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Kant. What is Enlightenment

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance.

 

Buddha

Insight into the Four Noble Truths is here called awakening.[31] The monk (bhikkhu) has "...attained the unattained supreme security from bondage."[46] Awakening is also described as synonymous with Nirvana, the extinction of the passions whereby suffering is ended and no

 

Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit. Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying, `You must be born again. '

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Hinduism. In Hinduism, self-realization (atma-jnana or atmabodha) is knowledge of witness-consciousness, the true self which is separate from delusion and identification with mental and material phenomena.

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