Peace mantra by Atman Nityananda
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Introduction
A precise clarification of what awakening is — and what it is not. This text distinguishes preparation from realization, experience from identity, and milestone from completion.
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- Awakening is not a state, experience, or heightened presence.
- Practice prepares the ground but does not directly produce awakening.
- Awakening is an intuitive realization of pure awareness as one’s true nature.
- The ego sense continues to arise after awakening.
- What ends is identification with the “me.”
- Awakening is a decisive shift of ground, a decisive turning point — not final liberation.
- After awakening, the work intensifies rather than ends.
- Vigilance and practice remain necessary until total dissolution of ego — nothing is assured.
What Is Not Awakening
Awakening is not a more awake state, attentiveness, vigilance, or sustained presence. It is not freedom from distraction, reduced identification, or the peaceful feeling that comes from meditation and practice.
These are real and valuable — but they are part of the process, not the destination. Even awakening itself is not the final destination.
What Is Awakening
Awakening is a precise, unique, and unmistakable event — an intuitive realization, direct and beyond the mediation of thought, feeling, and intellectual understanding — in which pure awareness is realized as what one fundamentally is.
Not as a concept. Not as a higher ego or expanded sense of “I.” But as the direct seeing through of the identification with the familiar sense of “me” identified with the body-mind-person.
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