What an enlightened person is capable of. Who are enlightened people? How to achieve enlightenment
Enlightenment. Some signs and criteria
(Expounded on the basis of the texts of the Vedic tradition and the sayings of the Enlightened Ones) 
The spiritual quest of many seekers begins with clarification of fundamental terms. One of these most commonly used terms is "". The choice of the Path by a spiritual seeker largely depends on the “correct” interpretation of Enlightenment.
Why is this happening? Because it is often identified with the Fruit of practice, that is, with the goal to which the spiritual seeker will strive. If the goal of achievement is chosen incorrectly, then the result of practice will be corresponding.
Through the concept Enlightenment some assert themselves and thereby strengthen their ignorance, others are sincerely mistaken, others are strengthened in the idea of ego independence, and others justify their kleshas and indiscipline.
The ego will always find a way to wishful thinking. We do not suspect how cunning and sophisticated it is, how subtly it can disguise itself, build a defense, mimic and convince the mind. It can make deceptive moves, bet decoys, and do everything for the sake of self-affirmation. But who can it fool? Only yourself.
It is often stated that this implies a transition to a state of egolessness. Only one who has no ego can be called enlightened.
Often associated with various altered states of consciousness that sometimes arise in dhyanas or contemplation. Altered states give some expansion, spontaneity, clarity, openness, depth. And then the ego begins to intensively search for them.
Many understand it as getting rid of suffering, but this is a superficial level of understanding. When we take the path of spiritual improvement, the first thing that happens to us is that we get rid of the suffering of an ordinary human being. Why? Because we stop living in categories, concepts of this world.
In Zen Enlightenment corresponds to the term satori, awakening from the sleep of ignorance, which is a very important event in a person’s life. The destruction of ignorance is not the destruction of diversity, it is the destruction of identification with diversity. When diversity can no longer mislead.
In fact, this is the transformation of man towards divinity, going beyond humanity.
Our humanity, the world of people, almost always consists of a limited view.
it is associated with liberation from prarabdha karma and any karma in general, and then consciousness goes beyond the limits of time, space of manushya loka (the human world), endless worlds of divine beings open up for it. And the soul begins its journey beyond everything.
Many understand it as an end in itself. And then the ego creates for itself an image of Enlightenment as such a desirable thing and begins to fantasize about these topics. These fantasies form a mental picture of the world. Evaluations and discussions begin - this one is enlightened, but this one is not.
But this is all the mind, the basis of the ego. In fact, you need to convince him (the ego) that this is not an end in itself, it is just beautiful flower
on the path, and the goal of sadhana is beyond all concepts of Enlightenment, it is the Absolute, God. The Absolute does not need Enlightenment
because he was never darkened. Our conditioned mind is enlightened, but Brahman has nothing to do with it. The truth is given as grace, happens, and is not achieved by the mind and ego. And it is not a goal, Enlightenment is only a certain fact of recognizing what has always been, recognizing the Absolute. Whether you found out about this or not is unimportant for the Absolute itself. This is only important for the mind and body. And the true is when you understand it, that is, when it itself becomes an insignificant fact compared to the Absolute.
Signs of Enlightenment
It is impossible to adequately describe the world of the Enlightened One for people of the ordinary dual world. People of the ordinary world see only the body of the Enlightened One, but not his knowledge. The eyes of other people who are not Enlightened cannot see the essence of the Enlightened One, because their mind is not able to penetrate the knowledge that the jnani has. They can see the body, hear the voice, evaluate the words, but all this has no meaning from the point of view of the Enlightened One, since he is not all these and resides in the transcendental consciousness beyond the body, words and speech.
This is not only knowledge - jnana, it is also shakti - spiritual power, and the enlightened one is also the one who has shakti (shaktiman).
The second power is the power of self-liberation, the power of internal freedom (svatantriya shakti), thanks to which the Enlightened One can free his consciousness from any energies, connections, relationships, keeping it pure, unsullied (niradjana). The power of inner freedom arises from the power of wisdom and draws its inspiration from brahma aham bhava - the pure space of consciousness of the enlightened one.
The third power of the Enlightened One is the power of intention (icchha shakti), thanks to which he can attract events from emptiness, materialize things, and embody his plans (sankalpa siddhi).
The fourth power is the power to control reality, the power of divine omnipotence, the dominion of the Enlightened One (aisvarya shakti), thanks to which he influences the gross and subtle worlds.
Finally, the fifth power is the ability to act, to perform diverse acts (kriya shakti) - to create, support, destroy, hide, bring down the divine.
Reached Enlightenment really uses these powers.
« When I look at the studentsI think of Brahman, shining,incomprehensible that already shines inside them,thus the disciples naturally awaken,by the power of one connection with me.» The Jnani Universe, Swami Vishnudevananda Giri
And yet, how can you compare your spiritual level with the spiritual level of someone who has achieved Enlightenment? For this purpose, saints and rishis have conveyed to us their vision of the state Enlightenment in the ancient treatises of the Vedic tradition.
“He who cannot be touched by honors and insults, losses and gains, is a sage of the best category. The best of sages is able to give complete answers to questions concerning realization and the most sublime truths without any hesitation...
For example, a jnani who has realized the supreme essence, with very little effort, can continue to adhere to his former way of life, although his mind is no longer approachable and his views cannot be shaken. He resembles a worldly man in all his affairs. How then can he be appreciated by others?
But be that as it may, one jnani recognizes another immediately, just as an expert can evaluate precious stones at first sight...”Dattatreya, " ", chapter XXI
It is important to understand that all statements about The Absolute does not need are not intended for our comparison of anyone with anyone, but only for the comparison of our own worldview with the worldview of the Enlightened One.
One of the signs Enlightenment The jnani (the knower, the Enlightened One) is his inner purity, his pure vision. Speech of the One Who Has Achieved Enlightenment becomes completely pure, his thoughts become pure, his emotions are always pure .
Sometimes he can show emotions as a game to help another, but even in this case he himself has achieved Enlightenment always free from them.
""Sages who know themselves gain fearlessness, dispassion and shine in their own splendor. They are always self-sufficient and internally in a satisfied state.
The sage sees consciousness as the essence of everything, as the omnipresent God of all things, formless, but filling all forms."
“He is a sage, liberated in this life, who has abandoned all motivated actions, is free from conditioning and has turned away from all desires and hopes.”
"Even when it seems that he is busy with some business in this world, his consciousness is not at all distracted"
“The twin forces of attraction and repulsion do not affect him at all.”
“The state of one who has liberated himself in this life can also be expressed in words like this: turya or “deep sleep in awakening,” a state of complete freedom. But the state that follows this cannot be described in words. It is beyond turya.”
Reached Enlightenment never experiences anger, greed, envy, or fear. He looks at everyone as an embodiment of the Divine. The enlightened one is always exalted. His mind is very subtle, clear and sharp, although he does not consider himself a scientist.
The enlightened one is amused by the worldly seriousness of people who give great importance mind and ego, although he treats others with compassion.
« 51. Thus, having dissolved dualistic concepts, [the jnani] transcends the illusory Mayu and becomes one with Brahman, like water with water or milk with milk.
69. He who eats any food, dresses as he pleases, and lives anywhere is liberated and feels himself to be the soul of all beings. »
Reached Enlightenment sees Divinity everywhere, even where others see only the mundane. He thinks abstractly, purely, broadly, large-scale, globally, paradoxically.
“He who has conquered himself remains calm and content, doing what must be done and avoiding what should be avoided.
His mind is at peace, enjoys observing himself and is not interested in external events and observations....."
“He for whom joy is not joy and suffering is not suffering is the liberated one.
He whose heart is not disturbed even when he experiences pleasure is the liberated one.
