"... to the enlightened one, who has realized that everything and everyone is his own Self"...

If someone threatens to shoot our belly, we don't say: "o, he wants to shoot my stomach or abdomen!" ... it doesn't matter which part of the body is being aimed at, we would say: "someone threatens to shoot me" or "someone threatens me".

In the same way, if you hug someone you won't say that your arms are the ones who hug... if you drink a glass of water you don't think that your hand has brought a glass of water to your mouth, and so forth...

In the ordinary state of consciousness, your exsperience is that you hug and drink because the body and all its different members are considered to be manifestations of the same entity... you... We recognize that behind the different parts of the body and its various functions there is one and only being and that the different members of the body move while having you as a center...

Although the ice—cream reaches your mouth it is you who enjoys, although your knee hurts it is you who have stumbled and fallen. When we recognize that the hands, the mouth, the tongue, the legs or the knees belong to you, the attention focuses in you...

Similarly, in our experience of the world of names and forms we experience an infinity of entities as being completely separate from each other, however, in the transcendental state of consciousness, or enlightenment, the experience is that each and every one of us are members of the same body which is the manifestation of the only Self or God...

Beyond the different names and forms and the diversity, we center in the in the Self, the center of existence...

Each and every one of the branches of yoga offers different practices in order to create the appropriate situation in which this awakening to the self as the center and origin of all there is, could happen... Just as it is confirmed in the Bhagavad—g?t? (10.8):

aha? sarvasya prabhavo,

matta? sarva? pravartate

iti matv? bhajante m??,

budh? bh?va—samanvit??

"I am the source of everything and everyone. Everything emanates from Me. The sages who know this, worship Me in devotion, with all their hearts"... Enlightenment is that phenomenon where the dreamer becomes the awakened one...

RELIGION

Real religion does not only consist of rites and ceremonies, it is not only about ways to dress and long lists of prohibitions, it is not only to talk, comment and analyze what has happened in extraordinary beings in the distant past. Religion is something that has to occur in you...

Religion without direct realization quickly becomes religiosity, which is something like a corps...

Without a spiritual master who has realized the Truth, religion will not be more than philosophy, doctrine and theology, but lack of life...

If we really want religion we have to approach a spiritual master... tad viddhi pra?ip?tena paripra?nena sevay?... someone who is a tattwa dar?ina?... a seer of the Truth...

Without the master... without anyone who experiences... there is no religion but only a kind of "templism" or "churchism"...

What this mantra presents is the same upani?adic vision that Lord K???a presents in the Holy Bhagavad—g?t? (13.27—28):

y?vat sañj?yate kiñcit

sattva? sth?vara—ja?gamam

k?etra—k?etrajña—sa?yog?t

tad viddhi bharatar?abha

"One who sees the Supreme Lord dwelling equally in every being, the imperishable in the perishable, actually sees".

sama? sarve?u bh?te?u

ti??hanta? parame?varam

vina?yatsv avina?yanta?

ya? pa?yati sa pa?yati

"One who sees the same Lord dwelling equally in everything and everyone, does not destroy the Self by the Self, actually sees".

Or just as it is confirmed in the Kena Upani?ad (2.5): bh?te?u bh?te?u vicitya dh?r?? prety?sm?l lok?d am?t? bhavanti..."Seeing the Self in every creature, the sage who leaves this relative and dual world attains immortality"...

"What can cause misery or illusion to the enlightened?"...

The cause of misery is the way we see ourselves... that is, the ego...

Because along with our acceptance of ourselves as separate parts of the whole we develop desires and goals which are in total discord and disharmony with the whole...

Our ambitions are completely disconnected from the flow of life...

Wherever your desires will not be more than swimming against the current of existence, you will suffer...

because the small drop will always be frustrated if its goals are in conflict with the ones of the ocean...

All its pain comes from resisting the powerful flow of life, "sarva dharm?n parityajya", means to surrender to the whole and agree to relax and flow together with the whole...

But the ego is not pleased with relaxation because he is himself tension, the "I" is a contraction...

It is necessary to understand that our actions are not disconnected from those of other human beings or from those of the animals, our actions are not separated from the movement of the atoms, the stars and the galaxies, the obstacles in perceiving this reality are of conceptual, emotional character. By emotional I refer to an almost obsessive attachment to our belief and creed in a completely separated and disconnected "self" or "I"... due to this illusory belief our activities and lives appear to be completely independent of all the rest of existence... as something separated from the rest of the universe...

The cause of misery is the ego... it consists of ignorance of what we really are... and this ignorance shows us limitation wherever we look...

And wherever there is limitation, there will be suffering, pain and misery...

who has realized that everything and everyone is his own Self"...

Especially in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions explain to us that before the creation there was nothing... except... The Creator...

that is to say that there was nothing but God...

In order to create, God did not have nothing but Himself, therefore this creation is nothing but diverse aspects of the same Divine Reality...

In the same way that from the sea waves, bubbles or foam appear, but all that comes from the sea will only be water...

In order to understand something of the above said, it is indispensable to take in account three fundamental principles, the first is that every effect has a cause, the second is that all the effects are nothing but the cause, manifesting itself in different forms, and the third is that if the cause is extracted from the effect, the latter is eliminated or destroyed...

If we observe our surroundings we see a world of various forms and names, it is logical that this universe has a cause... that is, we apply the first principle...

If we are watching the trees, plants, animals and diverse human beings, in the light of the second, we can take notice that everything and everyone are nothing but that cause in different forms...

And last, taking in account our third principle we see that if we extract life from any being... it becomes eliminated or dies...

In other words, the cause of the universe, of the cosmic manifestation, is life, existence, God... or as the Upani?ads call it — the Self...

Only the Self or God really is...

Your own Self is the essence of everything and everyone...

Both science and religion investigate, however this Upani?adic Truth cannot be discovered directly through science because the latter consists of objective investigation, the realization of the self would be possible only and exclusively through religion or spirituality, which investigate subjectively...