Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

begin to feel the truth as a deep conviction spread
throughout your entire body, you feel it is true in a
completely different way than you experience
knowledge of the world, or book knowledge, or
knowledge of the sutras, or knowledge of what gurus
say.
You feel it as truth in your own deepest sense of
being. The truth permeates throughout you and your
body as utter conviction. Ramesh Balsekar refers to
this way of knowing as “apperception.” One
apperceives that one exists prior to existence, and
that this “witness,” “entity,” Para-Brahman is ‘You’,
the deepest part of you, and with it comes utter self-
confidence and fearlessness.
You also realize that that state of Nirvakalpa
Samadhi that you experience after the mind
disappears and you become the whole world, is where
the absolute, Para-Brahman, identifies with the ‘I Am’,
with oneness. This is the highest experiential state,
but now you realize it as the “knowledge” of Turiya,
the fourth state, by that which is beyond any state,
any existence, and you are “That”. However, unlike
Advaita, our way is not to exclude the temporary, the
world and emotions as us, but to be able to dive into
that human flux, and not get stuck in the
transcendent.