The terms
Each tradition emphasises something slightly different. Bodhi points to a clarity that ends self-deception. Mokṣa points to liberation from the cycle of birth and death. Kenshō points to a glimpse of one's nature; satori to a more lasting realisation. Fanāʾ points to the annihilation of the small self in the divine. Self-realisation, in Advaita Vedānta, points to the recognition that Ātman and Brahman were never two. The differences are real and worth preserving — but the family resemblance is closer than denominational debate sometimes suggests.
What it isn't
Awakening is not a special experience to be achieved and then maintained. Special experiences arise in practice and pass away like any other state, subject to the same impermanence as everything else. The teachings most consistent on this point — Rupert Spira, Adyashanti, Nisargadatta — emphasise that what is being recognised is the awareness in which experiences arise, not an experience itself. That awareness is presumed already present; the work is the noticing.
How it's pointed to in the index
Spira's *Being Aware of Being Aware* is the shortest serious English-language pointer in the index. Mooji's satsang shows the same pointing in conversational form. Adyashanti's *Do Nothing* approaches it from the negative — by removing what isn't required.
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