“I hate to tell you this, but when
you really get down to the core of the Teaching you begin to
realize that you are not going to be given any answers at
all. There are no answers contained at any level in this
process. But there is a certain influence that will destroy
your questioning. I certainly hope you can make contact with
it. As a matter of fact, I am it.” Adi Da Samraj
“There is no ultimate answer, no
perfect analysis, description, or experience. Truth is in
the transcendence of the question itself. The ultimate or
spiritual process is not a matter of the exploitation of
mind or body – but it is a matter of the intuitive and
self-transcending understanding of the active body-mind. The
body-mind-self is itself, inherently, a dilemma. It is in
the form of a question, an illusory or futile motion toward
rest or release. There is no exploitation of this
problem-based motion that ever becomes rest from it. It is
this observation or insight that is the foundation of true
understanding.” Losing
the Thread – Adi Da Samraj –
1981
(If there is a question then,) “the
real question is the state you are in. And the real answer
is not in the form of a verbal response to verbally
expressed dilemmas, or even apparently actual life-dilemmas.
The real answer is the transcending of your self-contracted
state. You will continue to seek (by all
possible means) to be free of the dilemma as you perceive
it, until the forms of your seeking all of which are
reactions to the root-condition (or dilemma) that is your
suffering-cease to occupy you. When you come to the point
where the force of your life is no longer fully captured by
your search, when you know that your search is failing, that
your search does not produce salvation, when you fall from
ordinary fascination into a crisis, a form of despair, of
doubt – then, at that point, you have become deeply
available” A Discourse Given by Sri
Da Avabhasa (Adi Da Samraj) on February 4, 1993 SRI DA AVABAASA: Which room
are you in tonight? Are you in My Room or your
room? DEVOTEE: The confession of
all Your devotees is that we are willing to surrender our
rooms so that we can be in Your Room. SRI DA AVABHASA: Surrendering
your room is one thing. Being in the Room Where I Am is
another. Most of you do not know what room you are in. You
are imagining yourself, to be in a construct of existence
made by your own contraction. You have never comprehended or
experienced the space you are actually living in. You have
only been living in that rather hallucinated enclosure made
by your own egoic act and its consequences. When there is no contraction, then
What there is obvious. When the self contraction is arising,
you are unaware of What is, or of Where you are. Thus, your
questions to Me propose an answer. They are already a
structure of expectation. It is possible for questions to be
wrong, all wrong, in some fundamental sense, just as the
answers that follow questions can be wrong in some
fundamental sense. Every question designs a particular kind
of answer, constructs an answer, proposes an answer, for its
satisfaction. You puzzle until you acquire the answer and
relieve yourself of the question, and then you ask another.
And all the while that you are asking, seeking, you are
presuming yourself to exist in un-Reality, or a version of
existence that, although perceptually like what others claim
to be the space where they are, is not real, not true, not
Divine. The presumption of separateness
creates a comprehension of perception that is untrue. As
long as, that contraction exists, you do not perceive the
Space you are in. You go on and on asking and answering –
seeking – and all the while struggling within this construct
of your own making, until there is Most Perfect
Understanding and Realization of What is always already the
case. I think then, that you are not in
the same Room that I am in. Maybe you are in this apparent,
perceived building here, as I am, in some sense but we are
not in the same Space, the same Reality. If you ask Me a
question, therefore, I am not going to address you through
your question because you are already proposing an answer
and I do not think the answer will necessarily change
anything fundamentally for you. My “Consideration” with you
is not merely My relating to your questions and coming up
with the answer that you are already proposing. My
“Consideration” with you is My way of breaking through the
limitation that is your question, or your proposal, this
limit in you. Real “consideration” is about just
such undoing of egoic limitation. What you may otherwise
call “consideration” is just a social diversion. Real
“consideration”‘ is a kind of play. It is a paradox, the
undoing of the game of your own proposition. Therefore, in
real “consideration” with you I am not merely
straightforward. My “Consideration” with you is ‘Crazy”,
artful theater of breaking through the presumption that is
your own illusion. The “consideration” has to begin
somewhere tonight, so I guess your questions are as good a
place to begin as any. We could just as well begin with the
answers! It is all the same. DEVOTEE: My Lord, this is
especially clarifying about our, questions. They do not
release the separate being but just keep confirming
it. SRI DA AVABHASA: The
questioner basically wants to be consoled. The question
wants an answer. But the expected answer is not Realization.
You have been asking questions all year long. You have even
received all kinds of answers. But your questioning has not
become Realization yet. Mark Twain once said that he knew a
man who knew more than any other man he had ever met. The
problem was that most of what he knew was not true! You are
in that same position in your questioning. Your question is
the expression of the self-contraction. The answer is not
exactly what you require. Nor am I here to address your
apparent, question. I am here to Address you. The question
simply provides the circumstance. That being the case, what
are the, questions? [to the man who has been
speaking] Go on: DEVOTEE: In our conversations
and “considerations” – with You, my Lord, the final
so-called answer to all the questions that we ask is
surrender to You. SRI DA AVABHASA: And you
cannot altogether do that surrender, either. You, must be
Attracted beyond your own knot. So, do you have a question,
or is someone else going to ask Me? “…and that intelligence has no
answers. It has no questions. That State without answers and
without questions is the True State. From that State, the
“creation” of marvels begins.” “The Mystery of our existence is not
a problem to be solved. The search for an Answer implies
that the Mystery of existence is a Question. And when
individuals become bound to the presumption that the Mystery
of existence is a Problem or a Question, their lives become
a search for Solutions or Answers in the form of experience
or knowledge. But the motive of all seeking is release from
the felt dilemma that is the ultimate Problem or Question
itself. And all experience and knowledge are nothing more
than continuous meditation on the fundamental Problem or
Question that constantly remotivates the search. The only ultimate release from the
presumed Problem or Question of existence is Realized in the
transcendence of that presumption itself. The presumption of
the Problem or Question of existence is a reactive
contraction and conception of the body-mind. It is a
reaction of the psycho physical self to the Mystery of its
own existence and the Mysterious existence of thoughts,
knowledge, perception, experience, and the various objects
or relations encountered by the body-mind.” The
Transcendence of Attention If there is an answer is comes in
the form of: “Satsang
with Me is the answer. Satsang
with Me is the process and Condition wherein the dilemma is
undone. No spoken or written word, but (rather) the very
relationship to Me, the Living True Divine Heart, is the
Real answer. The answer is not in the form of an ego-serving
method, a strategic technique, or a conceptual system that
addresses your particular notions of human existence. The
answer is the Self-Evident Manifestation of Truth, and that
answer undermines that very structure in your conscious
awareness that supports your entire search.”
No
One Survives Beyone That Moment
The
Method of Siddhas