I have been enlightened for over 25 years, and I can say that every day seems to me like the fist day, in the sense that every day I feel I am barely beginning to discover what this state is, and how to live with it. I have also learned the hard way that enlightenment is like a planted seed: it will try to sprout and bloom, but unless watered with the daliy water of meditation, and cared for in the absolute void space and silence of the spirit, it will wither and die.

Enlightenment is a state of total freedom. Freedom from limits, from thought, from all the constraints of human life, and from any duty or obligation. In enlightenment, there is nothing to do and nothing can add to it.

Unfortunately, in a sense, it is possible to misuse it and waste it, and in over 40 years I have seen many fall into the trap. In my experience, there is only one way to properly integrate enlightenment: in total and absolute silence. And we all know how loud the mind shouts and roars!

So the answer is simple: meditate, meditate, and then meditate some more… Day after day die in meditation, die to your thoughts, die to the world, die to who you still think you are. There is nothing to learn, and you will know that only by drowning in the absolute bliss of the spirit.

Let others try to change the world and improve it. It has been tried since the dawn of time and will be attempted till the universe crashes finally into nothing. Your duty as an enlightened being is to let the perfection of God pervade every ounce of your being. There is no greater human achievement, or any better way to help the world or worship God. If you don’t do it, if you don’t drown every instant of your life in the bliss of pure being, who will?

If you don’t work hard and relentlessly at letting this absolute freedom pervade you, how will you fulfil the only mission left to you: to let others know that this state exists? How can you tell others about the infinite freedom of the one without a second, if you yourself have not realised that there is nothing more to do after enlightenment? How can you tell others about the absolute bliss of infinity, if it does not pervade your being at every instant? You would be like a pauper telling others about countless riches: no one would believe you.

Let us not fool ourselves: unless we continue to work hard at our meditation, enlightenment will soon be a distant memory, and we will be of no use to others or to God. On the other hand if we meditate hard and daily, if we take the time regularly to sit down for a few days, the question of integrating enlightenment will simply not arise. As Kabir said “When the pan is full, Where is the need fo weighing?”