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Enlightenment 


जागृतादि त्रयोन्मुक्तं जागृतादिमयंस्तथा ।
ओंकारैकसुसंवेद्यं यत्पदं तन्नाम्यहम्    ॥
(मांडूक्य उपनिषद्,मंगल-श्लोक)

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Obeisances to Omkaara,
The Reality, The Self,
That,
Which is the Cause and substratum of
the three states of the mind, 
and beyond them as well.
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Enlightenment comes to some quite imperceptibly,
They have awakened,
They have changed,
But may need some-one who can point-out to them,
About their Greatest Accomplishment.
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It is like when you become 'unconscious', go in a swoon. 
It is some-one else, who knows and tells you later, when you
overcome unconscious state.When you become unconscious, 
you don't even 'know' that you have become unconscious.
So 'unconsciousness' or the swoon comes over you quite 
imperceptibly. In the same way, when you go to sleep, you 
may know and almost often know that the 'drowsiness' is 
overpowering you. But after falling asleep, you hardly know 
that you are now asleep.In comparison to an ordinary man, 
the one who has practiced 'staying' in "I"-am, or "I"-amness', 
or has tried to stay in 'consciousness', remembering the 'self',
 in whatsoever way, according to his best understanding, some 
day by chance, or by sincerity and inner urge, strikes the right 
balance, focusses the 'attention' in a correct way on the 'self' /
 "I"-thought, or upon the 'consciousness' associated with the
"I"-thought, and soon finds out that while going into sleep, at 
first the 'thoughts' undergo change, and take the form of sounds
and figures.That means, one starts 'dreaming'. Thinking at the 
verbal level is minimum, and the dream-experience becomes 
prominent. Then this too slows-down, the dream-state fades 
away into 'darkness' .
An ordinary man will not know when this darkness spreads
over him.But one who has practiced staying in the 'self', in the
"I"-thought, "I"-am, "I"-am-ness, or simply remembering oneself
 in whatever way one can, even through 'Japa','consciousness 
only', without using 'thought', will 'know' the exact point, where
the mind exits the 'thinking mode', enters the 'dream-state', and 
transcends the 'dream state' also, and finally collapses into darkness.
Such a blessed one knows well that the 'subject' / 'consciousness' 
is ever free of the three mental states, namely ;
the waking, the dream, and the deep dreamless sleep.
And abides there, the 'Turiya' -the 'fourth'.
This 'Turiya' though called so, meaning 'the Fourth', but it is not a 
'State', never a 'phase' like the other three states of the mind.
It is ever there along-with their absence or presence,.....
So, one may transcend the three states of mind, and 'know' the 
Transcendental directly, though he may not be conversant in 
expressing his understanding. And such a one will never look at 
'others' as if they are un-enlightened .
Oh yes,
Enlightenment comes to some, quite imperceptibly,......
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