Everyone become enlightened in different ways because they all have different soul histories and different abilities because of billions of years of different experience as a soul. Some incarnate as humans once or a thousand times or never do. So, basically hear we are talking about enlightenment while you are wearing a human body on earth as a soul.
I think it is sort of like going to school in some ways.
In first grade could you read?
Did you understand fully what teachers meant when they said certain things to you?
Did you understand all the words fully?
IN first grade when I said the pledge of Allegiance because it was required then in the mornings in homeroom I thought I was saying at one point "And under the Elephant for which is stands" instead of "And to the Republic for which it stands. I might have been 7 or 8 before I figured out I had it wrong.
It's sort of the same with enlightenment for almost everyone.
When I decided between 15 and 17 to become fully enlightened in this lifetime, I really had no idea what I was asking of myself. And what I thought enlightenment was was something quite different than what I experienced over the years. So, often when you start a path towards enlightenment you might have the right motivation (which is everything) in some ways. But, almost no one really understands what they are really in for.
Then in my 20s I read "Autobiography of a Yogi" and found because I'm an intuitive that many of the kinds of experience Yogananda had growing up I also had had. So, the first half of the book I could really identify with.
I wanted to be a "Householder Yogi" like Lahiri Mahasaya (one of Yogananda's teachers) because he was a householder yogi so your family becomes an integral part of your life path yoga.
Later I studied with Native American Medicine men, A Catholic priest with 200 IQ who used to be District Attorney of Santa Cruz County before becoming a priest, And finally I studied with Tibetan Lamas in the U.S., India and Nepal. All these experiences guided me towards enlightenment in various ways.
But, I would say the most powerful change to my personal karma came from embarking on a path of compassion.
Most Christian paths are paths of power in one way or another and people often go under on these paths by harming others without understanding what they doing. So, thinking others aren't going to heaven because they aren't your sect of Christianity is harmful to other souls and bad karma and not useful to your soul long term or short term.
So, when I realized this I was pretty upset about it and embarked upon a non-judgmental path of compassion towards myself and all beings.
I had the realization that God doesn't give true power or wisdom to people who judge others because only God is permitted to judge them in the end not any people. However, in order to survive in civilization people make laws. But, mostly these aren't Gods laws they are just so people can survive better hopefully in that civilization.
So, as I moved forwards on my path to enlightenment I had to learn amazing things I never really never expected to have to learn. And being open to learning absolutely unbelievable things is necessary on your path to enlightenment too.
It is sort of like being a scientist and discovering the truths of life one by one. In fact, in some ways it is exactly like this. The difference being that you are including all experiences and waking and sleeping dreams into this scientific endeavor (which actual scientists likely wouldn't go for).
One of the more amazing things I learned was when I was studying with native American Medicine men. To me, what was amazing is "Everyone's dreams are important to the tribe". In other words it doesn't matter who has a dream or vision that is important to the survival of the tribe.
This is what has been lost by cities and too many people living together. We all have dreams. We all have visions. And they are ALL important to our group survival in the short and long run.
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