The Awareness of Unity
The experience of awakening (samadhi, or satori), is self-revealing, self- illuminating; it effortlessly reveals the unitive Truth, and dispels all doubts.
There is no difficulty of understanding involved in it whatsoever. What is difficult, however, is the subsequent adjustment to living the rest of one’s life with the knowledge thus acquired. It takes a good deal of reflection and getting-used-to in order to recognize only the One in all phenomenal manifestations as well.
Such an acquired habitual perspective no longer distinguishes between the Absolute and the relative, but focuses singly on the awareness of Unity.
Such a mind takes no interest in pursuing gratification in appearances, but remains unswayed from Unity-awareness by either pleasant or unpleasant circumstances.
~ S Abhayananda in The History of Mysticism
