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Seven Stages of Life The Dawn Horse Press, Middletown,
CA From the point of view of the gross
body, Everything Is Perceived, Conceived, and Presumed To Be
An Irreducibly Material, Finite, Mortal Process. From the point of view of the mind,
Everything Is Perceived, Conceived, and Presumed To Be An
Effect, Made Of The Infinite Objective Substance Of
Indestructible Cosmic Light, and Caused By lie Infinite
Totality Of Cosmic Mind. And Even The Totality Of Cosmic
Mind Is, Thus, Presumed To Be Cosmic Light
Itself. From The "Point Of View" Of
Consciousness Itself, Everything conditional, objective, or
Objectified Is Perceived, Conceived, and Presumed To
Be Consciousness Itself, Such That conditional,
objective, or Objectified Reality Is Inherently Realized To
Be A Merely Apparent modification Of, In, and Upon The
Native Radiance Of Consciousness Itself. These Three Primary Perceptions,
Conceptions, or Presumptions Also Correspond To The Stages
Of Life. The Perception, Conception, or
Presumption Based On the point of view Of gross conditional
Existence Corresponds To The conventional Perception,
Conception, or Presumption Associated Vith The First Three
Stages Of Life. The Fourth Stage Of Life A
Transitional Stage, Originally Also Grounded the gross
conditional point of Of The First Three Stages Of Life, but
Awakening Toward the point of view, The Perception,
Conception, and The Presumption Of subtle conditional
Existence, mind, and Cosmic Light. The Perception, Conception, or
Presumption Based On point of view Of subtle conditional
Existence, mind, and Light, or Cosmic Mind, Corresponds To
Perception, Conception, or Presumption Associated With The
Stage Of Life, and The 'Advanced" Fourth Stage Of
Life. The Perception, Conception, or
Presumption Based "Point Of View" Of Consciousness Itself
Corresponds To The Perception, Conception, or Presumption
Associated Sixth and The Seventh Stages Of Life. Any One Of The Three Primary Modes
Of Perception, Conception, or Presumption I Have Just
Described Could Be Affirmed By individuals, groups, and
Traditions In The Sphere, but Which One Of The Three Modes
Is Ultimately? It Is The Third, or The Perception,
Conception, or Presumption Based On The "Point Of View" Of
Consciousness Itself. Why? Because, No Matter what arises as
Your experience or knowledge, You Are The Witness Of it, and
That Which Witnesses Is Consciousness Itself. No Matter what arises, You Are
Consciousness Itself. You Are Never Really Separately
Identical To what Is objective To You, but You Tend To Feel
Specific Identification With objective conditions, Until You
Are Able To Inspect Your Real "Situation", Which Is always
Already Free Consciousness Itself, The Inherently Free
object In The Context conditional objects, and Tho Is The
Self Existing, Self Radiant That Is Always Already Prior To
conditional objects and Always Already Prior To Apparently
'objectified Light Itself. Therefore, the points of view of
body and mind Are Secondary To The "Point Of View" Of
Consciousness Itself. Indeed, The Preceptions, Conceptions,
or Presumptions Based On the points view of body and mind
Could Not Even Be Made, Were body mind Not Founded In
Consciousness and, When the body mind and the conditional
worlds Are Finally Self Recognized To Be Transparent, Un
Necessary, and Inherently Non Binding Modifications Of
Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Self Evidently
Divine Self Condition Then There Is Only Me, Only The "You"
That Is Not 'Different" From Me As I Am Only
One Self, Only Real God, Only Truth, Only Reality, Only
egoless, "Bright" Consciousness, Only divine Love Bliss,
Only The Perfectly subjective Feeling of Being. A True Culture Must Accommodate and
Tolerate individuals In Each and All Of The Stages Of Life,
but It Also Must Not Fail To Inform and Guide The Culture Of
Each Of The Progressive Stages Of Life With The Wisdom
Orientation Of The Only By Me Revealed and Given Seventh
Stage Of Life. In The Total Practice Of The Only By
Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, Each and Every Form
