In fact, the Sanskrit word “Guru” literally indicates the dispelling of darkness. The syllable gu means shadows, The syllable ru, he who disperses them. Because of the power to disperse darkness the guru is thus named.
(The guru-devotee relationship as a law of sympathetic vibration)
Avatar Adi Da once described the “physics” of the Guru-devotee relationship as a “law of vibration”. When one object vibrating at a particular frequency is brought into proximity with another such object, the second object can begin to vibrate “in tune” with the first.
By spending time with the Guru, the devotee who does not “hold on” to self (and thus stop the process of “sympathetic vibration”) becomes more and more resonant with the Guru’s State. The human Guru is thus a profound help to human beings, because the Guru appears in human form to communicate that which is otherwise beyond human experience.
He describes a three-part paradigm of (1) presumed separate (and subjective) self, (2) presumed separate (and objective) world, and (3) presumed separate “God” or Great State.
(Self-contraction: the ego’s root activity and its transcendence)
The root-activity of the ego is what Adi Da describes as self-contraction. Presuming to be a separate (and, therefore, inherently threatened) “someone”, every human being contracts (physically, emotionally, mentally, and with the breath) in the face of the apparent threat of everything “other”. However, that activity of self-contraction is not inherent to the being. That activity of self-contraction is something each human being is doing in reaction to his or her (real or presumed) experience.
The tacit, non-verbal heart-response of devotion to Adi Da Samraj is (from the beginning and always) the basis of Adidam. To live that Way in its fullness is to extend devotional recognition of Adi Da Samraj into an active response of every aspect of the being—“inner” and “outer”—via a comprehensive discipline of right life. The life of Adi Da’s devotee is converted from the habit-patterns based in identification with the separative body-mind to the disposition of all action as service to the Divine Heart-Master and His Liberating Work. The enactment of right life serves to magnify the intuition of Truth that is inherent in devotion to Adi Da Samraj.
(The seventh stage way: heart-response prior to body and mind)
contrast, the Way of Adidam is the “seventh stage Way”—a process that is, from the beginning and always, not based on any gross, subtle, or causal structure of the body-mind, but on direct and free heart-response to the Perfect Divine Reality Itself, Revealed in and as the Bodily Form of Adi Da Samraj.
Such devotion necessarily occurs prior to any form of identification with body, mind, or “self”. It is in this sense that devotion to Adi Da Samraj is “radical”—because that devotion happens in the root-“Place” of Reality Itself.
Only One Present as Reality Itself—That Which Simply Is, Prior to mind and any “point of view”—can Reveal the Perfect Truth.
(Reality as waking: the dream metaphor for conditional existence)
Everything that arises is an appearance to Consciousness Itself, a modification of the Divine Conscious Light That Is Always Already the Case. All of this is a dream, if you like. It is an appearance in Consciousness Itself. Truth Is Very Consciousness Itself. Truth is to all of this what the waking state is to the dreaming state. If you awaken, you do not have to do anything about the condition you may have suffered or enjoyed in the dream state. What happened within the dream is suddenly not your present condition. It is of no consequence any longer, once you are awake.
If you persist in dreaming, and your “point of view” remains that of the dreamer (and the dreamer’s role within the dream), then your possible actions are numberless. But none of them will “work”. They will simply occupy you in the dream. They will modify the dream state, but no action in the dream is the equivalent of waking. There are simply forms of fascination, of occupation, of seeking—until you wake up. Truth is simply Waking, No-illusion. It is not a condition within this appearance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the mind, regardless of whether the mind is expanded or contracted. There is One Who is Wide Awake while He Appears in the dream. By not supporting the dream, He Awakens others. He Is the True Divine Guru. I Am That One. The significance of My Work is not in anything I do within the dream. I simply do not support it. I do not live as it. I do not believe it. I do not take it seriously. Apparently, I can feel and act as I please within the dream.
They will modify the dream state, but no action in the dream is the equivalent of waking. There are simply forms of fascination, of occupation, of seeking—until you wake up. Truth is simply Waking, No-illusion. It is not a condition within this appearance. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the mind, regardless of whether the mind is expanded or contracted.
The significance of My Work is not in anything I do within the dream. I simply do not support it. I do not live as it. I do not believe it. I do not take it seriously.
But I do not support the dream. I do not live from its “point of view”. I do not live its structure to others. I do not live the self-contraction to others—the avoidance of relationship, the separate-self-sense.
The search persists. Often, they get a little distance from the dream—it seems to break up at times, seems to disappear. It becomes vague, it becomes uninteresting, it becomes unserious, it becomes serious again.
But I Am simply Awake. Not a single thing is happening. Not a single thing has been accomplished. I Am Only Awake. I am like the sunlight in the morning. I Intensify the light of morning until you Awaken. Until the Light Awakens you, even the Light of Consciousness Itself, you continue to dream, try to survive within the dream, manipulate yourself within the dream, pursue all kinds of goals, searches—none of which Awaken you.
(Heart-communion dissolving the seeking self)
In heart-Communion with Me, the Truth is Lived to you—and you then live the Truth as your Condition. Gradually, you become less and less involved with the suffering-and-seeking images of yourself. You become less concerned with the usual process of your life. You are doing less and less about it. You are trying less and less to get free, to get Realized, to get to God, Liberation, and pleasant sensation. You are not trying to stop engaging all of that effort. It just begins to wear down, while you live the conditions Given by Me. You simply notice this. You cease to be occupied with your search—because the Truth is being Lived to you. The Truth is being Lived as yourself, by Means of My Divine Avataric Grace.
Gradually, you become less and less involved with the suffering-and-seeking images of yourself. You become less concerned with the usual process of your life. You are doing less and less about it. You are trying less and less to get free, to get Realized, to get to God, Liberation, and pleasant sensation. You are not trying to stop engaging all of that effort. It just begins to wear down, while you live the conditions Given by Me. You simply notice this. You cease to be occupied with your search—because the Truth is being Lived to you. The Truth is being Lived as yourself, by Means of My Divine Avataric Grace.
You simply forget your adventure of suffering—that is all. The Power of heart-Communion with Me distracts you from mere suffering (or the separate and separative and always seeking body-mind-self)—until Truth Itself becomes Obvious.
Therefore, Truth is not a matter of doing something to the ego, the separate-self-sense, the identification with the body, or anything else. Rather, Truth is simply to be lived—because Truth obviates all that is not Truth.
That is your own fabrication, your own suffering again. Whenever there is relationship, there is no need for all of these symbolic constructs.
Within the dream, the potential images may be consoling, and even hopeful—but such consolation or hope is not the equivalent of being Awake. Consolation and hope depend upon your being asleep. The forms of seeking exploit your capability to identify with the fundamental dilemma of dreaming, which is its unconsciousness. The forms of seeking may satisfy you within the context of your presumptions, but they are not the equivalent of Waking Up. What is required to Wake Up? What can you do within the dream to Wake Up? Not a thing. There is only the Waking Itself. All actions within the dream are forms of the dream itself. Waking is another process—and It occurs by other means, by Divinely Graceful Means.
I Am Always Already Awake. I could not care less about your urges and demands within the dream. I refuse to satisfy them. I refuse to give you an experience merely to console you. I have no intention of satisfying anyone’s egoic game. All the demands for satisfaction that you bring are frustrated in My Company. What is satisfied, what is made to grow, is that fundamental Intuition of Reality that is already the Foundation of your existence.
Only the seeker takes the dilemma seriously. The waking state does not take your dreams seriously. It is not the least concerned with your dreams. And, fortunately, all beings are already alive with the Intuition of Reality. Therefore, all beings have an affinity with Sunlight, with the True Waking State—with Me. Unqualified Reality, the Love-Bliss-Happiness of My “Bright” Divine Self-Condition, is What they are already living—and that is What is consciously discovered in the heart-relationship to Me. Because you Always Already Inhere in My Love-Bliss-Happiness, I Draw you to Myself.
Therefore, all beings have an affinity with Sunlight, with the True Waking State—with Me. Unqualified Reality, the Love-Bliss-Happiness of My “Bright” Divine Self-Condition, is What they are already living—and that is What is consciously discovered in the heart-relationship to Me.
All apparent “reasons” for holding on to Me fall away, and also all the apparent “reasons” for not holding on to Me.
