' The question of enlightenment '...

A Net of Jewels
Ramesh S. Balsekar
http://www.advaita.org




The question of enlightenment is generally viewed from the point of view of the individual. But whenever the phenomenon of enlightenment does occur, it is only by other individuals that a certain name and form is considered to have become enlightened. The individual concerned will have in fact already disappeared as an individual entity when enlightenment occurred.


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All our feelings have significance only in relation to their relative opposites. Yet man, in his abysmal ignorance, forgets this basic fact of life and strives desperately for pleasure without pain and life without death! Without his realizing it his viewpoint has become so distorted that he struggles after mere illusions, which leads to frustration and misery, finally culminating in the utter terror of physical death.