Q. Swamiji, you tell us repeatedly that we are already enlightened. But when I look in, I am not feeling a bit enlightened! What am I missing?🔗

A. Not just you ma, this is the problem that every single seeker faces! No matter how many times we hear it, how many times we read about it, we can never believe that we are enlightened. Not only that, we never even feel that we are qualified for enlightenment! I tell you, the most difficult task for the master is to convince the disciple that he is qualified for enlightenment! The idea of being a limited individual is so deep-rooted in us, it takes lifetimes to be free of it. Actually, the only thing you need to liberate yourself from, is the idea that you are in bondage! You need to liberate yourself only from the idea of bondage you are carrying.

Both bondage and liberation are just ideas created by your mind. But as long as you think you are bound, the masters will have to create techniques for your liberation! Whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not, whether you accept it or not, you are always enlightened. You have never been in bondage.

When the individual wave rises from the cosmic ocean, when it reaches its peak, when it starts to subside, and when it falls and merges with the ocean – at all times, it is nothing but the ocean! It is nothing but water.

When you rise as an individual consciousness, when you live as a separate being, when you seek and struggle to return to your source, and when you finally merge in it – at all times, you are nothing but enlightened consciousness.