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THE HEART OF THE DAWN HORSE TESTAMENT
Adi Da’s Essay, First Word, appears at the beginning of
many of His Source Texts.
Edited and Adapted by
Beezone. (original
below).
Please Do Not Misunderstand
Me.
I am not making any grand claims about God, Divinity or
Truth.
I am simply stating Reality,
As I Have and Am.
This is NOT an exclusive Communication.
It has always been the same,
but NOW Revealed in a New Epoch,
for a New Time.
Don’t confuse your limited understanding with the
Truth.
When I state ‘I Am’,
I am not referring to me as a limited body-mind.
If you, in your limited understanding,
refer the Truth or God to this limited body-mind
exclusively,
you are missing the point.
For you will only be looking at defended self.
I Am Beyond your limited mind and understanding.
I Am the Heart Itself,
as Radiance,
The Bright One.
Look at my Form
and your mind will dissolve
in the Heart.
Or,
you will collapse upon yourself like a black hole.
Only sucking all the universes to your own point of
contraction.
Remember what I Am Saying,
I Am That and so are you.
But also remember, there is no you!
There is Only Me.
My Realization is your realization,
when Realized.
Not by you
but By Me.
There is ONLY ONE Realization
and I am It!
Always Prior,
Transcendental,
Immanent,
Non-Conditional,
yet conditional.
A Paradox
to your limited understanding.
You Are In Me.
Prior.
I Am Not in the Middle.
I Am Not Between.
I Am Here.
The only difference is you.
This is not a limited communication.
It is a Universal One.
All of Mankind Is Surrounded,
and Pervaded,
and Blessed By Me.
There is ONLY ONE WORLD,
ONE UNIVERSE
in all is Billions and Billions of Reflections.
For your benefit,
Please Do Not Misunderstand Me.
My First Word – Adi Da’s Essay, First Word, appears at
the beginning of many of His Source Texts.
Editorial note.
This the following essay has been written by Avatar
Adi Da Samraj as His Personal Introduction to each volume of
His “Source-Texts”. Its purpose is to help you to understand
His great Confessions rightly, and not interpret His Words
from a conventional point of view, as limited cultic
statements made by an ego. His Description of what “cultism”
really is is an astounding and profound Critique of mankinds
entire religious, scientific, and social search. In “First
Word”, Avatar Adi Da is directly inviting you to inspect and
relinquish the egos motive to glorify itself and to refuse
What is truly Great. Only by understanding this fundamental
ego-fault can one really receive the Truth that Adi Da
Samraj Reveals in this Book and in His Wisdom-Teaching
altogether. And it is because this fault is so engrained and
so largely unconscious that Avatar Adi Da has placed “First
Word” at the beginning of each of His “Source-Texts”, so
that, each time you begin to read one of his twenty-three
“Source-Texts”, you may be refreshed and strengthened in
your understanding of the right orientation and approach to
Him and his Heart-Word.
My First Word
Yes! There is no religion, no Way of God, no Way of
Divine Realization, no Way of Enlightenment, and no Way of
Liberation that is Higher or Greater than Truth Itself.
Indeed, there is no religion, no science, no man or woman,
no conditionally manifested being of any kind, no world (any
“where”), and no “God” (or “God”-Idea) that is Higher or
Greater than Truth Itself.
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Yes!
There is no religion,
no Way of God, no Way of Divine Realization,
no Way of Enlightenment,
and no Way of Liberation
that is Higher or Greater
than Truth Itself.
Indeed, there is no religion,
no science,
no man or woman,
no conditionally manifested being
of any kind,
no world (any “where”),
and no “God” (or “God”-Idea)
that is Higher or Greater than Truth Itself.
Therefore, no ego-“I” (or presumed separate, and,
necessarily, actively separative, and, at best, only
Truth-seeking, being or “thing”) is (itself) Higher or
Greater than Truth Itself. And no ego-“I” is (itself) even
Equal to Truth Itself. And no ego-“I” is (itself) even (now,
or ever) Able to Realize Truth Itselfbecause,
necessarily, Truth (Itself) Inherently Transcends (or Is
That Which Is Higher and Greater than) every one (himself or
herself) and every “thing” (itself). Therefore, it is only
in the transcending (or the “radical”2 Process of Going
Beyond the root, the cause, and the act) of egoity itself
(or of presumed separateness, and of performed
separativeness, and of even all ego-based seeking for Truth
Itself) that Truth (Itself) Is Realized (As It Is, Utterly
Beyond the ego-“I” itself).
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Therefore, no ego-“I”
is
Higher or Greater than Truth Itself.
And no ego-“I” is
even Equal to Truth Itself.
