A glimpse of Enlightenment
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15 November, 2010
Trying to give a glimpse of the
experience of enlightenment before
you have the actual experience is
what we call awakening the non-
mechanical parts of the brain. For
example, if you became enlightened,
you will understand the whole world
is illusion. It is not the ultimate
reality. There is one more reality. You
will understand. But, before you
become enlightened, trying to give you the glimpse of that experience so that you have trust in that experience and evolve, is what we call awakening the non-mechanical parts of the brain.
It is like trying to give you the sexual experience without having physical sex. I am giving you a gross example. Not having the physical experience, but giving you the pleasure, or the experience of the physical pleasure in your brain, so that you will understand - Wow! This can do so much. Let me start working for it.
If the non-mechanical parts of the brain are awakened, you will experience the same plane of enlightenment even before enlightenment, so that you are now inspired to become enlightened. For enlightenment to happen, you need a conscious decision from your whole body. The whole personality has to get integrated and decide to become enlightened, become awakened. That will not happen immediately. One part of your leg will tell, ‘No, no, I don’t want to get enlightened, who cares, get lost.’ Your hands will tell, ‘No, no, no. Not now, later on, let us enjoy all these things now, what is the urgency?’
The awakening of the non-mechanical parts of the brain is one category of the siddhis (powers) exhibited by the Siddha masters and mystics. These are called the manomaya kosha miracles. Of course, yoga always went hand in hand with siddha science. Patanjali is one of the siddhas.
I really feel bad that what the siddhas expressed is such a clear, reproducible science, but just because it was not recorded properly and transmitted, it has become something extraordinary or abnormal. It’s like, if there is a tsunami and suddenly all the radios and TVs are washed away, the one person who still has a radio and TV naturally will become like a siddha, because he has a box which shows pictures and which talks continuously. Because it is now a rarity, TV and radio suddenly become a miracle. In the same way, whatever the siddhas were doing is a clearly recorded and authentic science.