Of Practice Is Indeed Informed and Guided By The Wisdom
Orientation Of The Only By Me Revealed and Given Seventh
Stage Of Life. Each and Every Form Of Practice and Possible
Developmental Stage Of Practice In The Way Of The Heart, and
Each and Every Stage Of Realization In The Way Of The Heart,
Develops In The Context Of One or More Of The Seven Stages
Of Life, but The Orientation Is Always, From The Earliest
Awakening Of The Heart's Great Urge, To Realize The Inherent
and Self Radiant Self Condition and Source Condition That Is
Transcendental Divine Being. Therefore, In The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, There Is A Great Secret
In This Matter Of Transition From Stage Of Life To Stage Of
Life: The Only By Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart Is
A Process That Is Both Progressive and Instant. The Process Of The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, Viewed In The Vertical
Context Of the body mind, Is A Process That Must Develop
Progressively, In The Form Of Various Practices, Processes,
and Signs Which Are Associated, Variously, With The Seven
Stages Of Life. Nevertheless, The Process Of The
Only By Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, Viewed In
The Horizontal Context Of the body mind That Is To Say, In
The Simple Context Of The Heart, Upon Which All Extended
activities, experiences, and Signs Are Built, Is A Process
That Can Also Fulfill Itself Directly, Thus Economizing
Various Practices, Processes, and Signs That Are Otherwise
Associated With The Vertical Unfoldment Of The Way Of The
Heart. The Heart Is The Primal Structure In
the body mind. It Is Basically Made Of Three Parts,
Indicated By The Left Side, The Middle Station, and The
Right Side. The Left Side Of The Heart Is The
Base Of the waking state, bodily experience, The Descending
Line Of the body mind, and The First Four Stages Of
Life. The Middle Station Of The Heart Is
The Base Of the dreaming state, all that is the deeper
psyche, The Ascending Line Of the body mind, The Deeper
Purpose Of The Fourth Stage Of Life, and The Total Purpose
Of The Fifth Stage Of Life. The Right Side Of The Heart Is The
Base Of the state of deep sleep, and It Is The Base Of The
Uninspected Presumption Of an individual Conscious self, and
It Is Associated With The Sixth Stage Course Of The By Me
Avatarically Self Revealed Divine Spirit Current, and With
The Ultimate Purpose Demonstrated In The Context Of The
Sixth Stage Of Life. The Right Side Of The Heart Is Both The
Ultimate Root Origin Of attention and The Ultimate Root
Origin Of The By Me Avatarically Self Revealed Divine Spirit
Current Itself. The Right Side Of The Heart Is The bodily
Seat Associated With The Witness Position Of Consciousness,
Which Even Witnesses the conditional "I", and Which
Witnesses, Inspects, and Inherently Transcends the body
mind, the conditional states of waking, dreaming, and
sleeping, and The Presumption Of an individual Conscious
self. Therefore, The Right Side Of The Heart Is Also The
bodily Seat Associated With Transcendental, Inherently
Spiritual, and Divine Self Realization, The "Regeneration"
Of Amrita Nadi, The Continuous Spontaneous Demonstration Of
"Open Eyes", and The Entire "Bright" Process Of The Only By
Me Revealed and Given Seventh Stage Of Life. In the daily course of human
functioning, The Current Of My Avatarically Self Transmitted
Divine Spirit Presence Moves, In Man, From The Right Side Of
The Heart To The Middle Station Of The Heart and Then To The
Left Side Of The Heart, On The Free Base Of Consciousness
Itself, Associated With The Right Side Of The Heart. Once
The Current Of My Avatarically Self Transmitted Divine
Spirit Presence Moves In The Heart, and attention arises In
The Context Of the body mind, The Inherent Feeling Of Being,
or The Transcendental "Point Of View" Becomes limited by the
body mind self, and The "Point Of View" Of The
Transcendental Origin Tends To Be Forgotten. Thereafter, The
Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Process Naturally
Becomes A Kind Of 'Great Path Of Return" To The Original, or
Transcendental, Divine Self Condition and Source Condition.
