Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

easy to make the mind rest when it hears these deep
truths.
Like Einstein’s General Theory, it is so beautiful,
eloquent, and complete, one rests in a state of pure
knowing.
Yet, this knowing is still of the mind. It does not
penetrate deeper into one’s consciousness to the
deeper levels of Samadhi, or guide you through to the
levels of knowing nothing, becoming nothing, wherein
all knowledge is shed and you become simple and
humble.
You see, the traditional Advaita is so powerful, just
reading it generates profound states of understanding
in some, with profound “opening” experiences, that
one often feels they have gone all the way and have a
complete understanding. Very often they become very
arrogant, filled with spiritual knowledge, which they
begin to announce to every one they know.
Thus is born the Facebook and other Internet gurus
and also the guru-bashers, who smell the arrogance of
knowledge or the falseness of those who proclaim their
utter purity and divine love. One can feel that these
teachers lack humility and a certain humanness and
loudly proclaim an impersonal state, or of a divine and
impersonal love for all. One feels in their presence
the lack of the human touch, of mortality, and simple