' Direct experience of the Self '...

Direct experience of the Self is known as Self-realization.

This is often misunderstood to mean that there is a separate individual who is to have knowledge of the Self. The state of Self-awareness does not come about until the notion of a separate individual has been totally erased and the subject-object relationship has ceased to exist in a direct subjective awareness of the one indivisible Reality.


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What is born must in due course die. The objective body will thereafter be dissolved and irrevocably annihilated. What was once a sentient being will be destroyed, never to be reborn. But the consciousness is not objective, not a thing at all. Therefore, consciousness is neither born nor dies, and certainly cannot be 'reborn'.



A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org