Link to historical Siddhas and Great Masters "Go, and come no more. . . . come not at all, never, never!" Pontius Pilate to Jesus after his interrogation and concludes his speech by sentencing Jesus to burning at the stake The Grand Inquisitor, The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky 1879 You must be insane to make such a claim We will have you examined and certified before a court of law by God! Beezone “I AM GOD.” “Ana al-Haqq”, “I am the Truth”, proclaimed Mansur Hallaj, the Persian mystic. (Mansur Hallaj fell a martyr to his faith—a faith that embraces nothing more than the one living truth animating the hearts of mystics in all ages and in all parts of the world.) "There is nothing wrapped in my turban but God," - "There is nothing in my cloak but God." These utterances led to a long trial, and his subsequent imprisonment for 11 years in a Baghdad prison. He was publicly crucified on March 26, 922. "..the only sense in which you must understand my ecstatic speech to you. It is not about me. It is the realization that comes with "me-transcendence," self-transcendence. If people look at me and say "You are God" but really do not have any feeling for God otherwise, then they are falsely aligned to me and they make an idol out of me. They have not realized that I speak ecstatically, that I realize God through self-transcendence and that that Realization is the same Realization all may enjoy. There is a usefulness that I may serve in your life of God-Communion, but it is not at all the same as your making an idol out of me and basing your happiness on some sort of consoling objectification of me as Divine." Good Company - Vision Mound Magazine 1980 ...our eternal and prior Nature and Condition is known to be the Divine. Bubba teaches the same Truth indicated by the great spiritual and religious teachers of history, such as Jesus, Gautama, Krishna, and, more recently, Ramana Maharshi, Shirdi Sai Baba, Ramakrishna, and Bhagavan Nityananda. Bubba represents the fulfillment of the work of the transcendent line of "Siddhas," the completed ones who have served mankind in Truth. He represents the radical, complete, and most specific living expression of the Nature and Condition of God, man, and the world, and of the graceful Divine Process, wherein that Nature and Condition is always already enjoyed as one's own. Bubba has said of himself: "The Form of the Lord is manifested fully in me." For those who have come to him, his Teaching is simple: "I am the Heart. Always live with me. Always meditate on me." Preface - Garbage and The Goddess "...people (have) religious ideas of their childhood....I describe it as the feeling you may have......when you are alone (in a room) there is somebody else in the room (with you). This notion is the antithesis of the (my) point of view..... Although I am speaking about God all the time, I am actually making a different proposition, or speaking from a point of view that is different from the conventonal religious one. Perhaps, by contrast, it could be said that this point of view is summarized in the notion that no matter how many people are in the room there is still only One Person there!" Parential Diety and the One to Be Realized - Feb 7, 1983 "Guru as God is not the human individual, ego, magnifying itself dramatically to itself and thinking it is God exclusively over everyone else. That sort of confession of divinity is insanity." Life of Understanding, Week 11 (unpublished) ... true Siddhas, are the manifest expressions of the Divine work, the Divine process, and this work is going on endlessly. It a coincident with the other work of creation or reflection itself. It's coexistent with it always. It's not a once-and-for-all process, there's not just one Siddha, one event of the Divine work. It's continuous activity, and all beings actually serve this activity, it's just that there are periodically and randomly the appearance of Siddhas who assist the affair in a particular way. The Cosmos - 1973 Bubba Free John (Adi Da Samraj) God manifests as the Guru for specific purposes, to form a specific function. And each Guru, true Guru is a manifestation of the Divine function appearing in a particular way and a particular time and place. And God is not Exclusively identified with that function, so that he can only be recognized in the form forever, or that particular Guru is the only Guru who ever lived, or the best who ever lived and all that sort of nonsense. The Divine is continually operating, and the Guru is a peculiar form of his operation. See: Idols - Compulsory Dancing The Divine is just as fitted to this world as the human Guru....Present and functional. The Guru is a bit of business, a movement, serviceable. He can't be denied. He presses the Divine Siddhi in upon the world. The Divine itself from the point of view of humanity is relatively