An excerpt of a talk (Identification of the Beloved)
given by Adi Da Samraj, December 8, 1976
ADI DA SAMRAJ: I recommend that you meditate. However, you cannot meditate. You cannot willfully go about some program of meditation and have it be true, because that is a way of conquering rather than of being in love. You must realize this real meditation through the consideration we enjoy face to face. And if you will begin to rest in the current of the being in my Company, then you will begin to feel my influence. I will be of use to you in that case, but not until then. If your approach to me remains conventional, you are not at ease, you are not rested in this current, and you cannot feel it. Then there is no initiatory force in our meeting. You will really only discover the force of my influence when you begin to come to rest, in meditation, in our meetings, and in life. When you are rested in this current, through true intuitive identification of me, of the Condition of the current of your own being, then you can feel my work.
Because I am simply present in this Condition, I do not have any plans. I have nothing to do with all of this arising. I am simply standing here, and if you recognize me truly, then this current of the being is intensified, its revelation begins, and you will fall out of the point of view of this dream, even though you continue in your ordinary relations within it. You may also, in the course of this meditation, this living, have the opportunity to be involved in all kinds of other dreams, to live and perceive in other forms, other dimensions entirely. It is not that you must strive for that. That is another kind of craving, another kind of effort toward victory based on a failure of recognition, a failure to presume this Ignorance which is native to our birth. All the conventional yogic efforts are kinds of craving. People will sit for hours a day manipulating themselves with various techniques, hoping to have this and that kind of remarkable experience as a result. It is just an extension of worldliness, of the same thing that is your suffering in this gross appearance. You must simply be relieved of all of that through the presumption of Ignorance and the intuition of the Condition of these conditions arising.
That intuitive recognition or identification is simply rest in the current of the being. It is felt in this body sense at first, and as we come to rest in it, it is enjoyed in all kinds of ways, none of which is in itself fulfilling as mere experience. These enjoyments are simply the secondary reflections of our fulfillment of the Law, our present resting in that Condition which does not have any content, which is unspeakable. Call it God, Brahman, the Self. It is the only Happiness, and it is the foundation of all happiness in the midst of conditions here or anywhere else.
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So it is not that we must sit down and struggle to hear the inner sounds and go somewhere with them. It is quite natural that at some point you become absorbed in such sounds and other phenomena as an extension of this current, but it is rest in the prior Condition itself that is fulfillment of the Law, that is Happiness. It relieves you of the point of view of this world. It is not simply experiences of other worlds that relieve you of the point of view of this world, though they may arise and bring ordinary release. It is rest in the Condition of the very current of this arising, the Condition of these conditions, which is Happiness. It is perfect Sacrifice, and, paradoxically, is perfect fullness. It is a way of being mad without being crazy.
Nothing could be more mad than to be happy in this place, because there is really no justification for it. It is not reasonable to be happy. If you thoroughly examine this world, there is reason to feel very unhappy. Even with a little pleasurableness thrown in, it is not enough to overcome that conviction of darkness that you get when you really see what is happening here. So it is not any philosophy we can base on our experience here that makes us happy. It is complete release from the implications, the force, of this dreaming, this appearance for which we cannot account. And you see, it is already miraculous. Nothing fantastic has to happen. We already cannot account for a single thing in this room here. The mere existence of anything is beyond comprehension. It is sufficient to boggle us. You do not know what a single thing is. You cannot build any great programs for victory on the basis of such Ignorance. On the basis of that Ignorance, we are naturally disposed to all of this arising and may be led into the intuitive identification of the Nature and Condition of all this arising. And that is my occupation, to bring you to that recognition through Ignorance, in which you may come to rest in the current of the being and more and more profoundly fulfill the Law. But you see that this requires a new orientation, a turnabout from the conventional strife in which you pursue fulfillment here by reaction. The more you do that, the more confounded you become.
In the old cultures, they frowned upon anyone who knew too much or owned too much, because these were the signs of somebody who was really struggling and was therefore very worldly and dangerous. Of course they made this a blanket, black and white world view, but there is some wisdom in the feeling. We must be relieved of knowing and owning, of all our craving. We must become perfectly Ignorant. We must become a Sacrifice, not an Owner, not a Knower. The usual knowing and owning is ordinary enough, and we can take pleasure in ordinary things in one another’s company, but only if we are free, only if we all make this sacrifice constantly and are clarified in the being. So you must have the leisure, the ordinariness, in which to consider in this moment of arising that you do not know what a single thing is, that you do not know what the thing is itself, that you do not know what any of it is. If you will enter into your relations with me on that basis, this Ignorance, this falling into the current of the being through identification of its Condition, will become natural to you by Grace, freely, because it is not a conventional gift. It is the Gift of the being itself. It is prior to all strife, all circumstance. It is simply that you must be disposed to enjoy it. Become so disposed in my Company, and it absolutely will be given to you. That is also the Law. It is not a matter of striving and acquiring it, but of giving up that whole effort as you naturally do in Ignorance, in which you simply rest in this moment and recognize it in the form of your own Condition, the Condition of the current of the body-being itself. It is felt more and more profoundly as a current. It goes through changes. And it obliges you to go through changes outwardly in your relations and also bodily, because the body is transformed in its adaptation. The. current is felt passing from toe to crown rather than crown to toe. It is not that it goes from the toe and leaves the body toward the crown. It is just felt as if there were a wire from toe to crown in which the current or the flow is moving in that direction rather than the opposite. Then the current between the crown and the Heart may at last be Realized also.
