5. Accept Your Doubts And Move On

People ask me questions about the state of being enlightened. Some think that when enlightenment happens, they have to give up their family, friends, business, and their life will turn upside down.

The truth is that your lifestyle will not turn upside down. Your life will be more fulfilling, and you will enjoy everything in your life deeply.

People also wonder what it means to be enlightened. They ask me: is it the highest state of spiritual awareness? Were you materialistic before enlightenment and spiritual only after that? I tell you:: there is no rule that you should be materialistic before and spiritual after. You can be spiritual before as well. Either way, you are greedy for something or the other either material things or spiritual things, that's all. When you try to become something, it is material. When you try to become someone, you are spiritual. Until enlightenment, you are one or the other. Upon enlightenment you are as you are. You are enjoying everything; you are joyful; yet you are not attached to anything.

Enlightenment is not a state of mind. It is beyond mind. Do not bring words into this. Enlightenment is not anything.

An enlightened person always asks the question, 'what can I do?' They always want to know what they have to do. Their question always is, 'what can I do for you?' They are neither worried nor concerned about what others have to do for them.

This is a high-level technique what I am going to give you: do not ask for a method. It is simple. Follow it from today. Just tell yourself that you are enlightened. Accept yourself as you are. Don't think of improving yourself or improving someone else. Tell yourself: I am in the state I am supposed to be. Believe it deeply.

Be relaxed. Express your utter relaxation in everything you do. Tell your mind, your emotions, your being: 'I am enlightened'. If your mind expresses doubts, accept the doubts and move on.

Doubts are like a dog that barks at an elephant. Does the elephant even care? Doubts have no existence of their own. They will survive only if you feed them. Doubts will recede as you face them and accept them.

Change your entire focus to enlightenment. Realize that you are enlightened. Simply drop the idea that you should be or will be someone else when you are enlightened. Just accept whatever life brings to you. Accept that your mind has doubts; just accept that and move on.

Turn your mind inwards. Enjoy all the bubbles of joy from within. Watch your breath without controlling it and turn your mind inward. Enlightenment lies within. It is to be experienced, not to be analysed.