Enlightenment – liberation from ego – is not the end but a beginning. Imagine you've been incarcerated for as long as you remember, yet each day you've spent a little time digging a tunnel to freedom. Then one day you manage to break free. Would that new found freedom be wonderful? No, it would be terrifying. Nothing about the life you'd led inside would have prepared you for life on the outside. It would mark the beginning of a very different (and probably difficult) stage.