The End of Your World

Adya gives this lectures for advanced practitioners. But his insights are hugely beneficial for those of us who don't practice much but are willing to follow the path sooner or later.

He differentiates two types of awakening, abiding and non-abiding ones. The main difference between them is that if someone awakes for just a brief period of time, he calls it non-abiding awakening. If ego structure doesn't reassemble itself, which usually does, the awakening is abiding.

But, he also tells us that it's not that simple either. We can't conceptualize awakening by any means. The most important thing is to stay sincere in this work and generally to be vigilant and honest in our lives.

He also talks about the difficulties that come after the first couple of non-abiding awakenings and how to deal with them.

In short, reading Adya's book gave me a better conceptual understanding of what all this is about. I don't know, maybe having a solid conceptual framework isn't helpful in this work at all, but nevertheless, Adya does a great job of communicating the difficulties and interesting facets of life during and after awakening experiences.