Non-dual realization in the Kularnava Tantra is presented as a direct, experiential recognition that the individual self and the supreme reality are fundamentally one. The apparent distinction between jīva and the supreme consciousness—variously named Śiva, Śakti, or a single unified consciousness—is understood to be a product of ignorance. When that ignorance falls away, what remains is the clear awareness that the same undivided reality shines as both the inner self and the totality of phenomena. This is not merely a philosophical stance, but a radical shift in how existence is perceived and lived.

A central aspect of this realization is the insight that Śiva and Śakti, consciousness and its dynamic power, are inseparable aspects of one ultimate reality. All phenomena, including body, senses, and the world, are seen as manifestations of this single consciousness rather than as something other than or outside the divine. The perceived duality of subject and object, experiencer and experienced, gradually dissolves into an undifferentiated awareness in which everything is recognized as an expression of the same non-dual principle. Difference (bheda) is thus associated with bondage, while non-difference (abheda) is associated with liberation.

The Kularnava Tantra also stresses that such realization must move beyond conceptual understanding into immediate, lived knowledge. It distinguishes between indirect, intellectual knowing and direct realization, where dualistic thinking ceases and one abides in an effortless, natural state in which ordinary and supreme consciousness are not two. Within this vision, the universe is not rejected but embraced as the very play of Śiva-Śakti, and liberation is the stable awareness that one’s innermost nature has always been that non-dual, all-pervading reality.