How does one attain a state of Enlightenment? It starts with Sat, the Truth and then needs the light of Chit, Consciousness. Most of us know the Truth. Don't we know that death is certain, that nothing belongs to us, that dreams are not real, that the body will die, that apples don't grow on mango trees, that a power called God exists, that the universe runs through universal laws and that there is Divinity in beauty?
Although we know the Truth, we continue to live in ignorance. Why? We know of the Truth, but we are not Enlightened. This is only because our knowledge has not evolved into Consciousness. When knowledge shines under the light of Consciousness, the Truth is realized. This means the Truth becomes real in our eyes. Then we see the Truth with Enlightened eyes. We become conscious of it. It is not just Sat, the Truth. It is Sat Chit, the conscious Truth. We live with the awareness of this Truth. We become awakened to it. We become conscious of it. Earlier, we had the knowledge, but we had not realized it. Chit is magical. How Consciousness can make the Truth shine in our lives is a wonder beyond human comprehension! We pray to God as a statue, when we know the Truth that God is not a statue. Still we pray! Why? It is because the light of Consciousness did not create the Enlightenment of the Truth. Once enlightened, we pray to God through the statue and not to the statue. When we realize the Truth, we are transported into a life of Ananda. But first, Sat, the Truth, then Chit, Consciousness.