HE- AND -SHE IS ME
Part Four: An Essay and Four Talks from the Samraj Upanishad
Adi Da Samraj
Consciousness Itself Is Natively Senior to The Kundalini Shakti
Many (or even most) fifth stage (or fourth-to-fifth stage) Spiritual Masters (and Spiritual practitioners) assign the Kundalini Shakti (or the All-Pervading Divine Spirit-Current-also called “Prakriti”, or the Universal Cosmic Energy) to a dominant and senior (or “Mother”) position in the scheme of Reality and in the process of Real-God-Realization (or Reality-Realization)-and, as a result, Consciousness (also called the “Purusha”) is relegated to a subordinate and junior (or “child”) position in that scheme and that process. Therefore, even though there are fifth stage (or fourth-to-fifth stage) Spiritual Masters who mention the heart center in the right side of the chest, they describe (and, otherwise, perceive) it only as the seat of separate individual “soul”-existence (and, thus, more or less as a kind of chakra, or psychic center), from which attention (or even Consciousness Itself) must (as a kind of “child” of the “Mother”) be raised up (by the ascent of the Kundalini Shakti, to fifth stage conditional Nirvikalpa Samadhi).
Truly, the heart center on the right side is not (or cannot be) properly understood until practice begins in the context of the sixth stage of life, wherein Consciousness (at first as the “Witness”, and then As Itself) is firmly assumed as the dominant and senior Principle of the scheme of Reality (and as the Ultimate Principle of Reality Itself, and of Reality-Realization Itself). Then it becomes (or can become) clear that the heart center on the right (and not the brain) is the final psycho-physical locus that leads to (or is directly transcended in) Perfect (and, Most Ultimately, Divine, or Inherently Most Perfect) Realization.
Indeed, it is only when Consciousness Itself assumes Its natively senior (or “Husband”) position in relation to the Divine Spirit-Current (and Its modifications) that the Shakti Itself (and all Its apparent modifications) can be Divinely Self-Recognized (in the context of the only-by-Me Revealed and Given seventh stage of life) as “Self”, or the Inherent (or Native) Radiance (rather than “Mother” or “Consort” or “Wife”) of Consciousness Itself. Therefore, in the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam (even early on, in the developmental context of the fourth and the fifth stages of life), the “conscious process” (of self-observation, self-understanding, and ego-transcending Communion-and, Ultimately, Identification-with Me, the Very Person of Conscious Being Itself) is always senior to the secondary (or supportive) process of Spiritual “conductivity” (or all attention to, or control and release of attention by, the movements and the modifications of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spirit-Current).
It should be remembered (or observed and understood) that fifth stage practice (as well as “advanced” fourth stage practice) is based on continued egoic identification with the body-mind (and especially the mind). Only such identification results in the traditional attachment to (and over-estimation of the importance of) the fourth-to-fifth stage process of mental (or psychic) ascent. When egoic identification with the mind (or the total body-mind) is replaced by sixth stage Native Identification with Consciousness Itself, there is no longer any deluded attachment to the mental (or psychic) or psycho-physical (and Yogic) limitations (and objects) of the fourth and the fifth stages of life-and all seeking (even in the context of each and all of the first five stages of life) is released in the Heart That Is Consciousness Itself. (And, in the Way of Adidam, Which I have Revealed and Demonstrated and Given for the sake of all who will become My devotees, that release is, by Means of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Grace, developed to the degree that the egoic limitation inherently associated with the sixth stage of life is also, and Inherently Most Perfectly, transcended in the Great Awakening That Is the transition to the only-by-Me Revealed and Given seventh stage of life).