Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

humility. They are teachers and everyone should listen
to their truth, and believe their impersonal love is
deep and true.
It is so hard for many to ever escape this trap of
understanding and embodying an impersonal, universal
love.
There is another way of teaching that I think is
more powerful and without the weaknesses of Advaita.
I should also include Zen and Tibetan Buddhism
because they beget similar problems as Advaita, in
that they also miss the transforming power of human
love. You will not find love in Zen, believe me.
This other way is by direct transmission of
transformative shakti, and also just being in the
presence of the guru in Satsang and Darshan, being in
the presence of truth and manifest love.
This is why I hung around gurus for many years,
looking for truth in them which I felt I lacked. This is
why I spent 8 years with Robert, because I could feel it
in him. I felt his “beyond this worldliness,” and its
draw was infinitely powerful. To be around him and
feel knowledge and knowingness drop away into the
peaceful holding grace of nothingness brought such
peace. One can certainly feel the draw of the Great
silence, the stateless state beyond even Turiya, which
is the ground state of the Self; feeling that core that