Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

This is the fundamental state of existence; this is
the fundamental level of consciousness; this is where
the sense of ‘I Am’ arises; this is the fundamental state
which permeates all the others, the causal body that
recognizes the coming and going of consciousness, the
intellect, emotions, and the gross world and body that
we see on the surface, what most people call the
“real” world. It is the attaining of the recognition and
direct experience of Turiya, the ‘I Am’, which is called
Self-Realization.
I mentioned above that when one passes through
the causal body when diving deep into one’s inner
space, the void, suddenly the mind drops totally out of
the brain, and the little you disappears, awareness of
the body and mind disappears, and suddenly the big
‘YOU’ appears, which is identical with the totality of
the world—just one consciousness, and you are that.
This is the ‘I Am’ state of Oneness; Turiya
permeates all the other states. But in Oneness, you
have identified with Turiya, the totality of existence
with no division between ‘YOU’ and the world. There is
just Oneness.
Now the exploration of Turiya can actually take
years, because it has so many different facets, so
many different essences, so many different qualities,
such as love, bliss, ecstasy, devotion, grace, and a
sense of the divine, of being held in “God’s” hands so