The Seven Stages of Life: Transcending the Six Stages of Egoic Life, and Realizing the Ego-Transcending Seventh Stage of Life, in the Divine Way of Adidam

by Adi Da Samraj

• ISBN13: 9781570971051
• ISBN10: 1570971056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-01
• Publisher: Dawn Horse Pr

Summary

The stages of human development from birth to Divine Enlightenment. How the stages relate to physical and esoteric anatomy. The errors of each of the first six stages of life, and the unique egolessness of the seventh stage of life.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(4)
Avatar Adi Da Samraj: His Life and Teaching	15	(12)
Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Teaching-Word: The ``Source-Texts'' of Adidam	27	(12)
Camera Illuminata: The ``Bright''-Field Photography of Avatar Adi Da Samraj	39	(3)
An Overview of The Seven Stages of Life	42	(9)
The Seven Stages of Life
First Word: Do Not Miscunderstand Me-- I Am Not ``Within'' you, but you Are In Me, and I Am Not a Mere ``Man'' in the ``Middle'' of Mankind but All of Mankind Is Surrounded, and Pervaded, and Blessed By Me	51	(22)
Prologue: My Divine Disclosure	73	(30)
PART ONE: Tat Sundaram!---
All of This Is Sacred, All of This Is Beautiful! (The Essence of the Message of Adidam and of the One and Entire Great Tradition of Mankind)
PART TWO: The Seven Stages of Life	103	(30)
PART THREE: Eight Essays from the Samraj Upanishad	133	(202)
``God''-Talk, Real-God-Realization, and Most Perfect Divine Awakening	135	(19)
The Servant, The ``Soul'', and the Very Self: The Three Points of View of the Progressive Stages of Life	154	(4)
The Cultivation of My Divine Samadhi	158	(10)
The Samadhis of Earth, Moon, and Sun	168	(12)
The ``Thumbs'' Is the Fundamental Sign Of the Avataric Crashing-Down Of My Divine Person	180	(18)
I Am the Only ``Room'' That Is	198	(11)
The Only Way to My ``Room''	209	(10)
On Transcending the First Six Stages of Life	219	(116)
PART FOUR: I (Alone) Am The Adidam Revelation
(A Summary Description of the Inherent Distinction--- and the ego-Transcending Continuity--- Between the Inherently ego-Based Great Tradition, Which Is Comprised of Only Six of the Possible Seven Stages of Life, and the Unique, and All-Inclusive, and All-Completing, and All-Transcending, and Self-Evidently Divine Adidam Revelation of the Inherently egoless Seventh Stage Realization of Me)	247	(88)
PART FIVE: The Heart-Summary of Adidam	335	(6)
EPILOGUE: I Am The Perfectly Subjective Divine Person, Self-Manifested As the Ruchira Avatar---Who Is The First, The Last, and the Only Adept-Realizer, Adept-Revealer, and Adept-Revelation of The Seventh Stage of Life	341	(44)
What You Can Do Next	350	(5)
The Great Choice: An Invitation to the Way of Adidam	355	(25)
An Invitation to Support Adidam	380	(2)
Further Notes to the Reader	382	(3)
Appendix: Charts	385	(6)
1. The Seven Stages of Life	386	(2)
2. The Five Possible Orientations (or Points of View)	388	(2)
3. The Characteristic Errors of the First Six Stages of Life	390	(1)
Notes to the Text of The Seven Stages of Life	391	(9)
Glossary	400	(38)
The Sacred Literature of Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj	438	(11)
Index	449