What is Enlightenment

What is self-realisation? At any point of time, if we try to describe something which is not yet in your experience, even something as simple as how an eatable tastes, you are not going to get it. It does not matter if I use all my skills of articulation, still you will not get what a simple eatable is.

So, if we talk about anything that is not yet in your experience, it will only lead to wild hallucinations or your own conclusion of what it could be.

Let me put it this way: do you recognise the limitations in which you are functioning right now? If you break that limitation, that is one step towards enlightenment. Once you break that limitation, you realise you are in a different set of limitations. If you break those, that is one more step towards enlightenment. Let us go this way. Don’t worry about enlightenment.

When it comes to outside realities, we are all differently capable. When it comes to inner realities, all of us are equally capable. It is just that we never paid attention to that because we think everything that is worthwhile is outside. But there is no outside in your experience.

Everything that is happening is happening only inside, but it gives you a false dimension, as if it is outside. Today, particularly in the last few years, neurosciences have taken huge leaps. They are now disproving almost everything that you believed as reality. For example, “Seeing is believing,” isn't it?

Today modern neuroscience is telling you, “Seeing is not believing.” The eye is not a simple camera, it is not taking in what is there. You are taking information in different levels and it goes into your eye, and breaks up into twenty-four different formats.

You are actually seeing the picture that you are seeing in twenty-four different points in your brain. You are seeing the colour in one place, form in another place, texture in another place, light in another place.

This whole image that you are seeing right now is not real. That is not the way it is. A long time ago we told you, “It is all maya.” When we said “it is maya,” we did not mean that it does not exist, it just meant it is not the way you think it is.

So, do not think of something which is not yet, because you cannot think of something which is not yet. All your thought comes from what is right now in your head. It is only a projection from the past experience of life.

That is no good. That will not transport you into the other dimensions of life; it only cripples you by giving you imagination and a false sense of knowing. So do not think about enlightenment. Think of the limitations in which you are living and how to go beyond that. That will be a sensible way to progress.