And no ego-“I” is
even
Able to Realize Truth Itself
because,
necessarily, Truth
Inherently Transcends
every one
and every “thing”.
Therefore,
it is only in the transcending
of egoity itself
that Truth
Is Realized.
Truth (Itself) Is That Which Is Always Already The Case.
That Which Is The Case (Always, and Always Already) Is
(necessarily) Reality. Therefore, Reality (Itself) Is Truth,
and Reality (Itself) Is the Only Truth.
Reality (Itself) Is the Only, and (necessarily)
Non-Separate (or All-and-all-Including, and
All-and-all-Transcending) One and “What” That Is. Because It
Is All and all, and because It Is (Also) That Which
Transcends (or Is Higher and Greater than) All and all,
Reality (Itself)Which Is Truth (Itself), or That Which
Is The Case (Always, and Always Already)Is the One and
Only Real God. Therefore, Reality (Itself) Is (necessarily)
the One and Great Subject of true religion, and Reality
(Itself) Is (necessarily) the One and Great Way of Real God,
Real (and True) Divine Realization, Real (and, necessarily,
Divine) En-Light-enment,3 and Real (and, necessarily,
Divine) Liberation (from all egoity, all separateness, all
separativeness, all fear, and all heartlessness).
The only true religion is the religion that Realizes
Truth. The only true science is the science that Knows
Truth. The only true man or woman (or being of any kind) is
one that Surrenders to Truth. The only true world is one
that Embodies Truth. And the only True (and Real) God Is the
One Reality (or Condition of Being) That Is Truth.
Therefore, Reality (Itself)Which Is the One and Only
Truth, and (therefore, necessarily) the One and Only Real
Godmust become (or be made) the constantly applied
Measure of religion, and of science, and of the world
itself, and of even all of the life (and all of the mind) of
Manor else religion, and science, and the world
itself, and even any and every sign of Man inevitably (all,
and together) become a pattern of illusions, a mere (and
even terrible) “problem”, the very (and even principal)
cause of human seeking, and the perpetual cause of
contentious human strife. Indeed, if religion, and science,
and the world itself, and the total life (and the total
mind) of Man are not Surrendered and Aligned to Reality
(Itself), and (Thus) Submitted to be Measured (or made
Lawful) by Truth (Itself), and (Thus) Given to the truly
devotional (and, thereby, truly ego-transcending)
Realization of That Which Is the Only Real Godthen, in
the presumed “knowledge” of mankind, Reality (Itself), and
Truth (Itself), and Real God (or the One and Only Existence,
or Being, or Person That Is) ceases to Exist.
Aham Da Asmi.4 Beloved, I Am Dathe One and Only
Person Who Is, the Avatarically Self-Revealed, and Eternally
Self-Existing, and Eternally Self-Radiant5 (or “Bright”6)
Person of Love-Bliss, the One and Only and (Self-Evidently)
Divine Self (or Inherently Non-Separateand, therefore,
Inherently egolessDivine Self-Condition and
Source-Condition) of one and of all and of All. I Am
Divinely Self-Manifesting (now, and forever hereafter) As
the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj. I Am the Ruchira Avatar,
Adi Da Samrajthe Avataric Divine Realizer, the
Avataric Divine Revealer, the Avataric Divine Incarnation,
and the Avataric Divine Self-Revelation of Reality Itself.7
I Am the Avatarically Incarnate Divine Realizer, the
Avatarically Incarnate Divine Revealer, and the Avatarically
Incarnate Divine Self-Revelation of the One and Only
RealityWhich Is the One and Only Truth, and Which Is
the One and Only Real God. I Am the Great Avataric Divine
Realizer, Avataric Divine Revealer, and Avataric Divine
Self-Revelation long-Promised (and long-Expected) for the
“late-time”this (now, and forever hereafter) time, the
“dark” epoch of mankinds “Great Forgetting”8 (and,
potentially, the Great Epoch of mankinds Perpetual
Remembering) of Reality, of Truth, of Real God (Which Is the
Great, True, and Spiritual Divine Personor the One and
Non-Separate and Indivisible Divine Source-Condition and
Self-Condition) of all and All.
(7) Beloved, I Am Da, the Divine Giver, the Giver (of All
That I Am) to one, and to all, and to the All of
allnow, and forever hereafterhere, and every
“where” in the Cosmic domain. Therefore, for the Purpose of
Revealing the Way of Real God (or of Real and True Divine
Realization), and in order to Divinely En-Light-en and
Divinely Liberate all and AllI Am (Uniquely,
Completely, and Most Perfectly9) Avatarically Revealing My
Very (and Self-Evidently Divine) Person (and “Bright”
Self-Condition) to all and All, by Means of My Avatarically
Given Divine Self-Manifestation, As (and by Means of) the
Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj.
