So if enlightenment happens, how do we know it has happened?
Suppose we are hallucinating to be enlightened. If such a thing happens, it
will be clearer than daylight. It's not something that you can miss. It is not
that kind of an event that you could miss it. You will not miss it. But when I
say this there is a problem attached to this because these days, it is going on
in many places. For a certain fee, within it a weekend's time you can get
enlightened. You'll be declared enlightened by somebody. Really.. It's happening
everywhere if you just pay a certain amount of money, one weekend you can get
enlightened. I remember, in the 60s, in the 1960s, in California people set up
certain businesses - enlightenment services. The advertisement I remember
very well. If you go to India, it will take 12 years of hardship. $50 30 minutes
you can get enlightened. They were just using psychedelic machines, you put up
certain visuals and certain sounds it will just just blow your mind apart. Because of the
sounds and the visuals, when you come out you come in a daze.
You feel like you have really gotten somewhere. This used to be the
advertisement, fifty dollars thirty minutes. If you go to India
twelve years of hardship. Here its California, quick, new technology. This
1960 machines, this whole technology has now infiltrated into India. Some people
have installed these machines and they're claiming within a weekend
they can enlighten you. You cannot hallucinate about it.
If you are sincere, you would know that it is not so. But, if it's a part of the
race, that you want to get enlightened before somebody, of course you can
declare I am enlightened. It is just that
these kind of deceptions are not new on the planet.
They have been happening for a long time. But now modern technology has come to
aid them better. To give them an expanded sense of many things. Much
experimentation was done during the sixties and seventies about these things.
One is, with these psychedelic machines another is with psychedelic drugs.
You take an LSD and people claim they are enlightened because they had an expanded
sense just for a while and then they came back. If they overdid it then they
lost everything, they cracked up in so many ways or even died. Many many people
mentally cracked up because of excessive use of psychedelic drugs. But for those
few moments, they really felt enlightened or at least they thought so. This is not
something that you do. This is not something that you can do. It is just
that, if you cultivate the system, your body, mind, emotion and energy
to its peak possibility, then an absolutely wonderful flower blossoms
within you. Not something that you did. You just waited with the right kind of
conditions and it happened