Realization dawns as discrimination perforates and ultimately obliterates our mistaken identity with transience. In most cases, yogas and meditative techniques are necessary--for a time--to fray and ultimately sever the ties that bind us. But in the end all of this must be abandoned when our boat reaches the far shore, because in reality there are no bonds, no boats, no shores--never have been, never will be. That is the realization. It transcends all of the pairs of opposites ("neither within, nor without, nor far, nor near"). All of that is discarded as born of mind, the veil of veils, from which our long years of servitude have created a Stockholm syndrome concealing our true nature.
Once the bubble of mis-identification bursts, mind dissolves back into pure consciousness, here described as "Transcendence," and there we remain so long as we are not drawn back into the relative, transient, conditioned habits left behind. At first blush this requires concentration, mindfulness, vigilance, but once ingrained as our primary orientation and recognized as the only reality, being the selfless Self is no more complicated than raising our eyes to the sky.
Realize the Self always to be neither above nor below, nor on either side, not without nor within, but to be eternal and shining beyond the sublime void.
Once the bubble of mis-identification bursts, mind dissolves back into pure consciousness, here described as "Transcendence," and there we remain so long as we are not drawn back into the relative, transient, conditioned habits left behind. At first blush this requires concentration, mindfulness, vigilance, but once ingrained as our primary orientation and recognized as the only reality, being the selfless Self is no more complicated than raising our eyes to the sky.
Realize the Self always to be neither above nor below, nor on either side, not without nor within, but to be eternal and shining beyond the sublime void.
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