Six Stages of a Seeker

Self realization is the foundation on which God realization happen.  As long as Self realization don't happen, you keep coming back to lack of trust. You will be stuck in the suffering states of anger, disappointment, hurt. 

You will wonder if your partner loves you or the divine loves you. You feel disappointed in your family members and divine. You live in the fear of tomorrow, loose trust in life and the divne.

You cant have one heart for the universal intelligence and another for self. 

Journey of spiritual awakening called Manifest. Walking a mystic's path. Journey into the transcendence. 

For the universal intelligence to act as the great protector of life. There are six stages as a seeker:

• Balya Avasta or the stage of childhood: Most dominant nature, wanting - constant craving. When they are met you are happy. You have faith. When your wants are not met with - emotional or material, you move deeper and deeper in suffering and lose faith. There is anger and dissatisfaction. There is no spiritual wisdom in Balyaavasta. You have wants and desires. There are constant swings.
• Warthika  Avasta or the stage of trading:  Your connection with the universal intelligence is in giving and taking. You become calculative, you doubt and mistrust. There is no generosity, because your heart is closed. You think like a trader. 
• Adharsha or the idealist: At this stage you strive hard to be good, because you believe you will come close to God and will be in his grace, receiving spiritual reward. You are engrossed with your self only. You strive to be good and patient, self disciplined, generous. You try to appease universal intelligence. You have experienced immense struggle against yourself. Who you are and what you try to do, are totally in misalignment and hence there is conflict within you. You may move into disappointment and disconnection, you blame, and become stuck with five questions: why is this happening to me? 

These three stages are immersed in ignorance, a consciousness that is not awakened. Self realization don't happen when you judge yourself, when you are self -righteous. It happens in non judgmental awareness and passion arise from it. 

• Premi or the lover of universal intelligence. Love is an immensely fulfilling experience. You feel complete in the experience, that there is nothing to ask. Love is a reward in itself. When you awake in love you are in the heart of universal intelligence. 

5th and 6th  - Enlightened stage

• Janani  or the wise men You see the creator and creation as inseparable. Your eyes of wisdom open, and you have to understand the nature of reality itself. You are attached to certain events happening. You are averse to certain events happening. Janani pulls downward pull, witnesses everything as a flow of situation. Life is a flow.  Not attached to outcome. Reality is a vast field of possibilities. Anything arise and anything can go out of existence. To a jani universe is a leela or play of intelligence. 
• Muktha or the one who is liberated. Everything is Universal intelligence. No moment when it is absent. It happens only in Ekam Tapas. 

As your consciousness move from one stage to another, it is on an evolutionary trajectory.  This is a journey ahead for the seeker.