tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post1685080636668953425..comments2023-08-22T21:30:57.303+05:30Comments on Tales from the road: so what is this enlightenment thing anyway?Shiva112http://www.blogger.com/profile/13439595789711833747noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post-65318394654637875872009-03-13T16:30:00.000+05:302009-03-13T16:30:00.000+05:30In this posting I have speculated that 'Enlightenm...In this posting I have speculated that 'Enlightenment' may be the merging of individual consciousness with some kind of Cosmic or Universal Consciousness. There may be a stage like that but I would say that the initial thing is the individual Realisation of, and establishment in, Pure Transcendental Consciousness, which is simply the Pure Awareness at our core and the origin of the feeling-sense of 'I am'. Please refer to posting 'towards the end of the road' 12th March.This is usually termed Self-Realisataion, which may be the basis for some ongoing evolution towards Universality, but in itself seems straight forward enough.<BR/><BR/>In some schools of thought it is considered that both individual consciousness and Universal Consciousness (which is considered to manifest, maintain and dissolve Creation) both have their source in Pure Transcendental Consciousness and that 'Full Enlightenment' encompasses the totality of all of those aspects. Other schools of thought have more of a Personal God centered outlook and others deny that there is anything other than Self-Realisation. But all could agree that all of the rubbish we have accumulated obscures our true nature and that somehow this situation needs to be dealt to.Shiva112https://www.blogger.com/profile/13439595789711833747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post-38100326936799364812009-03-10T04:56:00.000+05:302009-03-10T04:56:00.000+05:30While many Neo-Advaitins take some Self-awareness ...While many Neo-Advaitins take some Self-awareness as enlightenment, I have a different view. To me, enlightenment is the fullness of silence and dynamism, or in a more manifest description, the Liberated Master has fearlessness in all circumstances and mastery over maya. <BR/><BR/>To put it another way, when we He (silence) embodies the perfection of the absolute, the She (maya) surrenders to Him and says, "How may I serve you?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post-48097472246874061782009-03-09T19:49:00.000+05:302009-03-09T19:49:00.000+05:30May be some beings are just somehow destined to be...May be some beings are just somehow destined to become enlightened while retaining some seemingly negative aspects of rajas and tamas in their character. <BR/><BR/>Whereas others, such as Ramana Maharishi, are destined to become enlightened with a purely sattvic mind. <BR/><BR/>So although it seems a contradiction that there could be such a thing, maybe there are rajasic and tamasic forms of enlightenment.<BR/><BR/>And why not have those possibilities if Consciousness is truely a field of all possibilities. <BR/><BR/>I'm sure the enlightened rajasic and tamasic ones don't really mind! and somehow it must all make sense in the grand scheme of things.....Shiva112https://www.blogger.com/profile/13439595789711833747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post-8055887780259011332009-03-09T19:40:00.000+05:302009-03-09T19:40:00.000+05:30that being the case of an 'enlightened ass' then s...that being the case of an 'enlightened ass' then somehow there seems to be something out of balance somewhereShiva112https://www.blogger.com/profile/13439595789711833747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post-71372116773771524142009-03-09T17:37:00.000+05:302009-03-09T17:37:00.000+05:30Something else: I suspect that someone who could b...Something else: I suspect that someone who could be described as an 'ass' before enlightenment will be an 'enlightened ass' after the event. It's easy to work out why!magicuniversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10249956653706985846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-324605908640328603.post-23060024636234452392009-03-09T17:29:00.000+05:302009-03-09T17:29:00.000+05:30So what is 'enlightenment'. Here is a simple way o...So what is 'enlightenment'. Here is a simple way of describing it from the Advaitic view point:<BR/>"Enlightement is the event in the mind of a person, when self-ignorance is dispelled and it is realized that who-I-really-am has always been free and unlimited and that there was never a 'person' existing as a seperate entity" Enlightenment is also irrevocable - the mind is said to permanently 'take on the form of the undivided reality'.magicuniversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10249956653706985846noreply@blogger.com