We are the Lords of Light come to answer your question about, “What gets Enlightened?”
It is easy to answer in some ways, but not in others because, as ever, you are looking for answers with your small minds and this is not the way to look at the massive question.
You have understood well that complete merging with the Atman/God has to be after death. Time, as you know, does not exist with Us so it is not a relevant question to when that will be (when involves Time). In fact, when you look at Time itself it presents all kinds of anomalies as viewed from Our stance.
It distorts everything, makes things linear, and that’s not how it is. Things don’t happen in sequence, your World is all about sequence, one thing comes after another – Day/Night, the Seasons. With the life of a human being on Earth things are all acted out with many beginnings and many endings. How can you, with such limits, understand how things are?
However, when someone attains Enlightenment, when the ‘balloon pops’ they can, to varying degrees, have some idea of timeless existence. Enlightenment can be looked at now with fresh eyes and clearer understanding. As Enlightened people you should talk together about what you have Experienced, you should never stop learning, from your Meditation and from each other. It’s good to discuss these matters. However, never think that you can truly understand how things work, it is all an attempt, which has its place.
Hello Gandolf
Yes (M), it is clear that you have issues on what you have been thinking about, the point is to air them so you don’t have to mull them over – sort things out straight away. It is time now to really step up with your work with Us which is very tricky when you are involved in disputes of some kind or another, however justified they are. We are helping, as you have noticed and will help more, but you have to do your bit as well – Your lesson, and you will always have lessons ‘down there’ no matter what your Spiritual State, is to rise above things that you cannot do anything about.
Do the things you can and have the Wisdom to know the difference. Accept the things you cannot change.