Each Sunday we read from the Festival of Light, the ceremony written by Swami Kriyananda. In the Festival, its tiny hero, the little bird, completes its journey from a separate awareness of self into awareness of the greater Self reunited with God.
In Essence of Self-Realization, Swamiji quotes his guru, Paramhansa Yogananda: “Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God, that you do not have to pray that it come to you, that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence, and that all you need to do is increase your knowing”.
So we’re already there, but just don’t know it?