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By the way, I suggest that anyone reading the above not get too hung up on the term "enlightenment" or begin associating it with elevated spiritual achievements. It would probably be more balanced to think of the act of "enlightenment" as bringing that which is unconscious (dark) to consciousness (light). When understood from this perspective we can also see that an individual might go through numerous stages of "enlightenment".

Meantime, the question you need to answer unhappymandi is, what part of you is struggling to come into consciousness?