The Penetration of the Cosmic Mandala

by Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
(July 20, 1982)

This is the progression of lights seen in the Cosmic Mandala (or the Great Wheel of Objective or Cosmic Appearances) as attention and the Spiritual Current of Divine Life ascend through and above the body-mind:

1. red: In this grosser light, the internal workings of the entire physical body may be seen, without the mediation of the gross physical or bodily senses.

2. golden yellow (like a sun): In this etheric and lower mental light, the phenomena of exteriorization (or "out-of-body experiences", called "OOBEs") are experienced and seen (i.e., the room, other physical places, etc.), and this is also the light in which the etheric and lower mental worlds (which are only slightly subtler than the gross worlds) and etheric and lower mental beings (including discarnate entities, or ordinary individuals who are in the after-death state) are seen.

3. silvery white (like a moon): In this somewhat higher or subtler mental light, association and identification with the gross physical body and gross physical world are no longer operative, and, via this light, transition is made from the etheric and lower mental to the somewhat subtler mental, or dream-like, realms of appearance.

4. dark blue or black (like a void): This is the empty or apparently lightless space between the grosser and the truly subtle states of phenomenal appearance—and in that "light" there is a suspension of the appearance of objects (as in deep sleep).

5. brilliant blue: This is the light of the higher subtle, or higher mental, worlds, beyond the gross and etheric and lower mental planes—and in it subtle visions of higher beings and higher worlds are seen. (In this brilliant blue light or space, which may appear like a tiny object or spot, or else like a great space, all the colors revolve in a ceaseless flux, and concentration in this light causes that flux to take on the forms of subtler beings and subtler worlds and Super-Cosmic Apparitions of the Divine Being.)

6. Brilliant Clear White Light: This is the Radiant Core of lights, beyond all the gross, etheric, and mental lights, appearing at first as a five-pointed Star in the center of the brilliant blue light, or as a White Source-Light at the end of a blue tunnel, or as a Radiant White Apparition of the Adept Realizer, and leading into an Infinite Space or Realm of absolutely Clear White Brilliance, beyond the planes of mind. (It may be entered temporarily via ego-based attention, in death or in meditation, but it is finally entered in Divine Translation, the culmination of the seventh stage of life, wherein the Source-Condition of attention has been Realized and all conditional forms of the objective cosmos have become Divinely Recognizable.)

The Cosmic Mandala may be seen (in part, as a whole, or in the form of the Ultimate White Brilliance), in meditation or in death, by individuals in the first six stages of life, but in such cases the ego-contraction causes attention to drop back or withdraw from the Clear White Radiance and into the brilliant blue and golden-yellow fields (which are, in terms of size, the two primary divisions of the colored spectrum of dhe Cosmic Mandala), thus, in most cases, producing return to or reincarnation in the subtle and, finally, the gross planes of phenomenal appearance. It is only in the seventh stage of life, by the Power of Divine Self-Realization and tacit or inherent Divine Recognition of conditional phenomenal existence, that Divine Translation into the "Bright" Divine Self-Domain is possible. Therefore, it is only in the seventh, or egoless, stage of life that visions of the Cosmic Mandala are non-deluding, non-binding, and of ultimate significance.

Even so, such visions are probable previous to the seventh stage of life, especially in the case of those who practice meditation in the Radiant Company of an Adept, and also in the event of death in the case of all human beings. Therefore, I have felt it useful to Communicate and "consider" the "esoteric secrets" of the Cosmic Mandala here.

The various lights of the Cosmic Mandala appear whenever the Spiritual Life-Current and attention in the physical body ascend into and above the brain core. The lights ultimately appear in the form of concentric circles (with the red light or the golden-yellow light at the outer circumference and the White Brilliance at the center).

The Cosmic Mandala is not in you (the egoic body-mind). You are in the Cosmic Mandala. The ego is not Perfect. The ego must be transcended in That Which Is Inherently Perfect. If you seek the Cosmic Mandala in yourself—or even if you seem to find It in yourself— you are deluded, limited, and bound by yourself. Therefore, do not seek within yourself and high in yourself for the Great Form. Such is only the path of "Narcissus", or self-worship.

The ego cannot Penetrate or Transcend the Great Mandala of Apparitions. The ego is not the Way. Transcendence of the egoic self-contraction is preparation for the Way, but the Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Divine Self is the Way. In and by the Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Divine Self, all the realms of conditional appearance are ultimately Outshined by the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Condition and Domain that is both the Perfectly Subjective Source and the Objective Core of the cosmos. 

The Divine "Brightness"

(an excerpt from The Dawn Horse Testament of Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj)

The Great Mandala Of The conditional or Cosmic Domain May Appear In (Total) Vision (or In many fractions and forms of vision), Both during life and after death. The various Cosmic planes or worlds May (Therefore) Be perceived, As In a dream, or More Concretely, With Varying Degrees Of Clarity, Detail, and Completeness, With all their kinds of beings, forms, and events, and With Varying Degrees Of Your Participation.

