I understand people wanting to know “the one event” that “caused” and awakening, so that they can pursue this one thing too.
The truth is there are many things leading up to Self-Realization, and they all need to be present.
Like a garden needs many conditions in order for plants to grow, and if one is missing, it won’t happen.
There are seven factors to awakening.
These factors are all the opposite of the usual things, the usual ways people are, which includes:
- streaming-dreaming the mind,
- having confused the mind for reality and one’s identity, and
- treasuring one’s sense of separate self.
Ultimately, in the end, this must be given up.
In bliss, I fell in love with Love itself, and never left again, because in the end I surrendered “my self” to it, and with inquiry saw what I truly am and what it is, which is what I am.
So, I wasn’t caused to experience a spiritual awakening, seeing the truth of existence is the end of your separate self that seeks it. NOT the end of your Self.
PS—To more thoroughly answer this, I made a video…
As I answered this on Quora, I will leave the link to that conversation here.