(8) In My Avatarically Given Divine Self-Manifestation As
the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da SamrajI Am the Divine
Secret, the Divine Self-Revelation of the Esoteric Truth,
the Direct, and all-Completing, and all-Unifying
Self-Revelation of Real God.
(9) My Avatarically Given Divine Self-Confessions and My
Avatarically Given Divine Teaching-Revelations Are the Great
(Final, and all-Completing, and all-Unifying) Esoteric
Revelation to mankindand not a merely exoteric (or
conventionally religious, or even ordinary Spiritual, or
ego-made, or so-called “cultic”) communication to public (or
merely social) ears.
(10) The greatest opportunity, and the greatest
responsibility, of My devotees is Satsang10 with
MeWhich 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-Workto Live (and to Be
Merely Present) As the Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine
Heart among My devotees.
(11) 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,12 or Ruchira Avatara Hridaya-Siddha Yoga13)
is the Way of Satsang with Methe devotionally
Me-recognizing14 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
devotees15 is to make ego-transcending Satsang with Me
available to all others.
(12) 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.
(13) 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”) Manner16in 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.
Neverthelessnow, and forever hereafterI
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 Mebut 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.
(14) 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.
(15) Because people appear within this human condition,
this simultaneously attractive and frightening “dream”
world, they tend to liveand to interpret both the
conditional (or cosmic and psycho-physical) reality and the
Unconditional (or Divine) Realityfrom 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.
(16) Human beings always tend to encircle (and, thereby,
to containand, ultimately, to entrap and abuse, or
even to blithely ignore) the presumed “center” of their
livesa 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-centricand exclusively acquiring all “things”, or
all power of control, for itself). Thus, by self-contraction
upon the presumed “center” of their liveshuman beings,
in their collective ego-centricity, make “cults” (or
bewildered and frightened “centers” of power, and control,
and exclusion) in every area of life.
(17) Anciently, the “cult”-making process was done, most
especially, in the political and social sphereand
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).
(18) 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 worldand 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.
(19) In the ancient ritual of “en-throning” and
“de-throning”, the person (or subject) in the “middle” was
ritually mocked, abused, deposed, and banishedand 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 abuseduntil, 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”).
(20) 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 dimensionsbeginning 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-reinforcingand, 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.
(21) The form that every “cult” imitates is the pattern
of egoity (or the pattern that is the ego-“I”)
itselfthe 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”.
(22) 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
natureand, 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 acquireall 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”.
(23) 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.
(24) The true devotional relationship to Me is not
separative (or merely “inward”-directed), nor is It a matter
of attachment to Me as a mere (and, necessarily, limited)
human being (or a “man in the middle”)for, if My
devotee indulges in ego-bound (or self-referring and
self-serving) attachment to Me as a mere human “other”, My
Divine Nature (and, therefore, the Divine Nature of Reality
Itself) is not (as the very Basis for religious and
Spiritual practice in My Company) truly devotionally
recognized and rightly devotionally acknowledged. And, if
such non-recognition of Me is the case, there is no truly
ego-transcending devotional response to My Avatarically
Self-Revealed (and Self-Evidently Divine) Presence and
Personand, thus, such presumed-to-be “devotion” to Me
is not devotional heart-Communion with Me, and such
presumed-to-be “devotion” to Me is not Divinely Liberating.
Therefore, because the true devotional (and, thus, truly
devotionally Me-recognizing and truly devotionally
to-Me-responding) relationship to Me is entirely a
counter-egoic (and truly and only Divine) discipline, it
does not tend to become a “cult” (or, otherwise, to support
the “cultic” tendency of Man).
(25) The true devotional practice of Satsang with Me is
(inherently) expansive (or relational)and the
self-contracting (or separate and separative) self-“center”
is neither Its motive nor Its source. In true Satsang with
Me, the egoic “center” is always already undermined as a
“center” (or a presumed separate, and actively separative,
entity). The Principle of true Satsang with Me is
MeBeyond (and not “within”or, otherwise,
supporting) the ego-“I”.