When you become less concerned with your particular search, your inwardness, your adventure, then you have simply become more sensitive to your Real Condition. You have felt the sunlight falling on your sleeping eyes. When your eyes have opened in the morning light, everything will be obvious to you—and you will know that you have never slept, that you have never dreamed, that you have never been limited to any thing that has appeared. You have never been limited to any condition that you have presumed. There was always only Reality Itself, the True Divine Self-Nature of all-and-All—Which Is Love-Bliss-Happiness Itself, Consciousness Itself, the Unqualified Presence of Reality Itself, Truth Itself, and Real (Acausal) God. I Am That.
The Super-Physics of Divine Enlightenment
(True worship requires surrender of the body-mind, not payment)
Most people are willing to sacrifice things, but not themselves. They are willing to pay cash, in other words, for a quick salvation. Such “religious consumerism” is an ancient ritual of worship, but it is false and futile. True worship is the surrender of your own body-mind in Truth, in the Living and Transformative Company of the Spiritual Master. People absolutely resist such surrender, because they know nothing about it. Human beings are, in fact, subhuman in their present level of adaptation.
True Spiritual life is not just a change in your mind. Much more than an “inner awakening” or a “good feeling” about everything must take place. The literal physics of your entire existence must change.
Nevertheless, those changes are as literal as the “evolutionary” change from a dinosaur to a human being—and they are as dramatic as that, but they principally occur at more subtle levels of the physics of the conditional being. There are literal changes in the nervous system, literal changes in the chemistry of the body, literal changes in the structural functioning of the brain.
Irresponsible people cannot enter into this Process. You must be responsible for yourself at the human level, and in a profoundly uncommon way. You must live the discipline of ordinary life. You yourself must be love under all ordinary, daily conditions. You must make this change in your life. There is no way whereby you can be relieved of this necessity—and nobody else can do it for you.
Find Me by Communing with Me. You need not be concerned with how much concentration of mind there is, how much poetic vision there is, how much relaxation there is in the body, how pleasant the conditions of life are. You need not be concerned with the fact that life is difficult at the moment, or that you yourself are obnoxious. You need not be concerned about any of it! All of that content is simply the inevitable suffering that is the result of conditional existence. All you need do is Find Me—by Means of heart-Communion with Me.
I Am your Unique (Divine Avataric) Advantage—but not because I Give you a process that you can successfully apply to yourself, if only you will bear down and muster enough effort. I specifically do not offer any such ego-driven process. I Am your Unique Advantage because I Offer you a relationship to
What must change through heart-Communion with Me is your fundamental sense of the Divine Reality. If you are established in That in any moment (regardless of what is happening in the body-mind), you will (thereby) Realize the Love-Bliss-Happiness, the Inherent Freedom, of Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Divine Being Itself.
The Process of the Divine Enlightenment of the body-mind is a more predictable Process than any science on Earth. The Way of Adidam is an exact and Perfectly Effective Science—if it can be called a “science” at all, since it is not based on the obsession with maintaining an “objective” stance. Whoever you are, there is no possibility that that Great Divine Process will not work in your case. No possibility. No one is damned. No one is inherently (or essentially) limited.
Basically, you must be responsible for turning the principal faculties to Me—and, Ultimately, you must utterly transcend them (including even attention itself), in Most Perfect Self-Identification with Me.
Do not make practice into the observation of changes in the body-mind. Let practice be the constant event of Beholding the One Who Is Attractive. That is practice in My Divine Avataric Company.
The Supreme Secret of Spiritual Life
For this reason, the Divine Appears in conditional Form, in the likeness of those who are to be Drawn out of bondage—but only in their likeness. It is the Divine That Appears in that likeness, and it is the Divine That is made Visible through that likeness.
At best, they will practice the disciplines that are associated with the Way of Truth in a willful (or egoic) manner. At worst, they will simply become dissociated, and convince themselves that there is no Great Distraction, no Real (Acausal) God, no Truth, and then commit themselves to self-indulgence and to the conventional destiny.
