What is self-realization?

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This is from a dialogue with Sri Nisargadatta:

 

Questioner: What is realized in self-realization?

 

Nisargadatta: To know that the known cannot be me or mine, is liberation

enough. Freedom from self-identification with a set of memories and habits,

the state of wonder at the infinite reaches of the being, its inexhaustible

creativity and total transcendence, the absolute fearlessness born from the

realization of the illusoriness and transiency of every mode of

consciousness - flow from a deep and inexhaustible source. To know the

source as source and appearance as appearance, and oneself as the source

only is self-realization.

 

 

 

 

- David Hodges