He is liberated who enjoys pure consciousness as well as the objective world."
An enlightened person is always outside the mind, outside of thoughts; no mental assessments, concepts, judgments, or theories dominate him.
His intelligence is very high, although he does not attach any importance to this, because... his inner wisdom is even higher, and his intellect is simply the servant of this wisdom. There are no stupid enlightened people.
Reached Enlightenment capable of easily speaking for hours, days without any preparation on topics of philosophy, topics of divine truths and God. He is not interested in anything else in this world and if he supports other topics, it is only out of politeness or to help another in his awakening.
The Enlightened One lives in his sacred world, his pure dimension, allowing into it only those who are open and chosen divine power. He himself does not seek publicity among people, but he is well known and respected among true sadhus, saints and other jnanis.
Where others see dirt, the Enlightened One sees unsullied purity. Where others see poison, he sees nectar. Where others see ugliness, the Enlightened One sees divine beauty. Where others see shortcomings, he sees the play of the Divine in everything.
"His mind is at peace, enjoys observing himself, and is not interested in external events and observations."...
"For the enlightened there are no fools.
Why waste time
discussing something that doesn't exist?..."
“He who is ignorant perceives the world as having a beginning and an end.
The Enlightened One does not see him at all
That's why,
that he was not created and therefore does not exist."
Yoga-Vasishtha, ch. 6-21.
Reached Enlightenment does not experience impure thoughts and does not seek company.He's always alone andlives alone in order to always be one on one with God, without being distracted by anything else. And if he communicates, then only with those who are ready to listen to the Dharma, to serve the Dharma.
He is not interested in the affairs of people or their plans becausehe is absorbed in the Divine.
An unshakable pure vision settled within him. The Enlightened One blesses those who curse him and prays for them, wishing them happiness and good luck, as he sees the Divine light in everyone.
«
For him, even stones become friends and trees in the forest
-
relatives;
even when he lives in the middle of the forest,
animalsbecome his friends and family.
Lack of harmony becomes harmony
sadness-
great joy
and even immersed in intense activity, he feels an inner silence.
He sees complete inaction in action.
Awakenedhe is in deep sleep
. ANDwillow,he's also good,
like dead.
He does everything and nothing.
He enjoys,
without tasting pleasure.
He-
Anyone's best friend.
He is free from pity for others, but full of empathy.
Free from aspirations
he seems to want something.
He appears happy or unhappy in appropriate situations.
He doesn't leave what
which is natural
and plays its proper part in this drama of life.
He has compassion for those who mourn
and rejoices with the happy,
but neither one nor the other pollutes his heart.
»
Yoga-Vasishtha, ch. 6.20.
Reached Enlightenment does not listen to worldly wisdom, neither his own mind, nor the minds of others, since he is absorbed in the Divine light, the Divinity, which, as it were, permeates him. He is not attached to this life, or to other people, or to the stereotypes of society, but is always absorbed in the contemplation of the Divine.
The enlightened one is not impressed by either blame or praise and he equally perceives what people call happiness and sorrow. Everything for the Enlightened One has the same taste. He is full of inner divine greatness, although he himself behaves modestly.
Reached Enlightenment incomprehensible to ordinary people. His actions are transcendental, spontaneous and intuitive, he has no sense of the doer, he plays in non-action. An enlightened person has an inner divine light that guides him in life and gives him an everlasting, never-fading feeling of joy - brahma-ananda.
The enlightened one does not seek other people's attention, wealth and fame, but he does not deny anything that comes to him on his own, without effort, because he is in all-acceptance.
“I am without form or appearance, I am omnipotent, I am in everything and everywhere, I am unchangeable, There is no liberation for me, there are no fetters for me. I am Existence-Consciousness-Bliss, I am Shiva, I am Shiva! »
The enlightened one simply lives naturally, without personality, plays without acting, without choosing. He does not participate in disputes, debates of worldly people, he does not prove anything to anyone, because... sees only his consciousness around. The Enlightened One always has few desires, he is always self-sufficient, flexible and light.
Achieved Enlightenment has no restrictions, being in the perfect openness of the Mind, similar to space.
« When I look at the endless sky, I don't think about the sky,
and about Brahman, which is the essence of heaven,
when I see the ocean rolling its waves,
I think not about the ocean, but about Brahman that is inside.
When I see mountains, trees, rivers, hills and clouds,
I think not about them, but about Brahman that is inside,
that's why mountains are not mountains for me,
and rivers are not rivers for me,
There is no difference between the arising of feelings, passions or thoughts or their non-arising.
Just as a lion sees his reflection in a lake when he drinks water and has no doubt that he is a lion, the Enlightened One gains true understanding in non-duality. Feelings and thoughts are no longer given any significance; they are nothing more than a play of energy on the surface of absolute Consciousness.
Thoughts and passions are absolutely inseparable from the natural state, they are its very expression, and therefore there is no need to control or free them, because they are initially pure.
The very arising of thoughts is an expression of the creative play of awakened awareness. The dissolution of thoughts and emotions is spontaneous, requiring no effort, or rather, dissolution is not required at all, because Initially, everything is dissolved in the space of light of the great Wisdom of awareness.
Achieving Enlightenment does not imply either inappropriate behavior, no exalted states, no loud statements to the world (unless there is a special blessing), no change in external status or behavior, no receiving any additional privileges or statuses, because the true goal of the spiritual seeker is not to seek Enlightenment for himself, but to serve the Divine will, to carry out the Divine will, to serve the cause of enlightenment, Enlightenment and Liberation of all living beings in samsara.
On the contrary, even having reached any level of Enlightenment, it is prescribed to keep it secret for many years or simply not express it in any way.
An enlightened person does not care who is enlightened and who is not enlightened. He sees only God in everything, everywhere and always, and does not see other people, creatures, in themselves outside of God. For the Enlightened One, everyone is enlightened and everything is one, the One.
How to check whether you are enlightened or not?
Ask withsincerely: “SAm I true?
or
Ask yourself the question: “What am I living for?”
Most likely your answer will differ from the answer of the Enlightened One : “I live only for You, I cannot live without You for a second.” "You" means God, the Supreme Self.
Whoever says “I just live...”, this will mean the response of the mind (ahamkara) contained in the body.
The Ahamkara contained in the body must submit to the higher Self. The Higher Self is just a conceptual name. In fact, there is no separate personality in him. Parabrahman is beyond duality. But in order to realize it, the mind must obey it again and again, tune in to it. If he does this, he never has any problems.
The body may have problems, it needs to eat or sleep; for prana - prana needs to be balanced. But the mind cannot have problems if it finds its owner and surrenders completely, undividedly to him.
Whether the mind surrenders to the higher Self externally, through worship, or internally, through contemplation and natural awareness, is not very important. Although natural awareness is a higher method. If you feel confusion, difficulties or problems, it means that you simply do not live for the sake of the Supreme source, your mind does not want it, it has turned away and it does not remember it.
In serious spiritual schools, only his Teacher can assess the “degree of Enlightenment” of a student.
Enlightenment Criteria
It would be wrong to imagine Enlightenment as a one-time event. It was as if something had happened all at once. And everything stopped and froze. And there is no more movement, deepening, development.
In fact, Enlightenment is an eternal, endless process of movement towards perfection.
We are growing, evolving further and further and there is no end to it. From man to sadhu, from sadhu to jnani, from jnani to siddhu, from siddha to devata, from devata to maha-devata, from maha-devata to the Creator of the Universes. Spiritual growth never stops.
If you are still on Earth and no matter how enlightened you are, you always have areas of the mind, body, prana that require further work.
After all, your body is not yet the body of a deity, it is ordinary, made of flesh and blood, which means there is no point in stopping. After all, your jnana, svatantriya, icchha, aishvarya, kriya shakti have not yet gained strength and are not equal to the Shakti of Shiva or Dattatreya.
You have not yet become the great Shaktiman, the Demiurge, the guardian of the universe, the designer of worlds, have you?
Enlightenment is a process where God gradually becomes more and more at the center of our life, displacing ego, kleshas and deluded states. Therefore, in serious teachings they talk about stages, and each of our experiences is easily classified if this classification is made by an experienced master.
There will always be someone who is higher than you, wiser, who has more mind power.
If your ego wants to rest on its laurels and claim complete Enlightenment, laugh at it and ask yourself: am I equal in wisdom, in strength of energy, in qualities to Bhagavan Dattatreya? Shiva? Vishnu? Brahma? Or at least a strong sadhu, jnani or siddhu?
As one saint said: “Who is not a fool before the Lord”?
And you will see all the games that the ego tried to play, playing with the theme of “its” enlightenment.
T.N. Enlightenment is just the first step of a child, insight into the true View.
This is the first awakening of our jnana shakti.
But many people attach a lot of importance to their spiritual experiences because they consider this the completion of sadhana and the entire spiritual path.
Moreover, in every serious tradition there is a specific way of testing the level of a spiritual seeker, passed on in the tradition of masters. Passing this test does not depend on the desire of the student, i.e. it is prescribed by tradition. If a student does not learn it from his root Guru, then in the tradition of teaching he cannot be recognized as a master, an Enlightened One.
Whatever the student thinks about his achievements, he is assigned only the stage that is given to him by the master during testing, i.e. the student cannot independently declare the achievement of any stage if it is not confirmed, no matter what experiences he experiences. Likewise, he cannot claim that he is Enlightened outside the stages or outside the corresponding teaching.
If he does this, then he falls out of the line of transmission of this or that teaching. This order was deliberately introduced by the masters of antiquity in order to avoid confusion, seduction and self-will of students in the interpretation of this or that teaching.
are not specifically noted in the sangha, but signs of respect for a sadhu may be expressed if the root guru gives this sadhu in some way recognition of his realization, assigns status, title, etc.
It is not recognized as eternal, a kind of frozen state in a relative state (well, in the absolute, as we know, we are already Brahman). Enlightenment.
In different schools (systems) there are conditional divisions into levels or stages of the path to
Complete means the end of the circle of incarnations (births and deaths). It is generally accepted that Enlightenment occurs after achieving the state of samadhi. However, samadhis are different...
Savikalpa Samadhi
In savikalpa samadhi there are modifications in the mind (vikalpas), but the duality of subject and object is not overcome, and a subtle effort is maintained to maintain samadhi. Savikalpa Samadhi is experienced through meditative absorption (dhyana). The duration of samadhi depends on the effort made. Up to the eighth level of dhyana, subtle duality remains, and therefore savikalpa samadhi is not Liberation. When attention to the source of the Self is disrupted, awareness disappears.The true moment of entering savikalpa samadhi is considered to be the cessation of breathing, slowing of the heartbeat and pulse, and loss of sensation of body weight.
Thanks to mastery of savikalpa samadhi, the yogi can leave his body at will, going to the worlds of the gods.
“In samadhi, the yogi knows neither smell, nor taste, nor form, nor touch, nor sound, he is not aware of himself or others. In samadhi the yogi is not aware of the difference between heat and cold, pain and pleasure, honor and dishonor.” Svatmarama, "" (4.108-4.110)
“Complete immersion in the bliss experienced in self-realization is nirvikalpa samadhi.” Sri Adi Shankaracharya, ""
In nirvikalpa samadhi, the mind no longer perceives differences (vikalpa) and is immersed in the light of the non-dual source of the Self, where there is no division into subject and object. The experience of non-dual Emptiness and Clear Light, with the breath and pulse stopped, is the true moment of nirvikalpa samadhi. Thanks to this samadhi, the yogi becomes immortal in the body of Consciousness (Jnana-deham).
In this samadhi, self-awareness is temporary, the ego is not completely destroyed, although there is no effort. The yogi is in trance when there is no consciousness of the body and, although there is awareness of the primordial Light of the Self, the yogi cannot act in the world or perceive external reality. When the yogi returns to the body, his illusion of “I” (ego) reappears.
For monistic Shaivite yogis, this is the achievement of nirvikalpa samadhi, the ultimate achievement, sometimes called “paramatma-darshan,” the vision of the “I” (according to Patanjali’s yoga sutra).
Sahaja Samadhi
Sahaja Samadhi is the desired state that the yogi seeks and in which he resides.
“Continuously and effortlessly remaining in the primordial state is Sahaja. One who has accustomed himself to natural meditation and enjoys its bliss will not come out of the state of samadhi, no matter how external work he did not comply, no matter what thoughts came to him. This is Sahaja Nirvikalpa.". Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharishi
Sahaja means natural, nirvikalpa means without distinction. For example, in Laya Yoga the practice of Sahaja Samadhi is the main practice, while the practice of other types of Samadhi is considered useful, but not sufficient for Liberation. Savikalpa samadhi requires effort, nirvikalpa samadhi ends when the body and mind come out of trance, but in sahaja nirvikalpa actions can be performed, but the yogi does not leave oneness with the Source. This is the state Enlightenment- the sage (jnani), when the ego is completely destroyed.
Being in Sahaja Samadhi, the yogi during life is in another dimension of Reality; now he is in the state of the mirror itself, and not the reflection.
“The natural state (sahaj avastha) is the highest, contemplation and concentration are in the middle, mantras and prayers are at the bottom, sacrificial worship is the lowest.”
"Kularnava Tantra"
If you are familiar Enlightenment is the test of Sahaja Samadhi: continuous awareness in wakefulness, awareness in sleep with dreams and in sleep without dreams, then the signs of final liberation are the experience in meditation of the five subtle spaces (Vyoma-Panchaka), described in the Advaya-Taraka Upanishad:
- space without qualities (guna-rahita-akasha);
- higher space (paramakasha);
- great space (mahakasha);
- space of the seed of elements (tattva-akasha);
- space of the sun (surya-akasha).
“These five spaces are a sign of liberation. The yogi who has realized them is completely freed from the law of karma and becomes similar to this space...”
The experience of these spaces is the internal-external sign of realization (madhya-lakshya).
Enlightenment comes when experiencing the first types of space,
and the final liberation is when these experiences are fully experienced and have transformed the elements of the body.
“If a yogi does not know the six chakras, sixteen adharas, two laksyas, and five voids in his body, how can he achieve success?” Goraksha Yoga" Yatindranath.
The voids were listed above, these are these spaces. The sixteen supports (adharas) are those places in the body where you should keep your attention during concentration: two big toes, muladhara chakra, anus (anus), sexual organ, lower abdomen (womb), navel, heart, throat, uvula, palate, tongue, between the eyebrows (ajna), nose, base of the nose, forehead (lalata). They are listed in the text attributed to Gorakshanatha, "Siddha-siddhanta-paddhati".
As for “lakshya” (sign, sign), not two, but three lakshya are usually mentioned.
Bahir (bahya)-lakshya is an external sign, associated with the sadhanas of bhuchari mudra and aksha mudra.
The goal of the Bahir Lakshya techniques is to awaken the subtle nadis in the area of the upper chakras.
The manifestation of this sign is the vision of blue light in the area between the eyebrows and golden light in the area of the crown.
Madhya-lakshya is an intermediate sign that is associated with the experience of three small types of spaces in the body - chidakasha, hridakasha, daharakasha and the five great vyoman spaces.
