Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.
Frederick LenzYou must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.
Frederick LenzNirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here you are "back in the saddle again".
Frederick Lenz