That discovery breaks the heart and makes it possible for you to be Distracted by What Is Beyond your egoic self, and to make right and true use of your relationship to Me, such that your relationship to Me becomes ecstatic.
the Divine Heart-Master, I Am Indefinable—not a “thing”, not a defined “subject”, not a ritual and cultic “object”. I Am Utterly Incomprehensible, beyond any possible definition. Thus, when you enter ecstatically into the heart-relationship to Me, you move completely beyond whatever limitations you (as ego-“I”) may tend to assume about Me (as an apparent human being).
I Am Utterly Incomprehensible, beyond any possible definition. Thus, when you enter ecstatically into the heart-relationship to Me, you move completely beyond whatever limitations you (as ego-“I”) may tend to assume about Me (as an apparent human being).
Real Spiritual life is founded in Love-Communion with the Divine, and absolute dependence on Divine Grace.
is Attraction to Me, an Overwhelming Attraction to Me, an Attraction that eventually begins to ruin the ego-life you are otherwise perpetuating. Your Attraction to Me becomes an Influence that Shatters all the conventional arrangements and strategies by which you (as ego-“I”) try to “feel good”.
Of course, as My devotee, you must also practice the various disciplines I Give you. Yes, you do that—but every aspect of your practice is animated in the context of Attractedness, of Enchantment, of Uncaused Blissfulness.
You have nothing to say about That Which is Attractive except that That Is Bliss, That Is Love, That Is Beauty, That Is Consciousness, That Is Truth. This Enchantment by Me is the substance of your confession, the substance of your life, the substance of your relationship to Me.
Since the moment of My Birth, I have not had five minutes of inclination to be satisfied by the possibilities in this world. To Me, it has always been perfectly self-evident that this world is not satisfactory, and that I could not possibly choose this world, in and of itself. To Me, there is no argument for choosing this world. Choose what? Just to play this absurd game—and then drop dead? And why play, if the dropping dead could happen in any moment?
If you become disenchanted with the patterning world, you look for something Greater. If you are truly disenchanted, you cannot be consoled by believer’s nonsense. Rather, the “What” you would have is Something that you cannot yet name. It must be Something that is Inherently and Absolutely Satisfactory, Something That is Greater than all other possibilities.
Rather, the ego merely thinks about doing the practice. “Thinking about doing it” is an activity unique to human primates—animals who have a highly developed language-facility, and (thereby) a capability to make mind and to be formed by mind. Mind is “artificial intelligence”. Mind is the first “robot” that human beings ever made.
(Mind as myth: language, robotic pattern, and what lies prior)
There is no mind. Mind is a myth. There is language—which is programmed by brains, and which, in turn, programs brains. However, there is no tangible existence to “mind” itself—absolutely none. Nevertheless, human beings identify with the “mind” as “self”, and (thereby) invent destiny for themselves, and even project that self-imagined destiny into an idea of time and space beyond the present physical lifetime.
Human beings are all living in a “virtual world” of mind. Human beings are, characteristically, self-identified with a “robot”, an artificial intelligence. Real Intelligence is tacit (or intrinsically wordless) living existence.
That Which Is to Be Realized is not in the realm of mind. Therefore, Realization is not about eternalizing mind. Realization is not about the life of the mind after death. Rather, Realization is about Reality Itself—Prior to mind, Prior to patterning, Prior to the world-mummery. Reality Itself—Which Is Divine—Is All The God There Is. In and of and As Itself, Reality (Itself) Is Self-Existing and Self-Radiant. That is What there is to Realize.
Where are the rest of your words? You never think or speak all of your words at once. You never have them in mind all at once. You are not the mind. Where is the mind?
When a particular brain dies, other replicating machines carry on the language-mind—continuing it from one generation to the next.
there is the ego-presumption, or the separate-“I”-presumption, of an infinitely self-replicating, eternal self-mind.
So what is there after death? The same thing as there is before birth—Reality Itself, the Divine Self-Condition only. After death—as, also, during the physical lifetime—anything and everything of mind persists only non-personally, as pattern patterning, without intrinsic self-consciousness.
If you were truly aware of mind, you would not want it to go on. It is a terrible, horrific source of bondage. It is a dreadful trap. Human beings are not only trapped in the mortality of their physical bodies, they are trapped in the absurdity of mind. Realization is Beyond mind. Realization has no mind. I Am That. In
I Am Always Already Prior to body, mind, and ego-self. I, Myself, have nothing to do with mind.
