After all that (pseudo)information about the enlightened and “perfect”, one would think that it would enlighten a person and win… 🙂 But in reality there are several degrees of enlightenment. For example what was vividly shown in the Celestine prophecy is the 1st degree, the so-called connection with everything. Esotericists and “eternal readers of spiritual books” think that this is all and that’s the maximum. In fact, this is just the beginning of a long journey. If it succeeds in one life, it is a symbolic accelerated repetition of the development of spirit and soul. First, the soul awakens to a latent state of self-awareness as a part of everything = “everything”, as the Czech mystics call it.
Then the earth soul evolves to the point where it becomes self-aware as an individuality. This is the next stage of development. These realizations are not intellectual, but essential, that is why they are still called – enlightenments, because they reach the spiritual depth of the being and, unlike abilities, the scope of their influence is not bound to gross matter, but manifests itself in gross matter and is bound to the physical world (which means that in the next life a person can continue with another level, but in the given next life he has to start again from the beginning, even if it is already “easier”, because he already carries these levels deep within himself, as they say “in his heart”) . And later, the next end of a certain stage of development is self-awareness to awakening in a higher being. The soul, in the higher stages of spiritual development, perceives a connection not only with being as such, but also with its origin and with God, but not in the Christian view of God, nor in the esoteric one that we are gods. It’s a spiritual awakening, no spiritual, esoteric or any other label does it justice. Many books describe enlightenment as a momentary thing or someone felt something somewhere in their physical body and enlightenment is already mentioned. Such superficial feelings and thoughts have nothing to do with true enlightenment. True enlightenment is always a permanent and direct connection of a person’s material everyday consciousness with his higher consciousness. However, it happens that a person is “enlightened” for a short moment, which is very nicely captured in the movie The Celestine Prophecy. It is not a permanent enlightenment, but it is an interesting and very important experience, which, when used correctly, can be beneficial for a person, and it is also another, higher stage in our development, because it is no longer blind faith, but direct, albeit a short-lived but real experience.
In addition, those “spiritual teachers” who say that enlightenment and awakening are the result of a momentary matter, without long-term preparation, do not know what they are talking about… Permanent enlightenment does not exist without appropriate long-term preparation!
Some types of clairvoyance that involve seeing auras and/or energies are able to see the difference between an enlightened person and an unenlightened person based on the permanent changes in the person’s energy state.
From the point of view of energies, there is not only 1 enlightenment, but 3, according to gradual spiritual development. This is very aptly shown in the 3 sequels of the Matrix movie, with each part more or less faithfully depicting these individual 3 stages of enlightenment. Describing enlightenment from an “external” point of view, that is, how enlightenment is related to individual types of levels in Creation, we can characterize it as follows:
The 1st degree is a direct and permanent (within ) connection of the earthly everyday consciousness with one’s own subtle higher consciousness.
The 2nd level represents the connection with one’s own higher essential consciousness.
The 3rd stage with the threshold of the spiritual-being level, when the earthly person really doesn’t do anything useless anymore and the ego doesn’t really know how to mess with it anymore, while in the first two stages the ego still affects the given enlightened person in a certain way. But in this third stage, the earthly person is no longer able to stay on the physical earth for a long time, because the vibrational difference between the earthly level and the spiritual-being level is already too great. That’s why the death of Jesus, the death of Neo in the movie Matrix, etc…
It is also necessary to know that the time and development gap between these individual stages of enlightenment is not short. Each subsequent level is exponentially more difficult to achieve, meaning that most earth-enlightened people manage to reach level 1 in their lifetime, and very rarely level 2. So great are not only the energy differences between individual degrees, but also the differences between states of consciousness, not only quantitatively, but especially qualitatively. This means that, for example, when compared to earthly guidance, this is not just memorization, but a diametrically different perception of reality, a change in psychological processes in a person, a new imaginative/inspirational/intuitive perception and much more.
From the point of view of energies and “inner” consciousnesses, the first level represents a “classic” connection with everything. Man becomes one (only with a permanent and direct connection), he becomes everything in the universe, a unity that is so blatantly and endlessly promoted among esotericists as something “finite, immutable and supreme”, but at the same time it is only the 1st significant step in the very long development process of a person… After the first stage and subsequent long-term development, mental and spiritual individuation can also follow at a higher level. From an energetic point of view, we can describe it from the point of view of the existence of a huge, unified Light, and the soul of man individuates in this Light. It does not “spill” in it, but emerges from it. He remains in the Light, he is a part of this Light, but he does not lose his individuality. Actually, a pure soul is starting to show here. It shines, it shines. This is another stage of enlightenment. And between each significant stage of enlightenment there is a path, a process in which birth, childhood, puberty, adulthood, old age are repeated, in the case of accelerated development in a short period of a few years…. Old age is synonymous with wisdom, one reaches the peak of a given stage’s development and then the abbot dies mentally and the cycle begins again until one reaches the corresponding next higher level. Each respective higher level is harder and harder until the evolution reaches a level close below our spiritual-being Home! Which happens only very, very rarely, but earthly manifestations and changes are significant and also physically visible, so it cannot be confused with anything or played with something… But this entire description applies to earthly development, during incarnation. After death, we are no longer protected by our earthly physical body and manifestations of development, speed, changes, etc. can vary significantly.
For me it was e.g. very interesting and at the same time surprising that the famous Indian yogi Swami Maheshwarananda, an enlightened person who for decades talked like E. Tolle, among other things, about happiness, the path, spiritual states, etc. (By the way, I am not a yogi, nor do I practice any yoga exercises or exercises of other spiritual directions.) But once it happened that at a lecture in KoÅ¡ice, which I happened to attend in person, he talked about the fact that all beings should be happy and joyful, but suddenly he said: “I should be happy too! But I’m not!” and continued about the new changes that have been happening lately. This was very surprising to me, because he has been talking about happiness for years and is in a state of 1st degree of enlightenment, but suddenly he is talking about some kind of change, while his followers, as well as many other yogis and spiritual teachers, are talking about the need to be in a state of happiness. I felt the same way I felt about the Buddha’s nephew, who was booed by his friends as he wept intensely over the Buddha’s death. They told him that he should rejoice that the Buddha had gone Home, that such behavior was not “correct”, etc. But he mourned on, all night, until morning, but in the morning his friends found him enlightened. So things are completely different than what not only quasi-teachers but even enlightened people present to us…?! Among other things, it follows from this that one of the primary tasks of a person is to find a balance not only between “good” and “evil”, but also in general, in everything that a person does, thinks, feels, and at the same time to follow his inner self, and not only in the case of feelings of happiness, but any other feelings coming from deep within him…
When I later asked my familiar clairvoyants to look into it, it turned out that Swami had advanced in his development during his active years and in his later years had come very close to the 2nd stage of enlightenment – hence his new knowledge and changes in worldview . This insight was very stimulating and important for me, because I am actively interested in spiritual knowledge and at the same time it is a confirmation of many of my experiences.
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