Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

“box” we were forced to contract into in order to fit.
It is all me, it is all the Self.
The totality of this true self is incredibly powerful,
incredibly sensitive, incredibly loving, compassionate,
but also incredibly vulnerable.
Self-realization is not the result of any single
transcendental experience, or even a hundred
experiences. It involves a progressive reowning of all
of our sensitivities, including love, compassion, and
awareness of all levels of the subtle body, including
the surface awareness of beingness of the neo-
advaitins, but also awareness of unconscious states,
and the weird and somewhat disturbing energies and
entities found in the so-called astral states, and then
the conscious transition across the Causal body of
unknowing, and then merger into the Turiya state and
beyond. Only then can we say we are Self-Realized,
that we know who we are. Mere energetic or
emotional integrations really do not go so deep.
Today we have so many instant gurus, who have an
experience one day, and are teaching the next.
They ignore the fact that the great gurus, Ramana,
Nisargadatta, Robert Adams, Zen Master Joshu, etc.,
may have had great awakening experiences, but did
not open their mouths about it for at least 20 years.
Ramana did not teach for more than 20 years after his