Enlightenment, Spiritual Enlightenment

                                      Enlightenment, 

Spiritual Enlightenment

En-light-en-ed" implies you must have the light. The light is within you. In the Christian Bible, it is said: Take heed that the light in you should not become darkness. It also says: If your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light. It always mentions the light. Also, it mentions many kinds of Godly sounds, like the sound of thunder, the sound of many waters, the sound of the heavenly trumpet, the harp, and all these kinds of things.

Enlightenment is a must. Enlightenment means knowing the light within ourselves, EN-LIGHTENED. The light within us will guide every footstep in our life to the correct destination. The word of God, the sound, the vibration, the music of heaven will whisper to us all the wisdom in the universe, and what we can do in our daily lives until we fulfill our duty as the blessing givers of this Earth.
Enlightenment is the process of knowing what is greater than life, what is greater than the things we can see with our physical eyes, or touch with our physical instruments. It is the moment when we begin to know something greater than that, the true governor of the whole universe, which is also within ourselves.

Enlightenment means inner awakening. You realize that you have a power that is much greater than what you use every day. Usually, we follow the directions of our ego, but after Enlightenment, we follow God's will. We are connected with Him and recognize our real value. But at the same time we become very humble. The more we know about ourselves the more humble we become. We know that there is a greater force in the universe, and it isn't for our human understanding to discuss and to grasp. So we become humble and then very powerful, because we have a higher power within us, and use it every day for the benefit of others. As we tap within ourselves into the right source of positive power, which is called in Christian terminology, the spirit that dwells within you,' or God Almighty, we open that source that was closed before. So once that source is opened we become powerful like Christ, like Buddha. We can help many people with this inborn God power, and then we become more humble because we see within everyone the same power, so we respect everyone as living God.
Enlightenment is a gift from God, and not the result of virtuous or charitable deeds. We can all become enlightened or liberated. If not, why would God have sent Jesus or Buddha or Mohammed if we were so helpless, if only the virtuous souls could achieve it? And I do not know who is really virtuous because, every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.' We are not such sinners. It is an illusion and after you understand this, you will know that there isn't any virtue or sin. We must however work a great deal to realize this. 
Beautifying Our Life 
With The Light Of Enlightenment

Our life here is already good. But, it would be best for us if we had enlightenment. Enlightenment means more light into our life. Not artificial light, but the light that is everlasting. Then, every activity and everything we do, we are very clear. Not clear at the level of the mind, but clear at the level of super consciousness. Therefore, we will always be in the correct direction. Even if we make mistakes, it is not a mistake. We will know it's just apparently so, but it's actually the plan of the universal brotherhood.

Many people fear that after enlightenment, they cannot do their business, that they may not be able to get married, or they will have trouble of any kind. But it is the wrong conception of enlightenment. Enlightenment should be, that we will be more beneficial to the world, more efficient in whatever we do, and more happy in our life. Enlightenment doesn't mean we have to spend our life in misery or in ascetic practice, smearing ashes all over the body and all that. You can do that if you are in India. It saves some cloth. But in the West we don't need to do that. Whatever we do, whether we smear ashes on our body, whether we shave our head, or we wear rags or beautiful clothes, it should be accompanied with enlightenment. And that is all we lack.


What is it about Enlightenment that so many people make a great mystery about, praise so much, and encourage us to go forward to claim it again? It is not Enlightenment at all. It is just the Truth. It is just the way it should be; it is the way it is. And if we don't know Enlightenment, then we continue suffering so much until we realize that everything else is not important, except to know God.

Only when we are truly enlightened can we enjoy anything. Whatever comes, we can enjoy. When good things come, we take them as a gift from God, wholeheartedly, without any guilt or reservation, without any obstacles whatsoever in our heart or in our thinking, because the nature of an enlightened person is very free, very carefree, very easy, just like a child. If you give him something good, he accepts it, he won't think that you want to trick him, or whether he deserves it or not, he just accepts it. And, when the circumstances do not allow that we have comfort or richness in life, then we are also happy to carry on that way, we have no desire for material greatness. But this doesn't mean that we don't strive to work for the society, and that we don't do our best to fulfill our obligations as a citizen of the world. We do, all the same, we do more effectively and with ah willingness to contribute our part to the whole world. The difference is that we do without a desire for reward or praise. Should we fail or should people misunderstand our goodwill, we still can bear it, we will not have any suffering in our heart.


