Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

sense that it did not involve the ‘I’ that I felt myself to
be, which was apart from creation, the manifest
world.
‘I’, the witness, the Absolute, was just along for
the ride as the cognizer, the subject, the witness, and
I could choose to identify with, Edward Muzika, as a
human being in relationship to the world, or as the
witness, utterly removed from the world, or I could
identify with the void which contained all phenomena
and from which phenomena flowed, or I could identify
with my activities of the moment as a human being.
Then a year ago something happened. Love came
to me. A woman came into my life and everything
changed. A new life was breathed into me. A new
energy permeated my body and being. And this was
strictly personal. That is, this love happened to ‘me’
at the deepest level of identification. I had become
alive as love. The other also was alive as a ‘real’
object, opposed to an imaginary object within my
sentience, my conscious world. The world and I were
becoming personal.
As Muktanda said, “I have become alive.” That is,
‘I’ as the Absolute had been born into the world as the
personal. I was no longer an impersonal functioning of
consciousness, I became love itself, and everything,
everything gradually became personal again. I had
made a long journey from the personal, Edward, who