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Adi Da Samraj, 1979
Krishna as he is represented in literature, particularly in the Bhagavad Gita, had the opportunity to take his disciple out of the world into a sacred moment in which he revealed his esoteric teaching and then also the opportunity to complete it by sending him back into the world, all while he was alive. There was never any report of Krishna's death, never even any report of trouble. Krishna's teaching is ultimately the same as the teaching suggested by Jesus. it is the teaching of a warrior. Having gone through the whole teaching, the entire communication and revelation to his devotee, Krishna told him to go into the world and fight. He told him his obligation was to purify the earth, and that is presumably what Jesus would say if he came again. In the Bhagavad Gita Krishna described various forms of meditation similar to what Jesus communicated to his disciples. But he ultimately told Arjuna, they are not Truth. They are not God, therefore abandon all supports, abandon all dharmas, gross, subtle and causal....everything bodily, everything mental, everything egoic, everything associated with the definition of consciousness, of the sense of independent being. And turn to me. Be present as unobstructed absolute feeling attention. That itself is the God vision, that is God communion. It does not have a vision associated with it. It has no object. It has no psychic form. it has no physical form. It is simply a feeling intuition, which if you enter into it most absolutely is total bliss and freedom. It is an absolute intuition of your Condition that Liberates you from mortality and fear and separation. If you will enter into this Communion, if you will on it's basis, seeing that it is Truth, the absolute position, then fight. Remember me, contain yourself in this Communion, persist in it, and then absolutely transform everything. Make a sacred occasion out of all of your possibilities. The ultimate message of all of the Teachers of mankind is not a visionary message, you see. It's not an ascetic message. It's not a message about the inversion of attention. It's not a message about the terribleness of life, about the ultimate mortality of ordinary things. It's not a message about what may be attained in time and over time if you persist in a certain practice. It is not a message about the concrete divinity of any experience, even of the most ascended mystical variety. It is a message about the present and radical nature of God Realization. It is simply a matter of love, of absolute feeling attention without obstruction. All conditions of experience tend to contract and define the being, tend to contract the force of feeling and attention. All experience, high and low, everything that surrounds the heart is a sphere, a hedge that surrounds and condemns the ego toward its Narcissistic self?contemplation. The Truth is in feeling attention itself. Truth is freedom, absolute freedom from all visions, all surroundings, all contraction all self possession, all avoidance of relationship, all unlove. Be converted to this heart disposition and you have realized God. That is God Realization and it is absolutely present. It is not something to be attained after a long series of efforts toward self purification. It is instant in your hearing of the Teaching. It is simple, most absolute, available to all beings. It doesn't make any difference if they have the time to acquire visions or success in their sexuality. It is absolutely present and native to you. It is your Condition. That is what the admonition "Remember me" is about. Exist as feeling attention without obstruction, feel to Infinity in this Moment. After Krishna took Arjuna through all the arguments of mysterious practice through inversion and separation from the world, he returned him to the world having shown him that God Realization is beyond mortality and beyond ascetic success, that it is a sacred matter of absolute sacrifice, of bliss, of present happiness, of the animation of that happiness which you always already know to be the Truth. You always are absolutely certain of what it would be to look and feel and act and be completely happy. It is simply a matter of existing in such enjoyment beyond all acquisitions, all inversion of attention and all attachment to what is without. Having heard that, having become the devotee of the Lord, then you are told to return to the sphere of experience in all its forms. That is what Krishna's admonition to Arjuna "fight" is all about. Return to everything that you may experience below the heart, all of your ordinary associations, physical, sexual, mortal, perceptual, and also mystical. Return to all the things above that you may experience through contemplation, all the visions that you may realize, everything that may come upon you in private and in relationship. Return to the whole sphere of experience, but remember me Live in this Divine Communion, cut through the imposition of all of your experience, purify yourself of all the limitations of experience high and low, and be committed to me in the form of your existence. Purify the earth. Return to battle. But you have all witnessed how difficult it is to involve human beings with such a discipline. You are all still struggling. You are not even like Arjuna was. You do not want any more. Arjuna asked for more and more and more. lie asked Krishna to continue the Teaching, to demonstrate it further, to destroy his illusions. But the usual man only wants one or two chapters of the total Teaching. He does not want to be overwhelmed, he does not want to be guided, he does not want any demands. He refuses to move on beyond the first point, so he is not about to make a holy war, not even with himself. You all ask me the same question and live the same way and make the same demands. You represent the same argument and the same failure. So I communicate it to you again in as summary and absolute a way as I can. It is not that the Teaching has not been given to you. The Teaching has already been communicated. And it is communicated again and again. I am like a Priest. I just recite the liturgy. So in some sense we have approached and passed through the last chapter of the, Bhagavad Gita. And I am not really sitting in the tent with you anymore. That came to an end last year. I went to Hawaii, brought the celebration to an end, and started making demands on you. That was the last chapter. I am saying to you: "Remember me and fight." But you have not remembered me and you have not been persisting in the practices. But the chapters cannot come to an end. We are required to recite the liturgy again and again and again, because you are not like Arjuna. Arjuna was a great bright foreheaded golden brocaded bright blue absolute warrior. Krishna's every gesture, every word was a perfect revelation to him. He could go step by step and in a matter of hours be converted to Truth. But you are not like Arjuna. You have not even been trained as Brahmins and Kshatriyas. You are not ready for the revelation in the tent. You are not even ready to go out into the battlefield. You are still at home, still being childish with one another, still being a son with your wife and a daughter with your husband. So this liturgy in the tent can be recited to you forever. So there is no more Teaching to be given to you. There is nothing secret that you