Adi Da Causal

 

Quote from B.M

Adi Da is asking a huge amount of people, just looking at it from the average joe-seeker’s point of view, I would say too much is asked of him or her and outside of the cloisters of Adidam, my friend, it’s gob-smackingly-freaking-obvious, which is tragic, because this great wisdom should be available to all surely, as this was the point of this Incarnation of the Adept in my opinion - since it is what will always bring many people to the Master.

The other thing to consider is that the spiritual market, has changed mightily since we were new, young and fresh seekers of Truth, there may have been 30 or 40 present sources of spiritual influence available to westerners at that time, hanging around spiritual bookshops and reading posters on health food notice boards for sources of wisdom, was as good as it got for us. These days the numbers of such sources and influences is massive and they pander to individual taste, even. The waters are so muddied in present time, the guy looking for Truth in all of that, has so many more options than the dude reading “The Method of The Siddha’s” in the 70’s and even 80’s The questions may be exactly the same, but the potential answers by all the Guru’s of now, has become overwhelming, I pity the poor devil moving through all of this hype and possibility. We had it easy, in fact. I sometimes think if I was was a young person trying to make sense of it all, could I have found my way, even to “The Knee of Listening” and if I did would I have been able to recognize the Adept’s appearance or gone on from there to be lost in the miasma of all current possibilities in the spiritual marketplace, or more to the point, If I came across some of Adi Da’s more recent and demanding texts would I have the capacity to persist through them ? Hard to say, perhaps, but it was certainly more clear cut, then, than now.

(Response)
Well, agree on some points, but things are not necessarily how they seem. Grace has to be there, right. No matter what the circumstance, now, in the future, after death, in another state, we depend utterly on Grace that is fundamental to the Way and has always been the case.

Anyway take heart brother, this young hero proves it is currently possible to Recognize- The spiritual Master, and will continue to be in any time and space  and his quote (below) is really pertinent to our conversation

I found The Knee Of Listening to be an amazing book and was fascinated by Adi Da’s life story. I enjoyed reading His Writing and reading about His childhood and His time in India, and everything else. I found it very humbling. And His Writing was so sophisticated, intelligent, and creative. I was fascinated with the technical precision in His use of language. I remember reading the first essay “Do Not Misunderstand Me“; it was full of capitalization, underlining, and parentheticals. I did not feel intimidated, but immediately felt that whoever Adi Da Is, He is very serious.

I never felt offended by His claims of Divinity or Avatarhood, but was more struck by the way He said it. His Written-Word was absolutely confident, firm, and unshakable. I felt that there was no trace of uncertainty in Adi Da about anything. His Writing was so strong, with the underlining, the capitalization, everything. I did not care if He was the Divine Avatar or not, I could at least respect His utter seriousness and confidence about it. He did not feel weak at all, as if He was someone who needed to make claims about himself for the sake of identity, or self-esteem, or megalomania. His strength was overpowering to me. I did not even question Him, nor did I believe Him, but I just kept reading. I was fascinated and attracted to Him and His claims, that someone would even say something like that was startling and amazing to me. I couldn’t get enough. I continued to read passages where Adi Da would say that He was the Divine, and sometimes would even seek for these passages, just marveling that someone would say such a thing! Why would a man say that? And with such Force?

Adi Da’s most demanding texts will yield the greatest reward if they are approached in the right manner, they are necessarily demanding because something in that effort that must be made to absorb their meaning puts the reader in a different asana (or position) from the conventional mind.

A sentence or word may need to be looked at and felt into over and over until its meaning is revealed. Everything in a sentence every word, every comma, every underlining, all inverted commas, all capitalization have specific and exact meaning, very literal, very often idiomatic or particular to Adi Da’s expression of a word.

Concentrated reading of these texts is a simple form of meditation as has been practiced in all traditions, even after many years of such practice it can still require a great deal of present conscious awareness and persistance, various egoic states arise and dissolve, so there is sadhana and purification there, anyone with sensitivity can observe this.

Adi Da always wrote from the most profound position, so they are always sacred texts in that sense, they are never quick reads if the essence of them is to be distilled. The post 2000 texts in particular which focus on “Reality” ( earlier works used terms such as “Real God’, ” Radiant Transcendental Being” etc) are very powerful and have the potential to move the reader directly into the shape or form of what is being pointed to over and over- that is Reality.

