Promise, Possibility and the Real

"Enlightenment means lack of darkness, absence of darkness. And "absence of darkness" means no mistakes, no weakness, no shortcoming—success everywhere, fulfillment of desire everywhere."  This is how Maharishi Mahesh Yogi described it, according to a recent account by Robert Roth. Didn't turn out quite that simple, did it? "When I was a young meditator, I [...]