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What is the significance of enlightenment as the last experience of the mind?

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"Enlightenment is the mind's last experience, a fleeting glimpse of silence and bliss, but beyond it lies the ultimate truth of mahaparinirvana, where even the experiencer dissolves into the infinite."

Core Insight:
According to Osho, enlightenment is the mind’s last experience: the final, subtlest state (nirvana) where silence, selflessness and bliss are still “experienced”—hence mind is still faintly present. Its significance is as a milestone and incentive, not the ultimate. Beyond it lies mahaparinirvana, where even the experiencer dissolves and no experience, duality, or mind remains.
Enlightenment is like the last thing your thinking can feel; after that, there’s a quiet so deep that there’s nobody left to feel it.
Why this matters practically
- Use experiences as stepping-stones, not final goals.
- Don’t cling to bliss; surrender beyond mind and ego.
- Orient meditation toward dissolving the experiencer, not chasing special states.
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