During Enlightenment we enter into higher levels of existence and we see life from a very different angle. Everything takes place very quickly, without effort or drama. Like in a movie, if someone dies, we know that it is only a movie.

After Enlightenment don't fear that you will lose everything. You just enjoy things more intensively, but you know when and how, and do not abuse your power of enjoyment like you did before Enlightenment. You might have sex now and again, if you wish and enjoy it. But Enlightenment is your main aim in life, and it will never leave you after initiation.


We have many prejudices, many so-called preconceived ideas about life, about Enlightenment, about religion, about how we should lead our lives, about how religious people should be, about how an enlightened Master should lead his or her life, about how he or she should dress, eat and even speak.


All the scriptures emphasize that we find our own Enlightenment, and all our sins will be washed away. It is as simple as the sun coming out and dispelling all the darkness. Otherwise, we have what the Bible calls the sins from our own ancestors, or what in Buddhism is called endless karma from previous lives, and we can never wash it off by our own mind efforts. We could not do it by charity or good deeds alone, or by bowing to the statue of Jesus or Buddha. We must do it in the correct way, using the light of God, the inborn heaven to dispel hell's darkness. Jesus also said, Whatever I do today you will do even greater in the future. This means that He and we are equal. He didn't say, 'I alone can do all these miracles. You will never ever be able to do it. No, He said,' Whatever I can do you can do also.' That is a great liberal attitude, and Buddha also said, I have become Buddha and you will also become Buddha. If we follow the correct method, just like with a scientific method, everyone does the same thing and gets the same result.


After Enlightenment, after initiation you will feel every day that God is taking care of you. Truly that is so in all ways, in any situation, small things, big things. God does really take care and love us, and smooths things out for us. He helps us in accidents, in sickness. He helps us in our dark days, helps us in every way. Then you may know that God truly exists. You will feel the overwhelming love power protecting and loving you. That is God. This is why people say God is love.

Enlightenment is the process of knowing what is greater than life, what is greater than the things we can see with our physical eyes, or touch with our physical instruments. It is the moment when we begin to know something greater than that, the true governor of the whole universe, which is also within ourselves.

Enlightenment means inner awakening. You realize that you have a power that is much greater than what you use every day. Usually, we follow the directions of our ego, but after Enlightenment, we follow God's will. We are connected with Him and recognize our real value. But at the same time we become very humble. The more we know about ourselves the more humble we become. We know that there is a greater force in the universe, and it isn't for our human understanding to discuss and to grasp. So we become humble and then very powerful, because we have a higher power within us, and use it every day for the benefit of others. As we tap within ourselves into the right source of positive power, which is called in Christian terminology, 'the spirit that dwells within you,' or God Almighty, we open that source that was closed before. So once that source is opened we become powerful like Christ, like Buddha. We can help many people with this inborn God power, and then we become more humble because we see within everyone the same power, so we respect everyone as living God.

Enlightenment is a gift from God, and not the result of virtuous or charitable deeds. We can all become enlightened or liberated. If not, why would God have sent Jesus or Buddha or Mohammed if we were so helpless, if only the virtuous souls could achieve it? And I do not know who is really virtuous because, 'Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.' We are not such sinners. It is an illusion and after you understand this, you will know that there isn't any virtue or sin. We must however work a great deal to realise this.


When we free ourselves from the concepts of attachment, negative thinking and binding passions, then we are liberated in this life time.


All the suffering will end the moment we know our true selves. Even though we sometimes still feel affected by the suffering of other people, we ourselves do not feel such a deep suffering like before Enlightenment.

