--- title: "Enlightenment" key: "Enlightenment" url: "https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment" markdown_url: "https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment.md" type: "article" language: "en" categories: - "Definitions" updated: "2019-04-02T21:12:16.000Z" 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." --- # Enlightenment ## 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. So what exactly is living enlightenment? Here is a video to start you off on this amazing journey! [YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/embed/OObAfQAVJ98?) ## 101 Definitions of Enlightenment - \1. Changing what you need to change, accepting what you don't need to change. - \2. Approaching life with sincere playfulness. - \3. Feeling a constant connection with cosmos. - \4. Enjoying without craving and renouncing without suffering. - \5. Living beyond your ordinary logic. - \6. Discovering and celebrating that you are unique. - \7. Welcoming every way in which life introduces itself to you. - \8. Working with passion, waiting with patience. - \9. Intensity becoming part of your bio-memory. - \10. Restful awareness in every action. - \11. Living with a deep feeling that the whole cosmos is miracle. - \12. Surrender without guarantee from to who you surrender. - \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. - \14. Running your life on inspiration, not on effort, [fear](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Fear.md) or greed. - \15. [Unclutching](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Unclutching.md). - \16. Living with yogic body and Vedic mind. - \17. Living with a free and open liberated inner space. - \18. [Freedom](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Freedom.md) from whims and fantasies. - \19. Remembering what you need to remember and forgetting what you to forget. - \20. Not carrying vengeance against others or oneself. - \21. Taking [responsibility](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Responsibility.md) for everything happening in you, to you, and around you. - \22. Living with the power to create your destiny every moment. - \23. Having the courage to change when change happens to you. - \24. Living without the gap between inner and outer worlds. - \25. Enjoying the chaos of life within the frame of your body. - \26. When the ideas of honor and dishonor can no longer touch you. - \27. Not being caught in extremes. - \28. Living effortlessly. - \29. Having the clear understanding of oneself and the world and god and humanity. - \30. Approaching life with the beginners mind. - \31. Opening your self to the other and through the other to the whole cosmos. - \32. Using the right mask in right situation with right people. - \33. When a spiritual awakening happens in you, and not falling back into old mental setup. - \34. The courage to live in utter insecurity. - \35. Intense [seeking](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Seeking.md). - \36. Daring to unlearn. - \37. When you stop trying to live life and allow life to live you. - \38. Thinking, speaking, acting in alignment with the truth. - \39. The courage to face fear without fear. - \40. Saying YES to life. - \41. Welcoming the uniqueness of others without awakening your jealousy. - \42. Feeling a deep friendliness towards your body and towards everything through your body. - \43. Taking on responsibility without creating pressure and stress in you. - \44. Living in choice less freedom. - \45. Feeling all life as sacred. - \46. Freedom from guilt and experiencing life beyond guilt. - \47. Understanding that all your problems are no more than a hard hug from life. - \48. Having compassion which flows towards everything. - \49. Having the courage to love and to let go when required. - \50. Doing your best and leave the rest. - \51. An ordinary life lived in an extraordinary way. - \52. Working from intuition, not just from dull intellect. - \53. Gambling with life and losing it to the divine. - \54. Being true to oneself and honest to oneself. - \55. Intense passion directed towards no object, person, or situation. - \56. Correct [listening](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Listening.md). - \57. Knowing when to bend and when to stand and doing it. - \58. Going beyond doubt and faith. - \59. Celebrating your self as a conscious miracle of the cosmos. - \60. Love minus possessiveness and suffering caused by possessiveness. - \61. Being total in whatever you do. - \62. Seeing the world each day as if for the first time. - \63. Living in gratitude. - \64. Risking your beliefs to explore the truth. - \65. Living by consciousness, not for conscience. - \66. Keeping the possibility to trust alive no mater how many times it is broken. - \67. A constant conscious connection to something higher than you. - \68. Spontaneous living in and with cosmos. - \69. Understanding clearly that yesterdays free will is today's destiny and today's free will bee tomorrows destiny. - \70. Being a natural inspiration for conscious living for those around you. - \71. Not allowing your intelligence to destroy your innocence. - \72. Total surrender with total responsibility. - \73. Living with utter simplicity in outer world and abundance in inner world. - \74. The courage to be yourself. - \75. When you cannot be caught by desire or shaken by fear. - \76. Realizing that nothing needs to be added to you or taken away from you. - \77. Exploring your potential in 360 degrees. - \78. Moving from fulfillment to more fulfilment to more and more fulfillment. - \79. The courage to make mistakes and the ability to learn lessons from mistakes. - \80. Allowing all emotions to play in you without touching you, only letting them teach you. - \81. Living in romance with your self and through yourself with whole cosmos. - \82. Doing a little more than you possibly can in any field. - \83. Daring to live without ordinary beliefs. - \84. Intense excitement for no reason. - \85. Enjoying the path and the goal. - \86. Expanding beyond the boundary of your body and mind. - \87. Continuously bridging gap between your expectations and reality. - \88. Living without regrets. - \89. Radiating causeless overflowing love. - \90. Infusing silence into your being and bringing restful awareness to you. - \91. Enjoying everything that happens in your life as auspicious. - \92. The strength to face life and death lightly. - \93. Dropping the desire for suffering. - \94. Walking through life with open arms. - \95. The willingness to change your opinions and strategy for life. - \96. Simplicity in words and actions. - \97. Being aware of the games of the mind. - \98. Serving without knowing you're serving. - \99. Living without defences. - \100. Taking the leap in consciousness. - \101. Living in Nithyananda, eternal bliss. ## Download Book To download the book, click here: [https://innerawakening.org/livingenlightenment](https://innerawakening.org/livingenlightenment) [Introduction to Living Enlightenment](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/File:Living_Enlightenment_-_An_introduction_E_book.pdf.md) ## Links to Articles [https://www.nithyananda.org/enlightenment](https://www.nithyananda.org/enlightenment) [http://nithyanandatimes.org/category/santana-hindu-dharma/jeevan-mukti-living-enlightenment/](http://nithyanandatimes.org/category/santana-hindu-dharma/jeevan-mukti-living-enlightenment/) ## Links to More Videos [https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation/search?query=living+enlightenment](https://www.youtube.com/user/LifeBlissFoundation/search?query=living+enlightenment) [http://www.nithyananda.org/Nithyananda-eNcyclopedia/My%20Default%20Page%2013.1.html](http://www.nithyananda.org/Nithyananda-eNcyclopedia/My%20Default%20Page%2013.1.html) --- Categories: [Definitions](https://nithyanandapedia.org/wiki/Category:Definitions.md) Source: