The reward of Self Knowledge is freedom from the personal self.

Once you say,
“I want to find Truth,”
all your life will be deeply affected by it.
All your mental and physical habits, feelings and emotions, desires and fears, plans and decisions will undergo a most radical transformation.

If you are earnest, whatever way you choose will take you to your goal. It is the earnestness that is the decisive factor. Earnestness is the homing instinct which makes the bird return to its nest and the
fish to the mountain stream where it was born. The seed returns to the earth when the fruit is ripe.

Nisargadatta Maharaj