Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

keep one inner eye always open to your own heart and
inner sense of presence. Then you will discover that
the love you feel is totally within you.
It is not that you have created it, but you perceive
it as being part of your own nature, always there if you
know how and where to look in profound silence.
The “other” is only apparently the “other.” The
other has a separate body, a separate mind, a
phenomenally separate life, but their essence, that
which is at the heart of their existence is the same
Self, the ‘I-Am’, that is you. You and the other are one
in this ultimate state. The Self is discovered at both
ends of the seeking, loving, devotion, surrender.
At this point love of the other serves as a constant
reminder of who and what you really are. The
devotion to the other even while aware of the Self
within is one’s constant reminder of one’s own bliss-
nature, and what Siddharameshwar called post-
realization devotion as a forever-practice of Self-
remembrance.
Student Comment:
Ed, without you prodding and challenging me at
every turn, I would have never had the courage to
open up my heart.
It is so wide open now it's scary...but so alive.