Awakened state

One can sec at once the correspondence between this mode of knowing and Plato's view of anamnesis, "reminiscence" or "recollection" overcoming the state of oblivion; exactly as Buddhism aims to overcome the state produced by the āsava, by the " intoxicants," by the manias, by the fever. These terms, "reminiscence " and "awakening," however, should not represent more than the manner in which knowledge appears, than recognition and appraisal of something as directly evident, like a man who remembers or who wakes and sees something. This is the reason for the recurrence in later Buddhist literature of the term sphota, which has a similar meaning: it is knowledge manifested as in an unveiling— as if an eye, after undergoing an operation, were to reopen and see. Dhamma-Cakkhtnna, the "eye of truth" or of "reality," cakkhumant, "to be gifted with the eye" are normal Buddhist expressions, just as the technical term for "conversion" is: "his eye of truth opened." Where the Buddha speaks of his own experiences we often find references to the pure presentation of knowledge, either directly or "in similes never before heard or thought of." 16 Here is another leitmotiv of the texts: "As something never heard of before, vision arose in me, knowledge arose in me, intuition arose in me, wisdom arose in me, light arose in me";17 this is called "the true excellence, conforming with the ariya quality of knowledge."Evola