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Self-Realization And Other Awakenings Ed Muzika 1 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings © Copyright 2013, Edward Muzika. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or utilized, in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the author or publisher, except for brief quotations in critical articles, books, and reviews. First edition: February, 2013. We Are Sentience, USA. Second edition: February, 2014 ISBN: Additional illustrations: Chrissy Core www.brainflowercreative.com 2 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings Acknowledgments I want to express my profound gratitude to Deeya Gair who is foremost among many students that have collaborated with me to develop a spirituality of embodiment which we call Devotional Advaita. By embodied spirituality, we mean that traditional Advaita has to be grounded in a return to the marketplace, of reentering physical reality after finding our Absolute nature. What we are is not only That, but also an embodied human being, a personality with physicality and emotions which must be re- owned after transcendence, and accept that we are all in the same boat as sentient beings, each as precious as our own selves. We become our brother’s keeper and the good shepherd of all living things. Deeya showed me how her work as a healer can aid others not only to overcome physical pain and emotional suffering, but serve as a pathway towards Self-Realization at multiple levels of Consciousness. 3 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings We Are Sentience (WAS) is a California religious corporation with a federal 501c3 charity tax status. Its mission is twofold: to support the teachings of the two lineages of Sri Ramana Maharshi/Robert Adams, and Nisargadatta Maharaj/Jean Dunn as interpreted in the converging figure of Ed Muzika, and to function as an animal rescue and preservation organization in Los Angeles. There are about 1,500,000 or more homeless cats living on the streets in Los Angeles, and there are only thousands of people who care for them: providing food, vaccinations and medical care, as well as trapping some and finding homes. Ironically, most people who manage these feral cat colonies are poor themselves, and the sheer burden of caring for 100 homeless cats each nearly exhausts their resources. Ed is a caretaker himself and helps many other colony caretakers with food, medical supplies and veterinary services for several hundred cats. 4 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings In addition, WAS aims to bring Los Angeles shelters to a No-Kill status wherein no healthy animal is euthanized. Currently about 80,000 dogs and cats are euthanized each year in Los Angeles City and County. For more information about the mission of “We Are Sentience”, visit: http://www.wearesentience.com/no-pet-left- behind.html A cat colony in Reseda, California. 5 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings Contents Acknowledgments ........................................................................................ 3 Introduction ......................................................................................................... 9 My Story ............................................................................................. 14 The First Awakening: ......................................................................... 15 No Self; There is Only One! .......................................................... 15 Illusion’s Realm ................................................................................... 26 Robert Adams and I .............................................................. 33 Second Awakening: ........................................................................... 44 That One Is Not Real! .................................................................... 44 The Absolute, the Void, and Identification ................................ 50 The Third Awakening: Self-Realization ...................................... 54 Personal Love ........................................................................................... 59 The Self as Other: Self-Realization ............................................. 61 Conclusions .............................................................................................. 63 The Helicopter ............................................................................................. 72 Consciousness Diagram ........................................................................ 94 The 100 Room Mansion ........................................................................ 98 Things Gurus Don’t Tell You ....................................................... 117 The Majesty of Self .................................................................... 123 Of Energies, Ecstasies and Orgasms ............................................... 127 Can You Go Naked Before God? ......................................................... 135 More On Robert: ............................................................................. 143 I Am Here for My Students, Not for Me ......................................... 145 6 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings Self-Inquiry: With Affection and Love ............................................... 147 Love, Surrender and Awakening........................................................... 153 The Spiritual Processes Around a Guru and Ashram ....................... 170 Continual Seeking ....................................................................................... 186 Freedom! ................................................................................................ 193 Awakening in Daily Life, Letter from a Student ............................... 206 All is Love, All is Self ............................................................................... 212 Faith .................................................................................................................... 213 On Being Comfortable ................................................................. 221 Have Your Cake and Eat It Too ..................................................... 226 The Search ......................................................................................................... 232 Robert Adams ................................................................................................... 243 A New Way of Teaching ............................................................................ 248 The ‘True” Teacher ..................................................................................... 254 Ramana, Siddharameshwar and Nisargadatta ................................. 262 Sex and the Guru ........................................................................................ 269 The Ecstasies of Women ....................................................................... 279 The Difficulty of Awakening .................................................................. 283 Hunting the I and the Witness .......................................................... 289 Emotional Truth .......................................................................................... 298 We Are Also Human Beings .................................................................. 304 On Guru Concepts and Self-Inquiry .............................................. .309 More on Being Human .............................................................................. 313 7 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings Role of the Teacher ..................................................................................... 321 Coming Alive to the Whole Self ........................................................ 325 The Void is Not the Absolute; Silence is not the Absolute ............ 334 Who Says the I-Thought is the Ego or Self? ..................................... 340 Creating a New World, One Life at a Time ....................................... 364 Little Red ...................................................................................................... 369 My Evolving "Depression" ............................................................ 372 Well, the Deed is Done. Little Red is Dead ............................... 376 Strong Emotions, Negative and Positive--a Path to God ................. 383 Robert Adams II ........................................................................................... 389 A Dwarf and a Siddhi ..................................................................... 391 Meeting Ramana ................................................................................ 393 Into the Silence ................................................................................... 394 Exodus ................................................................................... 399 Dimitri .................................................................................................. 405 Poems From the Heart ............................................................................... 409 Ed Muzika Online ......................................................................................... 418 8 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings Introduction You are not who you think you are. You are much, much more than that! You are not just your body or mind. You are not just your emotions, thoughts, images, and dreams. You are more than all your relationships, family ties, career, and loves. You are these but also much, much more. There are rooms within the spiritual mansion which are ‘You’ that have never been explored because from infancy onward, You (and we all) have been educated, indoctrinated, acculturated, and nailed into boxes of social conformity and multiple networks of thought and communication. The world of our senses is really an interpretation of an underlying “real” as experienced through multiple cognitive filters. Both the “real” external world and the “real” Self are far different from what we now experience. This book is about that real world (and real You) which can be experienced and lived in after many of the filters are unlearned. This unlearning is done through various kinds of self-investigations, both through the use of the mind, 9 Self-Realization and Other Awakenings but mostly through exercises, learning how to shift awareness out of the “brain,” thinking and cognition, into the heart. Experiencing the world through the heart's senses reveals a very different ‘You’, and a very different world that is far more fluid, far more alive, far more energetic than the relatively flat world most of us live in. This is a world where our bodies, our hearts, and even our minds become drenched in bliss so remarkable that all we can do is swoon and fall to our knees, feeling the ecstatic grace of total self love and love for another. There comes a peace so profound you do not want to move so as to not disturb it. Finally, there may be an inner explosion like an erupting volcano of joy, energies, light and love that reveal the deepest levels of the Self to the 'little self' you had always thought yourself to be. I call this Self- Realization in contrast to the multitude of other kinds of awakenings or enlightenments so much talked about in Eastern and Western spirituality, although these other awakenings are thoroughly explored in this book. Remarkably, you lose nothing in this realization, for you are still much, but not all, of what you were before. You still have a body and mind. You still have relationships with family and other. But you have also found the much larger world of flowing and healing energies of the subtle body and world, as well as a 10

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Ed Muzika received his Ph.D. in Psychology during 1987 after having spent 12 years as a Zen monk under six Zen masters, and a two year stint with Baba Muktananda. In 1989 he met his Advaita teachers: Robert Adams, a student of Ramana Maharshi, and Jean Dunn, successor to Nisargadatta; both were high
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