Finally, the internal sign of antar-lakshya is associated with the manifestations of various signs of sound and light, as well as the blue space in the area of \u200b\u200bthe anahata chakra and between the eyebrows, called the “blue pearl” - nila-bindu, says the Advaya-taraka Upanishad.
The fact is that the Enlightened One lives immersed in the Source of all experiences, and his consciousness is established in the Sahasrara chakra. Whatever the Enlightened One does, his prana-winds do not deviate; consciousness and prana always remain in the purity of the Unborn. Whatever is done at the level of body, mind and speech, it does not penetrate the subconscious of the subtle body (taijas) and the superconsciousness of the causal body (prajna) of the Enlightened One.
In other traditions, for example in the tradition of the teachings of Laya Yoga, there are oral instructions (“On the sixteen stages of the waxing of the moon of internal awareness”), which describe in detail the stages of the ascension of consciousness during the practice of contemplation. Enlightenment here corresponds to the eighth stage - Birth.
“When naked awareness like space has gained strength,
dedication comes naturally, goals are released,
and hopes are cut off in great inaction -
then the yogi is born as an immortal child in the world of the One..."
Signs of implementation:
"Little birth" - brahma-aham-bhava, the consciousness of non-duality, like space, is continuously held in dreaming sleep, but is lost in dreamless sleep.
“Great birth” - the “circle of day and night” is closed, i.e. the awareness of non-duality is maintained in sleep with dreams and in sleep without dreams. The qualityless enlightening emptiness (guna-rahita-akasha) has been realized, but the deeper levels of light have not yet been revealed.
The yogi becomes attained to the state of “avyakta-prakriti” and is called “prakriti-layyan”.
this is holiness.And holiness means complete surrender of oneself to God,dissolution of the ego into the divine source,complete dedication(atma-nivedana), with becoming a pure channel of God, his medium and the continuous fulfillment of the Divine will by the body, speech and mind.
There are no Enlightened Ones “walking” on their own, outside of God, because Enlightenment itself is the descent of the light of divine blessing (anugraha), for the light has nowhere else to come from except from God.
At the same time, keeping in mind the root “light” in the word Enlightenment, this divine light is, as it were, reflected by the Enlightened One, pouring out onto everything that surrounds him.
The saints say "Don't look for Pbrightening,surrender to the mercy of God,become a conductor of divine will 24 hours a day and Penlightenment will come to you on its own.”
Then you are not a Buddhist and not a Christian, not a Hindu and not a Jain, not a Taoist, you are not a man or a woman, not a mother and not a son, not a human being, not a Russian and not a Hindu - you are the illusory body of God, you are a medium of God, his mouthpiece , his pure channel, conductor (dev-vahini), and you have no personal goals in life except to serve God, to perfectly fulfill the Divine will.
You have to tell yourself this: let Enlightenment come or not come, let the Guru, if necessary, someday tell me about it, or not tell me, I’ll just humbly do my sadhana, my service, not expecting any recognition, no benefits, no privileges. I will give every second of myself to the Supreme source, my inner deity. I will not have any other goals in life.
«
To desire Enlightenment means never to achieve it.
To achieve Enlightenment means you can lose it.
Therefore, desire without desiring, strive without striving.
Be free even from the very concept of Enlightenment.
Learn to be, not strive.
To abide, not to desire.»
The information that enlightened people live among us has been exciting, frightening and delighting humanity for several years now. A striking example of enlightenment is the Dalai Lama.
He, like his enlightened compatriots, differs from ordinary people in that if you look at him with the so-called “subtle” (energy) vision, you can see an unusual luminosity surrounding him, not typical of ordinary people.
Signs of enlightenment
Enlightened people, according to esoteric researchers, have a very smooth and clean energy field, producing clean, straight rays (usually multi-colored). It is also known that enlightened people living in big cities are forced to hide their luminosity so as not to be recognized.
According to a certain group of mystics, enlightenment is not connected with the arguments of logic. To be enlightened means to go beyond the limits of physical and mental capabilities. The physical body, not adapted to changes of this kind, often cannot withstand the load, and the phenomena that a person has to face are so powerful that they provoke mental and physical health disorders. Enlightenment has a particularly strong effect on the quality of sleep: a person becomes so meaningful that sleep cannot take over his body.
What kind of enlightened person is he? Signs that cannot be confused with anything else
In Tibet, facts of light absorption have been repeatedly recorded, but such cases are commonplace there. Through years of meditation, Tibetan lamas learn to separate the mind from the body. As a result, the body becomes unnecessary: the mind takes it with it into eternity in the form of absolute energy.
In the 60s of the 20th century, one Tibetan lama, a man with an awakened, enlightened consciousness, asked his loved ones not to disturb him and retired to his hut for a week. After this period, rainbow light “poured” from all the cracks of his house, and the lama himself disappeared without a trace.
Can “negative characters” achieve this state?
Adolf Hitler, who, according to some research groups, had the skills of a psychic, had no doubt that there was a place on the planet called the Hollow Earth. The idea of the existence of a hollow Earth inhabited by creatures that cannot be called people has indeed been discussed more than once among esotericists. The guesses of the Russian researcher of the occult magic of the German fascists, Sergei Zubkov, completely coincide with this statement.
The scientist believes that the reason for the racial cleansing that Hitler loved to carry out in the Third Reich was the Nazis’ attempts to attract the attention of the underground “masters” who were supposed to take part in the reorganization of the world as we know it.
Did Hitler have a chance of becoming an enlightened person? If you believe authoritative esotericists, the presence of paranormal abilities is not enlightenment, but rather a continuation of the game invented by the mind and ego. True, sometimes the game moves to a new level, that is, it becomes more sophisticated (but does not cease to be a game).
But this is not the peak yet - it is the mind that builds beautiful obstacles in front of those striving for the True Reality, making him think that he is almost at the goal. But if there is no real mentor next to the “player,” there will be no one to warn him that he is playing too hard.
All these games and levels, stages of awakening and enlightenment from the point of view of Unconditional Reality are the fruit of human imagination, since on the path to spiritual heights there are no players, no sleepers, no lost ones, no Absolute or relative reality. The mind uses information about the stages of enlightenment only to calm the ego. And the most widespread ways to get closer to God all come down to gradual and not devoid of duality, hard daily work, the implementation of which requires spending many years (or lives).
Enlightenment does not guarantee physical health
How long do enlightened people live? The answer to this question has shocked materialist scientists for several centuries.
Some historians and psychologists who deny the existence of True reality admit that an enlightened person may well be socially adapted and successful in the professional and financial spheres. After all, people who are ideal in all respects cannot be unhappy in family and social life.
Most materialists consider the main false argument, which does not “fit” into the esoteric picture of the world, to be the fact that enlightened people, who seemed to be closest to Divine miracles, became victims of earthly diseases from which they died prematurely.
The earthly body is a fragile thing
Indeed, many enlightened teachers died of cancer and other incurable diseases. Buddha, for example, died after several months of suffering caused by poisoning. His numerous followers, watching the suffering of their Teacher, expected first a miraculous recovery, and then a resurrection from the dead. But the miracle never happened.
Krishnamurti suffered from terrible migraines for almost 40 years, and Ramakrishna suffered from paranoid hallucinations, but died of throat cancer when he was 45 years old. Swami Vivekananda was diabetic and died at 38. His weight at the time of death was 120 kg.
Sri Swami Sivananda suffered from diabetes and obesity, and Sri Aurobindo suffered from tuberculosis and nephritis. Carlos Castaneda died of liver cancer when he was 73.
There are several opinions explaining the facts of the untimely departure of great Teachers. Two explanations, which will be discussed below, are considered to be most consistent with reality.
Not warned means disarmed
First, the sudden death of all great men is the result of unconditional service to others. Giving all their strength and knowledge to the suffering, they forgot to take care of their bodies.
