SEVENTEEN COMPANIONS

Process of Adidam:

Book Thirteen:
No Seeking—Mere Beholding
The Always Primary Practice Of The Divine Way Of Adidam

Searchless Beholding of Avatar Adi Da–simply receiving the Spiritual Blessing of contemplatively gazing upon His bodily (human) Divine Form, in the whole-bodily disposition of devotional surrender–is the "always primary practice" of the Way of Adidam. This thirteenth "Companion" describes that primary practice–as well as the process of adaptation necessary to become prepared to receive the Divine Avatar’s Spiritual Initiation into the practice of searchlessly Beholding Him, the process of retreat in Avatar Adi Da’s physical Company (in which that Initiation occurs), and the process of Spiritually Activated practice that follows upon that Initiation (leading to the Gift of most fundamental understanding of the self-contraction, which makes possible the further course of the Spiritual process of the Way of Adidam).

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Perceptual and Conceptual Mind
The Conditional Self Is a Presumption–Not an Entity
No Seeking / Mere Beholding

The Right "Consideration" Of My Avataric Divine Teaching-Arguments Sensitizes You To The Two Principal Functions Of mind. The First (and Primary) Function Of mind Is The perceptual (and Participatory) Function Of mind. The Second (and Secondary) Function Of mind Is The conceptual (and Abstract, Analytical, or Interpretive) Function Of mind.

The First (or Primary) Function Of mind Is The Natural and Naturally Intelligent perceptual Awareness (or Natural feeling-Awareness) Of arising conditions, Without Any Necessarily Accompanying Effort To Separate From them. The Second (or Secondary) Function Of mind Is The conceptual Awareness Of arising conditions (and Of verbal thoughts or Abstract Analytical concepts themselves)—and It Is Necessarily Associated With An Effort To Separate (or Withdraw) From arising conditions (whether they are gross, subtle, or causal) and To Exceed (or Strategically Escape From) arising conditions, Because It Is Always Associated With An Effort To know About (or To Abstract, Analyze, and Interpret) arising conditions.

The perceiving mind knows whatever it perceives. What it perceives—Exactly as it is perceived—is what it knows. Perception (Prior To verbal, Abstract, and Interpretive thought) is Participatory conditional knowledge.

The conceptual mind knows whatever it thinks. Whatever it thinks—Whether Or Not the thought is Informed or Confirmed By perception—is what it knows. Conception (or conceptual thought), Loosely or Not At All Associated With perception, is Abstract conditional knowledge.

The Right Employment Of The conceptual Function Of mind Can Serve A Very Useful Purpose In The Original and General Inspiration and Guidance Of The Process, Discipline, and Practice Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart. Just So, the activities Of The conceptual Function Of mind Generally Serve A Useful Purpose In the common world, Which Is The Communication and Development Of conventional knowledge and practical invention. Nevertheless, all conceptual knowledge Is An Abstraction, The Purpose Of Which Is To Give conditional beings (or knowers) Power Over themselves, their objects, their environments, and other conditionally Manifested beings. Therefore, If This Function Of mind Is Not Kept In Right Perspective (Subordinate To Participatory mind and The Wisdom Of Reality), The Motives Of Power and Control Tend To Dominate mind itself (and, Therefore, the Total body-mind and The Total Collective Society, or Social Culture, Of conditionally knowing beings).

Secondary mind, or conceptual (and, Typically, verbal) thought, Must Be Disciplined, If it Is To Be Effective In its Proper Sphere. Likewise, it Must Be Understood, Kept In Right Perspective, and (At Will) Freely Set Aside When The Analytical and Interpretive Function Is Not Presently Necessary or Useful.

You Must Realize The Natural (and Inherent) Ability To Set Aside The Secondary (or conceptual) Function Of mind—or Else You Will Be Dominated By A Compulsive and Obsessive Effort To think conceptually (By Dissociating From perception), To Seek knowledge About, To Interpret, and To Separate From (or To Strategically Dominate, or Even To Strategically Escape From) the perceived conditional worlds.

You Must Enjoy The Natural, Inherent, moment to moment Ability To Merely perceive, To feel, To be with, and To Wholly Participate In the phenomenal conditions Of Your psycho-physical Existence—or Else You Will Not Truly Understand what arises conditionally, Nor Will You Transcend the limitations Of conditional Existence.

