What seems missing from modern life or any life is that which is Great, Wonderful, Ecstatic. Even these possibilities are denied to exist at all by modern cultural attitudes. If you did find what is Truly Great you would want to Incarnate it, correct? (the word ‘incarnate’ as used here & as used by Adi Da means to bring down into life, make manifest) so this has been the work of devotees and continues to be.
The truth is we have despaired of Spiritual Greatness, and with good reason, our faith in such ideas has been shown over and over to be misplaced, so the only solution is first find what is Truly Great and then Incarnate it down into life. Let it first Brighten the mind, then Irradiate the emotion, Invigorate our life force and change the world– since the world is plastic, psycho-physical , capable of change by superior force
What is Truly Great is the Divine Adept, The True Master, The Great One, The Heaven Born, The Siddha. He (or She) can always be remembered, enjoyed, incarnated, brought into the life vehicle. Without that incarnation into the life vehicle He remains “unknown” to the world, only available potentially. The Master’s devotees bring Him into the world, into the life vehicle they make the Way “real” and available to others.
Contemplation of what is Truly Great, is the meditative practice of Adidam, the devotee having discovered that very thing in the form of his or her Guru–the intuition of the Glorious Divine Nature–then merely and naturally and with great enthusiasm just enjoys that contemplation. That contemplation sometimes feels like a process of expansion and purification and even a sense of The Guru descending into his or her life vehicle. This intuition of Guru as the Divine Being and Nature, rather than a man or “other” is natural and imperative to practice, what Adi Da calls Recognition Response, nothing to do with worshipping the form of a man or separate other.
Listen to this early talk “Meditation on The Guru”