Some of the benefits of growing in the practice of the Way of Adidam:

• greater intensity of Happiness
• greater whole bodily surrender — greater awareness of the difference between ordinary subjectivity and the Divine State of Happiness — not taking it into the body, reducing it to subjecivity, and dissociating from the Divine like a dog with a bone
• greater awareness of the Divine as freedom from conditional existence — greater awareness of the Divine as another Dimension
• a better context for self-understanding — increasingly less (or "flabbier") self-contraction and an increasingly better context for self-understanding
• a practice that is experienced increasingly more as Samadhi
• greater ability to effectively engage the Devotional Prayer of Changes

One of the reasons beginners often get stuck on the "beginner's plateau" is that they are not experiencing any of these benefits, at least to a degree that makes a difference. At the very beginning, the degree of Happiness can be so relatively small that it doesn't really stand out from the usual means one uses to pleasurize or relax oneself. Given that, it's easy for beginners to fall into a life that Adi Da described as "one foot in the world, and one foot in the Divine — and the bigger foot is in the world". And that pretty much guarantees one will not progress in practice.

In contrast, the more of these benefits you are experiencing, the more they can help create a "virtuous circle" or "positive feedback loop" in your practice — where, for example, greater experienced intensity of Happiness motivates greater practice which leads to even greater intensity of Happiness. Then, as Adi Da once put it, "you will move through these stages [of practice] like a hot knife through butter!"

Part IV-C, Chapter 2