ena taka lepo spredalčkana, za um What is Enlightenment?
At the first level it is experiencing reality as it is. That is where the Mind doesn't interfere with your experience. What is happening within you is a lot of ceaseless chatter going on.
Continuous talk, interference from the past, day dreaming about the future; very rarely are you looking at the birds as it is, looking at the face of the child as it is.
People do not experience reality as it is. The first stage of
Enlightenment is where the interference of the mind stops and the senses become alive.
The second stage of
Enlightenment is to feel a tremendous sense of connectedness with the world around you.
You feel connectedness with the plant, with the human being in front of you, with the animal, with the mat on which you are sitting, to the sky, you feel connected to every thing and everybody around you. You don't feel that you are alone and don't feel the sense of separate existence, which basically is the curse of man.
The third stage
Enlightenment is where you experience oneness with the universe. It is no more a sense of connectedness instead you experience a complete union with the universe. You experience Cosmic Consciousness. This is what the Ancient seers would call Aham Bramhasmin.
That is "I am this whole process called the Universe".