4, 5, 6 & 7th Stages

Avatar Adi Da Samraj: In the context of the first three stages of life, the gross body--mind--complex is developed and coordinated. First, the gross physical is developed, then the emotional--sexual functions are developed and coordinated with the gross physical, and (finally) the mental functions and the function of the will are developed and coordinated with the emotional--sexual and gross physical functions. Optimally, all of this is nurtured, guided, and done in the context of love, trust, and surrender in relation to the Living Acausal Divine (or the all--and--All--Pervading and all--and--All--Transcending Real Acausal God, or Truth Itself, or Reality Itself).

           

In the context of the fourth stage of life, this now complex psycho-physical being is surrendered beyond itself, to and into the (all--and--All-Pervading, and all--and--All-Transcending, and Self--Evidently Divine) Source (or Source--Condition) That Pervades (and, yet, Transcends) it and the total "world". This surrender is done to the point of conditional union with That Divine Source (or Source-Condition). In due course, such conditional union becomes, by Means of Divine Grace, conditional union with the Spiritual Presence (or Spiritual Current) of That Divine Source (or of That Divine Source-Condition, Truth Itself, or Reality Itself)--and this in occasions of tangible (descending) Bliss that involve and (simultaneously) transcend the body--mind--complex.

In the context of the fifth stage of life, this process is continued, but the plane of conditional "self"-awareness ascends, to become dominantly subtle (or psychic), rather than gross (or merely physical)-and the Realization of conditional union with the (all--and--All--Pervading and all--and--All--Transcending) Divine Source (or Source--Condition) involves the ascent of attention, that eventually goes beyond physical references, and (at last) even beyond mental references.

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In the context of the sixth stage of life, attention (which is the causal "root", or base, of the mind) is introverted (or, by one or another means, surrendered), away from gross and subtle states and "objects" of the body--mind--complex, and toward its own "root", even the Ultimate "root" of the ego--"self"--Which Is the Witness--Consciousness (when attention is active), and Which Is also (Ultimately) Consciousness Itself (Prior to "objects", and Prior to the sense of separate "self"). The Ultimate result of this exercise is conditional Realization of the Transcendental Self--Condition, or the intuition of Self--Existing Transcendental Being--which intuition remains strategically (and, otherwise, tacitly) dissociated from all "objects" (even if . . . the natural perception and conception of phenomenal "objects" is freely allowed).

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In the only--by--Me Revealed and Given seventh stage of life, there Is Prior and Non--conditional (or Inherent, and Inherently Most Perfect) Self--Identification with Self--Existing and Self--Radiant Transcendental (and Self--Evidently Divine) Being, or the Divine Conscious Light (Itself)--the Ultimate (Divine) Identity of all beings (or "subjects"), and the Ultimate (Divine) Self-Nature, Self--Condition, and Self--State of all conditions (or "objects"). This Prior (or Inherent) and Inherently Most Perfect Self--Identification (or Divine Self--Abiding) is directly Realized (by Means of My Divine Avataric Transcendental Spiritual Grace), entirely apart from any dissociative act of introversion. And, while Divinely Self--Abiding (Thus), if any conditions arise (or if any states of body--mind arise), they are simply (Divinely) Self--Recognized in the Self--Existing and Self--Radiant Self--Nature, Self--Condition, and Self--State of Being (as transparent, or merely apparent, and non--necessary, and intrinsically non--binding modifications of Itself). . .  If no conditions arise to the notice, there is simply the Self--Existing and Self--Radiant Self--Nature, Self--Condition, and Self--State of Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Intrinsically egoless, and Self--Evidently Divine Being. Such Is Absolute (or Inherently Most Perfect) Realization of That about Which nothing sufficient can be said—and there is not Anyone, Anything, or Anywhere beyond It to be Realized.

-- The Aletheon

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Avatar Adi Da’s revelation of the seventh stage of life is an unprecedented gift to humanity, but He has done much more than simply offer us descriptions. Adi Da has fully realized and demonstrated the “Bright” condition of the seventh stage. He is, in His eternal person, that “Bright” reality. And He forever transmits that condition to us, conveying to all “the Love--Bliss--Full Condition of Oneness with That Which Is One, Whole, Absolute, All--Inclusive, and Beyond.” And Avatar Adi Da invites everyone to the egoless disposition of the seventh stage, right now.

 

To that end, Avatar Adi Da has established a Way of life and practice for all those who would turn to Him for guidance, blessing, and help. He describes that Reality--Way of Adidam, as “the real process of tacitly Standing Prior in the Realization--Disposition, from the beginning. That Realization--Disposition (in and of Itself) Purifies and Transforms the whole body, and Conforms the whole body to Itself.”

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Avatar Adi Da’s wisdom about the stages of life is usable at every stage of human and spiritual development. And He calls us to base the entire process of “growth and out--growing” on the disposition of freedom and fullness that characterizes the seventh stage itself:

 

Realization of the True Divine Heart is traditionally understood to be possible only at the end of a long course of Spiritual practice.

In Truth, the True Divine Heart Is not the “Goal” but the Foundation of all right and true practice and Realization.

Why work to “Find God” at the end, when devotional Communion with Real God can—and should—be the content of your life of practice from the beginning?

 

This Is My Question to you.

This Is a “Consideration” That Is Fundamental to My Divine Avataric (and always and entirely seventh--stage--of--life--Based) Reality--Teaching.

 

 

To learn more about Avatar Adi Da’s commentary on the fourth, fifth, and sixth stages of life, see The Gnosticon and The Pneumaton.

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To learn more about Adi Da’s seventh stage revelation, see The Aletheon.

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