(26) True Satsang with Me is the true “Round Dance” of
Esoteric Spirituality. I am not trapped in the “middle” of
My devotees. I “Dance” in the “Round” with each and every
one of My devotees. I “Dance” in the circleand,
therefore, I am not merely a “motionless man” in the
“middle”. At the true “Center” (or the Divine Heart), I
AmBeyond definition (or separateness). I Am the
Indivisibleor Most Perfectly Prior, Inherently
Non-Separate, and Inherently egoless (or centerless,
boundless, and Self-Evidently Divine)Consciousness
(Itself) and the Indivisibleor Most Perfectly Prior,
Inherently Non-Separate, and Inherently egoless (or
centerless, boundless, and Self-Evidently Divine)Light
(Itself). I Am the Very Being and the Very Presence (or
Self-Radiance) of Self-Existing and Eternally Unqualified
(or Non-“Different”) Consciousness (Itself).
(27) In the “Round Dance” of true Satsang with Me (or of
right and true devotional relationship to Me), I (Myself) Am
Communicated directly to every one who lives in heart-felt
relationship with Me (insofar as each one feelsBeyond
the ego-“I” of body-mindto Me). Therefore, I am not
the mere “man” (or the separate human, or psycho-physical,
one), and I am not merely “in the middle” (or separated out,
and limited, and confined, by egoic seekers). I Am the One
(Avatarically Self-Revealed, and All-and-all-Transcending,
and Self-Evidently Divine) Person of Reality
ItselfNon-Separate, never merely at the egoic “center”
(or “in the middle”or “within”, and “inward”
tothe egoic body-mind of My any devotee), but always
with each one (and all), and always in relationship with
each one (and all), and always Beyond each one (and
all).
(28) Therefore, My devotee is not Called, by Me, merely
to turn “inward” (or upon the ego-“I”), or to struggle and
seek to survive merely as a self-contracted and
self-referring and self-seeking and self-serving
ego-“center”. Instead, I Call My devotee to turn the heart
(and the total body-mind) toward Me
(all-and-All-Surrounding, and all-and-All-Pervading), in
relationshipBeyond the body-mind-self of My devotee
(and not merely “within”or contained and containable
“within” the separate, separative, and self-contracted
domain of the body-mind-self, or the ego-“I”, of My would-be
devotee). I Call My devotee to function freelyMy
(Avatarically Self-Transmitted) Divine Light and My
(Avatarically Self-Revealed) Divine Person always (and under
all circumstances) presumed and experienced (and not merely
sought). Therefore, true Satsang with Me is the Real Company
of Truth, or of Reality Itself (Which Is the Only Real God).
True Satsang with Me Serves life, because I Move (or
Radiate) into life. I always Contact life in
relationship.
(29) I do not Call My devotees to become absorbed into a
“cultic” gang of exoteric and ego-centric religionists. I
certainly Call all My devotees to cooperative community (or,
otherwise, to fully cooperative collective and personal
relationship) with one anotherbut not to do so in an
egoic, separative, world-excluding, xenophobic, and
intolerant manner. Rather, My devotees are Called, by Me, to
transcend egoitythrough right and true devotional
relationship to Me, and mutually tolerant and peaceful
cooperation with one another, and all-tolerating
(cooperative and compassionate and all-loving and
all-including) relationship with all of mankind (and with
even all beings).
(30) I Give My devotees the “Bright” Force of My own
Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Consciousness Itself,
Whereby they can become capable of “Bright” life. I Call for
the devotionbut also the intelligently discriminative
self-understanding, the rightly and freely living
self-discipline, and the full functional capabilityof
My devotees. I do not Call My devotees to resist or
eliminate life, or to strategically escape life, or to
identify with the world-excluding ego-centric impulse. I
Call My devotees to live a positively functional life. I do
not Call My devotees to separate themselves from vital life,
from vital enjoyment, from existence in the form of human
life. I Call for all the human life-functions to be really
and rightly known, and to be really and rightly understood,
and to be really and rightly lived (and not reduced by, or
to, the inherently bewilderedand inherently “cultic”,
or self-centered and fearful”point of view” of the
separate and separative ego-“I”). I Call for every human
life-function to be revolved away from self-contraction (or
ego-“I”), and (by Means of that revolving turn) to be turned
“outwardly” (or expansively, or counter-contractively) to
all and All, and (thereby, and always directly, or in an
all-and-All-transcending manner) to Merather than to
be turned merely “inwardly” (or contractively, or
counter-expansively), and, as a result, turned away from Me
(and from all and All). Thus, I Call for every human
life-function to be thoroughly (and life-positively, and in
the context of a fully participatory human life) aligned and
adapted to Me, and (Thus and Thereby) to be turned and Given
to the Realization of Me (the Avataric Self-Revelation of
Truth, or Reality ItselfWhich Is the Only Real
God).
