A truly enlightened being's light shines in such a way that others begin to see their own light more clearly - their own door to themselves as Truth.
You know when you are in the presence of an illumined one as you will start to see reality clearly. Life will start to make sense. You will feel empowered without feeling beholden. A sense of freedom and thank Godness is experienced - a sense of - I knew it!!! I didn't know I knew but I did. I just forgot I did. Effect remembers itself as Cause when it sees the Cause in other effects ..............aka 'others'.
You will read their words and/or hear them talk, and even if you do not always understand the words they are talking or writing about, you will understand they are the truth so persevere in understanding, knowing the light within you will only become brighter by doing so. Knowing you will see what you have always known all along.
At first, I felt this way with Maharshi. I would listen to him and not understand what he was saying because his conceptualization was so different to mine, but I knew what he was saying in principle was true - my heart knew it even if my mind consciously did not. His heart lit up mine. His sight empowered mine. Our concepts of reality may have differed but the principles or the bones of reality were the same. The Truth is the Truth regardless of how it is dressed in and of Effect - mind/body.
You know the truth by how it feels.
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