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"We are always chasing happiness. We want to be happy all the time. The shortest way to be that way is to become enlightened!
Let me tell you what it means to be in the state of enlightenment. This is my personal experience.
The enlightenment keeps me in tremendous ecstasy 24 hours, 365 days a year. The word ‘ecstasy’ is not enough to describe the bliss I am in. Scientists say that whenever pleasure is stimulated in your system, a hormone called dopamine is released. Doctors call the point where it is released as the D-spot. When the chemical is released, our body is flooded with enormous energy.
When I am in the state of enlightenment, the idea of boundary, a limiting factor for most of us is lost. The feeling that my body ends here and the rest of the world starts here is absent. Everything is mine. The sensitivity with which I feel my body is the same that I feel for the whole cosmos.
My first experience with this kind of joy happened when I was a mere teenager. When I experienced it for the first time, the heightened sense of ecstasy lasted only for a few days. It gave me the first experience, the first glimpse. But after enlightenment, I live continuously in this heightened ecstasy. I am always in bliss day in and day out. It does not diminish, reduce. It just is. There is no time where I am not in this state.
When I became enlightened, I could no longer be judgmental. I only have compassion for everyone and everything. Merely by my physical presence, I radiate energy that will touch everyone.
With enlightenment, the basic idea of sex disappeared. The idea of being either male or female died. Though I have a male body, I can never identify with a male or female body. The truth is I am holding on to my body delicately, just like I hold a handkerchief, with my fingertips.
My mind doesn’t exist. I am like a tape recorder that plays when it is switched on. When it plays, you hear the sound. When it is switched off, there is silence. Similarly, when I stop talking, a space is created. There are no words here. There is only silence.
There are thousands of enlightened masters living on planet Earth. Their energies are all one and the same. Only their expressions are different.
Let us all strive towards enlightenment. Let us all partake the ecstasy and bliss that is eternal. Let all of us be in Nithyananda - eternal bliss."
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You write an interesting account of enlightenment.It truly sounds as if you have had a profound experience.

I have been a Zen practitioner for the last 30 years or so and I was once read of a story of a Zen student looking at the calligraphy of a Zen master. There were two symbols...

When the student asked what the first meant, the master answered, "Happiness".

The student then asked the meaning of the second and the master replied, "I do not seek it".

I have always thought that to be a particularly profound message. To seek happiness is a desire and it is said that on his enlightenment, the Buddha discovered that desire was the source of all suffering.

In my zazen I aspire to be here and to be in the moment of now. When I achieve this, I am neither happy nor sad. Paradoxically to me, this is true happiness. When I have left the relative, thinking mind for a while. :-)

Great comment. This is the trouble of using words to express wordlessness :) The essences is what matters. All masters say the same thing in different words to different crowds/civilization/mindsets. Moment of "now" is the key.

Bliss Bytes by Paramahamsa Nithyananda