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You have to love the hubris of this questioner, insisting on a clear, verbal mind-tangible answer for that which can only be directly apperceived, directly lived.
Let see if, by substituting a few simple nouns, we can help this person out.
So what exactly happens when someone falls asleep at night? Please no metaphors or intangible answers, where does consciousness literally go?
So what exactly happens when someone feels deep love inside them? Please no metaphors or intangible answers, where does love literally come from?
I’ve never tasted sugar. Can you tell me what exactly sugar tastes like? Please no metaphors (“It’s like granulated bliss!”:-) or intangible answers, what, literally, does sugar taste like?
So what exactly happens when someone is alive? Please no metaphors or intangible answers, what, literally does it feel like to be alive?
The “self,’ as you call it, it just an illusion. There is no separate entity you or I can locate, called the “self,” or the “ego,” or the “I/Me.” So nothing happens to it. The false perception/belief that there is a separate “self/me” entity suddenly drops away, or ‘opens up,’ or ‘spreads out of the way,’ revealing true objective Reality, like the clouds spreading apart, revealing the Sun that was always there. Too metaphorical?
OK. You come in from a sunny walk where you saw your shadow everywhere, and look in the mirror or feel your body. The shadow has disappeared, and you realize it was just an illusion. And as you look into the mirror or caress your body, you know what you really are. Too intangible?
OK. You have an all-encompassing, permanent perceptual shift where you apperceive directly (not know intellectually) that although there appears to be a real Reality of phenomena rising & falling, there is no entity ‘creating it,’ no ‘time’ in which it’s happening, and no self-contained “you” standing separate from the phenomena as subject-object…and never was. The separate “self” was always an imagined location, the phenomena were just happening without an observer or awareness, and it’s all just spontaneous function with no ‘reason’ or ‘purpose.’
That would probably be considered a pretty precise answer, with no metaphors and minimized intangibilities.
And reading it, you now have no more idea or experience of spiritual awakening or enlightenment than you had before reading it. 😳
Intangible? Yes! ineffable? You bet! Unexplainable and un-‘experience’-able? Unquestionably!
I’m not sure why you even want some literal, exact spoken description of spiritual awakening or enlightenment…and it would more than prudent of you to ask yourself that question. If you ask it deep enough, you will actually have a revelatory shift like the one I’m failing miserably to describe.
But the answer to your question is available. And it is available only to You. And it is available only directly, without any scriptural or Quoral description by ‘others.’ And it is available right Now!
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