How do I know if I am Enlightened? 8 signs of spiritual awakening ||

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

To test whether death frightens me, when I think of death, the thought seems small and I am unmoved & unaffected by the thought.

[@NondualityChannel]

Could you die today without any problem? Feel/experience the answer...don't think about it.

[@justchanstay]

I just found your page. I reached this stage earlier this year. I appreciate your take on things. This is very similar to how I would describe the past 6 months for me.

[@Alykat736]

This was refreshing! Thank you! A big shift for me was no longer seeing myself as the one in control of all of this, seeing I wasn’t this person, and knowing/experiencing life from a witnessing or “awareness of” state. Yet, as I reflect, I still feel as if I play the character much of the time, Its like a habit. But I know, From seeing directly into this when my mind gets effortlessly quiet, that I’m literally awareness of & not an entity “doing” . It’s kind of hard to describe with words 🤷🏻‍♀️and for me it’s been going on for years and as I read Nisargadatta’s conversations I know I’m not as awake to what actually is as it sounds like he was, I don’t mind either, I just find everything so fascinating !

[@rosisunny9302]

Blessings to you!

[@henrike34]

It’s so much fun listening to you ❤

[@tonyholiday050]

This was absolutely brilliant.

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir there's no anxiety or worry, but, frustration and sadness are still there.

[@NondualityChannel]

Sadness for what reason?

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

For no reason 😂 sometimes I feel low and dull

[@NondualityChannel]

@@Rang_Birangi_Jokes There is always a reason for sadness or feeling low. You have not looked very deeply into it to see its roots.

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir actually I feel sad and dull during night, and during day time it's okay and I am happy. I think it's some physical problem 😂

[@jenna2431]

I might characterize seeking as striving. I'm so over striving. It carries the baggage of lack. Seeking feels more additive than lacking. I can seek beauty. I can seek wisdom for a circumstance. Striving seems like must get, need.

[@gabymalembe]

The alternative to enlightenment is thinking about yourself all day every day and never getting sick of it.

[@rosisunny9302]

Yes we can't getaway from the 🤔 mind we take it where ever we go 😌

[@rosisunny9302]

Silence is great,I say always don't believe anything my mind says. Can you still sleep? Friends ho wake-up say they jest lay there and woke up out off (the dream) at 3:00 or 4:00 they get up.Not much sleep is needed anymore! Blessings from Germany!!!

[@NondualityChannel]

Some sleep more or less, but I tend to sleep 8 hours a night. Less sleep is not a sign of enlightenment.

[@pilargarcia6724]

Me ha chiflado este vídeo!!!Muchísimas gracias!!! 👏👏👏🙏❤️😃

[@mofoshrimp]

Here's the precise quote from Ramana Maharshi talking about gauging spiritual progress: “The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.”

[@NondualityChannel]

Abide as Silence and there is no thought.

[@rosisunny9302]

@@NondualityChannel how wonderful,my 🤔 is mostly worry off not trusting the Universe takes Care off what we need l It knows better ( folding hand's) ulefone does not have this!

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir, I have seen that there's nothing as 'ME'. Me is just an illusion. But is it the end?

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

And if we're talking about I am everything, which 'I' do we refer to. If we're talking about to see the true nature of me, which 'ME' do we mean here?

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

It's soo confusing sir, please help. After the cessation of 'ME', nothing remains to do, a flowing river is everything then.

[@NondualityChannel]

Is there still suffering? Is there fear of death?

[@EnlightenedCarnivore]

I'm so glad I found this video, it just answered my final concern. (After about 3 years of Enlightenment)...I used to travel once in awhile (when life became unbearably boring) and since covid restrictions, and since Enlightenment, I've stopped. Now I live a simple existence in small town Mexico doing previously-unbearably-boring routines seemingly over and over again. Only it doesn't seem boring anymore and, lately, I began to wonder if Enlightenment has made me mentally retarded! I think, Ya...I'm gonna rent an Airbnb place someplace I've never been to so I can "mix it up a bit". But then I go for a usual previously-unbearably-boring walk and...I'm in Heaven again! And I forget all about traveling. Why? How come? What for? All is perfect just as it is. Why did I want to travel? I forget. lol. So, I think what you taught me here today is this 👉 If it ain't broke don't fix it. 😆 / 💖🙏💖

[@Justfor2day10]

It is very boring, imo, but I think that’s just the mind stepping in with thought

[@EnlightenedCarnivore]

@@Justfor2day10 yup. Happiness is not being dominated by incessant compulsive thoughts.

