If you were enlightened, would you know it?

When the ego (thought) isn't active, is there any criteria by which to measure one's progress or station in life? No. When thought is silent, all such abstractions are gone and there is only the naked, essential witnessing presence. In this open presence, words such as sage and saint loose their meaning -- in pure, conscious perception, such things aren't designated and differentiated between. This is always the case but sometimes overlooked in favor of arising thought stories.

For there to be an "enlightened one", there would have to be an "unenlightened one" and such a distinctions appear only in thought, not actuality. Anyone trying to sell you on the idea of their "specialness" is still worshiping at the throne of ego. Being is an undivided field and to call one aspect "special" and another "common" is an unreal abstraction, looking non-conceptually, no such divisions appear -- it's all one.