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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