Spiritual Awakening is the profound experiential realizing of one's true nature, from the illusory trance of apparent separation (chronically taking oneself to be separate) and egoic identification which most people are being. Enlightenment generally means the stabilized living from that awareness. Enlightenment is not some state that is achieved. It is simply the realization of one's natural state - the field of consciousness THAT all experience and manifestation happens in, one's very true nature, that has always been here - the ONENESS (though that term hardly describes it). It is hard to describe as it is that which is PRIOR to BEING - the consciousness which always is and has always been the source of all being, all experience, and all manifestation.
True Spiritual Awakening cannot really be described with words, nor brought about through words... Daniel B.Holeman