[@aum-shanti]

you are awake. ok can you give me the source of your (our) thoughts. THANKS.🙏🕉

[@EnlightenedCarnivore]

@@aum-shanti Ultimately, they arise from The Self.

[@aum-shanti]

@@EnlightenedCarnivore YOU are awake. . sorry for the question.......... but as you certainly know the web is full of intellectual illuminated........and this is my trick question .......... glad to have met you. have a good experience of the material world......... from: a spark of light embodied in a human body........🙏🕉 identification name on earth: jean-luc

[@mrbee145]

Keep up the good work

[@abajaj1510]

Yoga chitta vritti nirodh..🙏 Sadchittaanand...🙂

[@mikebell4435]

Thank you very much for your explanation ❤

[@Brough1111]

Thanks Buddy

[@lotusflower1716]

Thank you so much for this 🌷🌺

[@saraswathiab5995]

I quite agree with you.The mind is on a holiday!

[@RubenvanRoonDrumChannel]

Hi, I have a question again how do you deal with physical attack, like in war or people want to hurt your family your loved ones? It is an illusion of course but do you defense or stay in love, but see them getting hurt? difficult, thanks for your beautiful videos! greet

[@NondualityChannel]

There is no set response and it would depend greatly on the situation. There would be no hate or fear.

[@chitradevima]

you know you are enlightened when you have gone beyond the waking, dreaming and deep sleep states, beyond the body/mind space/time/causation complexs, you know without a shadow of doubt that what you are prior to the everything and the nothing is Pure Energy/Self/Atman/I principle. the after effects are varied..

[@solsticemeows]

I agree with this 100%

[@blueskythinking8312]

What are the after effects?

[@chitradevima]

@@blueskythinking8312 you've realized the most supreme attainment,,you know your Immortal Self, you have supreme contentment and peace..

[@aum-shanti]

@@chitradevima hello you seem well informed on this subject. I have a simple question can you give me the SOURCE of OUR THOUGHTS. thank you. 🕉

[@chitradevima]

@@aum-shanti there are two things in reality..You as Supreme Energy and Everything Else...thoughts come under the catagory of Everything Else and when there is no manifestation it all rests in seed form in unmanifest Prakriti..while You as Suprmeme Energy are all alone in the beyond....................................if your interested in how manifestion works study the samkaya karika..the goal of the teaching is to stop suffering and the realization of what you really are...as Supreme Energy.

[@freedombug11]

I have a question and I'd dearly like an answer. It's so hard to find someone who it would be appropriate to ask. I once (about 5 years ago) was in a prolonged state that seemed to me to be enlightenment or similar. It came on after only a couple of months, or maybe less, of daily meditation. I seemed to be in the perspective of my "higher self" all the time and felt a total absence of any negative emotion. Lifelong depression and social anxiety just evaporated into thin air. Impressive synchronicities occurred constantly, I seemed very magnetic to people, and I was totally calm and confident. I viscerally felt "at one" with everything. I was convinced that it would never again be possible for me to become depressed. This feeling or whatever it was persisted constantly for almost an entire year. Gradually though, all of this faded away, even though I was still doing all the same things (meditating, etc.), and nothing in particular occurred to account for it. I just drifted back into the "small me." I noticed it happening but there didn't seem to be anything I could do to stop it. I did indeed end up becoming depressed again. In general in my life I have been very prone to depressions. Some of the worst depression in my life has even happened after this event. Nothing like this "enlightened state" ever happened to me before or since. I practically lost interest in spirituality after that because it seemed like there was nothing to aspire to if it could just disappear like that. I couldn't get it back. I have always been interested in these topics and I have read widely, but I'm sure that you have studied much more than I have and are more of an expert, so can you think of any possible explanation for what happened to me? Thank you.

[@NondualityChannel]

A glimpse and passing spiritual experience...but the fundamental ignorance that is required to believe in the illusion of "me" remained.