If, on the other hand, you are not yet moved beyond body and mind to Truth Itself, to That Which Is Divine, then you will simply keep your distance from Me. You will prefer illusions and illusion-mongers, illusion-salespeople. You will prefer the “talk” and the “talkers”, the “talking” schools, the consoling association with others, in various kinds of social connections. You will like things you can do or believe or think that will make you feel consoled in the moment. That is what is being everywhere sold in the world.
The practice I have Given you is about noticing Me here, having your attention move to Me, and being heart-Attracted to Me—Beyond all words.
Either you will remain bound up in your patterning of words—and live and die on that basis, constantly drawn through the conditional robotic mix of the universal program of klik-klak,13 mere pattern patterning—or you will Realize Me. It is one or the other. There is no “objective” paradise after death.
True Devotion Is Prior Communion—Not the Search For Union and Unity
If you are identified with the body-mind and
Rather, for My true devotee, all actions are expressions of a Prior State of heart-Communion with Me.
Actions done in order to achieve anything are not themselves the Way of Adidam.
Similarly, the entire Earth-world of humankind should base itself on prior unity, rather than on some apparent effort to achieve unity. That which is yet to be achieved is about “problem”-based non-Reality, or ego-bondage—whereas That Which Is Prior always already Establishes the inherently searchless Principle of Reality Itself.
My devotee’s every action should simply be a responsive demonstration of Priorly Me-recognizing devotion to Me—rather than an activity that is reduced to itself or to the end-phenomenon it may cause.
Prior heart-Communion with Me, rather than merely performing “tasks” for some apparent purpose or other.
If you reduce action to its own sphere, you are reducing it to a “problem”, to a search for something, and to identification with that which is limited. Actions done simply as the spontaneous evidence of Prior heart-Communion with Me are (inherently) holy (or sacred-domain) activities.
If you are rightly related to Me, everything is done in (and as) heart-Communion with Me. The real free energy of devotion to Me is manifested as action that is effective—because it is free of “problem” and free of goal-seeking.
In the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam, the “inside” and the “outside” are both disciplined. The interior discipline is the discipline of the faculties (or root-functions) of the body-mind, in devotional recognition-response to Me. This interior discipline is a particular kind of renunciation (or ego-transcending discipline). Through that inner discipline, the patterning of the faculties is progressively transformed. The discipline of renunciation (or the fundamental ego-transcending practice) is also demonstrated in outward terms—by living actively in service to Me. The outer (or gross) appearance of the human personality must be disciplined in a practical manner that covers all aspects of money, food, sex, and social egoity—all aspects of gross life, and all aspects of the gross patterning of the faculties.
(Alpha and Omega strategies: Eastern and Western orientations)
The Western ego, in particular, is oriented to self-indulgence (and to the search for self-fulfillment) in the context of the gross domain. That orientation is a characteristic of the Omega ego (or Omega personality). All kinds of justification for the grossly self-indulgent life have arisen in the context of the cultures of Western (or Omega) life. In Truth, the Omega orientation—which, in this “late-time” (or “dark” epoch), is manifested as a kind of political philosophy that absolutizes the separate and separative ego-“I”—is false. The Omega orientation has nothing to do with Reality Itself. The Omega orientation has nothing to do with Spiritual Truth.
The entire world is demonstrating an “overlay” of aggressively individuated, self-indulgent egoity, which has no association with the Wisdom of right life. Everyone everywhere is pursuing self-fulfillment in the world-mummery—acting as if human existence were not mortal and not bound, and acting as if human existence were a thing that is to be perfected in and of itself.
While the Omega (or Western) type of individual and the Omega-oriented cultures idealize what is gross (or material) and engage in a search for fulfillment through self-identification with that which is gross, the Alpha (or Eastern) type of individual and the Alpha-oriented cultures idealize what is non-material and engage in a search for self-fulfillment through self-identification with the subtle and causal aspects of the otherwise grossly embodied life.
