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THE KNEE
OF
LISTENING
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The Divine Ordeal
of the Avataric Incarnation
of Conscious Light
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The Spiritual Autobiography Of
THE RUCHIRA AVATAR,
ADI DA SAMRAJ
2004
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Page 737-741
Appendix B
One of the unique aspects of Avatar Adi Das Revelation of the Way of
Adidam is His complete description of the esoteric anatomy of the human
being and how this relates to the Spiritual process. Just as the human body
has a gross anatomy (of bones, flesh, nerves, and so on), there is also an
esoteric anatomy, consisting of three primary structures. The esoteric
anatomy of the human body-mind is the basis for all dimensions of human
experience--of the ordinary, extraordinary, mystical, and Transcendental
kind. Understanding this esoteric anatomy is a key to understanding what
makes the Way of Adidam uniquely complete, and why the Divine
Enlightenment that Avatar Adi Da Offers is an unprecedented Gift.
The first structure of esoteric anatomy is what Avatar Adi
Da calls the Circle. The Circle is a pathway through the
body, composed of two arcs. The descending arc (or
frontal line) starts at the crown of the head and goes
downwards to the perineum. The ascending arc (or
spinal line) starts at the perineum and goes upwards to
the crown of the head. The Circle is the primary energypathway in the body, through which both the natural
energy of life and the Divine Spirit-Energy flow. As you
become more sensitive to the subtle dimensions of
experience, you become capable of feeling energy moving in your body
through the Circle.
The Spiritual Initiation that Avatar Adi Da Gives to His fully prepared
listening devotees is the Infusion of His Divine Spirit-Energy (or SpiritCurrent) into the frontal line of the Circle. As you mature in the practice of
Adidam, the Circle becomes more and more tangibly full of Avatar Adi Das
Divine Spirit-Current--first in the frontal line, and then also in the spinal line.
On certain occasions in the practice of a Spiritually mature devotee, the
entire Circle will become utterly full of His Divine Spirit-Current--so open to
His Divine Infusion that one ceases to be identified with body or mind in the
usual sense, and becomes aware (instead) of existing as a vastly expanded
spherical form of the Divine Brightness. This is the Samadhi of the
Thumbs--a form of Samadhi uniquely Given by Avatar Adi Da. Eventually,
the experience of the Thumbs becomes constant, such that the
presumption of existing as body and mind no longer rules ones life. Then
one is ready to receive Avatar Adi Das Gift of the Awakening to the WitnessConsciousness, which makes possible the beginning of the Perfect Practice.
Because there is a downward-and-upward quality to the Circle (with its
descending and ascending arcs), Avatar Adi Da refers to the Circle as the
vertical dimension of esoteric anatomy. Most of the worlds Spiritual
traditions are focused in processes that relate to the Circle--seeking, as an
ultimate result, some kind of ascended Union with the Divine (found by
subtly ascending beyond the body-mind, via ascent through and beyond the
crown of the head). In the most advanced traditional developments of this
vertical approach to the Divine, there is, in fact, ascent to the SourceMatrix of Divine Light which is infinitely above. Such ascended Union with
the Divine, however, is not permanent (or eternal), because it depends on
the effort of the individual--the effort to go up. Thus, such ascended Union
with the Divine is not most perfect Divine Enlightenment. Rather, it is a
matter of choosing the Light (or Energy) aspect of the Divine--over the
Consciousness aspect.
listening devotees is His Spiritual Activation of the left side of the heart,
which (in due course) also becomes His Spiritual Activation of the middle
station of the heart. Avatar Adi Das Spiritual Gift of the Samadhi of the
Thumbs is what makes possible His Spiritual Activation of the right side of
the heart, which is coincident with the practitioners entrance into the
Perfect Practice of Adidam.
Because there is not a downward-and-upward quality to the three stations
of the heart, Avatar Adi Da refers to them as the horizontal dimension of
esoteric anatomy. A minority of the worlds Spiritual traditions (principally
certain branches of the Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Taoist traditions) are
focused in processes that relate to the horizontal dimension (and especially
the right side of the heart)--seeking, as an ultimate result, an interiorly
secluded Identification with the Divine (or Realization of Truth). In the
fullest development of this horizontal approach, the practitioner does, in
fact, experience an Identification with the Divine (or a Realization of Truth)
that is achieved by excluding all awareness of body and mind and world.
Such exclusive Union with the Divine, however, is not permanent (or
eternal), because it depends on the effort of the individual--the effort to go
within, or to exclude everything that is apparently objective. Thus, such
exclusive Union with the Divine is not most perfect Divine Enlightenment.
Rather, it is a matter of choosing the Consciousness aspect of the
DivineCover the Light (or Energy) aspect.