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Author Message   Musicfan Celebrity Bewarse Username: Musicfan Post Number: 49658 Registered: 05-2004 Posted From: 68.60.66.223 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Monday, August 11, 2014 - 10:15 pm:    Sasibabu: how did they get that enlightenment and who enlightened them SasiBab, The follows are different stages to get enlightenment... 1. Acquire Knowledge: This can be either thru a teacher, reading books, listening, Satsang or thru many other ways ( some born genius like great saints are exception ) In this stage, the biggest obstacle to go to the next level is having ego of spiritual knowledge. The moment we feel that we know more than anyone else, there will be no progress and we are stuck. To get out that it takes lot of effort and sometimes it requires huge effort. If the ego is not controllable even then, we will need an external help. 2. Spiritual Practice: Implement what we have learnt. Like all good deeds.. This is the first time we will start getting experiences that we will be awestruck. The more we practice what we have learnt and understood, the more belief and faith we have and the more practice we will try to do and gain more experiences. 3: Devotion: Its like in this stage you try to correlate everything with GOD. Every action, every object, every person, every word will be associated or related to GOD. Once we try to get into this stage, our Ego will completely cease. we feel our every action will be to/for/by GOD. At the end of this stage is where we attain enlightenment which means we realize and feel that there no dual in this universe, its all one. Every stage of this journey is experience, there is no validation of every stage except for the knowledge. If this spiritual journey is 100%, 5% is knowledge and rest is practice and experience. Thats how it is complicated. There are millions of years and people till now trying to attain, but no one was able to bench mark a process or path is because its different and unique to each person. Else if one have attained everyone would follow the same path and got enlightened. It didn't happen is the very reason to know that each one is different. SOTW - Ramachakkani Seetaki