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> The Uniqueness of Adi Da's Transcendental Spiritual
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The Uniqueness of Adi Da's
Transcendental Spiritual Offering
"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).
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" |
"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.
in the spine and above the head
(Hindu traditions)
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.
| Adi Da summarizes the traditional Spiritual practices in His book, The Pneumaton ("The Book of Spirit"). |
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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 | 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"). |  |
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.
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.
| 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.
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.
All the great Realizations of the esoteric traditions are associated with some form of God-Realization.
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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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For more about the seven stages of life, click here.
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Dhymitruy Bouryiotis - Belleville, ON, Canada November 7, 2013 5:26PM
Thanks for this helpful summary of the spectrum of spiritual realization