Anyone who is enlightened is the embodiment of the scriptures; they understand any scripture thoroughly and correctly


Before we become a fully enlightened being, we must first become human. After we have become a good human, then we will become a fully enlightened being.

If you are enlightened, you are happy. The more happy, the more you believe in Enlightenment, and the more you will appreciate God's nature.


When a person is enlightened, he rediscovered his own greatness and inner glory, and he will be satisfied forever. This is the best way to improve our shortcomings and satisfy our desires.

Oneness Blessing and the Brain Enlightenment

Oneness Blessing and the Brain

The following article is from Kiara Windrider’s book Fire from Heaven: Dawn of a Golden Age. Kiara has kindly given permission for this material to be distributed so that we may have a better understanding of Bhagavan and Amma, and their amazing mission to enlighten humanity.

Kiara is currently living in Golden City. His book will be available for purchase in Australia in early 2005, and is highly recommended reading for anyone wishing to gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the magnitude of Bhagavan and Amma and their work.


Enlightenment is the ability to see reality as it is, without the layers of interference and interpretation imposed by the mind. It is a simple neurobiological event, and can happen in an instant. Paradoxically, in the moment of your enlightenment, you also discover that you have always already been enlightened! It is our natural state!

The bio-circuitry of a human being was designed in such a way that after developing a self at around age 3 we would return naturally to a state of unified existence at around age 18. Unfortunately, something went awry, and we experienced a Fall within our evolution as a biological species.

Nature demanded that there always be a select few throughout our subsequent history who maintained this morphogenetic field of the natural enlightened state. Historical figures such as the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Jesus, and many others exemplified this. Now, however, we have come to a time when humanity is once again being prepared to return to our natural state as a collective species. The time has come now for each of us to be restored to our natural enlightened state!

Enlightenment has nothing to do with how long you have been on a spiritual path, nor with what your religious beliefs are. You do not even need to believe in God or have any concepts about the soul. Enlightenment does not depend on knowing the right teachings or mantras. It has nothing to do with how many lifetimes you have meditated, or even with how ‘good’ a person you are.

There is nothing you can ‘do’ to get enlightened. Enlightenment cannot be achieved through your own efforts any more than a drowning person can yank himself out by his own hair. We are in a prison of the mind, and the key is on the other side. The mind cannot deactivate itself. It can only happen by grace.

Humanity is ready now, says Bhagavan . Each of us has spent lifetimes preparing for this. We have all done our sadhana, or whatever we thought was required, and it is time now to enter the Golden Age together. The question is not if we will get enlightened, but when.

“There is a simple way to know if you are enlightened,” Sri Anandagiri had said once. “If you are asking the question, you are not.” The biggest obstacle to enlightenment is to pretend that you already are if you are not.

If you know you are not enlightened, and you become aware of the cravings and aversions generated by the illusion of self, then you become open to grace. When you see clearly the nature of the mind, and the extent of your conditioning, and when you become tired of the resulting suffering – all the incessant comparing, judging, efforting, and blaming – then grace can begin to flow in. Understanding this as a mental concept isn’t enough. It must be felt and experienced.

The means that Bhagavan has set up for this grace to act is known as the ‘Oneness Blessing’. the Oneness Blessing is a transfer of power, and can be defined as ‘initiation’. It usually consists of a ceremony in which one or more of the ‘guides’ at Oneness University place their hands upon your head in a state of divine union, and become channels for cosmic energies directed by Bhagavan to reorganize your neuro-circuitry.

Bhagavan refers to this process as ‘divine surgery’. A golden ball of divine grace descends through the crown chakra, and the kundalini channels get activated. Certain areas in the brain get shut down, other areas get energized, initiating a process in which the entire brain and nervous system is reorganized.

This golden ball is programmed by Bhagavan to reorganize the biological circuitry of the brain, leading to enlightenment. It has a living intelligence, and operates differently within each person. Once it has descended into the crown chakra, however, the process will move towards completion, programmed by the divine ‘sankalpa’, or intent, of Amma and Bhagavan.

the Oneness Blessing punches through the wall of concepts set up by the mind. The winds of heaven can then blow through. In the words of Carlos Castaneda, we open up to the world of the ‘nagual’, our ‘assemblage point’ shifts, and we are free.

