The Cosmic Mandala, continued 3
III.
ADI DA SAMRAJ: Divine Enlightenment, in the seventh stage of life, is the Great Way of Adidam. It is the Way that I have come to Reveal. It is the Great Condition of existence. It is the spontaneous Way of life that is lived by those who have Awakened to the Divine Self-Condition. Previous to such Divine Awakening, human beings have the capability to move as attention into the Mandala of the Cosmos, and into subtler states, but they do not have the capability to enter permanently into the Divine Self-Domain, Which is the Perfectly Subjective Source of all conditions. But once Divine Enlightenment is the case, then there is the capability to move into the Divine Self-Domain. It is possible to be Divinely Enlightened in any domain. In the seventh stage of life, a Divinely Enlightened being can appear in any domain whatsoever, in any one of the levels of the Cosmic Mandala. But until there is Divine Enlightenment, it is not possible to transcend all domains.
The Great Siddhi of Divine Enlightenment is the capability for free attention. It is the most useful ability, and the ability that human beings develop on the basis of their primal motive toward release. The unpleasant mood that is un-Happy, fearful, wanting to be released, is your best advantage in the embodied condition. That desire to be released becomes the capability of free attention when you really exploit it and devote yourself to it. In that case, the motive to release ceases to be merely an unpleasant disease. When you acknowledge the motive toward release and make it the mover of your life, you transcend your seeking and your bewilderment. You become associated with real practice, real responsibility. Then that motive toward release becomes the simple movement, or capability, of free attention.
That is why the unpleasant mood, or primal motive, toward release is so valuable to you—not for its own sake as a mood, which is relatively unpleasant, but because, once you really use it and reclaim it from its dis-eased and un-Happy condition, it simply becomes free attention, or that which is inherently free, inherently released, and, therefore, that which inherently satisfies the motive toward release.
IV.
ADI DA SAMRAJ: Attention moves in a great electronic field, a three-dimensional realm of little electronic dots. Attention in itself is one dot, in one position in this moment and in the next moment in another position, not just on a two-dimensional screen, like a TV, but in a three-dimensional realm of an infinite number of electronic dots. Attention can move to any one of those spaces instantly, without moving through everything in between. Attention is just the point of awareness, keyed into a great electronic medium that has the capability to represent itself as solid appearances, or just light, or appearances of energy, or darkness, or nothingness.
Truly, the entire affair is absolutely terrible. It is a horror to contemplate. The only thing that makes it not seem horrible to you is your capability to achieve a state of relative equanimity in your present condition. You can balance yourself, feel relatively relaxed, and enjoy something like a pleasurable feeling, but you are still not immortal, Divinely Enlightened, Free, Happy. You are just intoxicated with equanimity. That is why equanimity is not an end in itself in the Way of Adidam. It is simply the base for free attention. You must do something with your attention, having realized equanimity. You must not just hang around in a sattvic state, righteously enjoying your balanced condition. That condition will last only as long as conditions permit it to last in this world, and it will cease at death. Because all kinds of influences can interfere with it, your equanimity is not an end in itself.
To bring the body-mind into a state of equanimity is useful. In equanimity, the body-mind has secondary associations that are pleasurable. But basically equanimity is only useful. In equanimity, your attention is free from bondage to those conditions that are now in a state of balance. Thus, you must use equanimity as a disposition on the base of which you can Realize the Source of attention.
Your conditional, or apparently individuated, consciousness is just like a point moving in an infinite, three-dimensional crystal, or plane, or sphere, of dots. It feels individuated, separate, and trapped. Wherever it is, it sees everything around it. Wherever you look, everything surrounds that center of looking. In the next moment, you are in this spot, or that spot. There are always the surrounding forms, motions, and energies. You are trapped as this little point in the midst of them.
You must take attention away from its preoccupation with, or bondage to, this infinite medium of dots and let it fall back into the Contemplation of its own Source. When that is done most profoundly, then there is the inherent, or tacit, spontaneous Divine Recognition of the Infinite Field in Which this mechanical act of attention is being moved. Then, whenever attention does move, and wherever it moves, its condition and its objects are inherently, instantly Divinely Recognizable. They are still what they are as an appearance, but they are Divinely Recognizable as unnecessary and non-binding modifications of their Source-Condition. They do not have the capability to destroy Divine Enlightenment, or the Realization of the Truth. Even so, you must persist in this Power of Divine Recognition. It is a kind of Yoga of Divine Enlightenment. Unless you persist in it, attention will simply continue to arise mechanically in this great crystal, or Mandala. And, Divinely Enlightened or not, the environment of limitation still exists.
Thus, in the Divinely Enlightened Disposition, you must exist moment to moment as the Siddhi, or Power, or Disposition, of Divine Recognition. This Power will Divinely Transfigure, Divinely Transform, and Divinely Translate attention and its field into the Divine Self-Domain. Therefore, ultimately, all of that will be replaced, or Outshined, by the Divine Self-Radiance, the White Force in Which it is appearing. The environment of appearances is only an apparition based on the mechanism of attention. If attention is transcended in its Source, the environment of appearances is Divinely Recognizable. If the Power of Divine Recognition is magnified, then all these conditions will be Outshined by the Divine Self-Radiance That is the Source of cosmic Nature.
That is Liberation. That is Divine Enlightenment in Its ultimate sense. The Siddhi of Divine Enlightenment guarantees that Liberation. Divine Enlightenment Itself is certainly Liberation, but It is not an end phenomenon. It is the Native Condition. That Native Condition is a Siddhi, a Great Power, Which permits you to transcend the limiting force of the Cosmic Mandala. That is the esotericism of the seventh stage of life. That is the Process to which all those who respond to Me are being Drawn. It is That to Which you are invited. But you can only participate in That if you actually live the Way of Adidam, achieve equanimity and free attention, resolve attention in its Source, and then persist in the spontaneous Siddhi, or Process, of Divine Recognition, until there is the Outshining of conditional existence. [July 11, 1982]
