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Dear Mr Sadananda,

 

that is truly a surprise to me, that there are no grand illuminations.

 

I must have read dozens of stories about awakenings, and they certainly were

made to sound pretty grand.

The way the stories were told, ultimate truth was revealed. And even the source

of suffering was revealed, so the awakened one was released from suffering. You

mean these are just fairytales?

 

What do the other members of this group have to say about it? Does illumination

happen or not? If it does, is it a ho hum kind of affair or is it worthy of

being called grand or transcendental?

 

Does it belong exclusively to times gone by or does it happen nowadays?

 

Best regards

 

Harry

 

As I understand, there is no grand illuminations. Whatever you

experienced and not experienced - if it is known to you, that knowing

principle is the so-called grand illumination. It is characterized as

'grand' only becuase it cannot be object of some other knowing

principle. Everything is known only becuase of that and which itself

cannot be known or experienced - since any experience involves

experiencer, experienced and experiencing.

 

What is involved is only understanding of the truth of all that is

experienced and not experienced.

 

That truth escaps us since we are longing for some 'grand' experience

apart from our day to day experiences. No amount of meditation can help

if we fail to recognize that every meditative experience is only in the

presence of that 'grand' illumination which all the time is

'experienced'.

 

Hari OM!

Sadananda

 

 

 

 

 

 

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