Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

What I would note though, is that Maharaj grabbed
onto one fruit of the awakening experience, that he
was not his body. That conviction, along with focus on
and love of the ‘I Am’, released him from suffering and
distress and created one of the great Jnanis of our
time.
Student Comment:
Why did I get into spirituality four years ago;
boredom, the desire to escape from life as I knew it,
and an over all feeling of being imprisoned as a
woman. I began to realize that my whole life I had
been an echo for another man's truth, that of being a
'man-made' woman, a second-class citizen, and I was
dying in many ways.
I was pondering today my ascent out of many of
the binding tenets of Christian Orthodoxy, a system I
had managed to shove every aspect of my life into.
Reflecting back, I was stunned at how powerful
'belief' is and how the ideas I used to believe in years
ago seem so silly today; meaning, they no longer have
any power over me to a large extent.
I wondered how I had come to be so easily
convinced of another's ideas and if these ideas could
be seen through and dropped.