Enlightened ?? or Awakened ?? what is the difference??

Question

which one are you ?

Answer 1

Friend,

Almost majority are in deep slumber of ignorance and they are to be AWAKENED to understand WHAT THEY ARE.

When you awaken, or when a person comes out of this slumber or sleep state himself or with help of a Guru or Master he is naturally an ENLIGHTENED PERSON.

I am just coming out of sleep and struggling yet.

Answer 2

The difference is that Awakening usually happens to pave the path for enlightenment, though it could happen almost together in rare cases. Usually, it the awakening that takes lots of time & efforts, like that Monday mornings, after the care-free weekends!

Answer 3

Awakening should be the first stage before getting enlightened

Answer 4

It looks like you are asking this question, to get people to think about what is their realization? I see your question as rhetorical and probably it won't have the result you intended. I see it's like this because to get an essential answer, you have to have an essential question. I predict most people will respond to this question with what they think they know, thus it's all about 'showing what one knows', and one participates to get confirmation. It's hard for me not to do the same. So with that said...

Okay, so if one sticks with the normal definitions then one is asleep, one awakens to the fact that one was asleep, then one is on a long journey to find out what might be meant by full awakening or enlightenment. But I would rather go into it more deep, and talk about how one fools oneself into believing one is enlightened after one has awakened.

For me:

Enlightened and Awakened both have a problem, and it's with the suffix: 'ed'.

This means it's happen-ed, and thus is perceived as a physical form and manifest, part of the past.

The reality all around us is change, motion, all is movement and vibration. There can be no '-ed' in such a world. The moment you think you are '-ed', the same instant that state eludes you. We want to be the same, we want security in a changing world. This will never happen. Reality is '-ing': evolv-ing, chang-ing, mov-ing.

Okay, so one CAN awak-en or be enlight-en to the truth: that all around is change and you are the one observing it, the eye in the center of the storm turning around you. Then one might say: the observer is born, which is often confused with enlighten-ed and awaken-ed. One's tendency is to want to cling to this accomplishment or birth as having completed some goal. So this is the state of believing oneself to be awakened or enlightened.

Later you realize that you are actually awaken-ing, enlighten-ing, grow-ing, chang-ing, and it is only by accepting this changing reality of yourself that you will realize that there is no static state, there will never be a place where you can rest your head for very long, there will never be the case that you have it all figured out. A new challenge from the outside will always force you to change and adapt and if you don't adapt you will become rigid, brittle and will die.

Security will always elude you. The nature of change will always come to take away what you thought you had and shake things up once again.

Finally you come to the conclusion that Awaken-ing is an eternal process, and then you become very willing to see when you are clinging to static worn out behaviors or wisdoms and you are open to let go of the past. You know that clinging to who you were will eventually cause your death. You realize that living in the present moment is all you ever had and all you will ever have, and it's more enjoyable to do so than anything else you could ever possibly imagine.

Betsy

Answer 5

Enlightened

Answer 6

I think it means this when you are enlightened you see something you have seen in a different way as to fully understand it. When you are awakened it means that you have just discovered something that was in front of you all along but could not notice it. And yet I am both :)

Answer 7

Awakened is before Enlightened? At least in my opinion...

And I've just awakened...

Answer 8

I think that they are two steps of the same scale(of spiritual evolution), the step of enlightening is much higher like that of awakens. I would like to consider myself awakened.

Answer 9

First, you are awakened and then enlightened.

Awakened is "there is so much for me to know... I want to know more..."

Enlightened is "i have learned so much that I never imagined before..."

Get it??

I am enlightened, but not totally, I still have a lot to learn.

Peace!

Answer 10

There are a gazillion internet links and cults and communities that talk this. that is all pretentious jargon, however. And why ask a Q in case you alread understand the respond? "Self-cognizance" and "enlightenment" are words to describe turning out to be sparkling and rather huge unsleeping quite of automatic and neurotic. "Samadhi" is a state of utter meditative absorption wherein the sense of self and duality are suspended. "Awakening the Kundalini" is extra pretentious jargon yet is a technique, often performed via meditative practices and different yogic disciplines, by which psychodynamic complexes start to shift and grow to be attenuated, liberating up and changing power and theory types. Yogic and meditation workouts have a neurodynamic result, certainly, and the practices rearrange and best neural pathways interior the concepts, ensuing in ecstatic and cathartic states which would be transformational. in actuality, even however human beings covet the ecstatic and adjusted-state reports of Kundalini artwork, they're basically byproducts of neurodynamic actual transformations that are happening on your concepts and physique.