Ramaji - 1000: The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

1000

Revised Second Edition

2019

By

Ramaji

with Ananda Devi

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Ramaji describes the stages that he went through in order to get to LOC 1000 (Self-realization). Our unique one on one online coaching combined with RASA TM takes you step by step through those very same stages. In one year or less you too can end your seeking and attain enlightenment (LOC 1000).

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1000

The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

Revised, Updated & Expanded 2019 Second Edition

By

Ramaji

with Ananda Devi

1000

The Levels of Consciousness and a Map of the Stages of Awakening for Spiritual Seekers and Teachers

Revised, Updated & Expanded 2019 Second Edition

Copyright 2014, 2019 by Ramaji

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Dedicated, with deep abiding love, gratitude and respect, to my root guru Ramesh Balsekar, himself a direct disciple of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, to Kali Ma, who initiated me into the Sri Ramakrishna lineage, to Sri Lakshmana Swamy who appeared shining with light in my Heart on the right in Ramanas tradition, and to everyone who is on the path of awakening to True Self (LOC 1000), especially those who would like to know where they stand, those who would like to know where they are going, those who would like to know how to choose a good teacher, and, most especially, those who yearn to realize the Heart and live in the Freedom that was promised, taught and exemplified by Sri Ramana Maharshi.

Table of Contents

Although this book was written in a whirlwind in about a year, it was many decades in the making. The seeds were planted when I recorded in my journal my first spiritual experiences as a teenager. At the same time, I began experimenting with methods to assess spiritual development.

First, I must thank my spiritual and life partner Ananda Devi. She is the inspiration and motivation behind this new edition. Her Introduction boldly summarizes the massive changes in our global work with RASA TM since the 2014 edition of 1000 .

I want to express my appreciation to the old San Diego satsang group. Individually and collectively, they encouraged me to pursue my LOC (Level of Consciousness) research.

I would especially like to thank Fred Smalley from the San Diego satsang group. Fred gave me a number of interesting names for LOC assessment that I would not have thought of otherwise. He also alerted me to "dirty laundry" on certain teachers. These insights made the book more entertaining while also clearing up blind spots in my LOC assessments.

I would also like to deeply thank Alex Burtson from the San Diego satsang group for his professional rendering of the Map of Awakening (complete and condensed versions). He was a true pleasure to work with and contributed many good ideas.

I would like to warmly thank Oivind from Norway for reading the manuscript prior to publication. His feedback was wonderfully encouraging as well as uniquely useful.

Finally, I would like to thank the dozens of students who since 2014 have praised 1000 and confirmed its unique value and benefits for the spiritual seeker. They have not been shy in letting me know the extent to which they felt empowered and guided by it. They have validated the choice I made to make it extremely personal, even to the point of sharing my private diaries never intended for publication.

There are now more than 500 people around the world who have been awakened via the RASA TM spiritual transmission!

When I was first asked to write a Forward for Ramaji's book 1000 , I hesitated. My hesitancy was not based on anything other than awe and wonder. How on earth could I, Ananda Devi, express within a few paragraphs the majesty and the devotion that I feel towards my beloved partner Ramaji. To be perfectly honest, it is not possible.

Words are not able to accurately transmit this type of deep knowing. I have a complete understanding that defies logic and some may say common sense. It is with this in mind that I request the readers of this book to attempt to feel the inner workings of the author. The book 1000 is, in my opinion, an exceptionally raw and brutally honest account of Ramaji's life path as well as his spiritual awakening.

When I met Ramaji I had already had my own very deep and significant mystical spiritual awakenings. I knew that I had attained the level of LOC 1000 that Ramaji speaks of in his book. Ramaji confirmed my self-assessment on the day of our first meeting.

I had spent years meeting top spiritual teachers in the hopes of finding an enlightened person that I strongly felt was a genuine integrated human being. Believe it or not, it turned out to be quite difficult to find somebody like that. As my quest went on and on I became confused, lonely, disheartened, even desperate.

My heart-felt yearning was to meet a true spiritual friend, a human being, who according to my own extremely high standards, had an in-depth knowing of non-duality that was deeply integrated. He had to be somebody who could meet me here now where I live. And boy did he!

Ramaji and I first met in Alpine, California, in the mountains east of San Diego. Within two minutes of him opening the door, after a handshake and the brief exchange of a few casual words, I was convinced that I had at long last met the spiritual master I was looking for. My prayers were answered.

It was on that day that I received my very first RASA TM which quickly led to my own very intense post-1000 integration. In my naivete, before I met Ramaji, I had actually believed I was fully integrated. I am writing this now three years after meeting Ramaji and four and a half years since my first of several life-changing spiritual awakenings. I can tell you I was not as integrated as I had thought!

Ramaji surprised me during that session by telling me almost immediately that I could teach this and would be an excellent non-duality teacher. He said I was a natural for it.

In all honesty, I had severe reservations about transmissions in general and the RASA TM specifically. I didn't know what RASA TM was nor did I care. I was there to meet the man who called himself Ramaji and find out if he was the real deal or not!