My First
Word Adi Da Samraj Part Two Satsang – Cultism – Ego
Trap 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. Beezone SATSANG Original
The greatest opportunity, and the greatest
responsibility, of My devotees is Satsang with Me—Which
is to live in the Condition of ego-surrendering,
ego-forgetting, and (always more and more) ego-transcending
devotional relationship to Me, and (Thus and Thereby) to
Realize My Avatarically Self-Revealed (and Self-Evidently
Divine) Self-Condition, Which Is the Self-Evidently Divine
Heart (or Non-Separate Self-Condition and Non-“Different”11
Source-Condition) of all and All, and Which Is Self-Existing
and Self-Radiant Consciousness Itself, but Which is not
separate in or as any one (or any “thing”) at all.
Therefore, My essential Divine Gift to one and all is
Satsang with Me. And My essential Divine Work with one and
all is Satsang-Work—to Live (and to Be Merely Present)
As the Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Heart among My
devotees. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit The greatest opportunity, and the greatest responsibility, of My devotees is Satsang with Me Which is to live in the Condition of ego-surrendering, ego-forgetting, and ego-transcending devotional relationship to Me, and to Realize My Avatarically Self-Revealed Self-Condition, Which Is the Self-Evidently Divine Heart of all and All, and Which Is Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Consciousness Itself, but Which is not separate in or as any one at all. Therefore, My essential Divine Gift to one and all is Satsang with Me. And My essential Divine Work with one and all is Satsang-Work to Live As the Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Heart among My devotees.
The only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam (Which is
the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of the Heart, or the
only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of “Radical”
Understanding, or Ruchira Avatara Hridaya-Siddha Yoga) is
the Way of Satsang with Me—the devotionally
Me-recognizing and devotionally to-Me-responding practice
(and ego-transcending self-discipline) of living in My
constant Divine Company, such that the relationship with Me
becomes the Real (and constant) Condition of life.
Fundamentally, this Satsang with Me is the one thing done by
My devotees. Because the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way
of Adidam is always (in every present-time moment) a
directly ego-transcending and Really Me-Finding practice,
the otherwise constant (and burdensome) tendency to seek is
not exploited in this Satsang with Me. And the essential
work of the community of the four formal congregations of My
devotees is to make ego-transcending Satsang with Me
available to all others. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit The only by Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam is the Way of Satsang with Me the devotionally Me recognizing and devotionally to Me responding practice of living in My constant Divine Company, such that the relationship with Me becomes the Real Condition of life. Fundamentally, this Satsang with Me is the one thing done by My devotees. Because the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam is always a directly ego-transcending and Really Me Finding practice, the otherwise constant tendency to seek is not exploited in this Satsang with Me. And the essential work of the community of the four formal congregations of My devotees is to make ego-transcending Satsang with Me available to all others.
Everything that serves the availability of Satsang with
Me is (now, and forever hereafter) the responsibility of the
four formal congregations of My formally practicing
devotees. I am not here to publicly “promote” this Satsang
with Me. In the intimate circumstances of their humanly
expressed devotional love of Me, I Speak My Avatarically
Self-Revealing Divine Word to My devotees, and they (because
of their devotional response to Me) bring My Avatarically
Self-Revealing Divine Word to all others. Therefore, even
though I am not (and have never been, and never will be) a
“public” Teacher (or a broadly publicly active, and
conventionally socially conformed, “religious figure”), My
devotees function fully and freely (as My devotees) in the
daily public world of ordinary life. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit Everything that serves the availability of Satsang with Me is the responsibility of the four formal congregations of My formally practicing devotees. I am not here to publicly “promote” this Satsang with Me. In the intimate circumstances of their humanly expressed devotional love of Me, I Speak My Avatarically Self-Revealing Divine Word to My devotees, and they bring My Avatarically Self-Revealing Divine Word
to all others. Therefore, even though I am not a “public” Teacher, My devotees function fully and freely in the daily public world of ordinary life.
I Always Already Stand Free. Therefore, I have always (in
My Divine Avataric-Incarnation-Work) Stood Free, in the
traditional “Crazy” (and non-conventional, or spontaneous
and non-“public”) Manner16—in order to Guarantee the
Freedom, the Uncompromising Rightness, and the Fundamental
Integrity of My Avatarically Self-Manifested Divine Teaching
(Work and Word), and in order to Freely and Fully and Fully
Effectively Perform My universal (Avatarically
Self-Manifested) Divine Blessing-Work. I Am Present (now,
and forever hereafter) to Divinely Serve, Divinely
En-Light-en, and Divinely Liberate those who accept the
Eternal Vow and all the life-responsibilities (or the full
and complete practice) associated with the only-by-Me
Revealed and Given Way of Adidam.17 Because I Am (Thus)
Given to My formally and fully practicing devotees, I do not
Serve a “public” role, and I do not Work in a “public” (or
even a merely “institutionalized”) manner.
Nevertheless—now, and forever hereafter—I
constantly Bless all beings, and this entire world, and the
total Cosmic domain. And all who feel My Avatarically (and
universally) Given Divine Blessing, and who heart-recognize
Me with true devotional love, are (Thus) Called to
devotionally resort to Me—but only if they approach Me
in the traditional devotional manner, as responsibly
practicing (and truly ego-surrendering, and rightly
Me-serving) members (or, in some, unique, cases, as invited
guests) of one or the other of the four formal congregations
of My formally practicing devotees. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit I Always Already Stand Free. Therefore, I have always Stood Free, in the traditional “Crazy” Manner in order to Guarantee the Freedom, the Uncompromising Rightness, and the Fundamental Integrity of My Avatarically Self-Manifested Divine Teaching, and in order to Freely and Fully and Fully Effectively Perform My universal Divine Blessing-Work. I Am Present to Divinely Serve, Divinely En-Light-en, and Divinely Liberate those who accept the Eternal Vow and all the life-responsibilities associated with the only by Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam. Because I Am Given to My formally and fully practicing devotees, I do not Serve a “public” role, and I do not Work in a “public” manner. Nevertheless now, and forever hereafter I constantly Bless all beings, and this entire world, and the total Cosmic domain. And all who feel My Avatarically Given Divine Blessing, and who heart recognize Me with true devotional love, are Called to devotionally resort to Me but only if they approach Me in the traditional devotional manner, as responsibly practicing members of one or the other of the four formal congregations of My formally practicing devotees.
I expect this formal discipline of right devotional
approach to Me to have been freely and happily embraced by
every one who would enter into My physical Company. The
natural human reason for this is that there is a potential
liability inherent in all human associations. And the root
and nature of that potential liability is the ego (or the
active human presumption of separateness, and the ego-act of
human separativeness). Therefore, in order that the
liabilities of egoity are understood (and voluntarily and
responsibly disciplined) by those who approach Me, I require
demonstrated right devotion (based on really effective
self-understanding and truly heart-felt devotional
recognition-response to Me) as the basis for any ones right
to enter into My physical Company. And, in this manner, not
only the egoic tendency, but also the tendency toward
religious “cultism”, is constantly undermined in the
only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit I expect this formal discipline of right devotional approach to Me to have been freely and happily embraced by every one who would enter into My physical Company. The natural human reason for this is that there is a potential liability inherent in all human associations. And the root and nature of that potential liability is the ego. Therefore, in order that the liabilities of egoity are understood by those who approach Me, I require demonstrated right devotion as the basis for any ones right to enter into My physical Company. And, in this manner, not only the egoic tendency, but also the tendency toward religious “cultism”, is constantly undermined in the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam.
CULTISM
– EGO
TRAP Original
Because people appear within this human condition, this
simultaneously attractive and frightening “dream” world,
they tend to live—and to interpret both the conditional
(or cosmic and psycho-physical) reality and the
Unconditional (or Divine) Reality—from the “point of
view” of this apparent (and bewildering) mortal human
condition. And, because of this universal human bewilderment
(and the ongoing human reaction to the threatening force of
mortal life-events), there is an even ancient ritual that
all human beings rather unconsciously (or automatically, and
without discriminative understanding) desire and tend to
repeatedly (and under all conditions) enact. Therefore,
wherever you see an association of human beings gathered for
any purpose (or around any idea, or symbol, or person, or
subject of any kind), the same human bewilderment-ritual is
tending to be enacted by one and all. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit Because people appear within this human condition, this simultaneously attractive and frightening “dream” world, they tend to live and to interpret both the conditional reality and the Unconditional Reality— from the “point of view” of this apparent mortal human condition. And, because of this universal human bewilderment, there is an even ancient ritual that all human beings rather unconsciously desire and tend to repeatedly enact. Therefore, wherever you see an association of human beings gathered for any purpose, the same human bewilderment-ritual is tending to be enacted by one and all.
Original Human beings always tend to encircle (and, thereby, to
contain—and, ultimately, to entrap and abuse, or even
to blithely ignore) the presumed “center” of their
lives—a book, a person, a symbol, an idea, or whatever.
They tend to encircle the “center” (or the “middle”), and
they tend to seek to exclusively acquire all “things” (or
all power of control) for the circle (or toward the
“middle”) of themselves. In this manner, the group becomes
an ego (“inward”-directed, or separate and
separative)—just as the individual body-mind becomes,
by self-referring self-contraction, the separate and
separative ego-“I” (“inward”-directed, or
ego-centric—and exclusively acquiring all “things”, or
all power of control, for itself). Thus, by self-contraction
upon the presumed “center” of their lives—human beings,
in their collective ego-centricity, make “cults” (or
bewildered and frightened “centers” of power, and control,
and exclusion) in every area of life. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit Human beings always tend to encircle the presumed “center” of their lives— a book, a person, a symbol, an idea, or whatever. They tend to encircle the “center” and they tend to seek to exclusively acquire all “things” for the circle of themselves. In this manner, the group becomes an ego just as the individual body-mind becomes, by self-referring self-contraction, the separate and separative ego-“I” Thus, by self-contraction upon the presumed “center” of their lives human beings, in their collective ego-centricity, make “cults” in every area of life.
Anciently, the “cult”-making process was done, most
especially, in the political and social sphere—and
religion was, as even now, mostly an exoteric (or political
and social) exercise that was always used to legitimize (or,
otherwise, to “de-throne”) political and social
“authority-figures”. Anciently, the cyclically (or even
annually) culminating product of this exoteric
religio-political “cult” was the ritual “de-throning” (or
ritual deposition) of the one in the “middle” (just as, even
in these times, political leaders are periodically
“deposed”—by elections, by rules of term and
succession, by scandal, by slander, by force, and so
on). Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit Anciently, the “cult”-making process was done, most especially, in the political and social sphere— and religion was, as even now, mostly an exoteric exercise that was always used to legitimize political and social “authority-figures”. Anciently, the cyclically culminating product of this exoteric religio-political “cult” was the ritual “de-throning” of the one in the “middle” .
Everywhere throughout the ancient world, traditional
societies made and performed this annual (or otherwise
periodic) religio-political “cult” ritual. The ritual of
“en-throning” and “de-throning” was a reflection of the
human observation of the annual cycle of the seasons of the
natural world—and the same ritual was a reflection of
the human concern and effort to control the signs potential
in the cycle of the natural world, in order to ensure human
survival (through control of weather, harvests and every
kind of “fate”, or even every fraction of existence upon
which human beings depend for both survival and pleasure, or
psycho-physical well-being). Indeed, the motive behind the
ancient agrarian (and, later, urbanized, or universalized)
ritual of the one in the “middle” was, essentially, the same
motive that, in the modern era, takes the form of the
culture of scientific materialism (and even all of the
modern culture of materialistic “realism”): It is the motive
to gain (and to maintain) control, and the effort to control
even everything and everyone (via both knowledge and gross
power). Thus, the ritualized, or bewildered yes/no (or
desire/fear), life of mankind in the modern era is,
essentially, the same as that of mankind in the ancient
days. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit Everywhere throughout the ancient world, traditional societies made and performed this annual religio-political “cult” ritual. The ritual of “en-throning” and “de-throning” was a reflection of the human observation of the annual cycle of the seasons of the natural world and the same ritual was a reflection of the human concern and effort to control the signs potential in the cycle of the natural world, in order to ensure human survival. Indeed, the motive behind the ancient agrarian ritual of the one in the “middle” was, essentially, the same motive that, in the modern era, takes the form of the culture of scientific materialism It is the motive to gain control, and the effort to control even everything and everyone. Thus, the ritualized, or bewildered yes/no, life of mankind in the modern era is, essentially, the same as that of mankind in the ancient days.
In the ancient ritual of “en-throning” and “de-throning”,
the person (or subject) in the “middle” was ritually mocked,
abused, deposed, and banished—and a new person (or
subject) was installed in the “center” of the
religio-political “cult”. In the equivalent modern ritual of
dramatized ambiguity relative to everything and everyone
(and, perhaps especially, “authority-figures”), the person
(or symbol, or idea) in the “middle” (or that which is given
power by means of popular fascination) is first “cultified”
(or made much of), and then (progressively) doubted, mocked,
and abused—until, at last, all the negative emotions
are (by culturally and socially ritualized dramatization)
dissolved, the “middle” (having thus ceased to be
fascinating) is abandoned, and a “new” person (or symbol, or
idea) becomes the subject of popular fascination (only to be
reduced, eventually, to the same “cultic” ritual, or cycle
of “rise” and “fall”). Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit In the ancient ritual of “en-throning” and “de-throning”, the person in the “middle” was ritually mocked, abused, deposed, and banished and a new person was installed in the “center” of the religio-political “cult”. In the equivalent modern ritual of dramatized ambiguity relative to everything and everyone, the person in the “middle” is first “cultified”, and then doubted, mocked, and abused until, at last, all the negative emotions are dissolved, the “middle” is abandoned, and a “new” person becomes the subject of popular fascination Only to be reduced, eventually, to the same “cultic” ritual, or cycle of “rise” and “fall”.
Just as in every other area of human life, the tendency
of all those who (in the modern era) would become involved
in religious or Spiritual life is also to make a “cult”, a
circle that ever increases its separate and separative
dimensions—beginning from the “center”, surrounding it,
and (perhaps) even (ultimately) controlling it (such that it
altogether ceases to be effective, or even interesting).
Such “cultism” is ego-based, and ego-reinforcing—and,
no matter how “esoteric” it presumes itself to be, it is (as
in the ancient setting) entirely exoteric, or (at least)
more and more limited to (and by) merely social (and gross
physical) activities and conditions. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit Just as in every other area of human life, the tendency of all those who would become involved in religious or Spiritual life is also to make a “cult”, a circle that ever increases its separate and separative dimensions beginning from the “center”, surrounding it, and even controlling it. Such “cultism” is ego-based, and ego-reinforcing and, no matter how “esoteric” it presumes itself to be, it is entirely exoteric, or more and more limited to merely social activities and conditions.
The form that every “cult” imitates is the pattern of
egoity (or the pattern that is the ego-“I”) itself—the
presumed “middle” of every ordinary individual life. It is
the self-contraction (or the avoidance of relationship),
which “creates” the fearful sense of separate mind, and all
the endless habits and motives of egoic desire (or
bewildered, and self-deluded, seeking). It is what is,
ordinarily, called (or presumed to be) the real and
necessary and only “life”. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit The form that every “cult” imitates is the pattern of egoity itself the presumed “middle” of every ordinary individual life. It is the self-contraction, which “creates” the fearful sense of separate mind, and all the endless habits and motives of egoic desire. It is what is, ordinarily, called the real and necessary and only “life”.
From birth, the human being (by reaction to the blows and
limits of psycho-physical existence) begins to presume
separate existence to be his or her very nature—and, on
that basis, the human individual spends his or her entire
life generating and serving a circle of ownership (or
self-protecting acquisition) all around the ego-“I”. The
egoic motive encloses all the other beings it can acquire,
all the “things” it can acquire, all the states and thoughts
it can acquire—all the possible emblems, symbols,
experiences, and sensations it can possibly acquire.
Therefore, when any human being begins to involve himself or
herself in some religious or Spiritual association (or, for
that matter, any extension of his or her own subjectivity),
he or she tends again to “create” that same circle about a
“center”. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit From birth, the human being begins to presume separate existence to be his or her very nature and, on that basis, the human individual spends his or her entire life generating and serving a circle of ownership all around the ego-“I”. The egoic motive encloses all the other beings it can acquire, all the “things” it can acquire, all the states and thoughts it can acquire all the possible emblems, symbols, experiences, and sensations it can possibly acquire. Therefore, when any human being begins to involve himself or herself in some religious or Spiritual association, he or she tends again to “create” that same circle about a “center”.
The “cult” (whether of religion, or of politics, or of
science, or of popular culture) is a dramatization of
egoity, of separativeness, even of the entrapment and
betrayal of the “center” (or the “middle”), by one and all.
Therefore, I have always Refused to assume the role and the
position of the “man in the middle”—and I have always,
from the beginning of My formal Teaching and Blessing Work,
Criticized, Resisted, and Shouted About the “cultic” (or
ego-based, and ego-reinforcing, and merely “talking” and
“believing”, and not understanding and not really
practicing) “school” (or tendency) of ordinary religious and
Spiritual life. Indeed, true Satsang with Me (or the true
devotional relationship to Me) is an always (and
specifically, and intensively) anti-“cultic” (or truly
non-“cultic”) Process. Beezone – removal of
parentheticals and edit The “cult” is a dramatization of egoity, of separativeness, even of the entrapment and betrayal of the “center”, by one and all. Therefore, I have always Refused to assume the role and the position of the “man in the middle”— and I have always, from the beginning of My formal Teaching and Blessing Work, Criticized, Resisted, and Shouted About the “cultic” “school” of ordinary religious and Spiritual life. Indeed, true Satsang with Me is an always anti-“cultic” Process.
My First
Word Adi Da Samraj Truth Itself – No Ego –
Truth, Reality and Religion – Confession Satsang – Cultism – Ego
Trap True Devotionalism –
Cultism – True Satsang – Round Dance – The Call –
Signs The Cult – The
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