Another remarkable feature, one of many, is the “Reality” being expressed in these texts has 2 qualities embodied in Adi Da Samraj himself, “The What” — of the Impersonal Reality, and “The Who” –of the Divine Person as Reality.

So there is real enjoyment, real sustenance in that reading if it is approached and persisted in passed the point of resistance. One may then find a vast resource of wisdom to be immersed in. Even a life times worth of reading.

Useful : Adidam Glossary

Adi Da Samraj introduced the use of raw green smoothies to Adidam some time ago, it is a suggested dietary supplement to practicing students, here is His words on it from the recently published Wisdom On Raw Foods guide, “Green Gorrilla”

Blended Green Drinks
A Principal element of the raw fructo-vegetarian dietary practice I have Given is the regular (daily) use of “blended green drinks”, made (most commonly) of green leafy vegetables and sweet fruits

“Green drinks” provide a highly concentrated form of the nutrients found in green leafy vegetables–generally in much greater quantity than could be ingested by eating the greens whole. The sweet fruits are added to “green drinks” in order to make the concentrated greens palatable, and also to provide additional nutrients and calories.

Blended “green drinks” are prepared using one or more varieties of green leafy vegetables–using whatever edible greens are available In temperate climates, appropriate edible greens include such plants as kale, chard, spinach, lettuce, collard greens, bok choy, and so on. Edible weeds (including, in temperate zones, such plants as dandelion, lambsquarters, plantain, and so on), herbs (such as dill, basil, cilantro, mint, parsley, and so on), sprouts (such as alfalfa, clover, buckwheat, sunflower, and so on), other vegetables (such as celery, cucumber, and so on), and medicinal plants (such as aloe vera) may also be added to a “green drink”.

I will add my own favorite recipe and comment on the utility and changes noted from using green smoothies over the next week or so.

True Equanimity is a rare condition, I have met perhaps 3 or 4 people who may live  this condition on a daily basis. It has certainly become the deepest aspiration of my life, it is one thing that always makes perfect sense to me

On a really good, blessed day, I awake in the morning and notice there is no fundamental problem at the root or base of life. The navel center just naturally hangs open, as it should when there is no knot cramping the living being. There is a deep pleasurable sense of life moving through the body, but more than this there is a deep rooted ease I articulate this Equanimity as “no dilemma” (first coined by Adi Da in  “The Knee Of Listening”)

This is not however a self-attained state, its a blessing given in the company of my Guru, Adi Da Samraj via my daily life of practice. When I notice this marvel, it seems very natural, very embodied, cetainly not an other worldly condition

It certainly feels potentially to be the next step in the evolution (?) of mankind but that may be just a peculiar notion of mine

It certainly beats the crap out of what (from this position) looks like a driven, compulsive and addicted life (conventional living)

To be honest Equanimity just described, is very fragile, the tests of each day almost invariably rob me of it by days end, or often much sooner It has however grown stronger over time, more tangible, but it remains a practice rather than something always available.

I have an old beaten up version of The Dreaded Gomboo, the cover and sides are very knocked about, but the content is still pristine, as it was when I first read it, perhaps now, with even more appreciation and understanding I am re-reading it

The Dreaded Gom-Boo, or The Impossible Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem

September 9, 1982

MASTER DA: Have you all heard about the Dreaded Gom-Boo? Or the impossible Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem? Ah ha! You see? Nobody tells you about these things except me.

A myth has been circulating for many centuries now that mankind is diseased, that all beings are suffering from what I call the Dreaded Gom-Boo, also called sin, maya, ego, suffering, separated individuality, illusion, delusion, confusion, and indifference. We are all supposed to accept this diagnosis, realize how diseased we are, and submit ourselves to the local religious hospital, where a father or mother doctor will confirm our disease and require us to submit for the rest of our lives to various regimes for our own healing and ultimate cure. This is the basic proposition of traditional religion, and it begins with the diagnosis of the dreaded disease.

Tradition has it that we are all, by birth, by virtue of our very existence, even now diseased, sinful, separated from the Great One. What a horror! Yes! What an obscenity has been laid upon us through the traditions of society, which, merely because of the impulse to survive as the body-mind, have for centuries required human beings to invest themselves with the belief in this disease and to suppress their own life-motion, which comes only from the Great One, in order to fulfill the presumed needs of our chaotic society.