Secondly, not a single teaching mentions that enlightenment is a shock of enormous force that pierces the brain like a bolt of lightning. Only a few enlightened people find the strength to save their brain from destruction. As a rule, the “lucky ones” include individuals who systematically trained and used their thinking abilities: philosophers, mathematicians, physicists...
According to statistics, an ordinary person uses his brain at about 5% of its potential. A great man uses about 15% of his potential. And the one who uses 33%, that is, a third of the possibilities, will be able to experience enlightenment.
Unspoken statistics are no less inexorable: sudden death overtakes 90% of people who managed to survive enlightenment. And the enlightened people of our time, the survivors (10% of them), will never tell anyone anything about their experience, because their brain is no longer subordinate to them, and therefore cannot be used as a speech mechanism.
These shocking details, which took place over many centuries, were never mentioned. But no one asked...
Side effects
The “best qualities” of an enlightened person make his further stay on Earth impossible. A large number of enlightened people die at the same moment - from the experience gained, the heart stops and the breath stops. Only a few remain alive, and almost all of them in the past were either dashing adventurers or had life-threatening professions. Having received some doses of exciting experiences throughout their previous lives, they were able to cope with more severe shocks. But even if their hearts did not stop after what happened, their bodies, having changed, would be subject to suffering.
The human body can function normally when it is within its capabilities. But since enlightenment is going beyond limits, everything that is poorly developed breaks down. The body also breaks down, which, fortunately, will never be of use to the enlightened one.
Real Masters are silent about their achievements
Observant people have noticed that debates about the essence of enlightenment and methods of spiritual practices are the lot of beginners or those who have not even set foot on this path yet. Experienced mystics call this behavior a game of religious practicality, based on the desire to show off.
What is the reason for such discussions and conflicts? Experienced esotericists argue that, consciously or not, debaters express their uncertainty in this way: “Have I chosen the right path?” Beginners, chatting about “high”, do not suspect that this is due to their lack of experience and uncertainty about the correctness of their life choices. The eyes of an enlightened person radiate calm and leave no doubt about the strength of his faith. As for a beginner’s faith, any example of someone else’s negative experience can weaken it.
Trying to prove to others (and above all to themselves) that they are on the right path, many beginners begin to doubt even more, and this doubt first gives rise to aggression, and then to fanaticism. What then? Defending your faith becomes a matter of honor and requires more and more radical measures, such as burning “heretics” and “witches”, intimidation by sects, “jihad” and so on.
What does "enlightened" mean? A person who wants to find good teacher, at least once, but asked myself this question. How to distinguish a real, enlightened master? By his silence. An enlightened guru will never get involved in a dispute about “whose faith is more correct,” since he knows that all paths of enlightenment lead to the same God, and therefore to the same result.
Theory and practice of enlightenment
Each of the methods of enlightenment provides for the possibility of receiving secret signs and consists of certain stages of awakening. As for secret signs, inexperienced students receive them from the guru, and people who have been practicing the spiritual path for a long time are guided by them to determine whether they are lost in the illusory “wilds” of their mind.
The secret signs of different schools differ from each other, so it makes no sense to compare them. These are just a kind of “notches”, upon seeing which the walker will understand that he is on the right path.
People engaged in various practices receive many different, blissful states (which make up experience), as well as the opportunity to see and hear what is hidden from ordinary people, go to the subtle worlds and meet saints. Many beginners, succumbing to temptation, force themselves to believe that they are already enlightened and get stuck at one of these stages, fascinated by their own sublime experiences and revealed abilities.
Those who know about practical and Vedanta (Vasishtha) also know that a person following the path of development can achieve the state of a completely Enlightened, semi-enlightened or unenlightened being.
Ordinary beings (including humans) who are “sound asleep” relative to the Absolute Reality are called unenlightened.
Completely Enlightened yogis call those who, relying on personal experience, cognized himself as the Absolute Reality or took root in it, achieving self-awareness. People who feel united with God and see reality as it really is are called samadhis. Samadhas were Shiva, Krishna and Allah. It is this indescribable state that all yogis strive for.
Sahaja Samadhis are people who live ordinary life while in samadhi. Sahaja Samadha is forced to release some of his attention and direct it to performing daily duties and maintaining life in the physical body.
Perfectly enlightened people are aware of the Absolute Reality even during night sleep. In dreams filled with Divine radiance, they are able to travel through subtle worlds inhabited by gods.
Semi-enlightened people are people who have touched the Absolute Reality for only a short moment and returned to their normal state. Some semi-enlightened people are able to absolutely correctly perceive and understand the Truth, despite the fact that their consciousness has not yet been completely purified.
There are also individuals who accepted the Truth and understand its essence, but they were not able to undergo the necessary experience and experiences. Not knowing that the consciousness will not be cleared until the mind calms down, they are engaged in speculating on the sayings of enlightened masters. According to some mystics, this is also a good start on the path. By reciting the correct statements an incredible number of times, they thereby bring closer the purification of consciousness and calmness of the mind.
Enlightened people of our time
Many users of the Global Network are interested: are there any enlightened people in Russia? According to the information available to modern esotericists, in the 50s of the last century, the incarnation of highly developed souls on Earth began all over the world (and therefore in Russia). The reason for the “landing” was the need to protect the independent will of enlightened earthlings. The first wave of incarnations (Indigo Children) was completed in the 60s of the 20th century, the second was produced between 1980 and 1990 (Crystal Children), the arrival of the third wave (the birth of Rainbow Children) is currently taking place.
Two last waves Most of them are the offspring of matured Indigos. Indigo parents create conditions for their offspring in which their innate intuitive, telepathic and develop very quickly. Many children already have the abilities of psychokinesis (moving objects in close proximity) and telekinesis (moving distant objects). The next stage for them will be mastering the technologies of levitation, teleportation and the ability to be in two places at the same time.
What is the difference between an enlightened person and an unenlightened one? An ordinary, unenlightened person with limited knowledge believes that the Universe is infinite.
An enlightened, changed person does not see the Universe and understands the boundlessness of wisdom and knowledge that he saw with his inner vision. He also knows that the Universe has boundaries and knowledge is limitless.
According to the information recorded in the Vedas, the soul of an enlightened person, having realized itself, leaves the material (no longer needed) body or burns the body in the fire of tejas (life force). According to people who follow this path, an enlightened person is immediately visible because he constantly talks and writes that “awakening is beyond the mind.”
According to the same source, there are other people who also talk and write a lot about their practice of mindfulness and magic... a deliberate lie, because they are inside the mind and are not enlightened.
How to recognize an enlightened person? Each school, as you know, has its own methods of enlightenment. But every enlightened master reveals to his disciples the same Absolute Reality (the highest spiritual realization), which can be achieved in different ways. Therefore, it is not possible for a master of one school to judge in absentia the degree of enlightenment of a master of another school. Only by meeting and talking (or staying silent) can enlightened masters answer this question.
QUESTION: What is “enlightenment” from the point of view of Iissiidiology? In the Eastern tradition, this is a certain state, an experience, a certain transformation that a person experiences at a certain moment, and no longer becomes the same. What is interesting is why someone becomes enlightened spontaneously, someone - as a result of practices and meditations, and most importantly - why a person was one, and after enlightenment he is a completely different, much more conscious person?
I have never specifically studied this issue, but it seems to me that in this issue, as in the current concepts of “spiritual Initiations,” there is a lot of confusion, religious layers that make it difficult to see behind the popular terms their home Essence, which, on this moment development of the Collective Consciousness of Humanity (CSC), most people who are not familiar with the criteria of issiidiological assessments of the truth of Human characteristics and their differences from other animal programs and influences on the Self-Consciousness of each individual will simply not understand. And misunderstanding automatically causes doubt and mistrust in people, which cannot be dispelled with two words. Therefore, I will not convince anyone of anything, but will simply express my subjective opinion on this broad topic.