[@freedombug11]

@@NondualityChannel thank you for the reply! Do you think "false awakenings" like this are common, or that they tend to be a precursor to the real thing?

[@NondualityChannel]

@@freedombug11 Glimpses and spiritual experiences are pretty common...and unfortunately too often are misunderstood to be awakening. Not only meditation induced, but some are drug induced. But the glimpses or experiences are not the point. They are not really a precursor...for they are pretty common and yet many do not awaken later. Instead, now there is a "me" trying to get it back and somehow make it permanent.

[@polarbear8188]

@@NondualityChannel so there is no “me” in other multiverse beside me? Cus i was seeing the laughing buddha and i understand what hes laughing about, under psilocybin. LOL i am so funny i thought it was a glimpse of enlightenment! I have a question so the feeling under psilocybin of everything is back at me, the play, the player, the audience, the stage, all of that are actually me all alone, is just a hllucination? I am feeling funny right now. I really thought i was a buddha 😭😂😂

[@saraswathiab5995]

After the insight how do we have the Sahaja samadhi as Sri Ramana Maharshi was at Tiruvannamalai.

[@NondualityChannel]

That would be seeking. When Enlightenment happens...inner silence and silent awareness are the norm...even while doing daily activities. I would say Sahaja samadhi arises with Enlightenment.

[@useienglish]

I have a question. Is vibrating or ringing sound in the ears an early sign of spiritual awakening or enlightenment? I've been experiencing this ringing sound for months although it's not really annoying or anything.

[@NondualityChannel]

No. There is really no such thing as early signs of enlightenment...enlightenment is not a process. Only a "me" wonders if it is getting close and so asks "is this an early sign". The "me" is still fully believed.

[@useienglish]

@@NondualityChannel Okey thanks a lot.

[@cromom4]

This video appeared quite serendipitously, presence is teaching me everything - I am not functioning within a religious construct although I understand why that exists to explain what this is. Do you have an email/FB messenger I could contact you at?

[@NondualityChannel]

facebook.com/eric.putkonen/

[@cromom4]

@@NondualityChannel Sent an IM via Facebook Messenger.

[@Rang_Birangi_Jokes]

Sir, I have no problem to die right now, atleast that's what I could feel.

[@NondualityChannel]

OK. How about anxiety or worry in life?

[@davidk717]

I find your videos fascinating! I have some questions that I hope you can answer. Can a person be enlightened if that person is suffering from life long conditions like PTSD, ADHD, or High Functioning Autism? If so, do you think they can heal from being enlightened?

[@NondualityChannel]

Don't know, but I don't see why not. But PTSD is never life long...no body is born with PTSD. It is acquired in life. Also, is autism something one needs to be healed from? Brains function differently...that is natural.

[@davidk717]

@@NondualityChannel Thank you for your reply. You're right about PTSD. Yes, autistic people can be naturally born with different brain function, but I think they can suffer a lot emotionally due to usually being socially awkward. If they can be enlightened, I guess they can stop the suffering...

[@NondualityChannel]

@@davidk717 Yes, suffering falls away upon enlightenment.

[@EnlightenedCarnivore]

@@NondualityChannel Lol. I like this answer. My wife tells me she's done some research and is convinced I have "autism" and probably have had it all my life. Neither one of us care. 😆

[@elmundodelsol3847]

Hi Eric, any possibilities that I can contact you directly?

[@NondualityChannel]

Yes. What is your email address?

[@elmundodelsol3847]

@@NondualityChannel [e-mail] Thanks in advance

[@SoHardToPickName1]

Hi Eric. Thank you so much for your clarifying videoes. They are much appreciated. I was wondering if you could talk more about the period before the illusion dropped. Was there difficult times? I have all these powerful energies flying around in the body, tormenting me, pressing in the chest etc. It's been going on for 2 years and has been quite challanging. Yet it kind of feels like it's a phase I must go through. Hope you have some insights on this. Cheers!

[@NondualityChannel]

Of course, there were difficult times and suffering before the illusion is shattered. But I have nothing to say about "powerful energies flying around in the body, tormenting me, pressing in the chest etc." I never had that.

[@SoHardToPickName1]

You should try it out. It's awesome =) Thank you for the reply.

