How Do I Know if I am Enlightened?

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How Do I Know if I am Enlightened?

If enlightenment happens, how do you know it has happened? Suppose we are hallucinating to be enlightened. Yes, such a thing happens. It will be clearer than daylight. It’s not something that you can miss. It is not that kind of a new thing that you could miss it. You will not miss it, but when I say this, there is a problem attached to this because these days it is going on in many places. For a certain fee, within a weekends time you can get enlightened, you’ll be declared enlightened by somebody. Really, it’s happening everywhere. If you just pay a certain amount of money, one weekend you can get enlightened.

I remember in the 60’s, in the 1960’s, in California people set up certain businesses, enlightenment services. The advertisement I remember very well, if you go to India it will take 12 years of hardship. Okay. $50, 30 minutes, you can get enlightened. They were just using psychedelic machines. You put up certain visuals and certain sounds, it will just blow your mind apart because of the sounds and the visuals. When you come out, you come in a daze. You feel like you have really gotten somewhere. This used to be the advertisement, $50, 30 minutes. If you go to India, 12 years of hardship. Here it’s California, quick, new technology.

These 1960 machines, this old technology has not infiltrated into India. Some people have installed these machines and they’re claiming within a weekend they can enlighten you. You cannot hallucinate about it. If you’re sincere you would know that it is not so, but if it’s about the race that you want to get enlightened before somebody, of course, you can declare then enlightened. It is just that. These kind of deceptions are not new on the planet. They’ve been happening for a long time, but now modern technology has come to aid them better, to give them an expanded sense of many things.

Much experimentation was done during the 60’s and 70’s about these thing. One is with these psychedelic machines, another is with psychedelic drugs. You’re taking LSD and people are claiming they’re enlightened because they had an expanded sense just for a while and then they came back. If they over did it, then they lost everything, they cracked in so many ways or even died. Many, many people mentally cracked up because of excessive use of psychedelic drugs, but for those few moments, they really felt enlightened or at least they thought so. This is not somethings that you do. This is not something that you can do. It is just that. If you cultivate the system, your body, mind, emotion, and energy to its peak possibility, then an absolutely wonderful flower blossoms within you. Not something that you did. You just waited with the right kind of conditions and it happened.

There’s a very beautiful story in the yogic lore. On a certain day, four men were walking in the forest. These four men were walking in the forest. One is a Jnana yogi, another is a Bhakti yogi, another is Karma yogi, and the last one is a Kriya Yogi. These four people can never stay together. They cannot be together because jnana yogi means yoga of intelligence. He’s a man of intellect, great intellect. He has complete disdain for everybody. He thinks everybody is a fool especially these Bhakti yogis who’re doing ra-ra and whatever. In his mind, they look like actual idiots. He can’t stand them. Isn’t it?

That’s correct.

Could that man stand Bhakti yogis?

No.

No, he wouldn’t stand. He just can’t tolerate them. Bhakti yogis, people of devotion. They have pity for everybody because when God himself is here, you’re doing all of this mental circus and physical circus. It’s just stupid, isn’t it? Just hold God’s hand and walk into heaven. Bhakti yogis have pity for everybody, for all the foolishness that they’re doing.

Karma yogis think all these other people are just lazy people because if you want something to happen you have to do it. Because they’re lazy and unwilling to do what they need to do, they have invented all these other yogas. Because in the world, if anything has to happen you must do it, right? Action. These are yoga of action, karma.

Kriya yogis have utter disdain for everybody because after all, the whole existence is energy. Unless you transform the energy, how will anything change? Where is the possibility? These four people can never be together, but today they were walking together. Suddenly a thunderstorm broke loose, a rainstorm. Rain started lashing from every side. They started running, looking for shelter. The Bhakti yogi said, “There is an ancient temple in this direction, let’s go there for shelter.” He always knows the geography of temples. He won’t miss a single temple. They all trusted him and ran in the direction.

Then they found an ancient temple where the walls had collapsed long ago, just a few columns and a roof was there. In the center, there was a deity, Gods image. They ran to this place not because they were seeking God, not in any kind of love for God, just to escape the rain they ran in. Then they stood there for a while. Then they found the rain started lashing from every direction. Wherever they stood or sat, the rain was getting at them. The only place where they could sit was around the deity. All four of them just hugged the deity and sat, not because they have fallen in love with God, simply to escape the rain.

Suddenly God appeared. In all the four minds the same question, “Why now? We did so much yoga. We did so much puja, worship, and so many things. You didn’t come then. Now, when we’re just escaping the rain, why now?” God said, “At last you four idiots got together.” Without these four things getting together within you, your head, your heart, your hands, and your energy, unless it all falls into place, unless all of it reaches its peak, it will not happen. If it happens, is there any chance that I may not notice it? There is no such thing. Even if you’re blind, you know the sun has come up, isn’t it? Yes.

Yes.

Even if you’re blind, you still know the sun has come up because nobody can miss it. It is not a small event that anybody can miss. You may not know whether you’re born or not born, but if you get enlightened you will know. It’s much bigger than that. Birth will happen many times, this will happen only once.