In the current species of humanity, the brain is designed in such a way as to serve as a receptor station for a certain band of frequencies corresponding to the Ancient Mind. the Oneness Blessing serves to loosen up the receptor sites within the brain from this band of frequencies, and simultaneously to dissolve the feedback loops of consciousness that create the sense of separate identity which we have referred to as the self. The brain then becomes sensitive to a wide range of frequencies emanating within the Universal Mind, what we might call the frequencies of the ‘soul’.

To be enlightened is to access our souls directly, rather than through the interference of the mind. Unfortunately, for many people on the spiritual path, even though we have had direct experience of our souls from time to time, our conception of the soul is not very different from our conception of self. It is a ‘higher’ self, but it is still a separate fixed self. This conception can be a limitation, which is why Bhagavan doesn’t speak much about the soul.

The enlightened yogis of ancient India, when they spoke of their inner divinity as the ‘Atman’, understood that there was no such thing as a fixed individual soul. The individual is holographically related to the whole. The Atman is one in essence with ‘Brahman’, the universal field of consciousness that is constantly moving through each expression of creation. “Tat twam asi”, say the yogis, “I am all of That”!

What happens when the Oneness Blessing is given? Some may immediately go into a peak experience of bliss, deep silence, or cosmic consciousness. This may or may not be permanent. If it isn’t, this first peak experience is followed by other peak experiences over the following days and weeks, until a permanent enlightened state establishes itself.

For others, there may not be an immediate felt response, and it may take hours, days, or weeks before they start noticing a change. Regardless, once the Oneness Blessing is received, the seed of enlightenment has been planted, and Bhagavan will work with you in accordance with your own soul’s purpose and the readiness of your physical body to bring the seed into fruition.

The first thing that often comes up for people is an acute sensitivity to the nature of mind, and the patterns that have ruled our lives so long. It can be a shocking and painful experience when we first begin to look at it, but necessary if we are to break free. If more than one Oneness Blessing is given, often the first Oneness Blessing is programmed to pinpoint the ugliness of the mind. If a person has done some self-examination and emotional clearing beforehand, or already ‘hit bottom’, that can help. Grace only flows when you recognize your illusions. As long as you think you can make it on your own, its flow will be impeded.

Once the Oneness Blessing is given, you neither have the power to stop the process in any way nor to help it along. The activity of the Oneness Blessing has nothing to do with how deserving you think yourself to be, or with any concepts of spirituality you may be holding, or with making any kinds of efforts towards it.

As Bhagavan puts it, once the train pulls out from the station, will you get to your destination any faster by constantly running around back and forth inside the train? Please realize that enlightenment has nothing to do with the mind or the contents of the mind. It has everything to do with the brain, and the Oneness Blessing is an intelligent force which is programmed to do whatever is necessary to create the neurobiological shift necessary to get there!

Many people, after they receive the Oneness Blessing, still feel that somehow they can help the process along by doing the right meditations, thinking the right thoughts, or somehow bringing the mind under control. Other people get obsessed with fears about blocking the process through their doubts, fears, or feelings of unworthiness. It is important to realize that there is nothing you can do either to help or to obstruct the process, except simply to witness the process itself.

In other words, if a ‘blocked’ personality shows up, simply step back and watch the way it works. There might be a fear that you will be the last person on Earth to become enlightened, that you have too many mental blocks, that your heart isn’t open enough, that you haven’t done enough emotional clearing, that there is something wrong with you physically, that you are too old, too unworthy, too traumatized, or whatever your own personal story might be.

Just watch this personality as if you were watching a movie. Notice how attached it is to he drama of its own suffering. Notice how it sustains itself through its traumas and dramas, even the drama of planning its own enlightenment. Notice how it feeds itself by pretending to hate itself. Notice how its idea of being blocked itself becomes the block. Notice how it wants to analyze itself to death before it is ready to surrender. Notice how it hears only what it wants to hear so it can forever prove itself right.

