Adi Da – The Grid of Attention

In this Discourse, from August 15, 1995, Avatar Adi Da describes the fundamental nature of attention. He explains how experience in the conditional domain occurs through a mechanical association of attention with objects in an infinite “grid” of Light. He clarifies that attention does not move from one object to another, but only identifies with the apparent objects within this “grid”. Avatar Adi Da describes how this mechanism operates in each of the three dimensions of experience: “gross”, “subtle”, and “causal”, and in each of the three human states: waking, dreaming, and sleeping. Finally, Avatar Adi Da describes the nature of His Spiritual Bessing-Work, and Offers the Way to Realize the Divine Reality that is prior to attention, and prior to all states and experiences of the body-mind.

In terms of the mechanics of experiencing, there is the unmoving “point” of attention and the apparently moving grid of “objects”, associating attention with different modifications of energy, moment to moment. In Truth, there is neither attention nor the grid–there is simply Consciousness Itself, and Its Inherent Radiance.