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“The Truly Human New World-Culture
Of Unbroken Real-God-Man is Avatar Adi Da's remarkably penetrating
examination of the deepest roots of human culture. In this book,
He pinpoints, with exhilarating precision, the nature of the fundamental
"split" between East and West, and then Reveals the Way
of Truth beyond that cultural split.
Avatar Adi Da shows that the East and the West have each "chosen"
a fundamental allegiance to one dimension of Reality. In their respective
dispositions, the East has "chosen" Unconditional Reality
(the Divine Self—conceived as ultimately Independent from
conditional "self" and conditional "world"),
whereas the West has "chosen" conditional reality (conditional
"self" and conditional "world"—conceived,
in religious language, as emanations of, or gifts from, the Divine
Self, or, in scientific language, as the only "real" phenomena).
Thus, there is a fundamental "war" between East and West.
And, in current time, the West has clearly "won" that
"war".
This book is Avatar Adi Da's passionate Argument for (and Offering
of) a "truly human new world-culture" that goes beyond
this fundamental human split. He is telling us that we can never
be "truly human" if we persist in basing our lives on
a "choice" for either the Unconditional or the conditional,
either the "Beyond" or the "here-and-now"—because
a truly human life involves full participation in both dimensions
of Reality. And Avatar Adi Da is Offering Himself as the "Unbroken
Real-God-Man"—the humanly manifested Appearance of Real
God, Who Shows the Way that utterly transcends the humanly presumed
"break" between the Unconditional and the conditional,
between Real God and Man.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj offers a profoundly penetrating and insightful
analysis and critique of the predominant forms of human culture,
and illumines with dazzling wisdom the way beyond them.” |
--Anthony
Corones, Ph.D.
University of New South Wales, Australia |
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| Excerpts from Avatar
Adi Da Samraj’s essays in |
The Truly
Human New World-Culture Of Unbroken Real-God-Man
The Eastern Versus The Western Traditional Cultures Of Mankind, and
The Unique New Non-Dual Culture Of The True World-Religion Of Adidam |
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“The Fundamental Persuasions
That Underlie the Searches of the East and of the West” [From Part 2] |
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The Eastern mind characteristically
tends to presume—as a fundamental (and, ultimately, irreducible)
fact—that, at the level of humanly experienced “material”
(or conditionally manifested) existence, there is (and will always
be) non-unity, non-enjoyment, multiplicity, opposition, separation,
and suffering. However, the same (Eastern) mind also tends equally
characteristically, to affirm and to experience Unity at the depth-level
(or subtle level) of conscious awareness (and even Identity, and
Non-separateness, at the level of Consciousness Itself).
In contrast to the Eastern mind, the Western mind characteristically
tends to idealize (or to idealistically presume and pursue) unity,
oneness, success, and satisfaction at the level of human manifestation.
That is, it is a characteristic trait of the Western mind that it
always emphasizes (or idealizes) unity and oneness at the level
of politics, social life and human endeavor in general—and,
therefore, it affirms the ideals of the political and social unity
of all mankind, the pursuit of personal and collective success in
life, and so on. However, the same (Western) mind also tends, equally
characteristically, to affirm and experience multiplicity, opposition,
and separation at the depth-level (or subtle level) of conscious
awareness. Thus, in its theology, the Western mind emphasizes the
multiplicity of “souls” and their (presumed-to-be irreducible)
separateness from God. Furthermore, the Western mind always tends
to doubt and resist mystical (and other unitive) processes. By extension
(in the modern context), the Western mind tends to idealistically
affirm the primacy of the individual over against the State and
the collective. And, in the realm of the various scientific disciplines,
the Western mind cannot assert the ultimate irreducibility of consciousness
(as Consciousness Itself), but (rather) chronically assumes consciousness
to have its source in material (and, therefore, merely—or
only—mortal) processes. Indeed, the Western mind tends to
presume that “materiality” itself is the ultimate (and
irreducible) condition of every thing, and every one, and all.
