Avatar Adi Da Samraj has
instructed His devotees extensively about the right
and wrong ways of understanding and relating to Him. At
the beginning of each of His books, He has written very clearly
about this matter in an essay called “First
Word”. He explains that by revealing Himself as
the Divine, He is not indulging in illusions of grandiose
Divinity, but rather demonstrating the fulfillment and integrity
of the esoteric nondual realization of Reality.
When Adi Da Samraj Ecstatically Proclaims that "There
is Only God" or that "I Am God", He is not
Speaking from the viewpoint of a conventional ego. The "I"
Who is the "God" proclaimed is not a conventional
ego. The "I" that is the "ego" is vanished
in Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and He has become "Transparent",
possessed by Divinity. He has lost His individuated consciousness,
and allowed the Divine Consciousness to become Him. In Adi
Da's Wisdom-Teaching, there is no exclusive God or parental
deity in a heaven somewhere Who has created everything--such
is the language and orientation of exoteric religion. The
God of His Confession is Real God, the Condition That Pervades
and Transcends all of this. Real God is always and everywhere
Present, and is the True Identity of every one.
In many places throughout this website and His Wisdom-Teaching,
you will see that Adi Da Samraj is referred to as the Divine
Person. Such language is in itself a paradox--for how can
the All-Pervading and All-Transcending Divine Consciousness
be a Person? Because the Avatar Adi Da Samraj lives in the
permanent Samadhi of Divine Self-Realization, He has become
Identical with the Divine. He has transcended the ego so completely
that only the Divine Flows through Him. His bodily (human)
Form, His Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence, and His
Very (and Inherently Perfect) State have become Vehicles for
Divine Grace. Thus, His bodily Person is Divine, and the Divine
Person exists As Him. And His devotees, in their own Divine
Enlightenment, likewise Realize His Divine Condition.
This Recognition of Divinity is an esoteric secret of the
Guru-devotee relationship. It is not a subject for mere belief,
nor can any one be convinced of the matter through any intellectual
argument. However, Adi Da Samraj’s devotees recognize
Him at heart and know Him to be the Very and One Divine Person,
the Only One that Is. In this Recognition, the Guru is understood
to be identical to the Living God, as well as that Very One
in His or Her Physical Body. Adi Da Samraj’s devotees
know Him to be one who has perfectly and completely transcended
any vestiges of ego, and in this transformative Recognition,
know Him to be the Very Divine One Perfectly.
It is stated in various Hindu texts on Guru-devotion, that
the Guru is greater that God. How bold is such a communication,
heard by the increasingly Westernized ears of men and women
of today! Not only is the Guru equal to God, but He or She
is greater than God! What is meant by this is that generally
our understanding of God (either as an idea, energy, or even
a “being” somewhere in the distance) is abstract
and without form. It is not easy to communicate or learn from
such an abstract God. The Guru, however, consents to Incarnate
as the Very Divine here on this earth in order to serve the
Divine Realization of His or Her devotees. This is an incredibly
compassionate Gesture, which places the Guru above any God-idea
in any place, above or beyond.
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“You must understand that the unique status of the
Spiritual Master is not given for his or her own sake. The
Spiritual Master is not a human being with a superior egoic
consciousness that he or she is God. The ego of such a one
is destroyed, transcended in the process of his or her lifetime.
The situation of the Spiritual Master is not as you might
imagine. You may be thinking: "We all know you are not
suffering like us! We poor bastards are the ones who are suffering—you've
got it made!" Well, such thinking is not true at all.
The lifetime of the Spiritual Master is only sacrifice, and
therefore more a torment than the lifetime of the ordinary
soul. Read the biographies of the great Spiritual Masters.
They all tell the same story of a life that is terrible in
some ways, a life in which frequently they are exploited and
rejected, and in which they are under the constant threat
of domination by worldly and negative forces. Such individuals
are always dealing with great forces, not just mastering their
rejection by human beings, but tussling with daemonic energy.
Such is also the case in My Lifetime! What you see in My Lifetime
is the biography of the Divine Being. This is how the Divine
Being must live among human beings.
People who are not truly devotees often feel that they must
become like the Spiritual Master, that they must have the
status of the Spiritual Master. Such people envy the Spiritual
Master, and they will not surrender to him or her. They only
want from the Spiritual Master a token, a bit of magic, that
will somehow make them like he or she is. But understand this:
No un-Enlightened soul wants to be in the position of the
Spiritual Master! If you understood My constant experience,
you would not envy it—nor could you endure it! One must
be Helped by great Divine Power in order to endure the events
associated with such a unique life, in order to pass through
such events with a clear understanding of what they are as
a Divine Process. Only the Divine has the power to endure
the complete revolution of consciousness. Only the Divine
has the power to confront the entire play of manifest existence
and master all the forces to which beings are subject. The
Spiritual Master engages those forces in actual warfare, whereas
devotees in general perceive the same forces to be the play
of their natural experience. The devotee does not struggle
with the power that produces weather or with the physics of
light personified as self-conscious beings, although the devotee
is also somehow involved in the same play. The Purusha, the
Divine, is the victorious Warrior, the Master of all life.”
–Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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