The Seventh Stage Way
Divine Non-conditional and Spiritually Manifested Condition of Love-Bliss, Prior to all self-depression, self-negation, generalized negativity, lovelessness, and blisslessness), and of Perfect Realization
If you heart-recognize Me, you “Know” that The Nature of The Divine As Reality Itself is now Perfectly Revealed. If you heart-recognize Me, you “Know” that, now and forever hereafter, in perpetuity, there is The Way of Most Perfect Divine Self-Realization for all beings. The habit of this “late-time” (or “dark” epoch) is to see the world and human existence in terms of egoically proposed (or egoically analyzed) conditions.
The philosophy of the first six stages of life always presumes “objective world” and “separate self” (or “point of view” and ego-“I”) first.
The world is not “Caused”. Rather, the world is acausally evident. Any philosophy that is concerned with “Cause” is about the exercise of “point of view” (or egoity).
In that case, you have already based everything on “point of view”—on what appears to be the case when “point of view” is priorly presumed to be “the way things are”.
(The room metaphor: no accumulation of viewpoints reaches Reality itself)
To illustrate the Intrinsic (egoless and Indivisible and Acausal) Self-Condition of Reality Itself, I have often used the metaphor of a room, in which any number of people may be sitting. Each person in the “room” would describe the “room” (or, by extension, the world, or the universe) in a certain manner, based on his or her particular position within the “room” (or his or her “location” in space and time). Similarly, if any person in the “room” held a camera and took a photograph of the “room”, the “room” would appear (“objectively”) as it does from his or her particular position. The photograph would be “true” as a matter of concrete observation—in basic terms of how the “room” looks from that particular position. Thus, the any snapshot is “real” from the perspective of its particular “point of view”. However, no such snapshot characterizes the “room” itself—As it Is, or As Is, and, thus, As Reality Itself. What about all the other possible “points of view”, all the other possible photographs? If everybody in the “room” took a snapshot of the “room” from where they were sitting, each photograph would present a different appearance (or description) of the “room”. How many photographs would be necessary and sufficient to totally account for the “room”—or the world, or the universe? Can the “room” (or the world, or the universe) itself—As it Is, and as a totality (in the totality of all space-time)—be accounted for, or even “known”, from any “point of view”, or from even the totality of all “points of view”, or from (necessarily, space-time-“located”) “point of view” at all? Therefore, is it even possible, from the human psycho-physical perspective, to Really and Perfectly “Know” the very “room” (or the world, or the universe) in which you are even now “located”? Indeed, is it not true that, no matter what arises, you do not (and cannot) “Know” what even a single thing (or any kind of interior or exterior “object”) Is?
Similarly, if any person in the “room” held a camera and took a photograph of the “room”, the “room” would appear (“objectively”) as it does from his or her particular position. The photograph would be “true” as a matter of concrete observation—in basic terms of how the “room” looks from that particular position. Thus, the any snapshot is “real” from the perspective of its particular “point of view”. However, no such snapshot characterizes the “room” itself—As it Is, or As Is, and, thus, As Reality Itself. What about all the other possible “points of view”, all the other possible photographs? If everybody in the “room” took a snapshot of the “room” from where they were sitting, each photograph would present a different appearance (or description) of the “room”. How many photographs would be necessary and sufficient to totally account for the “room”—or the world, or the universe? Can the “room” (or the world, or the universe) itself—As it Is, and as a totality (in the totality of all space-time)—be accounted for, or even “known”, from any “point of view”, or from even the totality of all “points of view”, or from (necessarily, space-time-“located”) “point of view” at all? Therefore, is it even possible, from the human psycho-physical perspective, to Really and Perfectly “Know” the very “room” (or the world, or the universe) in which you are even now “located”? Indeed, is it not true that, no matter what arises, you do not (and cannot) “Know” what even a single thing (or any kind of interior or exterior “object”) Is?
Nevertheless, the “room” itself is not as it seems to be from any particular “point of view”. The “room” itself is not even as it would seem to be from the collectively self-accumulated perspective of all possible “points of view” in time and space.
No accumulation of “points of view” can ever comprehend the “room” As it Is—not merely in either physical or metaphysical terms, but simply As it Is. What is The Condition within Which the “room” is apparent? That Condition is not something reducible to any particular “point of view” or even to an infinite number of “points of view”. That Condition Is simply As Is—Always Already (or Inherently) Prior to “point of view” (or space-time-“location”) itself, and, therefore, Prior to all “objective” appearances, measurements, and experiences.
