Various excerpts from the
teachings of Adi Da Samraj
When those who have lost
FAITH in the exalted begin to suspect that things are
not as they seem, they always assume that things must be
worse than they seem, not better.1
Westerners are always trying to
surmount the negative psychological force, either through
ego-effort or by means of imaginary association with a
separate Absolute “Other”, Whose power they can
consume irresponsibly—and, in all of that, FAITH
and belief are reduced to the status of “methods”
for overcoming psychological negativity.2
FAITH is the assumption of
the Divine as the active Principle and Condition of your
life rather than the little twenty watts, the field of ego
in which you enclose yourself day to day.3
How do you get to trust it?
Seriously ‘consider’ this matter with Me. The
Heart is FAITH, it is trust. Where there is no
emotional contraction in the midst of conditions, that is
FAITH, that is absolute trust. You do not have to be
sold on it by adding a belief structure. Understand. Enter
into heart-Communion with Me for real, and not by
self-concern, but through this response to Me. Then the Law
becomes obvious. It seems trivial to say that everyone dies,
but it really is the case. Love your way beyond it. Do not
take it. The heart cannot accept it. Don’t. You cannot
know about it altogether, but you can trust
it.4
This unthreatened consciousness is
the spiritual disposition of love, trust, and surrender-the
FAITH presumption. 5
FAITH is trust in the
fundamental Nature of Existence. It is simply that feeling
itself. It has no other content that believes, “If I have
FAITH, my body will get well. If I have FAITH,
the world will create peace. If I have FAITH, I will
live forever”—it is not that. It is just a fundamental
emotion, the emotion of trust, unbounded feeling in the
context of birth. You know how difficult it is to come
across that FAITH emotion. Nevertheless, simply to
trust Existence should be fundamental to our being. How many
of us trust Existence? I mean altogether. That trust should
be most basic to our personality, but it is not. What is
most basic to us is that we do not trust Existence. We are
thinking about It, worried about It, and hyperactive because
we do not trust It. We are seeking physically, exploiting
ourselves and so on. Because of the emotional problem, we do
not trust Existence, we do not love, and we do not enjoy
free energy and free motion. We do not participate in the
Current of Life that pervades Nature. We do not even
acknowledge that Current exists.
(unpublished talk, 12/82)
The chronic disturbances of the
mental being are reactive contractions, or recoil from
FAITH
Submission is another, word for
FAITH, really. That process of surrender, that
disposition of submission, is FAITH, rather than any
kind of hopeful believing in some proposition about reality
acquired through religion. That submission is true
religion.
In this time of doubt people are
highly secularized, not even religious. If they are
religious they are basically provincial and associated with
religion in its lowest form, the form it takes in the lesser
stages of life. In this epoch, people tend to live on the
basis of doubt. Doubt informs our culture, it is a primary
principle of our world society. One of the great traditional
means to restore FAITH is to consider the testimony
of those Realizers who have come before and those now
communicating the Way of Realization.
Why
Study the Great Traditions
The truly human individual is
expressed via the heart, or the feeling-intelligence. That
summation of Man transcends and masters the vital-physical,
emotional-sexual, and mentalintentional structures “below”
the heart. It provides a way for the psychic and supramental
structures “above” the heart to awaken, grow, and also be
transcended. The heart is the bodily epitome, and the
disposition of Communion with the Divine Life-Radiance and
unqualified Consciousness of the Real.
FAITH
is Bodily Surrender to Life
That heartfelt submission is
practiced in the Way of FAITH or the Way of Divine
Communion in one fashion, and it is practiced in the Way of
Insight in another fashion. In both cases, however,
precisely the same process is involved: relinquishment of
the self-contraction, immersion in the inherent Reality,
which is the Spiritual Divine, which is Self-Radiant
Love-Bliss. Therefore, That Which is Realized through this
discipline is always Love, Bliss, inherent Radiance of
Being, inherent Unity, Communion with and ultimate Identity
with the Living God. This is a profound practice. It is not
just some smiling, conventional religious affair in which
you try to keep yourself together morally and functionally.
It is a matter of Ecstasy and the accompanying Intoxication.
You must practice this. You must submit yourself in my
Company every moment, and that is a discipline
But the force of prior Realization
is so profound that it carries with it an innate
FAITH that even if you enter into the lesser
conditions the Realization will not ultimately be
lost
Resort to My Grace, rather than to
yourself. Do so fully, with great FAITH, great
response, great heart, great daily discipline, great
discrimination, great intent. Do it for real. Prove it in
life. Prove it in My experience. This is what it takes. The
round of failure, fussing, and asking for forgiveness goes
nowhere but to hell – and there is hell. Hell is not a
location. It is a disease. It is a destiny. It is fear,
egoic “self-possession”, and confusion, registered
experientially. It does not need a place. It is wherever you
are, now and after death.
The
Yoga of Body, Emotion, Mind, and Breath
Notes:
2. The
Necessity For A Global Unity
3. Garbage and the
Goddess – Chapter
1
4. “It seems trivial
to say that everyone dies, but it really is the case. Love
your way beyond it. Do not take it. The heart cannot accept
it. Don’t. You cannot know about it altogether, but you
can trust it.
How do you get to trust it?
Seriously ‘consider’ this matter with Me. The
Heart is faith, it is trust. Where there is no emotional
contraction in the midst of conditions, that is faith, that
is absolute trust. You do not have to be sold on it by
adding a belief structure. Understand. Enter into
heart-Communion with Me for real, and not by self-concern,
but through this response to Me. Then the Law becomes
obvious”.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj – May 7,
1997
