The three stages of enlightenment
As it seems, spiritual enlightenment is often categorized into levels for practical purposes. Highest stage of spiritual enlightenment marks the attainment of God, but still there are certain levels through which the individual needs to evolve. It is like rising from the levels of animality to which we often tend to degrade ourselves. From the levels of animality, we rise to the level of humanity, which constitutes our true nature. And further from humanity to divinity, where we merge back in the source from where we have come. Let us, for our practical purpose, put them in stages and analyze the state of being in each stage:
The first stage of spiritual enlightenment
At the very first level of spiritual enlightenment, the individual starts experiencing the reality as it is. It means that your mind ceases to interfere with what you are experiencing. Quite often, we are engaged in continuous talk, gossip, analyzing the environment around us, planning about future, and so on. However, when spiritual enlightenment dawns on your being, you take everything as it is.
The second stage of spiritual enlightenment
At the second stage of spiritual enlightenment, you feel yourself in almost everything around you. You feel that you have some connection to every object and every individual in the world. It is like losing your own individuality. Spiritual enlightenment has its culmination at merging the soul in Supreme Soul, and this is where you start experiencing it. You feel that you are not individual anymore and not separate from anything. You feel that you are in everything and everything is just a part of the Supreme Soul from where you also have emerged.
The third stage of spiritual enlightenment
At the third stage of spiritual enlightenment, you no longer feel connected to everything but realize you are everything. Because spiritual enlightenment gives you the experience of oneness with God, you feel that you are not separate from anything. You are not merely the body, sense, mind, and faculty of intellect: you are what everything else is. This stage of spiritual enlightenment imparts the direct experience of oneness.
Spiritual enlightenment is the fruit that sets you free, as you lose all wants and wishes to receive the fruits of your actions. You feel the bliss of completeness through spiritual enlightenment. At first it gives you the feeling that you need "Light". At the next stage, you feel that you are merging in "Light". At the culminating stage, you feel that you are no more separated from "Light"—you and "Light" are one.
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4 Responses to "What is Spiritual Enlightenment" 
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said this on 17 Sep 2007 1:23:51 AM PDT
I m doing Yoga Meditation 4 about 15 years. At present, I m seeing light on my forehead. I see white light piercing through my third eye. I see little holes in my third as the light diminishes. Does this mean enlightenment? Thank you very much for your response.
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said this on 10 Dec 2007 10:08:20 PM PDT
God is universal. If you are being enlightened and feel the 'third eye' on your forehead with light going througfh it is what you believe is enlightenment then in fact it is. The point is imho, and from my experience is that you can do what you want when you get there. You are being given the keys to the kingdom... it is up to you what you do inside.
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said this on 15 Dec 2007 2:21:48 AM PDT
I received illumination in 1997 it stayed for 2weeks.I experienced perfect freedom and all positive energies were supportning me.I was constantly aware of the presence of God. After 2weeks it was not there, I slept with a girl while I was not married and I felt very guilty and I don't know why did I do that because I was already content no need for pleasure, but I wish it would come back and God forgives me.
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said this on 23 Jul 2008 6:05:34 PM PDT
As a child (8yrs) I asked "God" what the universe would be like if "God" never existed. I experienced the removal of all that IS. And then the removal of void. What was NOT left ... no void to miss what never was ... THIS place and experience changed my being on a level I can not explain. Was this enlightenment? I do not know. All I know is that there is a before and there is an after.
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