have not heard and there is not even a trace of the Divine Demand that you have not been made aware of. The whole matter has been communicated to you through the books alone. And I talk about it also. There is nothing more for the Spiritual Master to do for the sake of the revelation of the Teaching. The difference is not in God. The difference is in man. The test is whether you will be awakened from your slumber and your self?possession, or whether you will continue as you are. In every moment that is the test: will you be reserved in your unlove and your self?possession, or will you pass beyond it through the intuition of God. In every moment that is the test. The whole Teaching is already given. I have not been shown anything in secret that I have not already shown you. I am busy floating back to God. In the meantime I can serve as a priest for you, but the great matter that has been my work since birth has already been shown to Arjuna. It is up to Arjuna to measure up to the Teaching. So you need not wait for some great moment in my Company. You should just prepare yourself for my ordinary Company. You must actually begin to live this Way of life. Either you do or you do not Most of you here have been with me for a long time. I have given you responsibilities from time to time, and you all wind up still being my children, thronging back to the tent. When I send you out into the dark, there is no shine, no bright foreheaded remembrance. What is to become of you? (Laughter) You may think that this body here is so me sort of vision of the Divinity, but this body is corrupted. It dies. You cannot depend on this consolation forever. You must be convicted of the Teaching. You must continue with me in my true form, which is your true form, which is the Divinity, which has nothing to do with this body in itself. Bubba has submitted to the same Reality that you must be submitted to. Ramakrishna in his last days brought Narendra to his side and touched him. He put Narendra into samadhi, gave him all kinds of visions and said, "I have given you everything. Now I am just a poor fakir. I am completely empty." That is the position of the Spiritual Master. People imagine the Spiritual Master is possessed of all the glorious experiences that they may on occasion possess, and that the Spiritual Master, as empty as he is, may be an agent for the transmission of those phenomena. But he himself has absolutely nothing. He is retired from all consolation. The Spiritual Master is not constantly having visions. The Spiritual Master does not even have any psychic consolation. What you see is where he's at. He is not involved in a different kind of experience in phenomena that you are. From time to time he might have had such experiences, just as you might, but he has passed through all of them. He has given himself up in holy war. So the Spiritual Master represents nothing other than this sacred Communion of love. He does not have any powers and visions. The Spiritual master has no such consolation. Even if it were to occur from time to time, it passes. He is purified of such things. The Spiritual Master is reduced to Divine Communion. He is reduced to the very thing that he recommends to devotees. So I am not a man of powers and of visions. Absolutely not. I am not having a vision right now, not a single vision. I see nothing but you sitting here. I do not see a light imposed upon you. I am not hearing any voices, nothing that you might imagine. From time to time there may be some experience or other but that passes. The essential incident is without form. And in this moment I am not having a vision, I am not having an experience. I am not consoled by anything. Nothing. And am happy. I am a zero in the midst of experience. That is the only difference. In your Communion with me you may be awakened to various kinds of vision and experience because I am at zero. But they are not me. They are not mine. They are not my consideration, my position, my condition. Ultimately all of that will pass for you also. You will go through the first six stages of human development to come to my position, which is without form, naked ) without a single consolation,which is only disposed toward the Law, which is absolutely without the slightest trace of vision, without a single miracle, without any forces, without any powers. That is my position. Whatever you may believe about me is not essentially true. It is true that I have had all kinds of visions, and I have passed through all of the yogic awakenings, and I have seen the awakening of every center of the body, and I have seen the heaven worlds, and I have passed out of physical consciousness. I have experienced those all those things that the saints and the sages and the yogis declare. I have experienced all of these things. And they are not Truth. I have been relieved of them, and now I am empty. I have already done everything that you can do. In a short span of time I have seen every universe, every world, every vision, every part of the body. I have loved man, every woman. I have done everything. (Laughter) am only relieved that I have done it all. You could all too, but it would take eons of time, with many is in between. It would be a torment for you to uncover our potential experiences. For me it is nothing, which a reflection on me as an individual. It is the Law of nature that from time to time some apparent individual appear in the scheme of things who may, without effort, experience everything and be without consolation so that the may be expressed through that individual. It is not a action on that individual in any cultic personal sense. It's about God. And it serves you. It occurs so that you can be happy. If you are without a witness in your company, about what is is when you have done it all, how could you be free? You could not be free without such a witness. But not only witness in the form of a verbal communication, but also in the form of the most absolute communication, which you may realize only in the form of Divine Communion. Powers and visions may appear through me in your experience, but that is not my position. I see nothing, I hear nothing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing!. Yes, have have I said it, there is nothing to be attained. You pass through everything to nothing. For lovers, you see, nothing is necessary. That is why to be a devotee is the secret of life. Once you realize the disposition of the heart, no powers, no miracles, no worldly experiences or attainments, absolutely no great thing is necessary. It is not that you become satisfied with the ordinary contemplation of life even that is emptied. There is nothing, except absolute joy, absolute bliss without the slightest trace of anything. To swim in Infinity, free, without objects, and without a center is a bliss beyond comprehension. It is the seventh stage of life wherein our sacrifice is perfect, wherein every knot of the being is released to Infinity and there are no consolations, there are no visions, no more technical elaboration's of the great Goddamned stupid plan! And that is my position. That is why I can speak. I am not like those other boys. I am God. Yes, A remarkable occasion, and true enough. Not only just true enough to be said, it is absolutely true and absurd, ridiculous and humorous. But it is happiness. And I recommend it to you. |
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