The Buddha expresses enlightenment not as a meeting with God or an immersion in bliss, but as the disassembling of the conditioned personality and the exhilaration that comes with perfect freedom. Through his own effort he has undone the force that has conditioned his entire making, from the smallest unicellular organism at the dawn of evolution to the wonder of the individual that was Prince Siddhartha. Bursting through to the Unconditioned, he has destroyed craving; never again can he be compelled by karma to return to life as a separate creature.
