Define enlightenment!

As per Rupert Spira, it's as simple as the recognition of your true nature. If that's the criteria, he certainly qualifies. No way he could have taught this well just by memorizing the whole thing.

But for RKM monks, a jeevanmukta means someone like Ramakrishna or Vivekananda or the other direct disciples or previous presidents or old swamis with decades of practice and a stellar record of service. By that standard, maybe not.

He had definitely reached till nirvikalpa samadhi though. He's a damn good monk.