Realization...

Q: I understand everybody is under the obligation to realize. Is
it his duty, or is it his destiny?
M: Realization is of the fact that you are not a person. There-
fore, it cannot be the duty of the person whose destiny is to dis-
appear. Its destiny is the duty of him who imagines himself to be
the person. Find out who he is and the imagined person will dis-
solve. Freedom is from something. What are you to be free
from? Obviously, you must be free from the person, you take
yourself to be, for it is the idea you have of yourself that keeps
you in bondage.
From Chapter 86
I Am That.........Nisargadatta