What is Self-Realization?

By Shiva Rudra Bala Yogi

Transcribed from His Master’s Grace vol. 3.

ACTUALLY, IN SPIRITUALITY, “realization” means [that] the mind that was totally active and which had acquired the habits since time immemorial comes to an end totally and completely once for all.

The mind abandons all type of cravings and imaginations and stops taking any further imprints and gradually gets absorbed into the ultimate truth.

This ultimate truth — some call it as Self, some call it as God, or you can call [it] anything — but it really does not occur to a yogi in a way that a definition can be given. Because when this happens, when the mind comes to an end, it is totally absorbed into the Self. There is total contentment; there is no further craving; even the thought of I also does not occur. It is something like there is no scene and nobody watching that scene.

Simply you become aware of existence without any definitions and it is supreme peace. This is what the experience [is]. Because the Self is the abode of peace. Because the mind was in craving so that mind was missing this peace. So now the mind has come to an end. It has settled peacefully into the existence of the Self and now there is supreme peace.

This is what actually happens and until [as long as] the physical body exists a yogi lives as a jivanmukta, a totally liberated one while alive, because the mind does not go into any further craving or picturizations and it does not take any imprints. No world fits into the mind. There is simply supreme peace and awareness of the existence of the Self. This [is] what happens.

Copyright Shiva Rudra Bala Yogi. Transcribed from His Master’s Grace vol. 3 (mp3).

Shiva Rudra Bala Yogi (b. 1954) is a Self-realized spiritual teacher. He is based at an ashram in Dehradun, India but travels frequently to teach.

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