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Awareness plays a key role to achieve self realization. It is clear that self-realization extremely easy to achieve. It is a easy goal with practice that requires self-awareness,and self inquiry taught by Ramana Maharshi. You have to be aware of what you want to accomplish and understand that you are the only one who holds the future in your hands. You are then responsible for your own destiny.<ref name="Without Prescription">{{cite web|url=http://www.withoutprescription.ca/startingpoint/secondstop/ |title=Willingness to be Better: Embracing the Road to No Prescription |accessdate=2010-04-12}}</ref> |
Awareness plays a key role to achieve self realization. It is clear that self-realization extremely easy to achieve. It is a easy goal with practice that requires self-awareness,and self inquiry taught by Ramana Maharshi. You have to be aware of what you want to accomplish and understand that you are the only one who holds the future in your hands. You are then responsible for your own destiny.<ref name="Without Prescription">{{cite web|url=http://www.withoutprescription.ca/startingpoint/secondstop/ |title=Willingness to be Better: Embracing the Road to No Prescription |accessdate=2010-04-12}}</ref> |
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*[http://saarsatsang.blogspot.com/ Significance of Self-realization] |
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*[http://saarsatsang.blogspot.com/ Why should one make aim of his/her life as Self-realization] |
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Revision as of 17:36, 18 August 2010
Self-realization may refer to:
- Self-Realization Fellowship / Yogoda Satsanga Society of India is a worldwide spiritual organization founded by Paramahansa Yogananda
- Liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth (reincarnation), called Moksha in Hinduism
- Atman jnana, the Hindu concept that knowledge that one's self is identical with Brahman
- God-realization (Meher Baba), a state of self-realization described by Meher Baba
- In Sahaja Yoga, self-realization occurs when the Kundalini crosses the Sahasrara chakra
- Psychosynthesis, an original approach to psychology that was developed by Roberto Assagioli
Definition
Self realization is a concept that has become widely popular in the Western and that has great influence from some Eastern religions. For instance, for the Hindu or Barath religion self-realization refers to a profound spiritual awakening where there is an awakening from an illusory self identify image (Ego), to the true, divine, perfect condition that the individual is. The branch of Avaita Vedanta is the one that has especially developed this concept.[1]
Furthermore, the method of meditation Sahaja Yoga, created in 1970 by Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, defines self realization as a connection with your self or the first encounter with reality.[2]
One of the definitions in the Western can be found in Merriam Webster's dictionary. It defines self-realization as “fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality”.[3]
Also, Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers, American psychologists, developed the concept of self-actualization in Humanistic Psychology. Maslow defined then self-realization as “the impulse to convert oneself into what one is capable of being.” [4]
Based on Maslow, the most common meaning given to self-realization is that of psychological growth and maturation. It represents the awakening and manifestation of latent potentialities of the human being -for example, ethical, esthetic, and religious experiences and activities.[5]
Aajit K. Das, in the International Journal for the Advancement of Counselling, compared and contrasted Maslow and Rogers' concept of self actualization with the concept of self-realization in Vedandic Hinduism and the two major schools of Buddhism: Theravada and Mahayana. The author concluded in this paper that the two concepts complement each other.[6]
Qualities of self-realized people
According to Maslow, self realized people share the following qualities:
- Truth: honest, reality, beauty, pure, clean and unadulterated completeness
- Goodness: rightness, desirability, oughtness, benevolence, honesty
- Beauty: rightness, form, aliveness, simplicity, richness, wholeness, perfection, completion,
- Wholeness: unity, integration, tendency to oneness, interconnectedness, simplicity,
organization, structure, order, not dissociated, synergy
- Dichotomy-transcendence: acceptance, resolution, integration, polarities, opposites, contradictions
- Aliveness: process, not-deadness, spontaneity, self-regulation, full-functioning
- Uniqueness: idiosyncrasy, individuality, non comparability, novelty
- Perfection: nothing superfluous, nothing lacking, everything in its right place,
just-rightness, suitability, justice
- Necessity: inevitability: it must be just that way, not changed in any slightest way
- Completion: ending, justice, fulfillment
- Justice: fairness, suitability, disinterestedness, non partiality,
- Order: lawfulness, rightness, perfectly arranged
- Simplicity: nakedness, abstract, essential skeletal, bluntness
- Richness: differentiation, complexity, intricacy, totality
- Effortlessness: ease; lack of strain, striving, or difficulty
- Playfulness: fun, joy, amusement
- Self-sufficiency: autonomy, independence, self-determining.[7]
Happiness and self-realization
It is the ultimate goal of a human being to attain permanent happiness and complete independence and freedom from all worldly bondage. True happiness is then the result of self realization.[8]
Awareness in self-realization
Awareness plays a key role to achieve self realization. It is clear that self-realization extremely easy to achieve. It is a easy goal with practice that requires self-awareness,and self inquiry taught by Ramana Maharshi. You have to be aware of what you want to accomplish and understand that you are the only one who holds the future in your hands. You are then responsible for your own destiny.[9]
External links
See also
References
- ^ "Self Realization vrs. Soul Realization". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Kundalini, Vibrations and Self Realization". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/self-realization". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ "Self Realization" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Self-realization and psychological disturbances" (PDF). Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Beyond self-actualization". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Metaneeds and metapathologies". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Eternal Happiness". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
- ^ "Willingness to be Better: Embracing the Road to No Prescription". Retrieved 2010-04-12.
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