Through The Unique Great Process Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart, and By Means Of self-Observation, Developing self-Understanding, and The Progressively Awakening Natural Feeling-Practice Of Mere and always present perception (At First, of perceptual objects, and, Eventually, Of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spirit-Current Itself)—You Must . . . Realize The Inherent Ability To Intentionally Relax (or To Directly Transcend) The Chronic, Compulsive, and Obsessive Tendency Of attention To Become Associated With the past (in the form of both perceptual and conceptual memories) and the future (in the form of perceptual and conceptual projections, both of which Are Generally Based On memories, or remembered conditions) and Even the present (as a conceived, or pre-conceived, or, Otherwise, conceptually limited moment). If moment to moment (or any particular moment Of) Mere and Also perceptible Existence Is (To One or Another Degree) Intolerable To You, Such That You Are (To One or Another Degree) Unable To perceive each (or any particular) present perceptible moment as it (Apparently) is and To (Naturally) feel and Participate In it Without Recoil, You Will (To That Degree, or In any Thus Intolerable moment) Exist Only In the Secondary (or Reflected) world of time and mind.

Ultimately, You Must Realize The Inherently Most Perfect Transcending Of mind itself (In Both Of its Functions), or Else You Will Only Be Defined By and Bound To conditional (or phenomenal) states (Bereft Of The Most Perfect Divine Realization Of Reality). And the Total mind Is Most Perfectly Transcended Only In The Inherent (and Inherently Most Perfect) Realization Of My Avatarically Self-Revealed (Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition—The Conscious Light Of The "Bright" (In Which the mind and the body, and all the conditions, relations, and states of the mind and the body, Are arising, continuing, changing, and passing away).

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The conditional self Is Not (itself) an entity—Like a thing, or Like the body (in and of itself). The conditional self Is A Presumption. The conditional self Is a concept (or An Illusion In the Presumed Independent, or Separate, mind). The conditional self-concept Is Simply A Reflection (or An Analytical Abstraction) Of the Conscious born-condition, the Conscious birth event, The psycho-physical Contraction That Occurs When Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Consciousness Assumes (or, Rather, Apparently Assumes) That It Is Identical To a limited and Threatened condition.

Previous To Inherently Most Perfect Realization Of The (By-Me-Avatarically-Self-Revealed) Inherently Perfect (and Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition and Source-Condition, the psycho-physical self-Contraction is Your Presumed "I". The psycho-physical self-Contraction is Your conditionally born (or Apparent, and Apparently Separate) self. The conditional "I" is Not the body-mind Alone. It is the Contracted body-mind, the body-mind In Consciousness (or the body-mind Assumed In Consciousness). Your ego-"I" is Not Simply the body-mind Alive. It is the body-mind Contracted, Seeking, Separate, and Separative. Your Separate, and Separative, and Always Seeking "I" is egoity (or self-Contraction).

Nevertheless, egoity Can (By My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Spiritual Grace) Be Observed, Understood, and Transcended. Indeed, If it Is Not Observed, Understood, and Transcended, conditional Existence Is (Itself) Suffering (If Only An Illusion Of Suffering, or An Imaginary Disease).

The Process Of Thorough self-Observation, Most Fundamental self-Understanding, and Progressive self-Transcendence (or Real ego-Transcendence) Is The Necessary Course (Whether By The Devotional Exercise Of Insight Or By The Devotional Exercise Of Faith)—or Else There Is No Growth (Beyond The Natural and conventional Developments Of The First Three Stages Of Life), and There Is No Possibility Of Most Ultimate Freedom (Divine Self-Realization, or Divine Enlightenment), and There Is Only The Futility Of Repetition and Seeking.

Therefore, egoity (or psycho-physical self-Contraction, and Identification With the psycho-physical self-Contraction) Must Be Observed, Understood, and Really, Utterly Transcended.

The Way Of The Heart Is The By-My-Avataric-Divine-Spiritual-Grace-Given (and By-My-Avataric-Divine-Spiritual-Grace-Proceeding) Process Of Such self-Observation, self-Understanding, and self-Transcendence (or Real ego-Transcendence)—In The Context Of The Always Primary Practice Of Searchlessly Beholding Me. Therefore, My Teaching-Argument Relative To "Radical" Understanding—or Most Direct and (Most Ultimately) Inherent (and Inherently Most Perfect) Transcending Of the self-Contraction—Is Most Basic To My Word Of Instruction. And The (Necessarily, Devotional) Course (or Process) Of self-Observation, self-Understanding, and self-Transcendence (or Real ego-Transcendence) Is Most Basic (and Indispensably Necessary) To The Practice Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam).

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