What is Enlightenment? || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Enlightenment is not some divine event in which flowers rain from the sky and

00:06strange, impossible, metanatural things start happening on the earth. No, nothing.

00:12Enlightenment is a very simple thing and the other kind of enlightenment that

00:16you hear in which magical things happen, incredible stuff. People start flying and

00:21flowers start talking, animals transform into human beings. All that is nice

00:27entertainment. Nothing beyond that. Enlightenment simply means to know. There

00:32are areas of darkness in the mind, you throw light on them, that is

00:37enlightenment. That's all. Enlightenment is no magical or fancy thing. So right

00:43now I can enlighten you a bit, you too can enlighten me a bit. To really know

00:47something is to be enlightened about it. Kindly do not associate metaphysical

00:52notions with it.