I come to tell you, as I stand in the midst of the priests of this horror, that not even one of you is suffering from this disease. It is an imaginary disease, a terrible disease, but altogether imaginary. No one has ever actually had this disease. Not one single being has ever had the Dreaded Gom-Boo, or the impossible Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem. It has never happened! It does not exist!

What is the Truth? We are Happy. We live in God. The Great One is our very Being. We inhere in the Blissful, Forceful Being of the Starry God, the Wonder, the Mystery, the Person of Love. This is our Situation and our Destiny. I am only one among many voices, but this is my Message to you: There is no disease. There is nothing to cure. We are not patients and we are not parented. We are not children. No dreadful destiny lies before us. There is nothing whatsoever to cure.

Tell Me True - Have You Got the Gom-Boo?

August 30, 1982

MASTER DA: If you want to “get religious” in our time, you must first decide that you have the Dreaded Gom-Boo. Then you go to a Doctor Pope, Doctor Church, Doctor Jesus, Doctor Mahatma, Doctor Mahatmaboo, Doctor Gombooananda, Doctor Gomananda-Booharaj. As soon as you get the feeling that you have the disease, you start looking for religious answers. Ask most of the people around here how they got involved with this Way of life, and they will describe some symptom or other of the Dreaded Gom-Boo. The Dreaded Gom-Boo led you all here because you were looking to be cured of the heebie-jeebies, the hopeless Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem, the terrible jiggly meatedness! (Laughter.)

Are you telling me that you think God and Truth are supposed to be interested in curing you of the Dreaded Gom-Boo? Is that it? It is about time you realized that there is no cure for the Dreaded Gom-Boo! The Gom is terrible! The Boo is terminal! And this is why everyone dreads it, the terrible, terminal incurableness. That is what youve got, right? I thought so! I could see the symptoms as soon as you came in here. Have you got the Boo? The Dreaded? The terrible Gom? Have you? Thats what I thought! Tell me true-have you got the Gom-Boo?

From The Dreaded Gomboo or The Imaginary Disease Religion Seeks To Cure

Listen to this wonderful ecstatic uncut talk compliments of Beezone

(24:24 mins)

The 3rd and final edition of Not Two Is Peace by Adi Da, on global cooperative order and liberated global living is now in print.  In many ways it is an very unusual book, written with the very highest consciousness in mind and a call to real action from that very consciousness, in a nutshell, non duality as unified action –a vision of humanity acting as one unit, based in the intuitive capacity of all men and women to know their inherent unity– rather than the endless divisions we know as our tribe, religion, country, village etc

This book is written with great passion and urgency, as an essential spiritual call advocating Reality itself (rather than any other religion or even Adidam ) as its starting point, but its address is not to Divine Enlightenment, but to practical changes in the world for the benefit of all living things

I mentioned it is an unusual book, because it taps directly into a great deal of very obvious truth, things known by just about everyone, yet rarely verbalized as if the most obvious truths  remain unseen and unspoken. Such as the whole concept of “prior unity” for humanity, once deeply considered this concept may reveal itself as obvious somehow, but unless stated clearly would have remained hidden or unnoticed.

Not Two Is Peace envisions the capacity for global change to the world situation passed to humanity, as one collective voice and active power, usurping all localized power bases by the sheer and unstoppable weight of a collective global voice, enforcing right action across the planet

Its essential call to action is based in  “everybody-all-at-once”– the united power of humanity speaking and acting as an essential force for change– founded in “prior unity”–the inherent and always knowable non-dual and formless one Reality at the Heart of all beings– (these 2 key concepts are used frequently throughout this book) The concept of a  Global Cooperative Forum is introduced as the fundamental means to initiate and empower the  “everybody-all-at-once” phenomenon

Anyone interested in world change at any level will find this book at the very least interesting and inspiring, it is also written to individuals or “everyman”, in some sense it is also a grass roots liberating call (and this should not be overlooked), hence it subtitle  “The Ordinary Peoples Way of Global Cooperative Order” and the text is much less demanding and non-centric to Adi Da himself as Spiritual Teacher, than many of his other books.

