Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

You have become aware of a deeper part of
yourself, a deeper level of consciousness, and this is
good. The ecstasies and bliss mean you are escaping
from the mind. It turns your attention towards your
heart, your gut, and your genitals. Really, it is quite
liberating. You become alive again. You have escaped
the poverty of mental life and also quietism of
superficial meditation states. The pleasure of the
ecstasies turns your attention away from thinking,
doing, planning and performing, towards just being
inside yourself.
But, you will soon learn that all these experiences
are just temporary, and they are not ‘You’. They just
happen to you, just as do thoughts and thinking. They
are separate from you and do not really affect ‘You’,
the witness of all.
However, they are also harbingers of the event of
Self-Realization, where the Self reveals itself to you,
the little I, as the big ‘I’. Then you will fall to your
knees in worship of God and guru, who are really you.
This whole area of energies can be immensely
fascinating, but at some point you have to move on. It
is not you that moves on, but your attention moves on.
You see the energies and orgasms for what they are,
just another set of phenomena, and they really have
nothing to do with you, nor are they really in your
body. They are really in your sense of presence, and