Transcendence Of The Human State

Someone asked me, 'Is enlightenment the natural human state or is it a transcendence of the human state?'

Surely, enlightenment is the transcendence of the human state. Whatever you think of as the human state is not complete. You are only a seed, a potential, a possibility. You are not a tree. You are not actuality. Your actuality is enlightenment. You are called a human being in your potential state. In your actual state, realized state, you are called an enlightened being.

Be very clear, you are not a human being with a spiritual experience, you are a spiritual being with a human experience!

Beyond yogic powers When you meditate, you can get various yogic powers or siddhis. But enlightenment happens when you go beyond these powers also. Enlightenment is having the capacity to handle the powers, as well as the intelligence to drop them when necessary.