There is also a beautiful print of one of Adi Da’s artistic images in fold out style towards the end of the book. There is an online version of much of the text here,

The terrible problems that are occurring politically and naturally in the world today are the result of pattern-driven human unconsciousness. Human beings are continuing mechanically, trying to repeat modes of effort, even modes of thinking, that were workable — up to a point — in the past, but that are no longer workable now. A new kind of human consciousness is required — based on the working-presumption of prior unity, and on an understanding of the indivisibly single world in which everyone is living. This involves not only the notion that there is such a single world, but it requires grasping the necessity for cooperation, and the necessity to function on the basis of an understanding that the Earth is a single system, and humankind (likewise) is a single whole. Humankind must not be forced to function under some kind of totalitarian singleness. Rather, humankind must function cooperatively — in the sense that everyone is living together on Earth, and functioning through a mechanism of global principles that are benign and right and true   - Adi Da

As a teenager I was always tormented by a driven sense of ill-ease, which remained a mysterious motivating stress, I could not sit still for long, if not walking I would often run to try and find release from this hidden and perplexing “cramp” which I knew was somehow connected with my navel region but seemingly unknown other than alluded to by instinctive & intuitive words and phrases such as (having)”guts” (being)”gutless”,”butterflies in pit of stomach”, which seemed to point to something, yet not identify it exactly

When I first read Adi Da’s book “The Method of The Siddha’s” — the penny dropped–The vital center was here clearly explained to be like the lens of a camera and in the “usual man ” given to locking up compulsively and unknowingly, as a “knot” or “cramp”. I found this knowledge to be wonderfully liberating and clarifying, clearly identifying for the first time exactly what this compulsive ill-ease was all about.

It was a real starting point for me, just having had the most basic source of my apparently mysterious torment described and identified was a true beginning and I naturally resolved from that point to go through what ever process was necessary to take responsibility for it.

As far as I know, Adi Da is the only contemporary teacher, who speaks with real wisdom and direct knowledge about the vital center in man. Elsewhere it is usually referred to as the navel chakra and overlooked to some extent as to its true importance in the total anatomy of the body mind.

Now many years later thanks to the Grace of Adi Da Samraj my Sat-Guru and Teacher, I am only really beginning to understand this mechanism and its enormous impact on life as we commonly know it. Many people may find this wisdom useful, there are several online texts available which directly address the vital  & vital shock,  this is  perhaps the best source, vital shock

The usual person lives in the state that I call “vital shock”. Ultimately, this shock includes more than the vital. Indeed, this shock operates even on a very subtle level. But its most obvious (and directly motivating) form is the sense of shock in the vital being. Ordinarily, the vital-at its chief center in the middle of the body-is contracted. You constantly feel that contraction, even physically. You may feel a kind of cramp, a tension in the middle of the body. And everyone constantly tries to relieve that tension through various experiences, various pleasures.

The vital center is like the shutter of a camera. It curls in on itself in order to close, and unfurls in order to open. It is like your hand. If you clench your fist as tightly as you can, it eventually becomes painful. Like your hand, the vital center is alive, sentient-and, like your hand, the vital, when it contracts, causes a painful sensation. Indeed, it causes not only a physical sensation, but also many other repercussions in life and conscious awareness. Therefore, when this contraction occurs in the vital, you not only get a cramp in the stomach-you have an entire life of suffering.

Adi Da Samraj

The question of which of the vast number of books, essays and periodicals written by Adi Da Samraj to recommend is a very personal matter, ask anyone who is student or has studied or been influenced by his books and you will get a different answer, here is my personal incomplete list, and not in any real order.

1/ “The Knee Of Listening” the greatest spiritual autobiography ever written

2/ “The Method of the Siddhas”  : edited by Adi Da Samraj beautifully as “My “Bright” Word”

3/ “Love of the Two Armed Form” : brilliant wisdom on human emotional-sexuality

4/ “Scientific Proof of The Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by The White House”  : Wonderful book on radical politics and many other subjects, introduction  by Ken Wilber is also a great read.

5/ “The Transmission of Doubt” : great for breaking the grip of scientific materialism on you own psyche

6/ “The Dawn Horse Testament” : the most intensive map of spiritual experience and esoteric advancement available (demanding)

8/ “Ishta”  : beautiful book mainly of spoken discourses given at Naitauba Hermitage directly to devotees in 1990’s This book has a special quality and worth going out of your way to find.

9/ “Not Two Is Peace“  Address to the current and future course of human scale and world unifying action and politics

9/ “The Aletheon” (forthcoming this year) : an extensive collection of essays, covering perhaps 8 volumes compiled in the form of the ” The Reality Way ” teachings ( post 2000) This book was finished on the very day Adi Da took Mahasamadhi.