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The Uniqueness of Adi Da's
Transcendental Spiritual Offering
Chris
Tong, Ph.D.
"Transcendental Spiritual" is a principal
phrase used by Adi Da to indicate the uniqueness
of the Revelation, Realization, and Way available in His
Company, distinguishing it from Ways that are Spiritual
(but not Transcendental) and Ways that are Transcendental
(but not Spiritual).
Spiritual
These
days, the word "spiritual" is used casually to
refer to almost anything from great sex to a walk on the
beach. In contrast, Adi Da uses "Spiritual" in
a very specific sense. A process is "Spiritual" if it involves
a tangible, Grace-Given Spiritual Transmission that pervades
the body-mind. The source of such a Spiritual Transmission
is generally a Spiritual
Transmission Master. Such Spiritual Force is conducted
in "the Circle of conductivity"
(right).
"Fourth stage" Spiritual
practices are associated with the descent of Spiritual Force
down the frontal line of the body. References to "Grace"
or "shaktipat" in the esoteric traditions are often pointers
to this descending Force.
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Traditional Christian image of
the "descent of the Holy Spirit"
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"Fifth stage" Spiritual practices
are associated with the ascent of Spiritual Force up the
spinal line of the body. The ultimate Realization associated
with the traditional Spiritual practices is fifth stage
conditional Nirvikalpa Samadhi, the ascent to perfect communion
with the Matrix of Light infinitely above the head.
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One dark
night,
By the secret ladder I took flight,
— Ah, the sheer Grace! —
Cloaked by darkness, I scaled the height,
My house at last
at peace and quiet. . .
Lost to myself and yet remaining,
Inclined so only the Beloved I spy,
All has ceased, all rests,
Even my cares, even I;
Lost among the lilies, there I die.
St. John of the Cross,
"Dark Night"
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portrayal of Kundalini energy rising
in the spine and above the head
(Hindu traditions)
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mystical communion with
God
(Christian traditions).
The poem could easily be describing the picture on the left! |
Adi Da summarizes the traditional Spiritual practices
in His book, The
Pneumaton ("The Book of Spirit"). |
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Transcendental
A process is "self-transcending" if it is associated
with transcendence of some aspect of the body-mind-self
complex. Different practices are associated with different
forms and degrees of self-transcendence.
Generally all of us appearing here are identified
with the physical body. Some self-transcending practices
enable one to stand as the subtle body (or "mind"), transcending
the physical body. Some enable one to stand as the causal
body (or "self"), transcending both the physical body and
the subtle body.
Some practices — the Transcendentalist practices
— allow one to stand as Consciousness Itself (in the Realization
known as "Jnana Samadhi": "Jnana" is Sanskrit for "Knowledge" or "Knowing"), prior to the entire body-mind-self
complex, and prior to the world. (All apparently separate
"beings" and "things" arise in Consciousness Itself, as
modifications of Consciousness Itself.) In terms of esoteric
human anatomy, that Realization is associated with the right
side of heart.
The Transcendentalist practices and Realizations
are associated with what Adi Da calls the sixth stage of life.
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The Identity Realized:
The Realization of the Self
in Advaita Vedanta
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The State Realized:
The Realization of Nirvana
in Buddhism
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Adi Da summarizes these Transcendentalist practices
in His book, The
Gnosticon ("The Book of Knowledge"). |
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Transcendental Spiritual
The Spiritual traditions and the Transcendentalist
traditions each realize part of Reality, to the exclusion
of the rest of Reality: the Spiritual traditions enable
perfect Communion with Light, but without the Realization
of Consciousness; the Transcendental traditions enable perfect
Identification with Consciousness, but without the Realization
of Light.
Adi Da's seventh stage Realization
is that of Conscious Light — the simultaneous Realization
of both Consciousness and Light ("Shiva" and "Shakti"):
one is identified with Consciousness Itself, but one also
recognizes all things and beings as a modification of Consciousness
Itself. Thus Adi Da refers to this Realization as
"Transcendental Spiritual".
