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The traditional term “Guru” (spelled with a capital “G”) means “One Who Reveals the Light and thereby Liberates beings from Darkness”.

Truly, the bondage of attention to conditional “objects”, others, and states must be really transcended in the Spiritual Way, but mere “self”-effort (or struggle with the separate, and separative, “self”) is a principle that originates in (and constantly reinforces) the separate (and separative) “self” (or “self”-contraction, or egoity itself). Therefore, the process of the real transcending of bondage to conditions is made direct (and truly ego-transcending) if the principle of independent “self”-effort (or egoic struggle) is (at least progressively) replaced by the responsive (or cooperative) Principle of Supreme Attraction (Which Is, in Its Fullness, responsive devotional and Spiritual Identification with the Free Person, Presence, and State of One Who Is Already Realized, or In Samadhi).

The common “religious” or Spiritual cult is based on the tendency to resist the disciplines of real (and really ego-transcending) practice, and to opt for mere fascination with extraordinary (or even imaginary) phenomena (which are, invariably, not understood in Truth and in Reality).

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The Gift of Truth Itself by Adi Da Samraj presents key insights from the Adi Da tradition. The 3 passages above capture the essential teachings.

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