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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.3
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The Ancient Walk-About Way by Adi Da Samraj presents key insights from the Adi Da tradition. The 10 passages above capture the essential teachings.
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Key Passages: Highlights 1, 3, and 10 are particularly representative.
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