Stages of Spiritual Awareness. Where am I now?

STAGES OF SPIRITUAL AWARENESS

Where am I now?

1. General Awareness: The Intellect leads a life like that of an Artificial Intelligence coming under the influence of thoughts and five senses.

2. Stage 1: In silence, the Intellect gets introduced to self knowledge and God. Thereby, the intellect is able to spend few hours with experience of silence, peace, love, bliss free from the influence of five senses and distractions of mind.

3. Stage 2: The more the intellect remains in the experience of beyond five senses, more it expresses spiritual qualities in day to day life through the mind and five senses.

4. Stage 3: If the intellect desires to lead a healthy and happy life free from sorrow and unhappiness, it gradually diverts all its attention from the influence of five senses and focus more on constant and stable qualities of peace, love, bliss and happiness. Because the intellect understands that peace, love, happiness that are derived from the five senses are not permanent but illusionary and they disappear in the absence of sense objects.

5. Stage 4: The Intellect now remains totally detached not only from the five senses but also able to remain detached from the thoughts that lead to bondage / influence of five senses.

      

AWARENESS / ATTENTION OF THE INTELLECT (100%)
SL. NO.	GENERAL AWARENESS	STAGE 1: SPIRITUAL AWARENESS	STAGE 2: ANGELIC AWARENESS	STAGE 3: ANGELIC AWARENESS	STAGE 4: INCORPOREAL AWARENESS
5 SENSES (Visual, Sound, Taste, Smell and Touch)	50%	25%	10%	0 - 5%	0%
MIND (Thoughts)	50%	25%	20%	15%	0 - 5%
SELF  &  GOD CONSCIOUS (Silence, lightness, love and Bliss)	0%	50%	70%	80%	95%
TOTAL (Concentration)	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%

Insight: In fact Body consciousness is nothing but consciousness / bondages of five senses.