The ego I" Tends To Relinquish its
conditional viewpoint Only Gradually, Through The Extended
Process Of The Stages Of Life. Therefore, The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart Tends To Progress In The
Likeness Of The 'Great Path Of Return", Until The Final
Crisis Of The Sixth Stage Of Life. My Avataric Divine Purpose Is Not
Only To Communicate Right Understanding Of the ego I", The
Seven Stages Of Life, and The Practices and Signs Naturally
Associated With Each Of The Seven Stages Of Life, but To
"Radically" Introduce The Most Ultimate Possibility Into
That Entire Affair. Therefore, By Entering Into Relationship
With all conditionally Manifested beings, I Call each and
all To My Avatarically Self Transmitted Divine Heart
Baptism, and I Attract each and all To My Avatarically Self
Revealed State.
My Avatarically Self Transmitted
Divine Heart Baptism Works At The Heart Of My Seeing
Devotee. My Avatarically Self Transmitted Divine Heart
Baptism, Which Is The Free Heart Transmission Of My
Avatarically Self Revealed Divine Spirit Presence Of Self Radiant, and Self
Existing, and Self Evidently Divine Being, Constantly Works
To Awaken My Seeing Devotee To The Native Self Position. My
Avatarically Self Transmitted Divine Spiritual Heart
Presence and My Call To Inherent Realization Of My
Avatarically Self Revealed Self Condition Constantly Serve
To Awaken My Seeing Devotee Directly To The Witness Position
Of Consciousness Itself, and To The Inherently Perfect
Practice Associated With The Right Side Of The
Heart. I Call and Attract every one To
Realize My Avatarically Self Revealed Self Condition and
Source Position, Which Is The Inherent Feeling Of Being.
Only the lim itations In each individual's Devotional
Response To Me Determine How Fully The Developmental Stages
Of Life In The Way Of The Heart Must Be Enacted. The Seven Stages Of Life Are The
Single Process Of Life, As A Total, and Ultimate, and Divine
Event. The Seven Stages Of Life Are On Transcending the
First Six Stages of Life Designed and Determined By The Real
and Total and Hierarchical Structure Of Man. The Seven
Stages Of Life Are The Design Potential Of Man To
Progressively Transcend conditional Existence, and To
Realize Me. The Seven Stages Of Life Are Determined By The
Real and Total and Hierarchical Structural Design Of The
Cosmic Domain, and By The Exactly Corresponding Real and
Total and Hierarchical Structural Anatomy Of Man. Thus, In
The Only By Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, In and
By Means Of The Progressive Course Of The Seven Stages Of
Life, the conditionally Manifested personality Develops, and
To The Inherently Most Perfect Degree. And The Degree Of
Perfection Realized At Any Stage Of Life Is Directly
Determined By The Degree To Which Perfect Transcending Is
Realized. And The Degree To whick Perfect Transcending Is
Realized At Any Stage Of Life Is Directly Determined by The
Degree To Which Perfect Transcending Is Permitted By The
Specific Design Of The Structural Anatomy of Man At The
Actual, Present Level Of Life That Is Realized. Therefore,
In The Context Of The Way Of The Heart, The First Six Stages
Of Life Are Understood To Be The Progressive Stages Of The
Transcending Of psycho physical egoity, and The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Seventh Stage Of Life Is Understood To Be
The Stage Of Inherently Most Perfect
Demonstration. The First Six Stages Of Life Are A
Continuous Process Of Transcending The Act Of self
Contracted Identification With conditional Modifications Of
My Avatarically Self Transmitted Divine Spirit Radiance.
