Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

important is there was a maturity of intelligence that
blossomed in him. He was no longer gullible following
any teacher that came along hoping that he had an
answer that would satisfy his hunger; or that the next
teacher would have an answer. He saw that all the
methods he had practiced, all the thinking and
pondering, all the various meditation types, all the
scriptures and hatha yoga postures, had resulted only
in confusion and not clarity. He recognized that clarity
can only come by stopping the looking around in the
shallows of spiritual knowledge, and instead to go
deep within himself, relying only on himself. No more
purification; only now, immediately, here and now. He
had to look into his own soul and find his own truth
without books, without guides, without method.
And just before dawn of the fourth day he had his
great awakening. Fortunately or unfortunately, his
experience is not described, leaving it to the reader to
have his or her own experience.
You see, it is also not important what his
realization was—for you. It was his realization. It was
the realization that he needed to come to rest in
himself, to find peace, just as Krishnamurti had his
own realization, Nisargadatta his, Robert Adams his,
and Osho, his. All were different in a sense, because
they were the realizations they needed to come to
rest.