Enlightenment goes parallel with Self-Realization. Through Enlightenment, your capacity to understand expands because your brain activity increases, expanding the capacity to absorb and process more information. The frequency or vibration of your being changes and you are no longer affected by events that have provoked you in the past. For example jealousy is a low vibration and one cannot be affected by this vibration when the vibration of the soul has been refined.

In Yoga Self -Realization is knowledge of one’s true self. This true self is also referred to as the “Atman” or “soul” to avoid ambiguity. The term “Self-Realization” is a translation of the Sanskrit expression “Atman Jnana” (knowledge of the self or Atman). The reason the term “realization” is used instead of “knowledge” is that Jnana refers to knowledge based on experience, not mere intellectual knowledge. Self-Realization begins by asking the questions:

Who am I?
What is the real truth?
What is this world about?
What or who is god?

"if you want to change the world, change your world first" Sri Sutrananda

The time of the individual master is over. The time of the Guru is finished. In this new century we are all Masters, we are all Gurus, we are all Messengers to each other. Speak your ever expanding truth softly and clearly. Help each other remember that “we are all one,” that “we are interdependent,” that “we are unity,” that all living things are born out of the same source, whatever you conceive that source to be. Learn from the people listed below and from all of those who speak of unity. Learn to remember that separation is an illusion and when you remember that "We Are All One"; spread the good news to all those around you because you are a messenger, no more, no less, than those who came before you. You brought your self to this page because you are a seeker of the light and because now you are ready, and now you understand that you are no longer a seeker of the light, but a bringer of the light.

Namaste
Sri Sutrananda.