Wisdom Teachings: How the Higher Self can be Victorious - 1

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✍️ Torkom Saraydarian

📚 Prasad Bharadwaj

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A great sage once gave an instruction showing how a new age spiritual seeker is created.

He said: The degrees of attainment are:

Alarmed; Inquiring; Knocking; Hearkening; Reminiscing; Transmitting; Sword Carrier; Puissant; Lamp of the Desert; Lion of the Desert; Co-worker of the Creative Principles; Creator.

One must graduate through these twelve stages in order to become a seeker.

1. The first stage is the stage of a person which is called ALARMED. This is an esoteric word which means a man is suddenly awakened to a situation and confronts a decision. He has received a warning from his soul, from his body , from his circumstances of life. He is horrified by some information, by some facts. He was horrified by a dream or by an experience and now he is uneasy.

One must be “alarmed” in order to find the path. No one enters the path without being alarmed.  Alarm is the moment when the soul reaches the stage where his eyes are opened and he sees his situation clearly. He sees his karma, his slavery, the forces of materialism and darkness, and the danger of annihilation and destruction.

2. The second is the stage of INQUIRY. The traveler begins to search for solutions; he wants to protect and free himself and those who are closely related to him…. He searches in religion, in education, and in philosophy to find ways and means to free himself from his state of alarm. He visits teachers, read books, listens to lectures, and eventually reaches the conclusion that the secret of all these teachings is hidden somewhere within him. This leads him to the next stage.

3. The stage of KNOCKING.  Knocking means to gather all your physical, emotional, and mental aspirations into a focus and try to initiate yourself into a new state of consciousness where you will substantiate all that you have learned and dreamed. In this state you knock on the door of your inner guide. you do this by,

a. Asking questions

b. Thinking

c. Meditating

d. Uplifting your heart and expanding your consciousness

e. Cultivating virtues

f. Transforming your life

g. Committing yourself to service

h. Clear observation

i. Exercising severe discipline of speech.

It is through such means that you invoke await evocation; you await an answer from the inner lord. Instead of being a man of ideas, dreams, and theories, you become a man of experience.  Knocking leads you into experience.

4. You prepare yourself for the next stage which is called HEARKENING. Hearkening is the stage when you are ready to load yourself with great responsibilities and tasks. You are ready to submit yourself to sacrificial service.

The way to hearken is to close your ears to all those voices, which speak about self-interest, vanity, pride, separatism, and greed.

Hearkening convinces you that you are not alone on the path and the guides of life  are watching your steps to the mountaintop. Hearkening is the stage where you come to the conclusion that you must live the things you believe.

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