If there's a place you have to go to, that is short of enlightenment. That's still not enlightenment. If you feel you are not in bramaloka, then it' it's a placeyou will go to. The person who is enlightened while living wit for bodiless liberation? No, doesn't wait. Staying of the body, dropping of the body,. immaterial to that person. Getting enlightenment right here is the direct result of of knowledge. So this one, the direct one, is attained through knowledge. I am brahman.
Question and Answer session lead by Swami Sarvapriyananda as part of a spiritual retreat at the Vedanta Society of New York on Feb 25th, 2018.