I have been feeling the paradoxical liberation and freedom at the root of the genuine and ancient Guru devotee tradition.
Adi Da said “My devotees are Free”
What this means to me, is from the beginning of that relationship True Freedom is known, It’s not the traditional search for Freedom at the end of a long journey of struggle and adventure. It’s a given-from-the-beginning Intuition or direct Knowledge, that given Knowledge just matures over time and guides the life.
A lot of people feel that the Guru devotee model is bondage, this is not the case. It’s more like being married and in love, keeps you straight, stops you going off the rails, getting full of “self” and calling it “The Self”, getting lost in internal delusion which is bottomless and endless, or remaining an always hungry seeker without prior and present fullness.
It’s not popular, few are recommending it, but it is truly Liberating from the beginning.
Another thing that may not be so obvious is that Satsang or the primary relationship with The Guru, protects you from exploitation, in that fidelity, we become searchless and unexploitable having found our Source our True Ground
We find our True Ground at The Masters Feet just resting there, no problem, no dilemma in sight.
Then, what appears as bondage is Liberation, and what appears to be liberating is bondage.