Why does everyone want enlightenment yet it’s not even clear what life is like after enlightened beings die and go to Vaikuntha or wherever? What is the advantage of life there vs earth?
Enlightenment is the total dissolution of the wrong belief ‘I am a body’ which caused this skewed perception from which the illusion of experience was born.
Direct experience of removing the body pressure, body knowledge, body relations through true understanding in the same way that you would discard a shirt.
Through meditation the realization that this body from is indeed a tight shirt, which on investigation is seen to grow tighter through wrong concepts and identification. ‘I am a body’.
When this knowledge dawns directly through itself and releases the tension of body pressure through identification with thoughts your formless nature will reflect in being.
You are not body. You are formless. The body and all of the accompanying concepts and experiences are untrue.
Including this ridiculous idea of birth and death.
There is no advantage as this entire experience is completely proved false. Yet while holding the body you are able to be rid of all the concepts which cause fear, distress, worry etc.
You are not body. You are formless. There is nothing except formless You. Be Happy, Happy, Happy. You were not born, you cannot die, you cannot be cut, you cannot be burned, you cannot be destroyed. You are formless.
The body you are using to read these words is your instrument, and the thoughts that are flowing through mind at this moment, when identified with is the only bondage. Even that bondage is illusory.
Jai Sadguru!
How did you become spiritually enlightened? Can everyone do this?
You are formless Presence with belief in being a body form that creates the illusion of experience. You are not body. You are formless. Through identification with the body, which you are not, a world appears with a you in it. The world is in you, you are not in it.
As long as there is identification with being a body with a name and form, their will be confusion. This confusion creates the concept of a spiritual awakening or spiritual journey towards enlightenment.
Enlightenment is the dissolution of this false identification with a body form which has caused the illusion of separation and someone having experiences.
You are not body. You are the formless holder of the body. You are not just holding the body with the name and form which you believe to be you, you are indeed the background supporting or holding the entire manifestation.
You are formless Presence with belief in being a body, creating the illusion of experience, through the concept of duality. The instrument with name and form you are using to read these words is not you.
What is the spiritual idea that the world is one and there is one life?
This is exactly the point at which one must discover for oneself. There are still a great many assumptions in the question that was posed. You are assuming that consciousness is an individual, and although it may appear that way, investigation will reveal that this is not the case.
Again without applying logic the example of dream can be used. Your ‘body’ is laying down, unmoving, the dream is projected when the consciousness touches the sense of existence. A dream world is projected, with many objects and everything within that dream appears to be solid and real whilst you are dreaming. Who is watching this entire dream? When waking up you say I had a good dream or bad dream. Was the body dreaming? It was consciousness, without form. There is only consciousness which projects both the dream and waking world with the perspective of a you in it. Consciousness is formless.
Consciousness has appeared to you. That is why it is rightly said that the concept of birth is the feeling of existence or ‘I am’, and the concept of death is the disappearance of the sense of existence or ‘I am’. The one to whom both of these appear and disappear is prior to the sense of existence as they both have appeared to you.
Nothing you have ever known, seen or done is true as it has appeared within consciousness, which has appeared to you.
You are not body. You are formless. There is nothing except formless you. All body based experiences are illusion, all body based relations are illusion, all body based knowledge and concepts are illusion. You are not body. You are formless.
You must sit quietly and discover this truth for yourself, using the instrument of body and the concept of duality, to discover your non-dual reality.
How did you know when you met your guru, he was the one for you?
I met my Guru first as a sense of Presence, which guided me to itself in the form of Sri Ramakant Maharaj, whose Guru was Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj. This Presence in the from of Sri Ramakant Maharaj stated clearly, ‘You are not body, you are formless Presence. The Presence which is speaking in this body, and the Presence which is listening in that body, are one and the same. “ Presence removed both bodies and remained.
If a person touches the state of enlightenment, how will he lead the rest of his life?
Once you realize that you are formless, body-less, birth-less, deathless, eternal outside of the concept of time. Live fearlessly in this form based illusion with the knowledge that you are not body, you were not body and you are not going to remain the body. There is nothing except formless you.
Enjoy, relax, no struggle, no worry, no strife, being fully alive in each moment, then letting that moment go without regret until the body you are using to enter into the form illusion is no longer capable of sustaining your formless Presence.
Some spiritual traditions say that everyone is already enlightened and nothing needs to be done. If this is true, then why are the behaviors of ordinary people or society so vastly different and inconsistent with the qualities of a realized sage?
Formless Presence That you are discards the false belief of being a body and realizes the unreality of the concept of separation. Formless Presence That You Are is always, was always and will always be, formless. The concept of being a form in a world is just an illusion due to the formless Presence identifying with being a body, which you are not, were not, and never could be.
It is due to this belief in being a body in a world that the concepts of enlightenment, birth, death, life appear to you. Once true understanding is directly experienced these false beliefs will be discarded.