Enlightenment is a state where you are awakened to the reality of the universe, Different cultures use different word for enlightenment, in Sanskrit they use the term Bodhitwa and this term is widely used all over the world due to the popularity of buddism, also the state of enlightenment is refereed as nirvana in Buddhist ideology, samadi in hindu ideology.
Enlightenment is a process which happens step by step through meditation, where a person loses the rigid view of physical world and time, I am going through this path, and According to my experience, I can feel that these views get loosed up slowly. When you are on the road to enlightenment you will observe some changes in you, you will feel more happy and centred, you start to see beauty in stuffs you that you never discovered before, Life becomes more simple and beautiful, no stress no strain in any situation.
Usualy a non enlightened person have his /her get sicked to stuffs like his own body ego, his family ego , his national ego, cast ego , sex ego etc etc.. when the glue loosens up he / she will get detached from these identities, usually it happens this way from my own experience I can say , when we became more friendly and loving towards others and thery are not strangers any more they are like those who are close to us , the people who were close to us eg : the family members our cousins uncles, at this level we wont feel much difference between them and the people who we considered strangers. Later when thns get further loosens up, we wont feel much difference between our close family members and others, finaly we wont feel a difference between us and the so called external world.
Enlightened person cant differentiate between him/her and all universe including living beings and non living beings, for him/her all universe is his own part. At this point he/her wont have desire cause, he himself is the universe and every incident is his /her doing, and he see harmony in every incidents that happens in the universe. At this blissfulness sate one only feel the unconditional love and this is harmonious, cause previously he / she was in a state where he/she use to see external world as something different from them and they were hostile towards external world, it is like you losing control over your body and thinking you face your hand your tongue are all different and your afre your face and your face start hating your own eyes and you cursing your right hand and your right hand hitting your face like wise you are the all universe and you feeling of separation and time are illusion.
People encounter Enlightenment or glimpses of enlightenment when they face the hard part of illusion like sorrow, grief and boredom in some point they began to feel the all hard part of life is really void, it got a glimpse when I had a grief, felt why I am attached to the grief and felt all the tried situation as if it was some dream. It was said that the great krishnamoorty of theosophical society attained Enlightenment after observing his brothers death and osho Rajneesh when he faces with boredom. There is a technique “abhimuki” in buddist meditation which in Sanskrit means facing, which is facing the sorrow than running away from it or getting distracted.
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You described my ego-death and depression in this blog post. I agree!