You don't acknowledge self realization as anything special anyway, so you can't have it both ways, can't push against something that according to you does not exist. And if that's your game, you're a troll - not that there's anything wrong with it.
May I correct your assumption here? I do acknowledge self realization as "special". It does exist—as a subjective experience supported and sustained by those Vedic gods. In this sense it can even be said to have an objective existence. It's just that it is not Reality's (God's?) idea of something that represents what Reality (or God) is. I convinced all the persons (they had to be doing TM to get this, however) who were around me for ten years that I was in Unity Consciousness. And I believe to this day, that I WAS in such a state of consciousness. It's just that at one point I realized very definitively and in an uncontradictible [if there be such a word] way that my state of consciousness did NOT embody reality. It was a very remarkable and convincing hallucination. It seemed more real than anyone else's state of consciousness—and had even been mechanically effected through TM and the Two Week Extension. But REALITY DISAPPROVED OF UNITY CONSCIOUSNESS, and found dramatic ways of eventually proving this to me. I had to make my life's purpose: COMING OUT OF ENLIGHTENMENT (with all its attendant powers and abilities). Thus the last 24 years of my life. No, I very much believe in Enlightenment, Self-realization; it is just that it is metaphysically incompatible with the structure of ultimate reality. And the way I know this is more convincing than how I knew I was enlightened, even though, when I 'slipped into Unity' THAT experience was infinitely more magical, beautiful, wondrous than my previous unenlightened state was. I am not trolling: theoretically, I am prepared even now to have my whole understanding reversed. But, as you can imagine, that would take quite a lot of doing, since I have already experienced both states of consciousness: normal and enlightened. And now a third state: After-enlightenment, which so far at least is the best of the 3 states. Thanks for your comments.
