Insights on Awakening (Part 1)

If you sit quietly with yourself, That which is alive in you will bring you to the Recognition of what you are. The real quietness is the stillness of your true Being. When it is known and seen, it will reflect in the mind. To sit quietly with oneself will definitely trigger the awakening to your true Being.
Yet, the ‘cause’ of it is not your practice of stillness. It is that Reality, which has now become aware of Itself despite the opacity of the mind. In this seeing, you really understand that it was ever aware of Itself. And this is the greatest mystery! You realize that there was never the opacity of the mind, there was never a mind, there was never even a human being…
Swami Atmananda Udasin is a teacher of Advaita (Non-duality) and the Spiritual Head of Ajatananda Ashram, Rishikesh, India.
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