We still stand in the world even as we rest in this current. But then you may notice in your private meditation that you also are released even of this experience here from time to time. As the currents of the gross being begin to harmonize, become naturally reoriented, the body comes to rest, the breathing becomes slow, simple, the heart rate goes down. We hear the breathing and feel it, but then we become aware that we cannot hear it any longer, cannot feel it any longer. The current itself becomes audible to us, and we may simply forget the gross body and pass into the subtler dreams, all the while being in the disposition of this Ignorance, in which we truly identify what arises rather than automatically becoming attached to it, rather than getting into patterns of craving on the basis of gross or subtle experience.
So all of that also passes. We come to the point where we are more and more profoundly identified with that Condition itself, which precedes all arising, high or low, and which does not have any reference really, which cannot be accounted for in conditions. It is prior to them. It is the Condition of conditions. It is a paradox, because it is true of you even while alive, while in the gross plane, in the subtle planes, in any and all of these unnecessary realms. This Condition, which is unspeakable, remains true, it remains your very Condition. Therefore, unnecessary worlds fall away, and perhaps then there is a Realm corresponding to that Condition in which you come to rest, to which you become fitted in your Enjoyment or Sacrifice, in which all relations are eternal and absolutely pleasurable, unobstructed, unthreatened. Maybe. But first we must be free of all this. Wherever you ultimately wake up, where all dreams are being dreamed, you will discover in that moment that you have been lying there asleep all this time. It will be as ordinary as waking up in the morning and going about a day’s business.
But that is not a Realm to be craved, because it is not of a conventional and unnecessary nature. We must fulfill the Law, this Sacrifice, this Truth. The Condition of conditions is true in this realm or any realm, and it is that to which we must be committed while alive. Any glorious eternity that appears on the basis of it is a gift. But it is clear to me that if all of this now present can appear, as unnecessary and terrifying as it is, then the Perfect Domain is also existing, and it is somehow the same as no thing, no disturbance, no craving, no separation, no birth, no event, no moment, no future, no time, no place, no suffering. It is also exactly the same as love, as fullness, as delight, as very Light, as Happiness disposition of this Ignorance, in which we truly identify what arises rather than automatically becoming attached to it, rather than getting into patterns of craving on the basis of gross or subtle experience.
Additions:
Feel-Surrender To My Avatarically Self-Revealed Bright Divine Transcendental Spiritual Body and My Avatarically Self-Revealed egoless True Divine State Of Person, Prior To and Beyond self-contraction, With the Total heart (or the entire region extending from the base of the throat to the solar plexus), More and More Deeply Into Intrinsically egoless Transcendental Spiritual and Whole-bodily-Realized Communion With Me, Located As The Self-Existing Love-Bliss-Current Of Being (In the Deepest heartPrior To and Beyond its right-side knot) and As The Self-Radiant Bright Source (Above and Beyond all-and-All) – Aletheon
In the fourth stage of life, this now complex psycho physical being is surrendered beyond itself, to and into the Living Current of Being that pervades it and the total world. This is done to the point of generally harmonizing the bodymind in that Life-Current and otherwise Realizing self transcending devotional Union with that Living Reality in occasions of Love-Bliss that involve and simultaneously transcend the body-mind.
“…And then attention disappears in the feeling of the Witness It’self. [pause] Then there is no attention, simply the feeling of the Radiant Current of Being It’self.
If you sense the body at all, feel the Current Shining from the right side of the heart. Feel yourself established there, feeling there. And the body simply rests on that point of Current.
If you allow it and enter into it more deeply, its, its no longer a point but a Space, beyond the sense of the body. [silence] You simply Glow in that Space, in apparent association with the body, but It’s not at all attached to it.
Enter into It most profoundly, you discover This is not merely the essence of the personal self, but the Very Divine Self. No separate reference in It at all.
And if you allow the eyes to open, and not move about, but just focus, naturally, and feel the same “Bright” Depth, but allow the eyes to perceive, without motion, then it is clear the Space Realized is not the interior, mere interior, of the personal self, but is the All-Pervading Divine Self.
And all arising is just That. It makes no “difference” whatsoever. The One Conscious Radiance. Beyond the body-mind. But including it and everything and everyone. As One”.
Adi Da Samraj, The Brightening Heart Series, A Mastered Life – Dialogue with devotee.
“So it’s time to be silent now. You don’t even know what a single thing is. In other words, the principal exercise of life is silent, is in depth. It’s not a matter of functioning superficially- talking, thinking, reacting emotionally, doing this and that physically. It is a matter of an in-depth process. And then that becomes the governor of the faculties in the daily circumstance.
It conserves the faculties. It’s a disciplining of the body-mind then, rather than an indulgence in it. It’s a conserving of the activities of energy and attention relative to the body-mind, an investing of energy and attention in the in-depth dimension of existence.
When the body-mind is conserved to Yoga, conserved toward the Source-Condition, then it becomes associated with the Virtue of the Source-Condition. My “Brightness” shows Itself in the form of benign transformations, Blissful proceedings in meditation and so on, so that Happiness Itself, My Current of Love-Bliss, does indeed Invade the context, the circumstance, of the body-mind, or of conditional experience (waking, dreaming, and sleeping). The process must go on, of course, because it is only when it is complete that there is no limitation on Happiness Itself”.
Adi Da Samraj, Drifted in the Deeper Land, You Never Have a Present-Time Experience of Yourself.
“There was joy in the body, its light cell life, its respiration and circulation of force and pleasure. There was a current of energy in the heart that rose into the head through the throat. And there was an energy below the heart that rose up into it from below. There was a surrounding energy that was spaceless but which had a locus above the head. And all of these energies were a single current of light and life in the heart that was reflected as enjoyment in the head. That form of consciousness was bright, silent, spaceless, full, knowing only and entirely this thing itself and seeing no problem, no separation in the fact of life.” – Adi Da Samraj – The Knee of Listening
See full study in: The Concious Process