A week ago I stumbled upon an interview with a self-realized being. The interview was on YouTube in Serbian language. I listen carefully. It was a first time in my life to listen truth in my mother tongue. It was a strange experience.
The interview was with Simo Novakovic, an artist, painter, sculptor from Melbourne, Australia and he is the entanglement being, the self-realized one.
The highest truth requires an enormous energy to be presented to others but he explained difficult subjects in an easy manner. Simo explained in details questions of duality, nature of reality, is-ness (or Absolute), Beingness, consciousness, awareness, mind, attention, perception etc.
For today's post I decided to translate the answer Simo replied on question:
How did his life change after enlightenment?
It changed completely. Because enlightenment, essentially, is not for God — we just realize God within ourselves. In truth, through enlightenment, we become the being that is the foundation of God and of all worlds. But God doesn’t need enlightenment — God simply is. It is the human who needs it, the human in order to know how they become, where they come from, and what they are. One must return to the essence, to the core, in order to raise awareness of oneself from that core — and that core is the Absolute.
When one returns from that enlightenment, they know through that direct, immediate experience. Then, they see this world with completely different eyes. As I put it, I see it this way: until we experience enlightenment, we look through human eyes and don’t see the process by which reality is created. We are at the final point. We witness the process with our spirit and witness creation. However, when we return to enlightenment, we see the source — we come to know what the source is, what everything is, and from where, by being the same one who is in the source and in the human. One and the same. Through that same spirit, we gain knowledge about who we are — and then life changes completely.
Why? Because we don’t just see from the other side of the spectrum. We now see life from the point where it is created and simultaneously from the point where it is already created. So, we see the whole process, while as a human, we only see from one side. Then, seeing from that original point, we gain abilities — those abilities in us that were previously dormant are now activated. And what happens? We receive some abilities we didn’t even know we had — for example, healing. That’s one aspect I’ve already mentioned. Knowledge of how to heal oneself and others is automatically received.
And for example, I look at the same physical buildings I saw yesterday from a café. Today, after enlightenment, I’m again at the café looking at those same buildings — but this time, I see through them, because I no longer see solid matter. Matter is an illusion. Why an illusion? Because I see what creates that illusion — what creates that representation. The visual representation is created by projections onto two eyes.
So, instead of me seeing reality as I did before — perceiving shapes, things, and relationships — I now see two transparent, two-dimensional projections which I can direct at will. If I focus both projectors — my eyes, my two senses — onto a single point, the two 2D transparent projections merge into one and create a solid 3D image of reality. That’s matter. That’s the matter we can visually confirm. When those two projections merge, we no longer see transparency — we see solidity and space. Space arises from the merging of perspective points from those two projections.
So, everything is reversed after enlightenment. Now, we look from the point where things are created, instead of where they already exist. But we don’t reject what’s created — it becomes a playful game. Why a game? Because I know I am creating all of it. Because I am the creator. I am God, the creator, and the human — and knowing this, I move from one situation to another. I am no longer the same person, though my name is the same.
My body is the same; I haven’t changed it — but over the next days and years, the body adapts to that. It can happen all at once, but the process goes like this: In this consciousness of reality, we cannot see everything at once — we see segments, we see processes. Our awareness — that is, the spirit that witnesses the current state of the project — observes each moment. And now, looking at this moment, we only see what is in our focus. You and I now see images on the screen and the space around the screen, but we don’t see beyond the walls of the room with the phone or your computer or camera. I don’t know what your studio contains.
So we are not aware, in this moment, of what is outside the focus we are in — but in enlightenment, everything is seen at once. There is no separation. And although there is no separation, every single quality that becomes knowledge of itself — that is, consciousness — has specific, crystal-clear knowledge that it is what it is. And though it appears separate, it actually contains the tools of all other knowledge within itself. Because the absolute being — in its essence — is non-material, spaceless, and bodiless, it has no resistance, nothing to resist it. One quality contains all qualities. Therefore, each quality includes all others. That’s why it is absolute — meaning that, essentially, we are all one, and all is everything.
This individualization of consciousness expresses itself, emanates, and creates points from which we generate perceptions. Who creates perceptions? That same one being. And when I experienced enlightenment and returned to being human, immediately in that moment my life changed. I no longer see myself as a human. I see myself as the Absolute, experiencing itself as a human.
~ Simo Novakovic, Melbourne, Australia
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