I’ve ‘Awakened’. Now What?
“Once you are Self-realized (or there becomes a grounded ‘awareness of awareness’), is there anything left to be done? Is there any purpose?”
You say, ‘Once there comes a grounded awareness of awareness, is there anything to be done?’
Yes and no. Once a flower blooms, it has reached the peak of its potential. It has touched it’s highest truth, it’s highest purpose. What is left to do for the flower but enjoy the light and life and play the role nature has gifted it—the role of opening to the sun and scattering life to the wind so that more flowers might enjoy the light also.
This is how it is for us.
Once we are ‘aware of awareness’ (which is simply recognizing our enduring, open, all-accepting nature) and grounded in this knowing, what is there left to do? Nothing in the sense that we no longer 'need' something. The search is over, the need to 'do' and 'become' softens.
We still have desires and ‘goals’ and a longing to manifest. We’re alive after all and we’re more in touch with the creator—the source of our being. But desires and goals are pursued less out of lack and more out of play and possibility.
What is left is simply to enjoy and play the role that life is asking of us—but free from the attachments and identifications. Much like a child plays in a sandbox not to fulfill some role or to acquire something missing, but simply in the spirit of play, whatever life is asking of us, we are free to play also.