Realisation is not intellectual understanding or possession of information. Realisation is a state of real knowledge. This is best explained in relation to the science of meditation, which is the science of realisation. In meditation, after the concentration has wilfully focused on its object, there is then a penetration of the concentrated consciousness into the object in focus, this oneness is meditation. Here the object stands 'in' the consciousness of the meditater, she experiences the object in the awareness of her heart-mind. She dose not observe; view, read, compile, format information and retain a separate relation to it, rather she observes so intensely that her consciousness concentrates and penetrates the object until she is one with it. The same happens, for example, when one is romantically attracted to someone, there is an intense concentration of all the senses as one falls in love. At this stage there is a clear distinction between the two parties. Then they are in love and they are one, no longer strangers, but an 'us'. They know each other through the intimacy and unity which resulted from their attraction of their attentions. They are one, but keep only a subtle sense of self in proportion to the courage to completely surrender self identity. 

The distinction between realisation and being well informed can often be   hard to see. One can be a skilled rhetoric, seeming to profess intimate subjective knowledge, and however still be separated from true gnosis. The difference is qualitative and it is in the experience of things in their true qualities that one comes to know them in their true natures, rather than merely their appearances. Realisation of the nature of the human soul and the nature of the phenomenological world engage are the key subjective fields wherein the wisdom of the causality of stress and conflict is held. Unless one enters into a causal depth one will never understand the significance of stress and conflict. Understanding is the door to transcendence.

Self-realisation has various levels. The causal level is the first plateau in the Citi-Zen process, then within the causal the spiritual awareness can manifest. Indeed as the causal mind is the vehicle for spiritual awareness. This awareness is at first fragmented and seemingly lost as 'unwisdom', then becomes discernment and in turn wisdom (interllectual-buddhi; manas-buddhi), and then becomes pure awareness (pure Buddhi) which knows all it mixes with through its clear, pure love synergy. Then there is the realisation of Atma (the spiritual Self, the spiritual will). As manas is the vehicle for Buddhi, so is Buddhi the vehicle for Atma and such is the unfoldment of realisation.  Learn this