Sankalpa refers to the root stage, which finally develops into a desire. All our judgments about the world start off as the Sankalpa. The state of calm or bliss I experience in meditation on a particular day sometimes becomes the benchmark on another. Parul says, let it be the memory of that calmness. It will be there in your mind. Rick says the self realizes the self, but it does so in the context of a human life for which a gross and subtle body are necessary. If the gross body is damaged or killed, is it the intellect by which self realization is not lost? So ignorance is overcome by knowledge.