Definition of "self-realization" in English

noun

1. The fulfillment of one's own abilities or capacities; self-actualization.

2. The direct experience of being, in relation to one's inner nature as an unbounded creator of one's reality.

3. A realization about oneself.

   • 1934, comment by Abdullah Yusuf Ali on Sura 38 verse 24 of the Qur'an Judged by the highest standard of those nearest to God, the thought of self-pride and self-righteousness had to be washed off from him [King David] by his own act of self-realisation and repentance.