Only through Meditation, only through Enlightenment, only through hearing others' Life Experiences, do we come to know of our own Grand self, our own Universal self, our own Cosmic self. That is becoming a Master.
How many life-times will we watch simply others' greatness, discuss others' enlightenment. How many life-times will we sing songs, praise others' meditation and others' enlightenment. If we sing songs praising others' meditation and others' enlightenment, will our personal problems be solved. Only our personal meditation, our personal enlightenment, can solve our personal problems.
The purpose of each and every person on this Earth is to regale himself/herself with the highest possible Enjoyment, Entertainment and Enlightenment. No one needs to suffer!
Only a well tamed mind can take up Swadhyaya i.e., reading right books and Sajjana Sangatya i.e., interacting with right people. Without reading the right books, and without interacting with the right people, enlightenment does not mature.
From MEDITATION comes ENLIGHTENMENT, From ENLIGHTENMENT comes AWARENESS, From AWARENESS comes LIFE-ZEST.
ENLIGHTENMENT ... the Second Stage. As we continue the practice of Anapanasati Meditation, we begin to understand that we are essentially a Soul. This is called Enlightenment.
The first stage of Meditation leads to the second stage that is Enlightenment.
For enlightenment to become steadfast, three essential activities are required: 1. Meditation 2. Swadhyaya 3. SajjanaSangatya.
Enlightenment actually means two things: Not lamenting about anything and Not wasting any time.
Life-Zest... the Final Stage. The end result of meditation is enlightenment. The end result of enlightenment is awareness. And the end result of awareness is Life-Zest. Every given moment should be enjoyed. Every given situation should be savored. Thus, Life becomes absolutely dynamic. Thus, Life becomes absolutely miraculous.
Enlightenment is.. defined as.. an understanding of one's own vast multi-dimensional existence.
When you become enlightened, you come out of misery; you come out of indolence, you come out of frustration; you come out of the fear of failure. And, you come to acquire a rustic spiritual common sense.
Enjoyment is directly proportional to Enlightenment. The purpose of all life is simply to enjoy. And, in human situations, Meditation is the way for Enlightenment.
Before Enlightenment, there is always a prior search for truth. When the search for truth gets culminated in personal experience of truth, then that is called as Enlightenment.
One person's hard-won enlightenment is everybody else's easily attainable Enlightenment.
There is always a BIG MATERIAL WORLD in the mind .. it indeed is a very, very BIG WORLD. Emptying the BIG MATERIAL WORLD.. in the mind .. is called MEDITATION.
SEARCH FOR TRUTH is readily available in all situations, at all times, wherever you are. That which is a universal experience, that which is universally valid is called TRUTH.
When one person becomes enlightened, everything around that person has to change. Every event around that person has to flow into new directions. Every other person, who interacts with an enlightened human being, becomes somehow modified. The effect has to happen, it is the ripple effect.
Whoever touches a particular enlightened person, experiences two clear-cut doors opening in front of him: 1. To become like the enlightened person. 2. To stay back... for the time being... and watch the enlightened person, a little more closely.
When Enlightenment is rather complete .. and you have experienced the whole truth in its wholeness .. you come back to square one, where you start to live in the existing world happily. Then, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers... persons are persons... events are events... things are things. All people and all events return back to their original significances. You will live with the same persons, experience the same events.. but in a totally happy mood, in a totally joyful mood, and in an enlightened spirit.
When you become enlightened .. for the first time in life .. you enter into a state of NEUTRAL HAPPINESS-BLISS, which is not exactly happiness, which also is not bliss exactly. It is happiness / non-happiness.. bliss / non-bliss kind of state. It is always in the NEUTRAL STATE.. neither moving forward, nor moving backward. In this state... when you speak out, when you think out, when you act out... what is exposed, what is exhibited is your IMPECCABLE NEUTRALITY, which is neither for nor against anything or any person.
When you become enlightened, what happens is a glorious revelation of a HUGE BODY OF HOLISTIC SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. For the first time, you begin to see the various contours and beauties of the BODY OF HOLISTIC SPIRITUAL SCIENCE.
When you become enlightened, you immediately become fired to teach people the ramifications of this new BODY OF HOLISTIC SPIRITUAL SCIENCE. You are on a grand MISSION !! The MISSION is to teach all the essentials of Spiritual Science to each and every person who happens to be in your immediate range.
When you become enlightened.. you stop eating animals, birds & fish. You understand how terrible a crime it is... killing animals and birds and fish.. for the sake of eating their flesh. And you wonder how many such crimes you might have committed.. in your innumerable past lives.
The first thing you do when you become enlightened is you become a Vegetarian. That is the immediate off-shoot of Enlightenment.
Before Enlightenment, you don't know why you should not eat animal flesh and so there are arguments and arguments. But, when you sit in meditation and become enlightened, you immediately understand the whole subject of compassion and the principle of karma.
As we keep to the practice of Anapanasati Meditation, we enter into the phase of VIPASSANA and we begin to understand that we are essentially a THIRD-EYE.We understand that we are a SOUL. This is called ENLIGHTENMENT.
After you become enlightened, you acquire a rustic spiritual common sense... and at the same time a crystal clear scientific common sense.
ENLIGHTENMENT means a new/fresh understanding. Every small bit of understanding is a small enlightenment.. Every big understanding is a big enlightenment. There are degrees and degrees of Enlightenment in every field of endeavour.
Enlightenment is a forever process. With every bit of enlightenment, we take a necessary next step forward in evolution. Without all the bits of Enlightenment, there is no Spiritual Evolution.
Your enlightenment consists in giving love and affection to every animal.
A group of enlightened human beings sharing their own experiences of enlightenment is called a 'Sangha'.
Enlightenment means to be able to receive everything from everybody gracefully and gratefully.
We should take great care of today. Tomorrow will, then, take care of tomorrow... Enlightened masters don't think much of tomorrow, they only think of today.
Tomorrow you won't be there... I won't be there. But the work must continue. Because this work is required by whole planet, by all of humanity.
We should always be happy on seeing people who are more enlightened than us and we should always show indifference rather than hatred towards the people who are not yet spiritually evolved.