Enlightenment is not one event, it is a continuity in one empty Joy

Acharya Prashant
3 min readMay 16, 2020

If it is a model, an idea, a thought then you can very easily say what it is that you have known; because then you have concluded something.

When it comes to the Truth, when it comes to the Heart, you know that you can never say what it is that you have known.

Conclusions can be very easily expressed, realizations cannot be.

Conclusions can be, have to be, very easily expressed. Realizations cannot be expressed because essentially all that you realize is a cutting down of the clutter.

All realization is just clarity, emptiness. So all realizations are one. In fact realization can never be expressed as plural. Just as all empty spaces are one, similarly all realizations are one. Just as all zeroes are one, similarly all realizations are one.

Would you call a silence different from another silence? The infinite number of silences that you come across are just echoes of the same silence. In different situations, this and that, but the same silence. You can sit in front of the teacher a thousand times, and a thousand times you can realize. Again and again you can realize, but whenever you will realize, you will realize the same thing, which is nothing. That’s a joke.

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