Self Realization : Its Meaning and Method

“Know thyselfand be free” —this perennial wisdom-teaching rings the eternalmessage of the ageless quest of all creation-bound fields ofself-awareness, whether these be persons, things or whatever evolvingspecies. The character of ‘self’ ingrained everywhere and ineverything explains loves as well as hatreds, war as well as peace,statis as well as dynamis, life as well as death. But for theassertion of an inscrutable and transcendent apperception andnonobjective consciousness playing hide and seek and masqueradingthrough all forms of existence, perpetually, the drama of theuniverse would not have remained that eluding mystery which itpurports to be and has been for ever and ever. Here is an attempt toponder over this most essential of all needs, this pressing call fromwithin and without and from all sides in the life of everyone.