Just So, The Great Cosmic Mandala Itself May Be Perceived In Vision. It Appears As A Circle (Self-Generated In Its Own Space). The Circle Is Itself A Gathering Of Circles, Each Set Within The Other, Concentric, Formed As A Radiant Wheel or A Well or A Tunnel (and Thus A Mandala) Of Great Formative Lights. The Outer Ring Is Narrow and Red In Color (and Generally Set Against An Ambiguous Outer Field That Is Rather Dark, or Perhaps Somewhat Luminous, but Not Tending To Distract attention). The Next Ring Is Yellow, and It Is Wide. Then There Is Another Narrow Ring, Of A Moonlike Whiteness. Then Another Narrow Ring, Apparently Black, or The Color Of Indigo. And The Last Ring, At The Center, Is A Radiant Blue, Wide As The Yellow. In The Center Of The Radiant Blue Is The (Apparently Objective) Brilliant Clear White Five-Pointed Star.

Each Ring Of Color Is An Energy-Field Of A Certain Range Of Vibration (Made By Apparent Modification Of The Self-Radiant Spirit-Energy Of Divine Being). Within Each Ring, There Are Countless worlds and beings, each Characterized and limited By The Vibratory Field In Which they appear. The Outer Rings Are Grosser, or Of A Lower Vibration, and Existence In Them Is Brief and Difficult. Those Closest To The Center Are Subtler, or Of A Higher Vibration, and Existence In Them Is More Pleasurable, More Prolonged, Less Threatened, but Nonetheless conditional, Changing, Temporary, Made Of many limits, and Moved By A Necessary Struggle. The Radiant Blue Is The Most Subtle, and Existence There Is limited By Great Powers and Great Longing For Divine Love-Bliss, Which Is Finally Realized Only In The Exceedingly "Bright" (and Perfectly Subjective) Feeling-Domain Of Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Divine Love-Bliss. And the human world Is Also Within This Cosmic Mandala Of Lights, In The Outer or Grosser Fields Of Red and Yellow.

The Vision Of The Cosmic Mandala May Be Perceived As A Whole, or In Part, Either Enlarged Or Reduced To A Point. Therefore, A Point or A Spot or A Circle May Be Perceived, Made Of Any Color, or A Group Of Any Of The Rings Of Associated Color. In any moment, A Sudden Spot Of light May Be Perceived To Fly Out Of the eyes, or one of the eyes, or Else Flash Before the internal vision, Attractively.

Any kind of pattern or scene May appear In Meditation or Random vision. Any kind of adventure may be experienced, before or after death, in this or any other conditional world.

All worlds Are A (Merely Apparent) psycho-physical Display, Made Of Divine Self-Radiance, By Spontaneous and conditional and Merely Apparent Modification Of That Radiance. All conditionally Manifested beings (Even in and as their present bodily or otherwise Apparent forms) Are spirits, or conditional Modifications Of Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Divine Conscious Light. All visions Are Made Of The Same Mandala Of (Apparently) Modified Clear White Light, The Light or Self-Radiance or Inherent Spiritual Radiance Of Transcendental Divine Being.

Therefore, In The Process Of Divine Translation (Realized In The Way Of The Heart), all conditional worlds, all conditional beings and events, all conditional forms of the psycho-physical self, and All The Cosmic Colors Yield To The Divine Star (Itself), and, Therefrom, To The Most Prior (and Perfectly Subjective) Source-Condition Of Even The Divine Star, and, Thus and So, Enter (and Dissolve) Into The Divine "Brightness" (or The Inherent Spiritual Radiance, or Transcendental Love-Bliss) Of Self-Existing (and Perfectly Subjective, and Necessarily Divine) Being (Itself), Which all-Outshining (and Utterly All-Outshining) "Brightness" Is Itself The Divine Self-Domain.

In That Process Of Divine Translation, The Divine Star Ceases To Be (and To Appear As) An Object. Indeed, Divine Translation (Realized In The Way Of The Heart) Occurs Only If My Devotee Is (By Grace) Fully Awake To All The Forms Of My Revelation Of The Divine Person, and, Therefore, Only If My Devotee Is Established In The Transcendental, Inherendy Spiritual, and Divine Self-Condition, Divinely Recognizing The Apparendy Objective Star (If It Appears), and all objects, and Even The Feeling Of Relatedness Itself As The Only One (and Not Other, but Only Self-Radiant Oneness, Widhout Division or Separation). Therefore, In The Event Of Divine Translation, The Apparently Objective Divine Star, Divinely Recognized, Becomes A Transparent Doorway At The Heart, The Same As The Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Field That Is Consciousness Itself, The "Bright" Itself, Glorious Beyond Conception, Full, Without The Slightest Absence or Threat, More Than Wonderful, All Delight, Heart-Feeling Without limit, The Unspeakable "Embodiment" Of Joy, God-Great!

How Will This Divine Translation Be Accomplished? By Love! Only Submit To Me In Love's Embrace, Attracted Beyond the Separate and Separative self. Therefore, Hear The One Who Is Love. See The One Who Is Love. And Practice In The Heart-Manner I Am Revealing To You.

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