[@niallbourke7963]

I identify with you Lasse, I have intense pressure in the forehead area ,intense heat in the body, skin rashes and general feeling of unease in the body, to name a few symptoms. I see it's referred to as Kundalini syndrome. Good luck x.

[@SoHardToPickName1]

@@niallbourke7963 I guess the body is trying to dump the ghost in the machine maybe. All the conditioning that isnt serving us anymore. Good luck to you too.

[@luistirado6305]

Hi Eric, oftentimes enlightenment is described as a perpetual flow-state in which you will start to act and make decisions that come automatically to you. As if you don't need to plan anything, like where to work, or what to do in life. As if the grace of God/Universe will start to move you. Is this an overly idealistic misrepresentation or is this the case for an enlightened person?

[@NondualityChannel]

Perhaps an overly idealistic misinterpretation. Deliberation and struggle are not needed to decide and act. Action arises from understanding...we usually rationalize the decision with thought after the decision has been made. There is no need to rationalize action/decision. After enlightenment, a lot of that unnecessary thought does not arise. However, enlightened people can still plan...say a vacation for next year, what to get at the store, how the bills are going to be paid, etc. It is not that "you don't need to plan anything"...but the plans are not taken seriously...that is to say if what is planned does not come about there would be suffering. The plan does not have to succeed in order to be happy. Happiness is now. Action tends to be more spontaneous...without deliberation.

[@luistirado6305]

@@NondualityChannel Thanks for responding. The way I understand enlightenment is that it is getting to that point where you no longer derive your sense of self from your thoughts. You no longer believe that your psychological makeup defines you; and your identity becomes more elastic. You realize that there isn't really such thing as a "me." However, even after having reached that point, I find that I still constantly get carried away by the ego in the sense that a lot of my motivation to do things in life are still influenced by the ego. And I still find that a lot of my thoughts give rise to temptations that try to get me to engage in superficial activities as a way, I feel, to prevent me from abiding/resting in my being/awareness. So my question is this: After enlightenment does the individual still have to cultivate the habit of seeing through the motivating influence of the ego? Or when you use the word "enlightenment" are you referring to that point whereby the individual has already made it a habit to see through the ego at all times ...to the extent that it has now become second-nature?

[@NondualityChannel]

@@luistirado6305 No, there is no need to cultivate the habit of seeing through the ego. Upon enlightenment, the ego never causes confusion again...it is not you...there is no "me" and nothing to identify with. Kind of like, you never have to cultivate the habit of not confusing yourself to be your kitchen refrigerator. Identification with the body-mind just drops away...and there is no identification with anything anymore. It's not about habit at all...you just know you are not that...the end. The ego fools you only because it has not been seen through. There is some ignorance and misunderstand remaining that causes doubt and thinking "maybe I am that". You still think you are an individual because you have not seen through that illusion totally. The illusion has not yet shattered...which is enlightenment.

[@luistirado6305]

@@NondualityChannel Thanks for responding. In order to get that point would you have to have been cultivating the habit of resisting the temptation to identify as the ego, or does that point in time you call enlightenment just happen spontaneously (without your volition) ...say by meditating constantly?

[@NondualityChannel]

@@luistirado6305 It is a matter of directly seeing/understanding...deeply...profoundly...without doubt. This is not something cultivated, turned into habit, resisting, etc. You can't do anything to cause enlightenment...it is more of a grace that happens. At best a more conducive environment can be created...free of distraction..by being still and silent and fully aware. Put it this way...enlightenment is a seeing through the illusion of "me"...what can a "me" do to cause this? Anything a "me" does only reinforces the illusion of "me". A "me" never gets enlightened.

[@mikebell4435]

Eric, do you do online Satsungs?

[@NondualityChannel]

I talk with people occasionally one on one online.

[@mikebell4435]

@@NondualityChannel Thank you for your reply Eric. Would you describe your teachings more like the Neo Advaita like Tony Parsons teaches where we don't have to do any spiritual work (Tony says there is nothing to do), or more along the lines of Ramana Maharshi where he says effort is required?

