Nepe Dai, Darshan :)! I will certainly the conversation with you. Your one question is triggering millions of questions just as one neutron triggers zillions of neutron in a nuclear fission. Your new questions are making things more complex and complicated, however, it will not be clear until I address them. But I won't be able to address every single questions raised by you, you better be your judge. I feel you have your personal defination of enlightenment. I sense that you are not being able to make any connection between Buddha's teaching and the result of his teaching. You are holding the result and arguing " how can this be possible?". I like to explain things with examples. Here is another one. Suppose an illitrate farm boy from very remote village of Nepal happened to be your guest in Kathmandu. As he found you almost always infront of a lighting box (computer), he couldn't resist his curiosity and bravely asked: What was is this? You explained the computer by it's applications. You showed him movies. You demonstrated the messenger talk with webcamera by talking to your friend abroad. You took his picture/movie. You demonstrated every possible thing he could understand. He was amazed and couldn't believe in his eyes. The little box like machine astonished him. Then he asked another question: What is this made up of and how does it work? You said, "it is mostly made up of Silicon, literally sand. It works by on and off of switches, just like the switch of this tube light". It will be hard for him to believe because he can not imagine that such an amazing machine is made by sand and it works just by switching on and off. He can not make connection between result and the root; the very problem you are facing in Buddha's teaching. It appears you have heard of basic teaching and you have heard of the result. You are not being able to make connection between cause and result.