The Three Stations of the
Heart,
the Three States of Consciousness,
and the Seven Stages of Life
The preceding section presented Avatar Adi Da’s description of the
three primary perceptions, conceptions, or presumptions, and how they
relate to the seven stages of life. These three orientations also
correspond with what Avatar Adi Da describes as the three stations of
the heart, which can also be described as the three aspects of the
single heart.
The preceding overview of the seven stages of life emphasized what
Avatar Adi Da Samraj has called the “vertical” dimension of the
body-mind. The vertical pathways contain both the descending and then
ascending energy, associated with the fourth and fifth stages of
life, which, in the sixth stage of life, finally falls into its
source in the heart. This description is corroborated by many
traditional descriptions, which speak of the chakras rising from the
base of the perineum, and reaching the apex at the top of the head.
The three aspects of the heart all appear in the great heart
region, or the chest area of the body. Avatar Adi Da calls the three
aspects: the left side (or station) of the heart, the middle depth
(or station) of the heart, and the right side (or station) of the
heart. Consciousness has traditionally been understood to have three
basic states, called the “avasthas” in Sanskrit. These are the states
of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep that everyone knows.
The region of the left side of the heart is the station of the
waking state, and bodily experience. The middle station of the heart
is the station of the dreaming state, and all that is the deeper
psyche or subtle and higher mind. The right side of the heart is the
base of the state of deep sleep, and the presumption of an individual
separate conscious self.
Each of the stations of the heart is, of course, associated with
the seven stages of life, as well as the vertical dimension of the
body-mind. The left side of the heart is associated with the first
three stages of life, and the “general” and “basic” contexts of the
fourth stage of life, and thus the descending or frontal line of the
body-mind. The left side of the heart is associated with the physical
heart itself.
The middle station of the heart is associated with what is often
known as the heart “chakra” (or “wheel”), a center of energy in the
subtle dimension. The middle station of the heart is linked with the
ascending fourth stage of life, and the fifth stage of life, in the
spinal line.
The right side of the heart is the seat of the separate conscious
self. In the sixth stage of life, the right side of the heart becomes
awakened as the root-origin of attention, and the seat of the
Witness-Position of Consciousness. As has been described, at the
culmination of the ascending process, the Spirit-Energy “falls”, or
comes to rest, in the right side of the Spirit Energy in heart.
It is in the seventh stage of life that the Spirit-Current rises
again in the “regeneration” of Amrita Nadi, from the right side of
the heart to the matrix above the head. In this process, the body
itself is infused with the Divine Spirit-Current in the Circle of the
body-mind. Thus, the heart on the right remains always as the “foot”
of the “organ” of Divine Self-Realization that is “Amrita Nadi”.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj describes this fully in chapter forty-three
of The Dawn Horse Testament, of the Ruchira Avatar and additionally
describes His Unique Purpose of Introducing the seventh stage
possibility:
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