An Analogical Epiphany !

Well I was discussing about the power of Human Imagination , which has been a long time favorite topic of mine to ponder upon , with my doctor and pharmacist friends, which is when the epiphany struck me! The situation under consideration was
"Could a person blind by birth , imagine what was vision or how would it be ? "
To test the power of Human imagination - I wondered
"When such a blind by birth person regains his vision ( due to the wonder of Medical science) , How would what he had imagined vision to be and his actually 1st experience of seeing compare ?"
It would be an enlightenment for him !
Well this topic itself is worth another blog post !
But I want to concentrate on the Epiphany derived from the above discussion !

Taking an analogy from above - if we consider "All the worlds population to be blind and if some one person gains vision - How the hell is he going to explain us ( the rest of the population ) What the phenomena of vision is ? " . He will be helpless in trying to explain us what vision is !! Try doing it yourself. Try and explain Whats Blue yellow and green to a Blind person ! You will realize that You can describe it based on pre-established refrences only ! But if these are not available - U will just have to say - Experience it yourself ; I cant tell you what it is !

Well well that is what has been said about Enlightenment by all the Greats who have achieved it in our history so far ! Experience it yourself ! So Can we dare say enlightenment is a development of a new perception ? of which we initially are bereft of ! Is it like developing new set of sensory organs to perceive something which is non existent for the commons but some few special ones have in history gained it and the no. of such people being so less that we dont have any refrences established of the same ? These special ones have tried to explain to us commoners, about this new perception which they had - in a language and refrences of 5 sensosry organs !! But we simply cant Understand - leave understanding ; we find their talk absurd Coz for us its simply not existent and will be till we EXPERIENCE IT on our own !

The Question to be asked remains that if enough no. of ppl do develop this Perception of Enlightenment in course of Human History- Would we be able to determine accurate refrences of enlightenment like we have of our 5 sense of organs and thus Bring Enlightenment into field of Practicality ?!