Mental-volitional stage of life

At this stage there is development of discriminative intelligence and will, and the individual is in a process of integration to a fully differentiated sexual and social person. Having adapted to this stage the individual is ready to enter adult responsibilities, social, personal and spiritual. Although associated with the ages 14 to 21, the state is not so much one reached at a particular age (18, for example) as continuing to mature throughout life. In fact, misadaptation in first and second stages and the inability of society to communicate further approaches means that most spend their entire life limited to these stages. Those individuals who have their human growth arrested in the first three stages lack psychic maturity and spiritual quality. They may develop through puja yoga and karma yoga.

The third of seven stages of life characterized by Master Da Love Ananda (formerly Da Free John).