In terms of esoteric anatomy, the Realizer is
simultaneously associated with the right side of the heart (the location where Consciousness is associated with the body)
and the Matrix of Light infinitely above the head; the radiant,
S-shaped, esoteric channel known as Atma Nadi (see right),
that links the right side of the heart with the Matrix of
Light above has been awakened and regenerated.
I Am Prior to conditional existence, but totally
Effective within it.
The "Regenerated" (or Original, Divine, True, and
Real) Atma Nadi Is the Non-conditional and Perfectly
Acausal Divine Means Where-In, Where-By, Where-Of,
and Where-As I Have Come to here.
My Divine Avataric Work is in the Context of Totality.
My Circle of Divine Transcendental Spiritual "Conductivity"
is the Circle of the entire conditional (or cosmic)
domain.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The
Aletheon
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Adi Da's seventh stage, Transcendental Spiritual
Realization and Revelation is unique in the history of the
world's religious and spiritual traditions. Adi Da makes
clear that it cannot be "attained" by one whose
Realization is less than seventh stage. The seventh stage
Realization — the Most Perfect Realization of the Divine
— requires an incarnation
of the Divine to make it available to those who have
not yet Realized it. Because of Adi Da's incarnation here,
the seventh stage Realization is now Realizable by all,
through the practice of the Reality-Way of Adidam.
The Great Process comes about when the Divine Intervenes,
Appears, Incarnates, Blesses, Teaches the understanding
and the transcending of ego — such that the
direct Divine Blessing may be received and the Great
Divine Yoga may be entered into.
This is What I Do.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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The Reality-Way of Adidam is not a means or a method
or technique for seeking the Divine. It is the Reality-Way
that is based on the Divine Revelation from the beginning.
That is its unique characteristic.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, October 18, 2006
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Adi Da summarizes the seventh stage Realization and
Way in His book, The
Aletheon ("The Book of Truth"). |
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My Spoken and Written Address relative to the ego's
search, or the "great path of return", has occupied
Me since the beginning of My Divine Avataric Teaching-Work.
That Address has now Culminated in My Summary Revelation-Word
— Given herein, in The
Aletheon.
In My Aletheon-Word, I Comprehensively Communicate
the Fundamental and Unique Characteristics of the
only-by-Me Revealed and Given seventh stage (and "Radical",
or Always "At-the-Root") Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam.
Those Fundamental and Unique Characteristics totally
Distinguish the Divinely Avatarically Revealed and
Given "Radical" Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam from
all conventional approaches and all traditional paths.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, "Atma Nadi Shakti
Yoga"
Part
VII, The
Aletheon
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Summary: The Forms of God-Realization
In the past, the Divine has apparently Appeared.
Apparently — therefore conditionally, merely. People
have had all kinds of experiences, visions, visitations,
and on and on and on. In the ordinary sense, many
of these things could be called "Divine". But not
from the seventh stage "Point of View", not from the
Ultimate "Point of View". It is not correct to say,
then, to people involved in the traditions, that there
have been no God-Realizers, no Divine experiences.
They would react to such a statement, and it is also
not true. If you are making such statements, you must
be careful to describe the point of view from which
you are saying this and not say it in some hypercritical
sense with any bad intentions or just make blanket
statements that other people would react to.
It is simply that in the greatest sense, in the Ultimate
sense, all those Realizations are incomplete — good,
but incomplete.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"Your Heart Must Be Moved" (Heart Conversion Series)
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All the great Realizations of the esoteric traditions
are associated with some form of God-Realization.
The Spiritual traditions Realize God as Light.
Adi Da summarizes the traditional Spiritual practices
in His book, The
Pneumaton ("The Book of Spirit").
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The Transcendentalist traditions Realize God As Consciousness
(or "Self").
Adi Da summarizes these Transcendentalist practices
in His book, The
Gnosticon ("The Book of Knowledge").
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The Transcendental Spiritual tradition of Adidam
Realizes God as Conscious Light.
Adi Da summarizes the seventh stage Realization and
Way in His book, The
Aletheon ("The Book of Truth").
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