R E A L I Z A T I O N

Self Realization does not bring anything, but only take away everything ? Can the trivial joys and fleeting sorrows stand the onslaught of an ensuing realization ever? Can it be just plain ideas and nothing more than the fictional figments fabricated by the mind, when you thought realization of the self brings happiness and fulfillment ? If the realization amounts to knowing the whole of creation, will not happiness and horrendous pain drown deep and abysmal, while you emerge with a face that is plain and serene?