(31) Truly benign and positive life-transformations are
the characteristic signs of right, true, full, and fully
devotional Satsang with Meand freely life-positive
feeling-energy is the characteristic accompanying “mood” of
right, true, full, and fully devotional Satsang with Me. The
characteristic life-sign of right, true, full, and fully
devotional Satsang with Me is the capability for
ego-transcending relatedness,18 based on the free
disposition of no-seeking and no-dilemma. Therefore, the
characteristic life-sign of right, true, full, and fully
devotional Satsang with Me is not the tendency to seek some
“other” condition. Rather, the characteristic life-sign of
right, true, full, and fully devotional Satsang with Me is
freedom from the presumption of dilemma within the
present-time condition.
(32) One who rightly, truly, fully, and fully
devotionally understands My Avatarically Given Words of
Divine Self-Revelation and Divine Heart-Instruction, and
whose life is lived in right, true, full, and fully
devotional Satsang with Me, is not necessarily (in function
or appearance) “different” from the ordinary (or natural)
human being. Such a one has not, necessarily, acquired some
special psychic abilities, or visionary abilities, and so
on. The “radical” understanding (or root self-understanding)
I Give to My devotees is not, itself, the acquisition of any
particular “thing” of experience. My any particular devotee
may, by reason of his or her developmental tendencies,
experience (or precipitate) the arising of extraordinary
psycho-physical abilities and extraordinary psycho-physical
phenomenabut not necessarily. My every true devotee is
simply Awakening (and always Awakened to Me) within the
otherwise bewildering “dream” of ordinary human life.
(33) Satsang with Me is a natural (or spontaneously, and
not strategically, unfolding) Process, in Which the
self-contraction that is each ones suffering is transcended
by Means of total psycho-physical (or whole bodily)
heart-Communion with My Avatarically Self-Revealed (and
Realand Really, and tangibly, experienced) Divine
(Spiritual, and Transcendental19) Presence and Person. My
devotee is (as is the case with any and every ego-“I”)
always tending to be preoccupied with ego-based
seekingbut, all the while of his or her life in
actively ego-surrendering (and really ego-forgetting and,
more and more, ego-transcending) devotional Communion with
Me, I Am Divinely Attracting (and Divinely Acting upon) My
true devotees heart (and total body-mind), and (Thus and
Thereby) Dissolving and Vanishing My true devotees
fundamental egoity (and even all of his or her otherwise
motivating dilemma and seeking-strategy).
(34) There are two principal tendencies by which I am
always being confronted by My devotee. One is the tendency
to seekrather 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
Meand, 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 Satsangthe 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.
(35) 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 AdidamIs 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).
(36) Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Dathe 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 PersonWho 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. AndAs That One, and Only As That
OneI 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 AdidamWhich Is the One and
Only By-Me-Revealed and By-Me-Given Way of the Heart).
(37) 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-manmaking 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.
(38) 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.
(39) By Means of My (now, and forever hereafter) Divinely
Descended and Divinely Self-“Emerging” Avataric Incarnation,
I Am the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samrajthe Divine
Heart-Master, the First, the Last, and the Only
Adept-Realizer of the seventh (or Most Perfect, and
all-Completing) stage of life.21 I Am the Ruchira Avatar,
Adi Da Samraj, the Avataric Incarnation (and Divine
World-Teacher22) 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
PersonAppearing 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,
Selfor Very, and Self-Evidently Divine,
Self-Condition), and Which Is Reality Itself (or Truth
Itselfthe 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).
(40) 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”).
(41) 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”.23 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.
(42) 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
mankindWhich 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.
(43) 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”).
(44) 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).
(45) 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).
(46) I Am the Indivisible and Non-Separate One, the
(Avatarically Self-Revealed) One and Only and
(Self-Evidently) Divine Personthe Perfectly
Subjective24 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.
(47) I Am the Way Beyond the self-cornering (and
“other”-cornering) trap of ego-“I”.
(48) 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.
Therefore, I have not Come here merely to stand Manly in
the “middle” of mankindto suffer its biting abuses, or
even to be coddled and ignored in a little corner of
religious “cultism”.
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 Translate25 one and all
(and All) Into the Indivisible, Perfectly Subjective, and
Eternally Non-Separate Self-Domain26 of My Divine
Love-Bliss-Light.
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
devotionallyand ecstatically, and also, often,
meditativelyresponding to Me) Beyond the “middle”,
Beyond the “centering” act (or trapping gesture) of ego-“I”
(or self-contraction).
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
Allbut 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-trapand 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
Enstasy27) 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).
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 devoteeand, 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.
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
Awakenby Means of My Avataric Divine Descent, My
Avataric Divine Incarnation, and My (now, and forever
hereafter) Avataric Divine Self-“Emergence”28 (here, and
every “where” in the Cosmic domain).
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