Enlightenment is not a sign of any particular religious denomination or the prerogative of any particular direction of spiritual development. This is a state of stable peace and a calmly wise attitude towards any manifestations of Life, which one day comes to all of us, and not to just a select few, thanks to an independently conscious understanding of its deep Essence, which is carefully hidden behind a dense veil of suffering, failures, misfortunes and misfortunes . When a person partially or completely does not trust the justice and regularity of all his annoying ups and downs and failures, he is not able to adequately evaluate his actions, because all his mental and mental efforts are directed not inside “himself”, but only outside, where, according to his ideas, there must be his enemy, some hidden villain who for some reason wishes him harm.
Such a person is simply unable to understand the reasons for the life circumstances surrounding him, and therefore he becomes upset, loses balance, experiences fear from the feeling of a threat to his existence and, considering himself a victim, is unable to self-critically and constructively relate to a problem or tragedy that has arisen in his Life. He blames anyone for what happened: officials, rulers, scammers, the devil, God, the Universe, karma, in the end (!) - but not himself. It is much easier for such people to pretend to be a victim than to honestly and consciously admit, at least to themselves, their own wrongfulness, stubbornness, elementary stupidity or ignorance, consciously taking full responsibility for what is happening on themselves personally.
Naturally, such a person cannot be enlightened, since his entire personal Self-Consciousness is firmly fixated on the perception of external - illusory and deceptive - attributes of his existence, and behind the conspicuous surroundings he is not able to discern the subtlest shades of the magical colors of the surrounding reality, seeing everything only in black and gray color scheme. Life and the whole World are perceived by him as a consequence of the manifestation of hostile forces who want, if not to destroy him, then at least to enjoy his illnesses, torment and suffering, material deprivation and moral torment.
In order to really be, and not seem to be truly Enlightened (not to play, not to pretend to be one!), you need not only to know human Nature well, but also to deeply understand the cause-and-effect relationships between the observed event and that possible - invisible, but logically natural - the root cause Factor that prompted the participants in this event to act in this particular way and not in any other way. Subterraneously perceived, these sources (Causes) “lie” (in fact lie on the surface!) in the structures of our Self-Consciousness, which is blinded by the apparent well-being of the current momentary present, and seems to be in a state of having forgotten “its” Reactions, Thoughts, Feelings and Judgments , manifested by “him” in the relatively distant past.
And since there has always been a lot of esoteric, scientific, philosophical and other knowledge, the concept of an “enlightened person” cannot be interpreted unambiguously. In fact, in most generally recognized religious confessions and esoteric spiritual movements, the corresponding dogmas are either misinformation carefully compiled once for selfish purposes at someone’s order, or more or less successfully processed compilations of ancient manuscripts, or a retelling of oral extremely deformed subjective information, speculation and others "creations" of folklore.
Now the entire Internet is literally overflowing with a countless variety of all kinds of fake materials, compiled to suit every taste and view, with the most convincing evidence and intriguing promises that everyone will receive real “enlightenment” in just a few (but very expensive!) sessions. As a result, gullible people, guided primarily by vanity (and there are millions of them!), receive at the end of the course another medal and a certified certificate that he/she is a “master”, “bachelor”, “enlightened master” or “ teachers" of some popular "spiritual" brand. Understanding perfectly the mechanism of such deception (as they say: “Nothing personal! Just business!”) and similar gullibility, I sincerely pity such “enlightened” and “dedicated”...
Well, this is also one of the many possible, but false individual Paths of each of you to the future true states of spiritual Enlightenment and spiritual Initiation. You just need to gain more patience, endurance, moral stability and inflexibility in the face of vices and lower passions, self-sacrifice and Altruism (getting rid of selfishness), deep penetration of the mind and a lot more to correct and reprogram in your personal Self-Consciousness until you have your own intuitive opportunity to experience and check the accuracy of the Submissions you already have. And for this you need to work a lot on yourself, read a lot, learn, compare, analyze and rethink the information you receive.
I am more than sure that you will often be very disappointed with yourself and upset that you spent so much time “in vain” studying something that simply “does not have a place to be.” But your grief will be in vain, because nothing, absolutely nothing in Life happens to each of us in vain - without a serious reason. Of course, the most reasonable, in my opinion, decision would be to immediately, without delaying until later and without being afraid of the difficulty of textual presentation of completely new Information that seems to you now, the complexity of definitions and Concepts, the abundance of new incomprehensible terms, to dive as deeply as possible - with all the fibers of your Soul - into this area of global cosmic Knowledge - AALLMMAALLAA, one of the adapted (to the peculiarities of the current version of the Collective Consciousness of humanity for us) Versions of which is Iissiidiology.
Indeed, without that unique and most detailed information about the deep Essence of human Nature itself and about its highly specific, inextricable relationships with the rest of the - sacred, ever-living and indivisible - Universe, which you will not find either in ancient manuscripts and scrolls, or, especially, in modern opuses, neither you nor any other person can become a truly wise and Enlightened Person. The main sign of an Enlightened One, in my opinion, is a high degree of his/her Humanity, and in order to become more and more Human, one must first of all deeply understand and clearly imagine how exactly this concept, seemingly so familiar to us, manifests itself in the practice of relationships through character traits, views, moral and material priorities.
None of the currently existing knowledge, except for Iissiidiology, gives such clear, deep in Meaning and detailed reasoned answers to all these and many other important positions, striking me with its consistency, logical integrity and stunning even my sophisticated Imagination with its organic interconnection with everything else. But the awareness of this fact does not come immediately, but only after a sufficiently long time, entirely devoted to persistent and comprehensive immersion in this truly living and eternally renewed, like Life itself, sacred Knowledge. And I am sincerely glad that I was able to not only understand this Information myself, but also pass it on to many future generations of people for further in-depth development - as a recommendation to everyone who wants to spiritually improve themselves not blindly, at random, but purposefully rushing into the Human Beautiful Future.
You, asking this question, need to understand that the Enlightened One is different from the Enlightened One! There is no category under which, as if with one brush, one could bring all people who seem to meet the criterion of an “enlightened person.” “Enlightenment”, in my understanding, is not some specific distinctive “sign” or well-deserved “title”, but a natural, positively balanced state of your Soul - the very Essence of your current Existence, from which you not only do not want, but You can’t go out anymore, because then it won’t be you anymore.
There cannot be equally enlightened people, because each such spiritual state is based on a purely individual energy-informational basis of Self-Consciousness, organized by the individual’s personal Ideas about himself and the reality around him, which include the peculiarities of a person’s religion, ethnic and cultural traditions that are natural to him and genetic characteristics are the source of the formation of worldview and understanding of the world, the depth of his own Knowledge (heard, read, or independently, freely received intuitive Information), as well as the very nature of Life and the circumstances that served as the true Reason for this person’s acquisition of internal psychomental balance, as well as many other things many other things that we don’t know about ourselves, but that make each of us a unique being.
The very state of enlightened Self-Consciousness is also not stable, since until the implementation of at least a small part of the causal Channels 1-4 Levels of the first two IISSIIDI Centers is initiated (and without them, not a single mixtum biological organism would simply be able to function!), there will always be a source of internal psychological triggers and mental tensors, because of which you will strive to kindle even in small things internal conflicts, regrets, doubts. An enlightened person is not a soulless “living mummy”, but a person who has learned to quite effectively manage and subordinate to his Will unwanted manifestations in his own Focus Dynamics of selfish SFUURMM-Forms of the collective Unconscious.
