Q: What is self-realization
A: Entry into the Kingdom of Heaven within, getting out of the field of relativity, crossing all limits of creation, and getting to the field of the Creator, is realizing the Self. Suppose anything experienced - a flower- the flower has occupied the mind so fully that the nature of the mind is not found, the nature of the experiencer is mising. Only the eye, the sight, and the object remain. The subject is annihilated, only the qualities of the object remain. Pure Bliss Consciousness, that Bliss Consciousness of Absolute Nature, has been overshadowed by the impression of the object.
Meditation is a way to reduce the impact of the object gradually. It cannot be overthrown suddenly. If we want all of a sudden to forget the flower, we will be remembering to forget! So, we just use a technique. If suddenly is not possible, then gradually do it. The best way is this.
If we know the process of continously going from the subtler to a point, and as the object is being reduced in its status, the experiencer increases his status, until object is nil and subject is full. This is Self-Realization. Self is realized in its full 100% glory, devoid of any objective experience.
This is the way to increase the capacity of experience. As it is, the senses are capable of experienceing only gross, long experiences though the eyes, nose, and ears, entirely gross experiences. And experiencing the gross for a long time, the capacity of subtle experience is rusted, the machinery is not used. Only gross facilities are used and when all the time the gross facilities of experience are used and the finer facilities of experience are not used, then life becoms dry and dulled. Tense.
Meditation is just oiling the machinery and making the unused parts come into use. Refining the faculty of experience. Eventually the faculty of experience is increased to such a great degree, that inner Bliss, the all pervading God, comes to be lived a hundred per cent. When this stage is reached, and the flower comes before the sense, the subject maintains himself and experiences the flower at the same time. The quality of the subject, the Self, is maintained and also the flower is experienced.
this is the process of getting to the field of Being, and then coming out, the Self is maintained by Itself. Get to that status of the mind where the individual mind gets on to the Cosmic mind, and is That. Meditation is the way. Just a matter of learning a technique.
- Meditations of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi-