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My First Word

Adi Da Samraj

Part Four

The Cult – The Avatar

Beezone editorial note.

My First Word.

Adi Da’s Essay First Word, appears at the beginning of many of His Source Texts and has been written by Avatar Adi Da Samraj as His Personal Introduction to each volume of His “Source-Texts”. Its purpose is to help the reader understand His great Confessions rightly.

Much of Adi Da’s emphasis in the essay is on the error of ego and cultism. The error of ego and cultism is the tendency of individual, using ‘mind’ and ‘language’, to misinterpret Adi Da’s word and teachings as his statements of egoism and grandiosity (even insanity).

To help the reader receive the impact and profundity of the original essay, Beezone has provided the Pingal essay paragraph by paragraph and then followed by editing out its parentheticals and putting the text in a ‘poetic’ structure. And lastly, all italics are Beezone’s edit.

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The Cult

Original

There are two principal tendencies by which I am always being confronted by My devotee. One is the tendency to seek—rather than to truly enjoy and to fully animate the Condition of Satsang with Me. And the other is the tendency to make a self-contracting circle around Me—and, thus, to make a “cult” of ego-“I” (and of the “man in the middle”), or to duplicate the ego-ritual of mere fascination, and of inevitable resistance, and of never-Awakening unconsciousness. Relative to these two tendencies, I Give all My devotees only one resort. It is this true Satsang—the devotionally Me-recognizing, and devotionally to-Me-responding, and always really counter-egoic devotional relationship to My Avatarically Self-Revealed (and Self-Evidently Divine) Person.

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There are

two principal tendencies

by which

I am always being confronted by

My devotee.

One is the tendency to seek—

rather than to truly enjoy

and to fully animate

the Condition of Satsang

with Me.

And the other

is the tendency

to make a self-contracting circle

around Me—

and, thus,

to make a “cult” of ego-“I”,

or to duplicate

the ego-ritual

of mere fascination,

and of inevitable resistance,

and of never-Awakening unconsciousness.

Relative to these two tendencies,

I Give all My devotees

only one resort.

It is this true Satsang—

the devotionally

Me-recognizing,

and devotionally

to-Me-responding,

and always

really counter-egoic

devotional relationship

to My Avatarically

Self-Revealed Person.

The Avatar

Original

The Great Secret of My Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Person, and of My Avatarically Self-Manifested Divine Blessing-Work (now, and forever hereafter)—and, therefore, the Great Secret of the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam—Is that I am not the “man in the middle”, but I Am Reality Itself, I Am the Only One Who Is, I Am That Which Is Always Already The Case, I Am the Non-Separate (Avatarically Self-Revealed, and Self-Evidently Divine) Person (or One and Very Divine Self, or One and True Divine Self-Condition) of all and All (Beyond the ego-“I” of every one, and of all, and of All).

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The Great Secret

of My Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Person,

and of My Avatarically Self-Manifested Divine Blessing-Work

and, therefore,

the Great Secret of the only-by-Me Revealed

and Given Way of Adidam—

Is that

I am not

the “man in the middle”,

but I Am Reality Itself,

I Am the Only One Who Is,

I Am That Which Is Always Already The Case,

I Am the Non-Separate Person,

of all and All.

Original

Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da—the One and Only and Non-Separate and Indivisible and Self-Evidently Divine Person, the Non-Separate and Indivisible Self-Condition and Source-Condition of all and All. I Am the Avatarically Self-Revealed “Bright” Person, the One and Only and Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Person—Who Is the One and Only and Non-Separate and Indivisible and Indestructible Light of All and all. I Am That One and Only and Non-Separate One. And—As That One, and Only As That One—I Call all human beings to heart-recognize Me, and to heart-respond to Me with right, true, and full devotion (demonstrated by Means of formal practice of the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam—Which Is the One and Only By-Me-Revealed and By-Me-Given Way of the Heart).

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Aham Da Asmi.

Beloved, I Am Da—

the One and Only

and Non-Separate

and Indivisible

and Self-Evidently Divine Person,

the Non-Separate

and Indivisible Self-Condition

and Source-Condition

of all and All.

I Am the Avatarically

Self-Revealed “Bright” Person,

the One

and Only

and Self-Existing

and Self-Radiant Person—

Who Is the One

and Only

and Non-Separate

and Indivisible

and Indestructible Light

of All and all.

I Am That One

and Only

and Non-Separate One.

And—

As That One,

and Only As That One—

I Call all human beings

to heart-recognize Me,

and to heart-respond to Me

with right,

true,

and full devotion.

Original

I do not tolerate the so-called “cultic” (or ego-made, and ego-reinforcing) approach to Me. I do not tolerate the seeking egos “cult” of the “man in the middle”. I am not a self-deluded ego-man—making much of himself, and looking to include everyone-and-everything around himself for the sake of social and political power. To be the “man in the middle” is to be in a Man-made trap, an absurd mummery of “cultic” devices that enshrines and perpetuates the ego-“I” in one and all. Therefore, I do not make or tolerate the religion-making “cult” of ego-Man. I do not tolerate the inevitable abuses of religion, of Spirituality, of Truth Itself, and of My own Person (even in bodily human Form) that are made (in endless blows and mockeries) by ego-based mankind when the Great Esoteric Truth of devotion to the Adept-Realizer is not rightly understood and rightly practiced.

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I do not tolerate

the so-called “cultic”

approach to Me.

I do not tolerate the seeking egos “cult”

of the “man in the middle”.

I am not a self-deluded ego-man—

making much of himself,

and looking

to include

everyone-and-everything

around himself

for the sake of social

and political power.

To be the “man in the middle”

is to be

in a Man-made trap,

an absurd mummery of “cultic” devices

that enshrines

and perpetuates the ego-“I”

in one and all.

Therefore,

I do not make

or tolerate

the religion-making “cult”

of ego-Man.

I do not tolerate

the inevitable abuses

of religion,

of Spirituality,

of Truth Itself,

and of My own Person

that are made

by ego-based mankind

when the Great Esoteric Truth

of devotion to the Adept-Realizer

is not rightly understood

and rightly practiced.

Original

The Great Means for the Teaching, and the Blessing, and the Awakening, and the Divine Liberating of mankind (and of even all beings) Is the Adept-Realizer Who (by Virtue of True Divine Realization) Is Able to (and, indeed, cannot do otherwise than) Stand In and As the Divine (or Real and Inherent and One and Only) Position, and to Be (Thus and Thereby) the Divine Means (In Person) for the Divine Helping of one and all. This Great Means Is the Great Esoteric Principle of the collective historical Great Tradition20 of mankind. And Such Adept-Realizers Are (in their Exercise of the Great Esoteric Principle) the Great Revelation-Sources That Are at the Core and Origin of all the right and true religious and Spiritual traditions within the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind.

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The Great Means

for the Teaching,

and the Blessing,

and the Awakening,

and the Divine Liberating of mankind

Is the Adept-Realizer

Who Is Able

to Stand In

and As the Divine Position,

and to Be

the Divine Means

for the Divine Helping

of one and all.

This Great Means

Is the Great Esoteric Principle

of the collective

historical Great Tradition

of mankind.

And Such Adept-Realizers

Are the Great Revelation-Sources

That Are at the Core

and Origin

of all the right

and true religious

and Spiritual traditions

within the collective historical

Great Tradition of mankind.

Original

By Means of My (now, and forever hereafter) Divinely Descended and Divinely Self-“Emerging” Avataric Incarnation, I Am the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj—the Divine Heart-Master, the First, the Last, and the Only Adept-Realizer of the seventh (or Most Perfect, and all-Completing) stage of life. I Am the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, the Avataric Incarnation (and Divine World-Teacher) everywhere Promised for the “late-time” (or “dark” epoch)—which “late-time” (or “dark” epoch) is now upon all of mankind. I Am the Great and Only and Non-Separate and (Self-Evidently) Divine Person—Appearing in Man-Form As the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, in order to Teach, and to Bless, and to Awaken, and to Divinely Liberate all of mankind (and even all beings, every “where” in the Cosmic domain). Therefore, by Calling every one and all (and All) to Me, I Call every one and all (and All) Only to the Divine Person, Which Is My own and Very Person (or Very, and Self-Evidently Divine, Self—or Very, and Self-Evidently Divine, Self-Condition), and Which Is Reality Itself (or Truth Itself—the Indivisible and Indestructible Light That Is the Only Real God), and Which Is the One and Very and Non-Separate and Only Self (or Self-Condition, and Source-Condition) of all and All (Beyond the ego-“I” of every one, and of all, and of All).

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By Means

of My Divinely Descended

and Divinely Self-“Emerging”

Avataric Incarnation,

I Am the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj—

the Divine Heart-Master,

the First,

the Last,

and the Only

Adept-Realizer of the seventh stage of life.

I Am the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj,

the Avataric Incarnation

everywhere Promised

for the “late-time”

which “late-time”

is now upon all of mankind.

I Am the Great

and Only

and Non-Separate

and Divine Person—

Appearing in Man-Form

As the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj,

in order to Teach,

and to Bless,

and to Awaken,

and to Divinely Liberate

all of mankind.

Therefore,

by Calling

every one and all

to Me,

I Call every one

and all (and All)

Only to the Divine Person,

Which Is My own

and Very Person,

and Which

Is Reality Itself,

and Which

Is the One

and Very

and Non-Separate

and Only Self

of all and All.

Original

The only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam necessarily (and As a Unique Divine Gift) requires and involves devotional recognition-response to Me In and Via (and As) My bodily (human) Divine Avataric-Incarnation-Form. However, because I Call every one and all (and All) to Me Only As the Divine Person (or Reality Itself), the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam is not about ego, and egoic seeking, and the egoic (or the so-called “cultic”) approach to Me (as the “man in the middle”).

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The only-by-Me Revealed

and Given Way of Adidam

necessarily requires

and involves

devotional recognition-response

to Me

In and Via

My bodily Divine Avataric-Incarnation-Form.

However,

because I Call every one

and all (and All)

to Me

Only As the Divine Person,

the only-by-Me Revealed

and Given Way of Adidam

is not about ego,

and egoic seeking,

and the egoic approach to Me.

Original

According to all the esoteric traditions within the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind, to devotionally approach any Adept-Realizer as if he or she is (or is limited to being, or is limited by being) a mere (or “ordinary”, or even merely “extraordinary”) human entity is the great “sin” (or fault), or the great error whereby the would-be devotee fails to “meet the mark”. Indeed, the Single Greatest Esoteric Teaching common to all the esoteric religious and Spiritual traditions within the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind Is that the Adept-Realizer should always and only (and only devotionally) be recognized and approached As the Embodiment and the Real Presence of That (Reality, or Truth, or Real God) Which would be Realized (Thus and Thereby) by the devotee.

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According to all the esoteric traditions

within the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind,

to devotionally approach any Adept-Realizer

as if he or she is

a mere human entity

is the great “sin”,

or the great error

whereby the would-be devotee

fails to “meet the mark”.

Indeed,

the Single Greatest Esoteric Teaching

common to all the esoteric religious

and Spiritual traditions

within the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind

Is that the Adept-Realizer

should always

and only

be recognized

and approached

As the Embodiment

and the Real Presence

of That Which would be Realized by the devotee.

Original

Therefore, no one should misunderstand Me. By Avatarically Revealing and Confessing My Divine Status to one and all and All, I am not indulging in self-appointment, or in illusions of grandiose Divinity. I am not claiming the “Status” of the “Creator-God” of exoteric (or public, and social, and idealistically pious) religion. Rather, by Standing Firm in the Divine Position (As I Am)—and (Thus and Thereby) Refusing to be approached as a mere man, or as a “cult”-figure, or as a “cult”-leader, or to be in any sense defined (and, thereby, trapped, and abused, or mocked) as the “man in the middle”—I Am Demonstrating the Most Perfect Fulfillment (and the Most Perfect Integrity, and the Most Perfect Fullness) of the Esoteric (and Most Perfectly Non-Dual) Realization of Reality. And, by Revealing and Giving the Way of Adidam (Which Is the Way of ego-transcending devotion to Me As the Avatarically Self-Revealed One and Only and Non-Separate and Self-Evidently Divine Person), I Am (with Most Perfect Integrity, and Most Perfect Fullness) Most Perfectly (and in an all-Completing and all-Unifying Manner) Fulfilling the Primary Esoteric Tradition (and the Great Esoteric Principle) of the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind—Which Primary Esoteric Tradition and Great Esoteric Principle Is the Tradition and the Principle of devotion to the Adept-Realizer As the Very Person and the Direct (or Personal Divine) Helping-Presence of the Eternal and Non-Separate Divine Self-Condition and Source-Condition of all and All.

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Therefore,

no one should misunderstand Me.

By Avatarically Revealing

and Confessing My Divine Status

to one

and all and All,

I am not indulging

in self-appointment,

or in illusions

of grandiose Divinity.

I am not claiming

the “Status”

of the “Creator-God”

of exoteric religion.

Rather,

by Standing Firm

in the Divine Position

and Refusing

to be approached

as a mere man,

or as a “cult”-figure,

or as a “cult”-leader,

or to be in any sense

defined as the “man in the middle”—

I Am Demonstrating

the Most Perfect Fulfillment

of the Esoteric Realization of Reality.

And,

by Revealing

and Giving the Way of Adidam,

I Am

Most Perfectly

Fulfilling

the Primary Esoteric Tradition

of the collective historical Great Tradition of mankind—

Which Primary

Esoteric Tradition

and Great Esoteric Principle

Is the Tradition

and the Principle

of devotion

to the Adept-Realizer

As the Very Person

and the Direct

Helping-Presence

of the Eternal

and Non-Separate

Divine Self-Condition

and Source-Condition

of all and All.

Original

Whatever (or whoever) is cornered (or trapped on all sides) bites back (and fights, or seeks, to break free). Whatever (or whoever) is “in the middle” (or limited and “centered” by attention) is patterned by (or conformed to) the ego-“I” (and, if objectified as “other”, is forced to represent the ego-“I”, and is even made a scapegoat for the pains, the sufferings, the powerless ignorance, and the abusive hostility of the ego-“I”).

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Whatever is cornered

bites back.

Whatever is “in the middle”

is patterned

by the ego-“I”.

Original

If there is no escape from (or no Way out of) the corner (or the “centered” trap) of ego-“I”—the heart goes mad, and the body-mind becomes more and more “dark” (bereft of the Indivisible and Inherently Free Light of the Self-Evident, and Self-Evidently Divine, Love-Bliss That Is Reality Itself).

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If there is no escape

from the corner

of ego-“I”—

the heart goes mad,

and the body-mind

becomes more and more

“dark”.

Original

I am not the “man in the middle”. I do not stand here as a mere man, “middled” to the “center” (or the cornering trap) of ego-based mankind. I am not an ego-“I”, or a mere “other”, or the representation (and the potential scapegoat) of the ego-“I” of mankind (or of any one at all).

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I am not the “man in the middle”.

I do not stand here

as a mere man,

“middled” to the “center”

of ego-based mankind.

I am not an ego-“I”,

or a mere “other”,

or the representation

of the ego-“I”

of mankind.

Original

I Am the Indivisible and Non-Separate One, the (Avatarically Self-Revealed) One and Only and (Self-Evidently) Divine Person—the Perfectly Subjective Divine Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) That Is Perfectly centerless (and Perfectly boundless), Eternally Beyond the “middle” of all and All, and Eternally Surrounding, Pervading, and Blessing all and All.

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I Am

the Indivisible

and Non-Separate One,

the One

and Only

and Divine Person—

the Perfectly Subjective

Divine Self-Condition

That Is Perfectly centerless,

Eternally Beyond

the “middle” of all

and All,

and Eternally Surrounding,

Pervading,

and Blessing all and All.

Original

I Am the Way Beyond the self-cornering (and “other”-cornering) trap of ego-“I”.

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I Am

the Way Beyond

the self-cornering

trap of ego-“I”.

Original

In this “late-time” (or “dark” epoch) of worldly ego-Man, the collective of mankind is “darkened” (and cornered) by egoity. Therefore, mankind has become mad, Lightless, and, like a cornered “thing”, aggressively hostile in its universally competitive fight and bite.

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In this “late-time”

of worldly ego-Man,

the collective of mankind

is “darkened”

by egoity.

Therefore,

mankind has become mad,

Lightless,

and,

like a cornered “thing”,

aggressively hostile

in its universally

competitive fight

and bite.

Original

Therefore, I have not Come here merely to stand Manly in the “middle” of mankind—to suffer its biting abuses, or even to be coddled and ignored in a little corner of religious “cultism”.

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Therefore,

I have not Come

here

merely

to stand

Manly in the “middle” of mankind—

to suffer

its biting abuses,

or even to be coddled

and ignored

in a little corner

of religious “cultism”.

Original

I have Come here to Divinely Liberate one and all (and All) from the “dark” culture and effect of this “late-time”, and (now, and forever hereafter) to Divinely Liberate one and all (and All) from the pattern and the act of ego-“I”, and (Most Ultimately) to Divinely Translate one and all (and All) Into the Indivisible, Perfectly Subjective, and Eternally Non-Separate Self-Domain of My Divine Love-Bliss-Light.

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I have Come here

to Divinely Liberate

one and all

from the “dark” culture

and effect of this “late-time”,

and

to Divinely Liberate

one and all

from the pattern

and the act of ego-“I”,

and

to Divinely Translate

one and all

Into the Indivisible,

Perfectly Subjective,

and Eternally Non-Separate Self-Domain of My Divine Love-Bliss-Light.

Original

The ego-“I” is a “centered” (or separate and separative) trap, from which the heart (and even the entire body-mind) must be Retired. I Am the Way (or the Very Means) of that Retirement from egoity. I Refresh the heart (and even the entire body-mind) of My devotee, in every moment My devotee resorts to Me (by devotionally recognizing Me, and devotionally—and ecstatically, and also, often, meditatively—responding to Me) Beyond the “middle”, Beyond the “centering” act (or trapping gesture) of ego-“I” (or self-contraction).

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The ego-“I”

is a “centered” trap,

from which the heart

must be Retired.

I Am the Way

of that Retirement from egoity.

I Refresh the heart

of My devotee,

in every moment

My devotee resorts to Me

Beyond the “middle”,

Beyond the “centering” act

of ego-“I”.

Original

I Am the Avatarically Self-Revealed (and Perfectly Subjective, and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) of every one, and of all, and of All—but the Perfectly Subjective (and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) is not “within” the ego-“I” (or separate and separative body-mind). The Perfectly Subjective (and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) is not in the “center” (or the “middle”) of Man (or of mankind). The Perfectly Subjective (and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) of one, and of all, and of All Is Inherently centerless (or Always Already Beyond the self-contracted “middle”), and to Be Found only “outside” (or by transcending) the bounds of separateness, relatedness, and “difference”. Therefore, to Realize the Perfectly Subjective (and Self-Evidently Divine) Self-Condition and Source-Condition (or the Perfectly Subjective, and Self-Evidently Divine, Heart) of one, and of all, and of All (or even, in any moment, to exceed the ego-trap—and to be Refreshed at heart, and in the total body-mind), it is necessary to feel (and to, ecstatically, and even meditatively, swoon) Beyond the “center” (or Beyond the “point of view” of separate ego-“I” and separative body-mind). Indeed, Most Ultimately, it is only in self-transcendence to the degree of unqualified relatedness (and Most Perfect Divine Samadhi, or Utterly Non-Separate Enstasy) that the Inherently centerless and boundless, and Perfectly Subjective, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) Stands Obvious and Free (and Is, Thus and Thereby, Most Perfectly Realized).

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I Am the Avatarically Self-Revealed,

Self-Condition of every one,

and of all, and of All—

but the Perfectly Subjective

Self-Condition

is not “within” the ego-“I”.

The Perfectly Subjective Self-Condition

is not in the “center” of Man.

The Perfectly Subjective Self-Condition

of one,

and of all,

and of All

Is Inherently centerless,

and to Be Found

only “outside”

the bounds of separateness,

relatedness,

and “difference”.

Therefore,

to Realize the Perfectly Subjective Self-Condition

and Source-Condition

of one, and of all,

and of All,

it is necessary

to feel

Beyond the “center”.

Indeed,

Most Ultimately,

it is only

in self-transcendence

to the degree of unqualified relatedness

that the Inherently centerless

and boundless,

and Perfectly Subjective,

and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Condition

Stands Obvious

and Free.

Original

It Is only by Means of devotionally Me-recognizing (and devotionally to-Me-responding) devotional meditation on Me (and otherwise ecstatic heart-Contemplation of Me), and total (and totally open, and totally ego-forgetting) psycho-physical Reception of Me, that your madness of heart (and of body-mind) is (now, and now, and now) escaped, and your “darkness” is En-Light-ened (even, at last, Most Perfectly). Therefore, be My true devotee—and, by (formally, and rightly, and truly, and fully, and fully devotionally) practicing the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam (Which Is the True and Complete Way of the True and Real Divine Heart), always Find Me, Beyond your self-“center”, in every here and now.

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It Is only

by Means of devotionally

Me-recognizing devotional meditation

on Me,

and

total psycho-physical Reception of Me,

that your madness of heart

is escaped,

and your “darkness”

is En-Light-ened.

Therefore,

be My true devotee—

and,

by practicing

the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam,

always Find Me,

Beyond your self-“center”,

in every here and now.

Original

Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da. And, because I Am Infinitely and Non-Separately “Bright”, all and All Are In My Divine Sphere of “Brightness”. By feeling and surrendering Into the Infinite Sphere of My Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Self-“Brightness”, My every devotee Is In Me. And, Beyond his or her self-contracting and separative act of ego-“I”, My every devotee (self-surrendered Into heart-Communion With Me) Is the One and Only and Non-Separate and Real God I Have Come to Awaken—by Means of My Avataric Divine Descent, My Avataric Divine Incarnation, and My (now, and forever hereafter) Avataric Divine Self-“Emergence” (here, and every “where” in the Cosmic domain).

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Aham Da Asmi.

Beloved, I Am Da.

And,

because I Am Infinitely

and Non-Separately “Bright”,

all and All

Are In My Divine Sphere of “Brightness”.

By feeling

and surrendering

Into the Infinite Sphere

of My Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Self-“Brightness”,