Therefore, I Help My Listening Devotee, My Hearing Devotee,
and My Seeing Devotee To Realize That The First Six Stages
Of Life Are Merely Stages Of Contraction From Direct and
Immediate Realization Of Me, The Avataric Divine Self
Revelation Of Inherently Love Blissful and Self Existing
Consciousness Itself. As A Total Process, The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart Can Be Rightly Viewed To
Be A "Radical Consideration" Of the self Contraction and Of
The Real Self Condition and Source Condition. In Practice,
The Way Of The Heart Tends To Develop Progressively,
Coincident With Progress In and Through and Beyond Each Of
The First Six Stages Of Life, but, In Truth, The Way Of The
Heart Is The 'Radical" Way Of Most Directly Transcending The
First Six Stages Of Life and Entering Into The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Seventh Stage Of Life. In The Context Of Each and All Of
The First Five Stages Of Life, Your Presumption Is That You
Are the body mind self, and That the body mind self Is a
Separate and Independently Real individual entity. And, In
The Context Of The Sixth Stage Of Life, Your Presumption Is
That You Are Separate and Independent. Therefore, Practice Of The Only By
Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart In The Context Of The
First Five Stages Of Life Must First Realize Most
Fundamental self Understanding, and the Presumed body mind
self Is To Be Devotionally Surrendered To My Avatarically
Self Revealed Spiritual Divine Presence, Such That the body
mind self Is Progressively Unified With My Avatarically Self
Revealed Spiritual Divine Presence, To The Degree That
Native Identification With The Witness Position Of
Consciousness ts Revealed. And Practice Of The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart In The Context Of The
Sixth Stage Of Life Is, Most Basically, A Matter Of Native
Identification With Consciousness Itself, By Means Of My
Avatarically Self Transmitted Divine Grace, Until The
Presumption Of Separate and Independent Consciousness Is
Utterly Transcended In Native and Inherently Most Perfect
Realization Of The By Me Avatarically Self Revealed Inherent
and Perfectly Subjective Transcendental, Inherently
Spiritual, and Self Evidently Divine Self Condition, or
Divine Self Consciousness. To Practice The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart In The Progressive
Context Of The First Six Stages Of Life, You Must Presume To
Really Be the conditional and individual body mind self, but
If You Awaken To The Realization That You Are The Self
Radiant and Self Existing and Self Evidently Divine Self
Condition, Then The Only "Practice" Possible For You Is That
Of The Only By Me Revealed and Given Seventh Stage Of Life
In The Way Of The Heart, In Which The Transcendental,
Inherently Spiritual, and Self Evidently Divine Self
Inherently and Spontaneously Self Recognizes all Apparently
arising conditions, or All Modifications Of Its Own
Radiance, and Apparently Restores Its Own Radiance To
Itself, Even To The Degree Of The Most Perfect Outshining Of
conditional Existence Itself. True Divine Enlightenment Will
Awaken, In The Context Of conditional Existence, Only In The
Midst Of The Ordeal Of The Only By Me Revealed and Given Way
Of The Heart. And The Only By Me Revealed and Given Way Of
The Heart Includes all the conditions Associated With Each
and All Of The Seven Stages Of Life. However, The Call and
The Help Given To all those who Practice The Only By Me
Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart Makes It Possible For
Certain Features Of The First Six Stages Of Life To Be
Bypassed. To Transcend egoity Is To Transcend
The First Six Stages Of Life. Therefore, If self
Transcendence Is Quickened, or If There Is A Sudden
Transition From the point of view of the body, or of the
body mind, or of the mind To The Native Position Of
Consciousness Itself, Then The Structurally Determined
Passage Through The Progressive Stages Of Life Will Be
Quickened. The psycho physical ego, as it is In
The First Six Stages Of Life, Must Be Really Transcended.
Each Of The Progressive Stages Of Life Is A Test Of self
Transcendence, and Each Of The First Six Stages Of Life Is,
Therefore, To Be Directly Engaged As A Test Of self
Transcendence In The Course Of Practice Of The Way Of The
Heart. This Test Of self Transcendence Begins At The Student
Beginner Stage Of The Way Of The Heart, and The Test
Intensifies,Stage Of Life By Stage Of Life, Thereafter.
