I agree with you about “premature claims to enlightenment.” I think they are common. If the people I’m referring to were saying “I have reached the pinnacle of human evolution” or if they displayed egotism or even if they were setting themselves up as gurus, I’d doubt them. All of them have achieved significant degrees of awakening, all acknowledge that there’s plenty more growth to undergo, not only for themselves but for MMY, Amma, your guru, and any living being, no matter how enlightened, and all are living private lives and are not inclined to become gurus. If they were, that wouldn’t rule out their enlightenment in my estimation, but it would make them suspect of ambition-based motives for claiming enlightenment. All of the folks I’m referring to have TM backgrounds. A few have branched out into other things. If the guru’s stamp of approval were an absolute necessity for realization, no one in the TM movement could become realized, because MMY doesn’t do that. You can think you are realized yet not be. But if you are realized, you’ll know it. Your experience will be sufficient confirmation. And you’ll be the only one at your graduation.
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