In summary, the Eastern mind characteristically idealizes Unconditional
Reality, and the Western mind characteristically idealizes conditional
reality. Nevertheless—in Truth, or in Reality—there
is no separation, no inherent opposition, between Unconditional
Reality and conditional reality. Consciousness Itself (or Unconditional
Reality Itself) and form (or the conditional manifestation of Reality
Itself) are not inherently separate, not truly in opposition to
one another. There is Only Non-exclusive Reality (Itself), Identical
to Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Consciousness (Itself). However,
only from the “Point of View” of the Most Perfect Realization
of “radical” (or “root”) self-understanding
is both the Existence of Unconditional Reality and the Unqualified
Condition of the living (or conditionally manifested) reality Inherently
Obvious As Such and So. In the absence of most perfect “radical”
(or “root”) self-understanding, the presumption of mind—whether
of an idealized Unity or of a proposed dis-Unity—is only an
artificial condition, imposed arbitrarily, which cannot be feeling-True
(or Real to the heart). |
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| “The Dichotomy
in the Disposition of Man” |
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Since Ancient times, Mankind
Has, In various times and places, Tended To Embrace (or To Be Dominated
By) One or The Other Of Two Characteristic Approaches To The (Apparently)
Two Dimensions Of The (Inherently) One and Indivisible Reality.
Just So, every individual Tends To Be Involved In A Constant Struggle
Between Two Primary and Opposite Motives, That Correspond To The
Two Characteristic Approaches To The (Apparently) Two Dimensions
Of The One Reality. These Two Approaches Generally Correspond To
The Oriental (or The Eastern) and The Occidental (or The Western)
Strategies Of Culture. . . .
I Call These Two Efforts or Tendencies "The Alpha Strategy"
and "The Omega Strategy".
The Alpha Strategy Is Based On The Tendency To Identify With The
Most Prior (Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless,
and Self-Evidently Divine) Reality, or Condition, Exclusively (or
In A Manner That Suppresses—or, Otherwise, Strategically Excludes—conditional
Reality). And The Omega Strategy Is Based On The Tendency To Identify
With conditional Reality Exclusively (or In A Manner That Suppresses—or,
Otherwise, Strategically Excludes—The Unconditional, Transcendental,
Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine
Reality). . . .
The Alpha Preference Is For The Control (or Strategic limiting,
or Minimizing) Of the functional and relational activities of the
conditional psycho-physical personality (Even To The Degree Of Suppression
and Exclusion)—and For The Maximizing Of attention, Mystical
Devotion, and Contemplative Surrender To The Transcendental, Inherently
Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Condition,
Being, Source-Condition, or Person. . . .
The Omega Preference Is For Control, limitation, Doubt, and Even
Suppression (or Exclusion) Of attention, Mystical Devotion, and
Contemplative Surrender To The Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual,
Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Condition, Being,
Source-Condition, or Person—While, Otherwise, Liberally Maximizing
attention (and The Pursuit Of experience and knowledge) Relative
To functional and relational activities and Even The Total conditional
Context (or world-Context) Of bodily-Based human Existence. . .
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These Two Strategic points of view Are Apparently In Conflict
With one another—and, Indeed, Historically This Has Been The
Case. That Conflict Is Itself One Of The Principal conditional Signs
Of human Struggle Within The Context Of conditional Nature. Thus,
Early human History (and, Indeed, The Entire History Of The Total
Great Tradition Of Mankind, Previous To My Avataric Divine Appearance
here) Developed On The Basis Of A Dichotomy (or Split) In The Disposition
Of Man, Based On The Two Natural functional Divisions Of the human
brain (and Of the human nervous system). And, On The Basis Of That
Split, Mankind Has Developed Along Two Entirely Different Lines
(Which May Be Compared and Related To The Frontal and Spinal Lines
Of the human body-mind), Almost As If Mankind Were Composed Of Two
Separate Species. Therefore, This Dichotomy and These Two Great
Lines Of human Development Must Be "Considered" and "Understood." |
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“The Fundamental
Persuasions That Underlie the Searches of the East and of the West” [From Part 5]
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"Creativity" is the
idol of the West. All the activities and knowledge of the West,
and even its obsessions, are a worship of "Creativity"—the
source and force of generation.
