ABSTRACT
The enlightenment-experience must realise that, though ordinarily Buddhists are more or less neglectful in bringing out the karuna aspect of the experience. The denial of Atman as maintained by earlier Buddhists refers to Atman as the relative ego and not to the absolute ego, the ego after enlightenment-experience. When Buddhists declare that all things are impermanent, subject to conditions, and that there is nothing in this world of samsara which can give the hope for absolute security, they mean that as long as we take this world of transiency as something worth clinging to we are sure to lead a life of frustration. Buddhist philosophy, therefore, is the philosophy of Suchness, or philosophy of Emptiness, or philosophy of Self-identity. The enlightenment-experience is the manifestation of a higher power, a higher insight, a higher unification. It is beyond the sphere of relative consciousness which is the battleground for forces belonging to the same order.