You may want to make a list of these escape routes of the mind. Give these ‘negative’ personalities a voice, and describe in detail all the fears, doubts, blocks, manipulations, denials, and dysfunctional habit patterns that you can think of. Then let it all go. Once it is down on paper you may find that they no longer have as much power over you. Once you can see clearly, the seeing itself is the liberation. Once you realize that there is nothing you can do to change yourself, then surrender can happen, and grace can flow.

For some people, even the act of surrender is associated with a great effort. Well, then, surrender even your efforts to surrender. Simply ask for grace and then be silent. Once this ‘you’ who is so intent on understanding, changing, or healing itself surrenders, enlightenment can happen easily. The neurological shift takes place and you return to your natural state of oneness. It is as simple as that.

It is important to understand what enlightenment is not. It is not about losing your mind, or even changing the nature of your mind. The same mind continues to exist, although you notice that you now have a different relationship with it. Nor is enlightenment equated with cosmic bliss, instant clairvoyant abilities, or high spiritual states. All these may accompany or follow enlightenment at some point, but it is not what enlightenment is about. Enlightenment is simply throwing a switch in the neurobiological structures of your brain, and thereby dissolving the sense of a separate self. It is not about changing the contents of the mind, but seeing the mind for what it is. In this very seeing, all conflict and suffering dissolves, and you experience freedom.

The difference is primarily internal. An enlightened person can still make mistakes, still experience disappointments, still have difficulty with relationships, still experience limitations, and still be bad tempered, except that he will no longer be identified with these characteristics. It is not required that an enlightened person will always have a radiant aura or always be cheerful.

In fact, there will be times when an enlightened person will need to exhibit anger where she would normally be a doormat, or do something quite contrary to an established social or moral code because he is no longer bound by the conditioned identities and learned responses of the old order. An enlightened person discovers joy in being true to himself. He finds no need to pretend anymore, although to an unenlightened consciousness he or she might well be perceived as a rebel or a troublemaker!

Enlightenment is to peel off the layers of interpretation from a given event. To the enlightened person, life becomes a very ordinary thing. You walk, and you are walking. You eat, and you are eating. Enlightenment is not about having extraordinary experiences so much as recognizing that each ordinary moment is extraordinary in itself. Before, there were a thousand interpretations in the mind for everything you experienced. Now, there is only the experience.

It is also important to distinguish between enlightenment experiences and the state of enlightenment. Enlightenment experiences are peak experiences or high energy experiences. You may go into a peak experience after a Oneness Blessing. You may already have had several peak experiences through the course of your life. The kundalini energies within your body rise up to the top of the head, unite with the cosmic energies, and you experience bliss, unconditional love, or cosmic consciousness. You may see celestial visions, even journey into higher ‘lokas’, or heavenly realms.

Peak experiences cannot be sustained beyond a few hours or at most a few days. The cosmic energies coursing through your nervous system would burn you out and short-circuit the human body, at least in our current level of human evolution. An enlightened state, on the other hand, is permanent. It is a shift in the neurobiological pathways of the brain, resulting in the sharpening of the senses, and the subsequent loss of a fixated self. After a Oneness Blessing, there will often be a sequence of one or more peak experiences, which will eventually stabilize into enlightenment as a permanent state.

This can be illustrated in the form of a graph. Supposing the unenlightened person operates from a minus 2 or 3 or 4, depending on their level of suffering. When the Oneness Blessing is given, it will catapult them into a plus 3 or 4, where they may have all sorts of phenomenon associated with unity consciousness. This peak experience will not last long, and after a few hours, the experiences will subside. However, once they have experienced an enlightened state, they will not generally dip below the zero-point of suffering. They may stabilize at 1 or 2. During the next Oneness Blessing, they may go up to 4 or 5, and then stabilize at 2 or 3. The stabilizing point is higher with each successive peak experience.