[@NondualityChannel]

@@mikebell4435 Neither...I mainly say cease doing and efforting. As Ramana Maharshi says...abide in Silence. This is not a doing. There is nothing you can do to cause awakening...you can't effort your way to awakening. But a more conducive environment for the grace of awakening to occur can be arranged (mainly via ceasing to do and cease thinking/silence of mind). Some doings may also help to a limited degree...for example, examining and questioning who you currently think/feel yourself to be in order to directly see you are not that. But again, this won't cause awakening. Ramana Maharshi did not give people a bunch of things to do (various spiritual practices and work). He mainly just taught self-enquiry...the purpose of which he said was to quiet the mind...so as to abide in Silence. Really, Ramana did not teach doings and effort either...he just said abide as Silence. This is not a doing. Self-enquiry, which is a doing, is supposed to lead to not-doing (i.e. abiding in Silence). Abiding as Silence does not cause awakening...it is just a more conducive environment for the grace of awakening. Ramana Maharshi called enlightenment a grace as well. You can't cause grace...you can't do anything to get grace.

[@mikebell4435]

@@NondualityChannel Thank you very much for your explanation ❤

[@raiwismatara2398]

You are not enlighted yet

[@acehilm.]

No one is.

[@aum-shanti]

let him believe that he is................. the big problem is that he leads poor people in a dead end..........🕉

[@aum-shanti]

@@MaryGwenDungan Thank you for your comment. (sorry but English is not the language for which I was programmed) in a few words I will try to give you my point of view .............. the problem is that 99% of awaking people have accumulated tens or even hundreds of books in their subconscious like pieces of a puzzle and one day some of the pieces came together they had a sometimes very strong flash and indeed it changed their lives both inside and outside and indeed it could change their relationship with others (behaviour actions and more .....) and in their eyes you could actually seem "awake" it is certain that you have reached a certain degree of awakening. ...... (I'm not talking about you in particular but in general). the problem in this story is that this awakening remained at an intellectual level ..........without being aware of it............. they always remained under the influence of their ego..... always without being aware of it .............anyway, awakened or not the ego, the mind, with all its implications......... will always be there............... . the intellectual awake being is under the domination of his ego without being aware of it...............an real awakened being is aware of the presence of this ego but he has control of it............. just watch the videos of these web guru to realize it generally intelligent with a good memory but for a hour they flood you with words often incomprehensible for the majority by quoting such a book, such a spiritual master, saying everything and its opposite in general it is only intellectual acrobatics................. it is very easy to say you are not the body not the mind you are the soul or whatever you call it............ and often the poor people feel awake they say to themselves...... ok now I know............. everyone is happy........ people they know ............and the guru makes a good money............. for me all that is just one more ego game ...............life on earth is like a movie and everyone plays an unconscious role........ the important thing whatever role you take is to be a good actor ........and the best of the best is to realize that we are actors prisoner of this marvelous machine which is the body and the mind........and at the end of the performance........ we will all return home...................reaching awakening (at least the first degree) is not so simple you must first find a real guide get informed but not too much it can lead to confusion......... learn a technique (meditation) and practice practice again until you reach the goal. I have a concrete physical experience and not intellectual ...........I have reached the first level of enlightenment and I do not consider myself above all as an enlightened being..............just aware of my primary nature not the body not the mind just this spark of life above ....................if you want in a future comment I could tell you about my experience................. this comment is the result of my own experience and I ask no one to believe me it is just my understanding and my experience of months and years of practice in the Himalayas that I share with you........... the spiritual path is the most fantastic journey and the most beautiful gift you can give to yourself.......... the path is long and full of obstacles but with method and perseverance you will certainly reach the first level and who knows maybe the ultimate......that some call nirvana. again sorry for my English. have a good life on planet earth and above all don't worry too much in the end everything will be fine for us. 🙏🕉 from: a spark of life embodied in a human body for a short period of time. 🌠

[@aum-shanti]

@@MaryGwenDungan Sorry for not having answered you but I have a small problem to solve which takes me a lot of time I will give you an answer tomorrow do not worry I am thinking of you. 🙏🕉

[@aum-shanti]

@@MaryGwenDungan ok I'm going to try to make it as simple and short as possible because this is a very long story that started from my youngest age i spent 12 years of my life between france and india i will try and when i finish i will send it to you. good evening