In mystical approaches the term 'enlightenment' or the definition of the goal are often very vague described concepts. Regularly we see people running around, who claim, that they already would have achieved everything, while they in fact have not. When we go unto a mystical journey we must learn to understand its different stages and planes, so that we're not running into danger to get stuck at some level. Because the ecstasy and blissfulness of certain states of higher consciousness can be so deluding, that the practitioner might get seduced to think he has already achieved enlightenment.
But enlightenment itself is the complete nullification of one's 'I' or ego. And that's why it's so important to rise beyond thought. Because as long as we're busy with thinking, the ego will return through the backdoor. When you begin to think, 'Now I attained it,' it means you have not. And that's why you for sure can't believe 99% of the people, who're running around, claiming they would have achieved enlightenment. What is the only sign, that someone has realized the highest state of realization? That he's not dreaming anymore unwillingly. Because dreams stem from unfulfilled desires. What we're not living out at daytime we will experience at nighttime.
God himself is beyond any concept or form. As soon as you begin trying to confine him through thinking, you already missed him. God like Rabbi Chaim Vital wrote, is nothingness 'Ayin' in Hebrew. Complete nothingness, and how we can attain nothingness? Only through rising beyond one's mind.
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