Thread by @Satyamshakti9

How do you reconcile 'you are already enlightened and there's no need to strive!' with 'you should strive for enlightenment. Purify your mind!' (Enlightenment, truth, Buddhism)?

The confusion is because of the wrong word called enlightenment.

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To me, it seems to be a dangerous word convenient to create religious supremacies.

En-Lightenment - what is adding light to what? The halo around the head?

Replace it with ‘Realization’, or the Sanskrit ‘Atma Jnana’.
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There are beautiful Mahavakyas in Sanskrit pointing to this- Ekam Brahma- Brahman is One, Aham Brahmasmi- The inside is of the nature of Brahman, TatVamAsi- You Are That, and so on.

You are what you are whether you realise or not!
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If you have to attain something, then you are adding something foreign to yourself.

If you are already not what you are seeking, then what you realise is something foreign to yourself.

Both can't be possible as you are realising only yourself.

Then, what is this striving?

Striving is not to attain. It is to drop the illusory conceptions that you are not.

You realize what you are by dropping what you are not.

How did this illusion come about if I am already what I am?

No answer, as illusion is questioning why & how the illusion came about.

Illusion can give only round about answers beating around the bush.

May be just touching but not enough.

May be the twilight but not the dawn itself.

The truth alone can answer the truth.
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‘What you are not’ strives to remove ‘What you are not’, and what remains is ‘what you are’ which realizes itself

Siddharth T Jankiraman
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