{"key":"Enlightenment","title":"Enlightenment","type":"article","description":"Description Enlightenment very simply defined: Discovering and celebrating that you are unique is living enlightenment Please understand the very purpose of human existence is to live enlightenment.","lastModified":"2019-04-02T21:12:16.000Z","url":"https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment","markdownUrl":"https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment.md","apiUrl":"https://nithyanandapedia.org/api/pages/Enlightenment","displayTitle":"Enlightenment","namespace":0,"language":"en","created":"2026-05-25T17:35:53.825Z","categories":[{"key":"Definitions","title":"Definitions","url":"https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Category:Definitions","markdownUrl":"https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Category:Definitions.md","apiUrl":"https://nithyanandapedia.org/api/categories/Definitions"}],"sections":[{"line":"Description","level":2,"anchor":"Description"},{"line":"101 Definitions of Enlightenment","level":2,"anchor":"101_Definitions_of_Enlightenment"},{"line":"Download Book","level":2,"anchor":"Download_Book"},{"line":"Links to Articles","level":2,"anchor":"Links_to_Articles"},{"line":"Links to More Videos","level":2,"anchor":"Links_to_More_Videos"}],"infobox":null,"fields":null,"event":null,"leadImage":null,"format":"blocks","content":{"version":1,"converter":2,"toc":true,"blocks":[{"type":"heading","level":2,"anchor":"Description","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Description"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Enlightenment","marks":["bold"]},{"type":"text","text":" very simply defined: Discovering and celebrating that you are unique is living enlightenment"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Please understand the very purpose of human existence is to live enlightenment."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"So what exactly is living enlightenment? Here is a video to start you off on this amazing journey!"}]},{"type":"embed","provider":"youtube","url":"https://www.youtube.com/embed/OObAfQAVJ98?","align":"inline","width":640,"height":360},{"type":"heading","level":2,"anchor":"101_Definitions_of_Enlightenment","content":[{"type":"text","text":"101 Definitions of Enlightenment"}]},{"type":"list","ordered":false,"items":[[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"1. Changing what you need to change, accepting what you don't need to change."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"2. Approaching life with sincere playfulness."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"3. Feeling a constant connection with cosmos."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"4. Enjoying without craving and renouncing without suffering."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"5. Living beyond your ordinary logic."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"6. Discovering and celebrating that you are unique."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"7. Welcoming every way in which life introduces itself to you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"8. Working with passion, waiting with patience."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"9. Intensity becoming part of your bio-memory."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"10. Restful awareness in every action."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"11. Living with a deep feeling that the whole cosmos is miracle."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"12. Surrender without guarantee from to who you surrender."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"13. Constantly supporting the needs of your being instead of the needs of your ego, the needs of your individuality not the needs of the personality."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"14. Running your life on inspiration, not on effort, "},{"type":"link","pageKey":"Fear","children":[{"type":"text","text":"fear"}]},{"type":"text","text":" or greed."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"15. "},{"type":"link","pageKey":"Unclutching","children":[{"type":"text","text":"Unclutching"}]},{"type":"text","text":"."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"16. Living with yogic body and Vedic mind."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"17. Living with a free and open liberated inner space."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"18. 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Living without the gap between inner and outer worlds."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"25. Enjoying the chaos of life within the frame of your body."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"26. When the ideas of honor and dishonor can no longer touch you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"27. Not being caught in extremes."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"28. Living effortlessly."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"29. Having the clear understanding of oneself and the world and god and humanity."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"30. Approaching life with the beginners mind."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"31. Opening your self to the other and through the other to the whole cosmos."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"32. Using the right mask in right situation with right people."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"33. When a spiritual awakening happens in you, and not falling back into old mental setup."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"34. The courage to live in utter insecurity."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"35. Intense "},{"type":"link","pageKey":"Seeking","children":[{"type":"text","text":"seeking"}]},{"type":"text","text":"."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"36. Daring to unlearn."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"37. When you stop trying to live life and allow life to live you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"38. Thinking, speaking, acting in alignment with the truth."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"39. The courage to face fear without fear."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"40. Saying YES to life."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"41. Welcoming the uniqueness of others without awakening your jealousy."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"42. Feeling a deep friendliness towards your body and towards everything through your body."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"43. Taking on responsibility without creating pressure and stress in you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"44. Living in choice less freedom."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"45. Feeling all life as sacred."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"46. Freedom from guilt and experiencing life beyond guilt."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"47. Understanding that all your problems are no more than a hard hug from life."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"48. Having compassion which flows towards everything."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"49. Having the courage to love and to let go when required."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"50. Doing your best and leave the rest."