"No-creation" is the idol of the East. All the activities
and knowledge of the East are a worship of "No-creation"—the
Original Nature, divorced from all that is (apparently) generated.
The entire world is divided into these two idolatrous camps. They
permeate all of religion, all of philosophy, every aspect of culture,
society, economics, and politics—every aspect of individual
and collective life. This has been so since the unrecorded beginnings
of human time.
But "Creativity" and "No-creation" are merely
conceptual symbols—representing, respectively, the pursuit
of life (where life is conceived as "Creativity" itself)
and the pursuit of transcendence (where transcendence is conceived
as the State of absolute Independence from life, or the world).
"Creativity" is a verbal (and mental) symbol for the pursuit
of life. "No-creation" is a verbal (and mental) symbol
for the pursuit of an "Absolute State" of dissociation
from the pattern of conditionally arising events (or the "fact"
of temporariness, change, and inevitable suffering). Every such
symbol is only a partial intuition of Reality Itself—Which
is neither separately One nor separately numbered, but Coincident
with all that appears and is known.
The future "belongs to" neither the West nor the East—neither
the path that exclusively pursues life nor the path that exclusively
pursues the separate "Absolute".
The future "belongs to" Reality Itself.
Therefore, what is needed is "radical" (or "gone-to-the-root")
self-understanding of all forms of pursuit.
What is required is a new human order of true men and women—who
will live Reality and never turn away.
If you (with your true, and truly ego-surrendering, heart) recognize
Me and understand yourself, then the truly new age has already begun.
And, for you, the expected (or, at least, hoped for) "new age"
will not have begun in earnest—regardless of the turning of
the stars—until you recognize Me and understand yourself (with
your true, and truly ego-surrendering, heart).” |
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| “The Divine
Way That Transcends Both East and West” |
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| The Only-By-Me Revealed
and Given Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam) Is Not Based On The
Alpha Strategy—or The Pursuit Of conditionally Perfect self-Purification,
and (Ultimately) Of The Absolute Suppression (or Negation) Of the
conditional self (or body-mind). Neither Is The Only-By-Me Revealed
and Given Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam) Based On The Omega
Strategy—or The Pursuit Of conditional self-Perfection, and
(Ultimately) Of The Absolute Fulfillment (or Eternalization) Of
the conditional self (or body-mind). Nor Is The Only-By-Me Revealed
and Given Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam) Characterized By Any
Conflict Between The Alpha and Omega Principles (or The Strategies
Associated With Them). . . .
I Reveal To You The Divine Way That Transcends The Faults Of The
Alpha Strategy (or The Effort To Return, or Strategically Escape,
To The Beginning—or To The, Presumed, Perfectly Exclusive
Source Of conditional causes and conditional effects).
I Reveal To You The Divine Way That Transcends The Faults Of The
Omega Strategy (or The Effort To Proceed, or Strategically Escape,
To The End—or To The conditional Perfection Of conditional
causes and conditional effects).
I Reveal To You The Divine Way Of "What" and "Who"
Is Always Already The Case—Avatarically Self-Revealed By Me
To Be The Inherent (and Self-Evidently Divine) Feeling Of Being
(Itself), Prior To, and Inherently Transcending, and Yet (In The
Apparent Context Of arising conditions) Perfectly Coincident With
conditional causes and conditional effects (Whether At The Beginning,
Or At The End, Or In The Infinite Span Between).
I Call You To Understand the psycho-physical self.
I Call You To Understand The Alpha-Tendencies and The Omega-Tendencies
Of Your Own body-mind.
I Help You To Learn The Divine Way That Neither Strategically
Avoids Nor Strategically Exploits the body-mind, all others, or
any part (or Even The Totality) Of conditional Existence. . . .
When You Realize The Self-Existing Love-Bliss Of The Inherent
Being, and When Your Own Fullness Shines Faster and Further Than
The Beginning and The End Of Desires, You Will Be Inherently (and
Divinely) Indifferent To conditional Existence (Without Otherwise
Seeking To Avoid or Strategically Escape conditional Existence),
and You Will Be Resolved In My "Bright" Divine Self-Light.
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