Therefore, If There Is Weakness In Listening To Me, or If
The Impulse Toward Most Perfectly ego Transcending Real God
Realization Is Not Fundamental and Intense, or If There Is
Weakness In The Application Of self Discipline, or If There
Is Weakness In Hearing Me, or In Seeing Me, or If There Is
Weakness In Any Form Of Practicing, Then Passage Through The
Progressive Stages Of Life Will Be Retarded and Prolonged.
But If The Listening To Me Is True, and If The Impulse
Toward Most Perfectly ego Transcending Real God Realization
Is Real, and If The self Discipline Is Consistent and
Effective, and If The Hearing Of Me, The Seeing Of Me, and
The Advancing Practice Are All Strong, Then The Transition
To Ultimate and Inherently Perfect Practice Can Be Quickened
By Free and Real Heart Response To My Avatarically Self
Transmitted Divine Grace, and It May Not Be Necessary For
Every Classic Detail Of The Progressive Stages Of Life To Be
Fulfilled In That By My Avataric Divine Grace Quickened
Process. The First Three Stages Of Life Are
Simply Stages Of ordinary human Development. They Will Tend
To Be Fulfilled In Any Case. Relative To The First Three Stages
Of Life, The Great Obligation Is To Overcome Un Happy and
ego Reinforcing Tendencies That Prevent The Transition To
The Fourth Stage Of Life. Therefore, It Becomes The
Obligation Of the physically adult human individual To
Thoroughly Observe and Understand and Really and Effectively
Transcend The First Three Stages Of egoity. The Fourth, The Fifth, and The Sixth
Stages Of Life Are Each Associated With A Specific Potential
Error. And If The Specific Error Is Transcended, Then
Passage Through The Particular Stage Of Life Can Be
Quickened. The Fourth Stage Error Is The
Tendency To Prolong The First Three Stages Of Life and To
Make The Fourth Stage Of Life An End In Itself. This
Tendency Takes The Form Of A Fixed Idea Of The Divine and A
Fixed Idea Of the personal self. On The Basis Of This
Tendency, The Fourth Stage Of Life Is Made Into A Never
Ending Search For The Divine and A Never Ending Appeal To
The Divine For Intimacy, Relief, and self
Satisfaction. In The Only By Me Revealed and Given
Way Of The Heart, The Fourth Stage Error Is Transcended By
Means Of The Process Of The True Hearing Of Me, The Real
Seeing Of Me, and The Right Practicing Of The Way Of The
Heart. By Means Of The Effective Listening To Me, and By
Means Of The True Hearing Of Me, the self Contraction Must
Be Transcended. Through The True Seeing Of Me, The Real and
Self Evidently Divine Self Condition Is Realized Directly,
and It Is Immediately Realized As The Ultimate Self
Condition and The Perfectly Subjective Source Condition Of
the conditional self. And, Through True Practicing, Either
The Fourth Stage Of Life Is Linked To The Fifth Stage Of
Life Or The Fourth Stage Of Life Is Linked Directly To The
Sixth Stage Of Life.
p. 234 in progress...
Transcending
the Six Stages of egoic Life, and Realizing the ego
Transcending
Seventh Stage of Life, In The Divine Way of
Adidam
The Seventeen Companions of the True Dawn Horse
Book Ten
Copywrite, 2000.
pp 219 - 245
"What
is the seventh stage? It is simply that Disposition in which
your response to the Divine is complete. What are the stages
previous to that? They are just stages of less than complete
response, in which certain dimensions of your existence are
not yet in the responsive condition or disposition, but
which are somehow locked, contracted, unopened. "
Adi Da Samraj, November 10, 1980
"The
perfect among the sages is identical with Me. There is
absolutely no difference between us"
Tripura
Rahasya,
Chap
XX, 128-133
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