HOW IT OCCURS

It happens like this:  You reach a point where nothing you do rings true.  Your life feels false.  “Nothing I do is it,” you lament.  “Nothing I am is it.”  

Your frustration builds until at last you are at your wit's end.  It is here against this wall that, typically, it occurs, that, characteristically, it happens.  You see yourself for the first time.

You see that your true self, who you are in fact, is not who you believed yourself to be all these years, but is, instead, your soul, the Atman.  This revelation is not intellectual, something that your thinking mind has produced, but, rather, is spiritual, something that the Atman in you has done.

The Atman is reborn thousand, even millions of times in its quest to fulfill its destiny.  Its destiny is to awaken.  However, despite being present in all manifested forms, insentient and sentient, it needs a life-form with a mind in order to realize that destiny.

That odd “pull” you feel throughout your life is the Atman in you waking up.  When at last it fully awakens, you know instantly what has happened, even though you have never experienced it before.  Simply, it is it.