The Transcendental Vision
by Adi Da
The world is a
Machine of experience - of beginnings, changes, endings, and beginnings again.
Every being
arises as a consciousness of experience and becomes automatically involved in
the Pattern.
Every being is ultimately deathless and
constantly reawakens to the levels of experience to which it feels attached or
attracted.
Every being, therefore, has the potential for a
countless number of lifetimes - or epochs of experience.
Lifetimes arise spontaneously and for countless
aeons (as long as the sphere of experience to which the being is attached
continues to arise). Therefore, experience of all possibilities is a mechanical
inevitability, until there is Awakening to the Condition beyond or prior to
conditional experience.
Experience arises for its own sake, and there are
countless realms of variously combined possibilities.
However,
experience is a limiting force, a self-defining power, a Machine of destinies.
Therefore, there is no ultimate Happiness, Joy, or Bliss possible in the realms of conditional experience.
The inherent frustration of Happiness, Joy, or Bliss in the realms of
conditional experience is the only force within the realms of experience that is greater
than the motive of experience itself.
It is the
recognition of this inherent frustration that begins to Awaken
the being to the Transcendental Reality that is the Source-Basis or Condition
of all conditional experience.
Therefore,
recognition of the inherent and profound frustration of Happiness, Joy, and
Bliss that we all are suffering is the basis of Wisdom and the ultimate
Realization of Happiness, Joy, and Bliss.
Every being inevitably continues to experience
lifetimes of conditional and self-binding experience until there is the
recognition of the inherent frustration of Happiness, Joy, and Bliss in the
process of conditional experience.
When this
recognition becomes profound, there is the Awakening to the
Transcendental or Divine Condition in which all conditional experience is
arising - and this Awakening Realizes Wisdom, Happiness, Joy, and Bliss.
When any being Awakens to the Wisdom, Happiness,
Joy, and Bliss of inherence in the Transcendental Divine (the Condition of
conditions), the mechanical association with the Machine of experience is
released.
Therefore,
beings are constantly reborn to the conditions of their experiential attachment, and they
go on and on in the experience of mechanical destinies, only more or less aware
of the profundity of their inherent frustration, until they recognize that
frustration, Awaken from their mechanical associations, and Realize the Wisdom,
Happiness, Joy, and Bliss of inherence in the Transcendental Divine Being.
In that Event, they are as if sifted out of the
conditional worlds, and they are moved by Ecstasy into the Radiant Eternal
Domain of the Transcendental Divine Being, prior to all association with
experiential limitations.
Those who are not thus Awakened are seen to play out their frustrated
adventures in the chaos of destinies always present in any dimension of the
world.
But those who
recognize the inherent frustration involved in any such adventure see the
profundity, inevitability, and universality of suffering in the conditional
world.
They continue to fulfill the pattern of activity and experience which
is appropriate to their circumstances of existence, but their orientation is no
longer to experience itself or to the self-being itself.
Rather, they live and act in a spirit of self-transcending surrender,
Ecstasy, or Love-Communion with the Radiant Transcendental Divine Being.
Therefore, their days pass in the midst of the conventions of activity
and awareness in the world, but they are more and more profoundly Transfigured
by the Wisdom, Happiness, Joy, and Bliss of God-Communion.
Finally, they cease to
be born to attention in the realms of conditional experience.
They are Outshined, and the world is Outshined, by the Radiant Being
of God.
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