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"51. An ordinary life lived in an extraordinary way."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"52. Working from intuition, not just from dull intellect."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"53. Gambling with life and losing it to the divine."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"54. Being true to oneself and honest to oneself."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"55. Intense passion directed towards no object, person, or situation."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"56. Correct "},{"type":"link","pageKey":"Listening","children":[{"type":"text","text":"listening"}]},{"type":"text","text":"."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"57. Knowing when to bend and when to stand and doing it."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"58. Going beyond doubt and faith."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"59. Celebrating your self as a conscious miracle of the cosmos."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"60. Love minus possessiveness and suffering caused by possessiveness."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"61. Being total in whatever you do."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"62. Seeing the world each day as if for the first time."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"63. Living in gratitude."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"64. Risking your beliefs to explore the truth."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"65. Living by consciousness, not for conscience."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"66. Keeping the possibility to trust alive no mater how many times it is broken."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"67. A constant conscious connection to something higher than you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"68. Spontaneous living in and with cosmos."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"69. Understanding clearly that yesterdays free will is today's destiny and today's free will bee tomorrows destiny."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"70. Being a natural inspiration for conscious living for those around you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"71. Not allowing your intelligence to destroy your innocence."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"72. Total surrender with total responsibility."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"73. Living with utter simplicity in outer world and abundance in inner world."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"74. The courage to be yourself."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"75. When you cannot be caught by desire or shaken by fear."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"76. Realizing that nothing needs to be added to you or taken away from you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"77. Exploring your potential in 360 degrees."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"78. Moving from fulfillment to more fulfilment to more and more fulfillment."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"79. The courage to make mistakes and the ability to learn lessons from mistakes."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"80. Allowing all emotions to play in you without touching you, only letting them teach you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"81. Living in romance with your self and through yourself with whole cosmos."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"82. Doing a little more than you possibly can in any field."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"83. Daring to live without ordinary beliefs."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"84. Intense excitement for no reason."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"85. Enjoying the path and the goal."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"86. Expanding beyond the boundary of your body and mind."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"87. Continuously bridging gap between your expectations and reality."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"88. Living without regrets."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"89. Radiating causeless overflowing love."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"90. Infusing silence into your being and bringing restful awareness to you."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"91. Enjoying everything that happens in your life as auspicious."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"92. The strength to face life and death lightly."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"93. Dropping the desire for suffering."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"94. Walking through life with open arms."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"95. The willingness to change your opinions and strategy for life."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"96. Simplicity in words and actions."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"97. Being aware of the games of the mind."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"98. Serving without knowing you're serving."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"99. Living without defences."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"100. Taking the leap in consciousness."}]}],[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"101. Living in Nithyananda, eternal bliss."}]}]]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"anchor":"Download_Book","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Download Book"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"To download the book, click here: "},{"type":"link","href":"https://innerawakening.org/livingenlightenment","children":[{"type":"text","text":"https://innerawakening.org/livingenlightenment"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"link","pageKey":"File:Living_Enlightenment_-_An_introduction_E_book.pdf","children":[{"type":"text","text":"Introduction to Living Enlightenment"}]}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"anchor":"Links_to_Articles","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Links to Articles"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"link","href":"https://www.nithyananda.org/enlightenment","children":[{"type":"text","text":"https://www.nithyananda.org/enlightenment"}]}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"link","href":"http://nithyanandatimes.org/category/santana-hindu-dharma/jeevan-mukti-living-enlightenment/","children":[{"type":"text","text":"http://nithyanandatimes.org/category/santana-hindu-dharma/jeevan-mukti-living-enlightenment/"}]}]},{"type":"heading","level":2,"anchor":"Links_to_More_Videos","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Links to More Videos"}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"link","href":"https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation/search?query=living+enlightenment","children":[{"type":"text","text":"https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation/search?query=living+enlightenment"}]},{"type":"text","text":" "},{"type":"link","href":"http://www.nithyananda.org/Nithyananda-eNcyclopedia/My%20Default%20Page%2013.1.html","children":[{"type":"text","text":"http://www.nithyananda.org/Nithyananda-eNcyclopedia/My%20Default%20Page%2013.1.html"}]}]}]},"images":{}}