Awakening
Sentient beings are in essence buddhas
It is like water and ice. There is no ice without water,
There are no buddhas outside sentient beings.
What a shame, sentient beings seek afar,
Not knowing what is at hand. It is like wailing from thirst
In the midst of water.
–Hakuin Ekaku, 1685-1768
Any experience of awakening is a false experience. Those who offer or describe such experiences are those who offer and describe experience. In following paths of right and wrong or ways of achieving something there is a denial of the quiet already in your heart.
You will hear that you must kill the ego. Sort of an internal suicide 
. You will hear that you must meditate, understand scripture, be at one with the universe, practice vigilance, discover who you really are, and other profoundities that appeal to your mind. Such a strong belief that cause creates effect! Relax - none of this is necessary. Grace will come or it will not. All the rest is of no use at all.
So much talk about ‘fully awake’, the mind ‘dissolving permanently into the heart center’, ‘enlightenment’ … all of this refers only to thinking. What a waste of time. What Poonja said, what Laksmana Swamy said, what Annamalai Swami said, what Buddha said, what Ramana said - all just pointers. Quoting sages is what children learn in school. Leave the classroom - none of it will help. Find out for yourself.
“I have no teacher, One like me is not, in the world of men and gods, none is my counterpart” –the Buddha, from the Ariy-Pariyesana Sutra