Enlightenment :Discover yourself

Subject: Philosophy 

I am asked by many friends, what is enlightenment or self-actualization? If I know the person well, I guide him to chalk out his own plan to be enlightened. To people who are uncertain. I give parameters or offer some models based on philosophy and psychology.

One person's need may be different from another because the human mind is very complex in its demands. However, we need to surpass our present mindset and be something we want. 

Nonetheless, change is happening now, you are changing but perhaps not as you would like to be. You perhaps need a plan for your journey towards what you want to be. That plan essentially connects to your psychological state and your mental conditioning, the fastest way to do this is Mediation which we offer for the proposed corrections.

I am an atheist, hence any Mediation I propose does not have any reference to a God or specific religion. Although being an Indian I may quote something from Atheist Indian philosophy. Let us begin: The search for the cause and removal of human distress is the concern of civilization from the days of organized religion to modern psychology.

Based on Existentialist philosophy. I will be taking the ideal model for a perfect human being from here

This model says that we can never understand a human being with his negative traits. For understanding a human being, we must consider his highest aspirations. Personal Growth, self-actualization, striving toward health, the quest for identity and autonomy, the yearning for certain Excellencies is the tendency of a person. According to this philosophy, each of us exists as a being-in-the-the world, consciously and painfully aware of the existence and eventual non-existence. We seem to have no existence apart from the world and the world has no meaning for us apart from the people who are in it. Existentialists say that a person is neither a product of genetic factors nor environmental influences; they stress the idea that ultimately each of us is responsible for who we are and what we become.

One's life is what one makes of it. The human tendency is to attain freedom and create meaning for survival. Each person is responsible for his actions and is a conscious agent experiencing, deciding, and freely choose in his actions.

Enlightened people can accept themselves the way they are. They are not very sensitive to their shortcomings, and weaknesses. These people do not feel undue guilt, shame, and anxiety-emotional states. They have good appetites, sleep well, and have fulfilling sex lives. They consider Basic biological processes like urination, menstruation, and growing old as human nature and accept these gracefully. They are spontaneous, simple, and natural. This does not mean that their behavior is unconventional. Their inner life (thoughts and emotions) is unconventional, natural, and spontaneous. Their unconventionality is not for impressing others and they can suppress it in order not to distress others; therefore, they may even abide by ceremonies and rituals. Thus, they may conform if it means protecting themselves. However, they do not hesitate to defy social rules when necessary.

Without exception, they are committed to some task, duty, vocation, or job that they regard as important. They are oriented towards problems beyond their immediate needs, problems for which they have a missionary zeal. They live to work rather than work to live; their work is a defining characteristic of themselves. The enlightened ones commitment to work is equal to a love affair. Self-actualizing persons need privacy and solitude and as they do not have a clinging relationship with others, they can enjoy the richness and fullness of friendship.

In social encounters, people often view them as aloof, reserved, snobbish, and cold. They do not need other people in the usual sense of friendship. As a result, there is a need for another level of encounter, that with the self. When they are alone, they are with their best friends. This is not narcissism. The enlightened can be alone without being lonely.

They remain calm and serene during periods of personal misfortune or setback. This comes in part from the tendency of enlightened people is to stand by their assessment of the situation instead of depending upon what the people think or feel about matters. 

They are self- movers, resisting society's attempts to make them adhere to social convention. As characteristics already discussed would suggest enlightened ones are free to act independently of their physical and social environment. This autonomy enables them to rely on themselves.

They feel more in harmony with the world, lose their self- awareness or transient it, feel simultaneously more powerful than before and become less conscious of time and space. The peak experiences that really change a person come about when the person comes to some glorious insight as to the result of a year on a psychoanalytic couch. A philosopher who has been working for fifteen years at some problem comes to illumination. People through correct Meditation attain peak experiences.

They are creative in the true sense of the word. However, their creativeness is different from unusual talent or genius as reflected in poetry, art, music, or science. It is as the natural and instinctive creativeness found in children. This kind of creativity appears in everyday life as an expression of a personality that is keen, original, and simple.

They need not write books, compose music, or produce art objects to be creative. Nevertheless, in day-to-day activities, they are very creative.

This is a concise description of an enlightened person one from the perspective of Existentialist philosophy and the dependent humanist psychology.

With Infinite Love to all, I am 

Aalok Chandra

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