Are certain people supposed to become enlightened?
Taking that question at face value, the straight answer is ‘no’, because here “supposed to” presumably means “has some degree of obligation to”, and NONE of us is under any such obligation to do so. However, the situation ‘on the ground’ is beset by a huge amount of confusion, which is presumably why the particular question has been asked. Let’s be clear about this – gaining of enlightenment and self realization are part of the underlying life task of EVERY one of us. But there is no obligation about this – it’s simply intrinsic in our true nature. By not gaining enlightenment and self realization, each person lives a limited life – indeed, lives as a sub-human, squandering the precious resource that they have brought into the physical aspect of existence through their incarnating. As it stands at the moment, almost every person on Earth is actually living as a sub-human, not as a full human at all! By gaining enlightenment and self realization people live vastly happier, more abundant
