of misfortunes in the world. The bite is
gone. Yes, suffering remains everywhere, it is so clear.
You see it so clearly, but the bite is gone, mitigated by
your own happiness.
One other thing I discovered as perhaps the biggest
aid to self realization is that of loving and surrendering
to a self-realized being, because the identification can
sweep you into your own sense of Self. You recognize
the Self-of-All in the “other,” the guru; and absent
that, in a passionate other person, for the Self is at
both ends of the perceiving: the Self is both the lover
and the beloved. When you feel deep love, surrender,
wanting, and a sense of servitude with and for
another; if it persists long enough, you begin to
recognize that the love is YOUR love, experienced
within you towards the apparent “other.”
The identification caused by loving the apparent
other allows the Self to arise in you because that Self,
the Turiya state, is attracted to love and worship, and
that Self reveals itself to you.
Then comes the magic moment when you realize
that the Self you sought so long outwardly and
inwardly is you and only you. You were both the
seeker and the sought, now enveloped in bliss. There
never was an “other,” there always has been only you.