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Deviate said: This is all manifest phenomena. In fact to me this doesn't even sound like a description of enlightenment, it sounds like a description of dispassion, which one develops through spiritual practice. In enlightenment, one is beyond all this. The manifest remains but one becomes aware of the unmanifest, which is more real than the manifest. The unmanifest, is described as being pure, that is to say it is an undifferentiated whole. One part of the unmanifest isn't one way and another part another way, its all just the unmanifest. And it IS like this 24/7, it does not change, only the manifest changes. The unmanifest is before space, time, change etc. Words cannot really describe it, but one thing that all the sages seem to say is that it is very very very good. It is not a painful place to be.
I had a glimpse of this thing through kundalini awakening. When kundalini reaches your crown chakra it makes the manifest disappear completely and then you behold the unmanifest directly and unobscure by anything. The experience might last for a few minutes but supposedly the maximum length is 21 days after which death is likely. It's like a reset to that pre-birth state. I'm struck by the accuracy of your description. I guess the point of it being revealed is that it changes your perception for the rest of your life such that the unmanifest comes to the foreground and the manifest goes to the background in the sense that the mind rests with the unmanifest being the center of attention generally.
It feels like resting in deep sleep while completely awake - this is first felt during the experience and then the memory or feeling of it never ceases afterwards. I'm sure the brain is transformed in some way such that something is activated and transmitting when before there wasn't, and in the day of modern medical scanning we might be able to find out what's up for once. I've spoken to quite a few people who've experienced this, also through kundalini.
-------------------- "Everything there is, and all that there is, is a Pattern of unspeakable proportion. The Pattern contains everything that is, completely fixed in succession, all the minimal particles interconnected in every way that is. Every way that is is not every conceivable way, because not everything that can be conceived is manifest in the pattern." "THE Human, you, is a miniscule but essential part of that pattern. In it lies complete fulfillment. It will never become something it is not, but it will never need to be anything else." - Wiccan_Seeker "If boring drudgery was the way of the universe, everything would have killed itself long ago." - Spacerific
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