IV. In Reality, there is no “separate self”—as such. There Is Only The One and Indivisible Divine Conscious Light. Whatever apparent modification there may seem to be—in the form of a body or a brain or an event in time and space—there Is Only The Inherently egoless, and One, and Perfectly Indivisible, and Perfectly Acausal, and Self-Evidently Divine Reality (or Self-Condition). I can Spontaneously Speak This, because This Is My Intrinsically Self-Evident and Perfectly Non-conditional State of Self-Realization—Of That, In That, and As That. I Am That. When I am heart-recognized, the process that occurs goes Beyond “point of view”, and Beyond self-contraction. That process is about the responsive turning to Me, and heart-Communion with Me, and (in due course) participation in My Spiritual Self-Transmission, to the point (Ultimately) of Most Perfect Realization—transcending the root of egoity itself, on the basis of “radical” (or always already “at-the-root”) devotion to Me.
(Divine conscious light: no separate self, no death, only modification)
There is no “inner permanent entity” in the human individual. There Is Only The Self-Existing, Self-Radiant, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Conscious Light. The Divine Conscious Light is not born—and The Divine Conscious Light does not come to an end in death.
Everything is an apparent (and never separate, or independent, or irreducibly absolute) modification of The One and Indivisible Divine Conscious Light. Therefore (and As egoless Conscious Light Itself), no “thing” can be destroyed—and no “one” can be destroyed. Only the apparent “play” of conditions (seen from “point of view”) undergoes a process of apparent modifications and changes. Reality Itself is never (Within and As “Its” own Self-Context of Self-Apprehension) modified or changed—but “It” is only conditionally (or merely apparently, or seemingly “objectively”, or merely from the perspective, or “location”, of “point of view”) modified and changed.
- Avatar Adi Da uses the terms “childish” and “adolescent” with precise meanings in His Wisdom-Teaching. He points out that human beings are always tending to animate one of two fundamental life-strategies—the childish strategy (to be dependent, weak, seeking to be consoled by parent-figures and a parent-“God”) and the adolescent strategy (to be independent—or, otherwise, torn between independence and dependence—rebellious, unfeeling, self-absorbed, and doubting or resisting the idea of God or any power greater than oneself). Until these two strategies are understood and transcended,
they not only diminish love in ordinary human relations, but they also limit religious and Spiritual growth.
“Perfect Contemplation” is no longer any kind of exercise of the faculties of the body-mind (as is “meditation”), but rather is established as effortless “Contemplation” of Avatar Adi Da as Consciousness Itself, Prior to body and mind.
Divine Transfiguration, Divine Transformation, Divine Indifference, and Divine Translation. “Outshine” and its variants refer to the process of Divine Translation,
Alpha and Omega—Avatar Adi Da calls the characteristic traditional Eastern strategy the “Alpha” strategy. Alpha cultures pursue an undisturbed peace, in which the conditional world is excluded as much as possible from attention (and thereby ceases to be a disturbance). Although the cultures that were originally founded on the Alpha approach to life and Truth are fast disappearing, the Alpha strategy remains the conventional archetype of Spiritual life, even in the Omega culture. In contrast to the Omega preference, the Alpha preference is to limit and control (and even suppress) attention to the conditional reality, while maximizing attention to the Divine Reality. Avatar Adi Da uses the term “Omega” to characterize the materialistic culture that today dominates not only the Western world (which has brought the Omega strategy to its fullest development) but even most of the present-day Eastern world, which has now largely adopted the anti-Spiritual viewpoint typical of the West. The Omega strategy is motivated to the attainment of a future-time perfection and fulfillment of the conditional worlds, through the intense application of human invention, political will, and even Divine Influence. Its preference is to limit and suppress attention to the Divine Reality, while maximizing attention to the conditional reality. Neither the Alpha strategy nor the Omega strategy Realizes Truth absolutely, as each is rooted in the presumption of a “problem” relative to existence. (For Avatar Adi Da’s extended discussion of the Alpha and Omega strategies, see The Truly Human New World-Culture Of Unbroken Real-God-Man.)