Realization

Realization
Gradually, as I train my mind to keep returning to these thoughts, it will become better able to stay focused. I'll then be in a better position to start experiencing the sweetness of silent communion with the Supreme.
I can create small intervals between thoughts. For example, may have been contemplating the role of God as my Supreme Mother, listing in my mind the qualities of God as the Mother. If I slow these thoughts, and start creating pauses between them, I'll allow the mind to move momentarily into a silence in which there'll be great refreshment.
This is the beginning of the fourth stage, that of realization of truth. Each one's capacity and ability to experience this stage is unique, and it happens in different ways for different individuals. But the essence, however described, is that I feel I am in God's presence, and God's qualities are resonating with my own original qualities, so that I feel my own fullest potential to be realized. In this experience, the mind comes to a state of absolute stillness, and my sanskaras - personality traits - are quiescent. It is not an empty silence, but one filled with peace, purity, love, wisdom and power.
This stage of realization comes as a unified whole: only afterwards can I put labels on different aspects of it, rather as someone might describe having had a good sleep only when they awaken. There is total absorption in the experience as it happens. Later, I will be able to say yes, I now know what love and truth really mean.