If, for example, an enlightened person does not cry at a funeral, it is not because he does not care about the grief and tears of other people! This means that he has positive Motivations, different from the motivations of others, which allow him to see this situation from a completely different, incomprehensible and incomprehensible position for other people (due to their lack of specific knowledge), and also provide the opportunity to “project” the SFUURMM-Form of your Idea about this into the positive area of your own system of Perception and continue to remain balanced and absolutely confident in that that the dramatic action taking place has its own objective Cause, which means it is fair and natural, so there is no point in worrying and worrying so much.
The question: “What is this specific Reason?” does not bother him at all. It is enough for him to realize that everything that happens is necessary for those with whom it happens. This is about the same thing that I often remind you of: “Everything that exists already exists, and is for good!” If you reinforce this Motivation with a deep issiidiological Understanding and do not forget to use lluuvvumic Concepts in literally all cases of Life, then achieving enlightened states will be much easier, because as long as you are in positivism towards everything that happens to you and around you, consciously suppressing the simultaneously activated negative tendencies, then such important and necessary areas of the brain for achieving an enlightened state as the ventromedial and entire lateral prefrontal cortex (PFC), in combination with the striatum and locus coeruleus, will actively function and develop. At the slightest sign of negativism, control of personal Self-Consciousness again returns to the Creators of the dorsomedial and orbitofrontal PFC with their active relationships with the amygdala, provoking in you irritation from what is happening, resentment and a whole cascade of uncontrollable negative emotions, which may be followed by completely unpredictable and inappropriate actions.
Therefore, in some enlightened people, this state is maintained due to the increased activity of the ventromedial (in particular infralimbic) Creators of the PFC and ACI (anterior cingulate cortex) and depends on heredity and epigenetic Factors. The presence and intensive development since childhood of precisely this feature of the characteristic interconnections of the neural networks of the brain can be attributed to the starting mechanism of entry into the enlightened state of a very small cohort of true Indian and Tibetan Great Teachers (Amma, Babaji, Osho, Maharshi, Yogananda, Ganesha, Sai Baba, Sivananda, Ghosh, Mahakala, Namsarai), who left behind them in the history, culture and development of their national cultures a noticeable spiritual mark.
The rest of the “enlightened ones” are also, for the most part, quite kind and good people, often very educated and insightful, but they have not experienced in their Life that key “reference point” from which Self-Consciousness no longer has a way back into the usual worldly activity, but only higher and higher... On the physical plane for me this is a very specific, an indescribably comfortable and suddenly powerful light impulse that passed through the head, accompanied by an unusually bright flash in the eyes. It reminds me of the effect that occurs during each act of dominant inter-Qualitative Synthesis, but it also has its own special mechanism of mental influence on the quality of a person’s Self-Consciousness. Now I will explain to you what I want to say.
A person, no matter where he is, freezes for a few moments, as if he is about to lose Consciousness, but at the same time, during this time he manages to speculatively “visit” some special “living conditions” that are amazing in nature and amazing in terms of relationships between people. . When he comes to his senses, it seems to him that he has lived somewhere “out there” for many months. And the memory of this accompanies him throughout further Life, passing from script to script, from one “dying” to the next.
Perhaps this moment itself is also associated with revitalization, which becomes a powerful factor that instantly initiates the opening in the acceptor’s brain of new ampliative zones of the prefrontal cortex (PFC), new synapses, and therefore new spiritual abilities. At the same time, a person immediately changes the current Paradigm of his Self-Consciousness, which cannot but be noticed by the people around him, even externally: his face becomes clearer and more peaceful, the dynamics of all parts of the body slow down somewhat, movements become smooth, and his voice becomes sonorous and loud.
If we conditionally remove the subjective factor of chronology from this process of revitalization, then an interesting picture emerges: having started with one of the Configurations of your Interpretations, this “Impulse” does not fade, but intensifies, being transmitted from the deceased person to the Self-Consciousness of her living Interpretations (from the donor to the acceptor) and causing in him a similar effect of Enlightenment with subsequent identical memories, until the next revitalization, at the moment of which the same, but even more mentally enhanced effect is also transmitted to the next acceptor.
But one should not think that such an act of Enlightenment occurs accidentally or suddenly: it manifests itself in personal Self-Consciousness only in the presence of certain mental and, undoubtedly, genetic factors, already stabilized in Focus Dynamics: certain cognitive abilities, hereditary predisposition to high feeling and deep thinking , highly synthesized lower Levels Self-awareness and all that... After the act of Enlightenment, the further development of neural networks can go quite intensively, but in a variety of ways.
Since the ventromedial and ventrolateral Creators of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are somewhat easier to synchronize their relationships with each other than with the dorsolateral Creators, the enlightened one will develop his sensory-intuitive abilities to a greater extent without going deep into the rational Essence of things. In my understanding this is - Sensitive Sages who prefer the empirical way of knowledge. They like to communicate with people, go out into society, and be a public figure more than read, write down their thoughts, publish books, or develop some specific educational and intellectual activity. They also do not really like loneliness; they always want to share their Ideas with someone, to feel someone’s solidarity with them.
If, by the time of enlightenment, the adept’s dorsolateral Creators of the PFC have already been sufficiently activated, then its further development will have a more pronounced intellectual-intuitive tendency. These are usually loners, completely passionate about their mission to pass on everything they know to other people. They constantly write something, while giving lectures to a narrow audience, they do not really like publicity, they do not like to be in the public eye, preferring loneliness and the opportunity to be alone with themselves, with their Thoughts and reflections. I would call them By the sophistic sages. There are significantly fewer enlightened people in this category than in the first. That’s why people get the impression that all enlightened people are very sensual. Yes, it is true! But there are also intellectual and sensual ones! There are simply fewer of them, and few people see and know them, since they are always, at all times, “not in trend,” although they are the Guardians of the Knowledge of Humanity...
I would also like to note that many, very many people (hundreds of thousands of them), posing as “enlightened” and generally considered to be “enlightened”, in reality turn out to be simply scammers who have read something from esotericism, picked up all sorts of things from the occult and magic. They are often very subtle psychologists, and some have hypnotic influence or even some kind of psychic abilities. But you shouldn’t be offended by them, because they are excellent managers who have filled empty niches to provide those needs that are in great demand by our community. Their entire business is entirely built and rests on this far-fetched and advertised image by the masses of gullible and simple-minded people.
And finally, let me remind you that the enlightened, like all other people, are also carriers of SFUURMM-Forms and worldviews of various protoform orientations, since the Primary Sources of constant generations of the above-described ampliative “enlightenment impulses” reflect the Interests of Ideas and egregors that structure a variety of Collective Cosmic Minds (KKR). Some enlightened ones are completely under the supervision of the Creators of Cosmic Entities, whose realization Interests are, to a greater or lesser extent, tensorial in relation to our birvularity.
From such an “enlightened” one can expect anything, including very subtle in Essence and perception, but very powerful and effective in their targeted impact on our Self-Consciousness, destructive Programs aimed at the complete subordination of people who “fell” on them to the orders of representatives of this egregor: you they say, and you listen carefully to the correct words, remember wise phrases, strengthening your positive opinion about participating in a good and useful movement for everyone, but in the end it turns out that you, like all the others, the same gullible seekers of the Truth, were “spent on the chaff” and were simply used in some of their dark and unclean deeds. At first, subconscious, and then highly intellectual Intuition, formed gradually while studying Iissiidiology, will help you learn to avoid such involutional traps and understand people well.
Those who call themselves enlightened constantly emphasize the need to direct their attention to the present moment. How important is this from the point of view of Iissiidiology?
