self-realization

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self-re·al·i·za·tion

(sĕlf′rē′ə-lĭ-zā′shən)
n.
The development or fulfillment of one's potential.
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self-realization

n
the realization or fulfilment of one's own potential or abilities
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self′-realiza′tion



n.
the fulfillment of one's potential.
[1870–75]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.self-realization - the fulfillment of your capacities
fulfillment, fulfilment - the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc)
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Translations

self-realization

n autorrealización f
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Upasni Maharaj helped him to integrate his mystical experiences with normal consciousness, thus enabling him to function in the world without diminishing his experience of God-realization. In late 1921, at the age of 27, Merwan began to attract a following of his own.
This purpose-which is nothing other than the very purpose of human life as such-is described in various religious traditions in different ways: as self-realization, as God-realization, as union with God, as surrender to God, as the dissolution of the false ego, as liberation from the cycle of birth and death, and so on.
Here Bharata's theory of rasa that was primarily intended to be applied to the dramatic or aesthetic experience is now introduced in case of God-realization. Bharata or for that matter the later rasa theorists categorized such relishable (rasa) experience to eight/ nine categories like srngara (erotic love), karuna (pathetic) etc.