Question

What is the major difference noticed in the 5th and 6th Stage of life

Answer 1

The liability in the sixth stage of life is the tendency toward the belief that the Radiant Transcendental Consciousness is an Absolute but Exclusive and Undifferentiated Consciousness, which may be Realized only through the literal suppression or cessation of experience, particularly mental or psychic experience. It is the tendency toward the strategic exclusion of experience, and it is founded on an intuitive penetration of the root of attention, resulting in a temporary suspension of ordinary psycho-physical awareness. It is a tendency founded in a partial or conditional and incomplete intuition of the Radiant Transcendental Consciousness.
The Way of Translation of Man into God - CHAPTER 7: The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

SIXTH STAGE

The mind alone is the whole universe." (Tejobindu Upanishad 5:98) In other words, the universe is constructed by the mind. This summarizes the position of the experiencer in the first five stages of life. His attention is fixed on the experience of the manifold world of objects-be they external or internal, ordinary or extraordinary, sensory or suprasensory. By contrast, the practitioner who has made the transition into the sixth stage has transcended the mind and all mental phenomena. His attention is exclusively absorbed in the transcendental Reality. While the processes of the mind (and body) continue to occur, the sixth stage practitioner is no longer bound by them. Enjoying the unalloyed Bliss of the self-Essence, he disregards the ephemeral pleasures associated with worldly objects. The whole cosmos, including the dimension of the mind, has lost all fascination for him.

All is the Brahman alone; nothing else is; that am I; that am I; that alone am I; that alone am I. The eternal Brahman alone am I. The Brahman alone am I, and not one of worldly existence. The Brahman alone am I and not for me the mind. The Brahman alone am I and not for me the intellect. The Brahman alone am I and not the senses. The Brahman alone am I, the body am I not.'

This ecstatic exclamation by a Hindu adept epitomizes the sixth stage point of view, which is that of total awakening as the transcendental Identity, the "atman" or "purusha." This has its parallel in Buddhism, although the sixth stage realist language of the Buddhist adepts speaks of the dissolution of the ego process rather than any transcendental identification. In Ashvaghosha's Buddha Carita (book 2), we find this ebullient declaration:

O builder! I've discovered thee! This fabric thou shalt ne'er rebuild! Thy rafters all are broken now, And pointed roof demolished lies! This mind has demolition reached, And seen the last of all desire!2

This rare state is traditionally known as "nirvana" (in Hinayana Buddhism) or "jnana samadhi" (in Hinduism). Many esoteric schools consider this to be the summit of spiritual attainment. The sixth stage realizer or jnani ("knower") may at times appear ascetic, disinterested, and seemingly detached from manifest life. But there are also Self-Realized sages, like Shree Atmananda (1883-1959), who live as "householders," pursuing an active life in the world.

Shree Atmananda was once asked, "How does the world appear and what is its solution?" He gave this sixth stage answer:

By accepting the medium of the mind and senses, the appearances, namely thoughts and perceptions, seem to be separate from the Self. . . . This is how the world appears-though in essence it is nothing but the Self. Therefore the solution of the world does not lie in any objective search outside by way of the sciences or philosophy, but in withdrawing into the real Self within one. This may successfully be achieved by following the ordinary mental knowledge itself to its very source, through the most immediate expression of knowledge, namely self-consciousness or objectless knowledge.3

Numerous philosophical teachings and meditative techniques have been developed on the basis of a sixth stage orientation to practice. But, as Master Da teaches, the sixth stage approach has an inherent limitation. For, the practices peculiar to this stage depend on the aspirant's capacity to withdraw attention from external or internal objects. Jnana samadhi, which is the supreme attainment of the sixth stage of life, is preceded by the redirection of attention upon the Essence of awareness, prior to the subtle states of the Life-Current and any sense of individuality.

Answer 2

The main difference is that __☺__

➡ In the 5th stage of human life, man becomes of a justice. He is fat like a chicken & flesh is bulging out of his waist. His beard is of a formal cut. He is full of wise sayings and examples of modern life.

➡ In the sixth stage, he is a weak, thin old man. He looks funny in his loose clothes.

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