ENLIGHTENMENT = LIBERATION = MOKSHA = AWAKENING

Enlightenment – Liberation –Moksha = Awakening! A glance into different terms, each describing ‘Awakening’ from a subtly different angle!

ENLIGHTENMENT: One with (the Light/frequency of) Awareness.
Light = symbolizes the higher frequency of Awareness.
Darkness = symbolizes lower frequencies of density & separation

As we increasingly move back into Pure Awareness (that we inherently are) - we are ‘getting’ enlightened so to say. When we unceasingly abide as Awareness- as its higher frequency/light - there is no ‘darkness’ of separation/individuation/maya/ego self/me notion left -and this is called enlightenment. Buddha – means both ‘filled with light’ and ‘no self’ – thus it depicts the enlightened state!

THE PARADOX: Enlightenment is a state of being where there is no ‘me’ left… so as long as i seek enlightenment… the seeker (me) is present … and enlightenment can’t be. So ‘i’ never get enlightened (indeed when enlightenment happens to a ‘me’ it’s only in the eyes of another!

LIBERATION: means freedom and refers to breaking free from the illusion of a separate individual ‘me’ /ego notion - and its limitations. It refers to the release from personal consciousness, maya, duality - and its ups and downs. At a deeper level, we are never bound nor are we ever the separate ego self… and it is this experiential awareness (not intellectual understanding) that is called liberation!

THE PARADOX: Liberation is not for the i but from the i (that we think we are)!

MOKSHA: is the awakening from the delusion of personal self - thus personal ‘karma’ - the cycle of cause and effect – and thus from the cycle of life, death & rebirth called samsara! No ‘me’ = no ‘my’ karma = no separate cause and effect to track = freedom from the wheel of identity/samsara = Moksha

THE PARADOX: Cause and effect is an irrevocable maxim of our plane as long as the ‘me’ exists – Moksha shows us that the maxim remains in place, but the ‘me’ doesn’t!

Thus dis-identification from or dissolution of the personal self… is AWAKENING! Enlightenment, liberation and Moksha= Awakening from personal consciousness and its cause and effect into universal consciousness and its cosmic play! Enlightenment is the move from self to Self; liberation is release from the self unto Self; Moksha is Self released from the cycles of self!

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MORE ON ENLIGHTENMENT – LIBERATION –MOKSHA = AWAKENING!

MOKSHA refers to freedom from the wheel of samsara –from the cycle of life, death & rebirth. It refers to the state of being where we do not need to re-enter human life again.

Thus what is the route to Moksha? Till we identify with the ‘me-notion’/personal identity/separated individuated ego self… we are bound to what seem to be its thoughts & actions (even if they become increasingly ‘better’ actions and effects… at the most we live a better spin of the cycle… of course with there always being some action required on a physical plane that will result in what we call a 'negative' effect and its seemingly endless and inevitable cycles of cause and effect

This identification remains even after what we call death… because as long as there is a ‘me’ … the me exists even after physical life… the me dons astral an astral body and lives and works out its cycle in what we call the astral realms … thus is cause and effect traced beyond death too and causes rebirth … and then at some point self/me re enters physical life towards reaping its effects and trying to move beyond the me notion!Thus it is our identification with the personalized consciousness that we seem to be… identification with the vehicle Consciousness adopts to explore Itself instead of identification with Consciousness that adopts this me-notion vehicle… identification with what happens through a ‘me’  (what’s spiritually called doership) do we remain bound to its cause and effect!

Thus dis-identification/ awakening from the delusion of a personal self … is the only way out of cause & effect on our physical plane, where every action/thought/feeling has an equal effect! When there is no identification with the personal self (me notion)… there is no identification with its thoughts & actions… and thus no identification with its chain of cause and effect! Thus are we ‘released’ from what otherwise would be an endless turn of the wheel…! And this release from the endless wheel…which actually implies release from the me-notion is called Moksha!

As life, death & rebirth are based on the universal law of cause and effect that functions on our plane… which paradoxically is an irrevocable maxim of our plane… the only way out of life and birth…. is to be out of cause & effect! But we cannot be out of cause and effect as long as we exist as the ‘me’! And only on Awakening from the dream/maya of personal identity… only through liberation of the me-notion… only through enlightenment of what we are not and what we are… can there be Moksha!

ENLIGHTENMENT … is the understanding… awareness… realization… of the delusion of the personal self (me-notion)…and what leads to LIBERATION from it… resulting in Moksha! When we awaken to, real-ize and establish in the awareness that we are not the separate/individuated self we thought we are- when we become aware that flow of actions, events, thoughts and feelings that we claimed as ‘mine’ is actually the flow of Consciousness , when we realize we are not the doer thus there is no 'separate' chain of cause and effect that is ‘mine’… indeed all is  a play of Consciousness…then  in this increasing real-ization …one day…. the complete dis-identifcation happens…and we liberated from cause and effect…karma…rebirth and... its cyclic nature called samsara! Moksha!  

Paradoxically the very goal that seekers so ardently seek - personal enlightenment- is only the carrot and journey towards the real goal - which is dissolution of the ‘me’ that seeks enlightenment! At some point, as enlightenment  happens and the light begins to fill us,  we understand that when Universal Consciousness/Self has fulfilled whatever It chose to explore, experience, express revel in through this ‘me' (a vehicle/medium Self creates for this beautiful purpose..) will it dissolve. And in this we move into a state of being where there is no rush or anxiety about ‘my’ enlightenment because being one with Consciousness, I as Consciousness, know that ‘Divyaa’ is not awakened because I as Consciousness don’t choose it yet, and when I as Consciousness do so…then so will I as 'Divyaa'.... and it will ‘happen’…Consciousness awakens to Itself through a ‘me’! We switch alliance from 'me' and 'my' concerns to the Consciousness I Am... and know that the 'me' will be liberates from this cosmic stage, only when its role in the play is coming to an end... we rest in the gnosis that whatever is best for the cosmic play...is what’s best for the 'me' who is but a part of the larger play!  

Seekers work towards enlightenment, liberation and awakening - but the paradox is that these are terms for when there is no ‘me’ the seeker desiring these states! So there will be no Divyaa (put your own name here) to feel 'ah i have got enlightened'! There will be no ‘me’ to pat myself on the back... it would be an occurrence in Consciousness.