If you don’t form and put into our collective Subconscious the most detailed and sensually saturated with positive expectations Program of your near future development (your urgent Goal or several Goals) with its subsequent mental processing to a stable Idea (like, YES, exactly for such a Beautiful Future I agree, therefore everything will be one way and it cannot be otherwise!), then the amication of your Focus Dynamics, carried out by tiny dashes of your current Interests from yesterday to the current Interests of today, without realizing a clear and distinct perspective, will be much more spontaneous, unpredictable and chaotic than it could be.
A picture of any of the options you come up with and form for your personal so-called. The “future” already exists in one of countless scenarios, and you just have to find the means to begin to realize yourself there. And you, besides the psychic potential that you squander every day on the materialization of all kinds of nonsense, have nothing else. Life functions according to the principle of unisons: each psychic unison corresponds to its own material unison. And in order to synchronize with the desired picture, you cannot do without planning your probable future - then only at some point you will collapse with it.
There are many examples when domestic cats, dogs and even rats found their owners who moved somewhere and even flew hundreds and thousands of kilometers from their former home. What guided them in their wanderings, which were attractive in their implementation principle (even in many big cities) and, in the end, led to their very desired Goal? Unisonity! They well remembered the frequency of vibrations of their owner, intuitively found the approximate location of his location with the Perception system and, avoiding many dangers and temptations to stay somewhere, abandon their goal, one day they were able to find the one whom they had been so stubbornly looking for for many months and years.
The same can be said about mothers from whom their little children were stolen and who, without losing Hope, believed that they would meet them again... And they got theirs! Let it be years later, but the Image of a future meeting stored in the Heart, fueled by daily and unrelenting Hope, Confidence, and Aspiration, was able to vibrationally bring them into a favorable scenario. This is how you should do with your urgent Goals!
I know a man... who was taken up to the third heaven;
I don’t know whether he was in the body or outside the body, only God knows that.
I know that this man ... was taken to heaven and heard such things that a person is not able to retell.
This is what the Apostle Paul writes in his second letter to the Corinthians. Most theologians are inclined to believe that the author writes about himself. I once had the opportunity to experience a similar situation. Similar does not mean similar. Besides, I didn’t hear any voices, but I’ll try to describe my condition.
As usual, I prayed before going to bed. Although what happens then can rather be called meditation. I myself called this process communication with God. In complete relaxation, gradually stopping my thoughts completely, I focused on the Divine Majesty, on the Person of the Holy Spirit. Sometimes revelations came to me, answers to many questions.
At that time I was interested in the topic of God's unconditional Love. You may already know that the most perfect is unconditional Love in its pure form - Agape. When talking about Enlightenment, we talk about the fact that the ego dissolves, and a person feels how he literally connects with the surrounding World. He goes beyond the mind and enters a state of full awareness.
I find it almost impossible to be specific here. But in what does the ego of a person striving for Enlightenment dissolve? So Agape is not just the Love of God, but in a sense it is God. Everything was created, woven from Him and by Him. This is the basis of everything that exists. When you come into contact with this Love, everything becomes extremely clear to you. This is not logic or the power of persuasion, but Clarity itself, Purity. This is Light. Then, during meditation, I found myself in this Light, immersed in Love, which is the basis of the Universe.
It wasn't imagination. Material world it just suddenly ceased to matter, and some Force began to carry me upward. At the same time, I realized that God was taking me and at first it was scary. I can’t explain the reason for the fear, but perhaps some religious beliefs made themselves felt. The speed of this ascension was truly cosmic, and the higher I rose, the calmer I felt. And then I found myself in the Ocean of Glory, Love and Purity.
In my understanding at that time, this was the kingdom of God and this was God. I remember that I was very clearly aware that by human religious standards I had no right to be there, just as no one else had the right. But at the same time, I was there and felt indescribable peace, happiness and Love. The ego dissolved, there were no thoughts, but there was complete unity with the World, the Universe, God. Since then, I have experienced similar states more than once and continue to experience them.
Do I consider myself enlightened? Not at all! I don’t think that the Apostle Paul considered himself one of those. Who are enlightened people? We are not talking about all the famous personalities who are worshiped as gods today. In fact, the teachings of Buddhism imply that absolutely anyone can achieve Enlightenment.
And still? Who are the enlightened ones and where can they be found? To be honest, I personally am not looking for any people in Lately, but I am looking for all the answers within myself. I search in the heart, in the mind, in the subconscious. I think that there are few people who can be called that, but not as few as many people think and claim.
There are few such people, not because Enlightenment is something unattainable.
Agree that talking on these topics, shining with knowledge, juggling terms and arguing is more attractive for most of us than starting to free ourselves from passions, egoism, the shackles of traditions and beliefs.
An enlightened person may not be noticed at first, but he does not strive to be visible, just as he does not strive to withdraw from the world. Such a person will be distinguished by extraordinary calm in any, even the most extreme situation. Remember how Christ slept soundly and peacefully during the storm?
The Enlightened One will not fight for a place in the Sun. He already knows that his place belongs to him, wherever he is - he is comfortable. But he will not condemn other people because, in their opinion, they need to fight for life. Outwardly he may seem weak and weak-willed, but he is strong. I liked the expression - sharp as a razor blade.
Even the face of an enlightened person shines and this can sometimes be seen with physical eyes. Personally, I have seen this Light more than once, and some well-known meditation techniques imply the appearance of actually visible light. Such a person is beautiful with his inner charm, some kind of unearthly goodness.
Can an enlightened person be rich? Why not? Of course it can. He simply does not elevate the acquisition of wealth into a cult of worship. You know that it is impossible to serve two masters. On the other hand, if you seek first the Kingdom of God, then everything else necessary for life will undoubtedly be added to you.
The needs of these people are small, but they have them. He may have his own house, and a large one, but if he needs to move to another place, tragedy will not arise.
The same Apostle Paul wrote that he LEARNED to live both in abundance of goods and in poverty, and at the same time rejoice equally.
The mind of an enlightened person is his instrument. He is not sleeping, but also not restless, not chaotic. Being pure in his thoughts, this person does not think more about himself than he should and does not consider himself better than other people. After all, theoretically, all people are the same before God, although practically, enlightened people are with Him constantly and this is visible in all their appearance, movements, and is heard in their voice.
An enlightened person does not talk about the World from the standpoint of right and wrong, good and evil. He accepts the world together with the circumstances, objects and creatures inhabiting it, such as they are. These people went far beyond the duality of the world. They are free from passions, fears, worries and concepts.
An enlightened person until recently was the same as you and me. And how has he changed? He stopped searching for his suffering in the outside world and turned to the inner world. This is how Buddha became Buddha. He saw that he was not everything with which he had previously identified himself. He stopped clinging to his beliefs, views, concepts, feelings and emotions, and simply let it all go.
What do you think he has left? Emptiness? In a way, yes! All that remains is the original Emptiness, which in fact is the Truth. Everything was created from it and by it. If you step out of the cage created by the mind even for a moment, everything becomes extremely clear. It's much harder to describe. An enlightened person will probably not say about himself that he is enlightened. He is far from labels and classifications. He's at peace.
In fact, an enlightened person has nothing left to strive for for himself, so he can devote his time to serving other people. How exactly he will do this, I will not specify. But this will be done with the Love that we are talking about now, and which freely flows through such people.
Where an Enlightened person goes or goes after the death of his physical body, I personally cannot answer unequivocally either. And no one can. Disputes about this have continued for centuries. But don’t Life and its quality deserve attention?
The life of an enlightened person deserves special attention, just like your and my Life! It is not necessary to achieve complete Enlightenment. But at least some of the listed qualities are very attractive to me. I wish you, friends, not to regret anything, but to strive in your life and achieve those things that will bring you personal satisfaction and make you happy.
© Sergey Kononenko.