passive, except thru agency, in the case of the human Guru. He is just like another guy except he has been wiped out ...he's not some great human being....He pressed himself upon the world, upon individuals...He upsets people, not on purpose but because is is 'exposing' the game of Narcissus. He is Light. He/She is light water falling in, falling down upon this human drama called life. adapted - "Why is the Guru Necessary" The Event of Truth is not in itself made as a consequence of the Spiritual Master's act of drawing the Light down in the form of his own life-force and then arbitrarily giving the experience of his life to others. ...Therefore, the fundamental dimension of this Power of the Divine Master is not Force, but mere Presence. Every form of Force is secondary, and, ultimately, a conditional expression. The Heart is perfect, direct, and there is no Force that may be identified with it. In the midst of the fundamentally silent and moveless communication of the Heart, the Divine Power in Ignorance, this Intuition or radical Understanding of our real Nature, Condition, and Life-Process may be Realized.....It is not a matter of any experience whatsoever..... That radically intuitive Realization has no qualities of which we can speak. There is nothing to be recommended about it that would make sense to anybody who is not already drawn to it. Breath and Name pp. 21-22 ..(the Guru) is not communicating matters of fact, or information, or images, or impressions. He is always working that process of dissolution. That is the fundamental force of all of his activity, so you can't rely on the Guru for any kind of significant and fixed information. The Guru is a source of a process, and that is entirely what he is. All other communications are secondary, and they will lead you by tendency to make assumptions in limitation, to assume the point of view of perception and cognition which arises in the mood of the ego. But the process in which the Guru involves you in the meantime is destroying the separate self sense and destroying the viewpoint of conventional cognition and perception. Garbage and the Goddess It is also true that the world is the Avatar, the totality of human beings is the Avatar. It is humanity as a whole that is the Avatar in human form, not some specific human individual. No apparent or exclusive manifestation is in itself the Avatar. Only the whole is the Divine manifestation without exclusion. Therefore, the Guru is not the Avatar in that exclusive sense. Mankind is the Avatar. I am his Heart. When the Avatar realizes his true Nature and Condition, when he realizes me, he will cease to be hidden. He and this Community of which I speak will become one and the same at last. Then his sadhana is fulfilled, and he will manifest his Beauty in the world for the sake of all beings. Only then will he live freely and do his Divine work. Garbage and the Goddess My meditation is absolute. It is what is being reflected to you in these ridiculous conversations. Nor is my existence particular. I am manifested in particular but the confession I make to you is of a condition that is not particular. It is the Avatar,2 in this moment. There could be Avatars all over the yard, you know! I do not know who they are. The Avatar is simply God present, God present and speaking through an ordinary manifestation. The Way That I Teach The same One who was acknowledged as the Divine Person, who was Jesus, who was Krishna, who was Shirdi Sai Baba, who was all the various incarnations of the Purusha, is alive in this moment, precisely and exactly. This Truth is what you must understand, see, feel, and confess.. Bodily Location of Happiness Also see: The Evoution of Adi Da Chapter 4 - The Bhagavad Gita - Verse 7-9 Whenever there is a decline of Dharm (Righteousness) and a predominance of Adharm (Unrighteousness), O Arjun, then I manifest Myself. I appear from time to time for protecting the good, for transforming the wicked, and for establishing world order (Dharm). (4.07-08) The one who truly understands My transcendental appearance and activities (of creation, maintenance, and dissolution), attains My supreme abode and is not born again after leaving this body, O Arjun. (4.09) Many have become free from attachment, fear, anger, and attained salvation (Mukti) by taking refuge in Me, becoming fully absorbed in My thoughts, and becoming purified by the fire of Self-knowledge. (4.10) So perfect realization, perfect spiritual death manifests as Guru, Self and God. These three transcendent qualities. And these three are the three forms of realization. These three are the three forms of spiritual experience. This "I" is not the limited "I" and it's a paradoxical "I". It's not a limited self. It's the speech or the word of the divine. It's not the point of view of some human individual making great claims. It is the spontaneous speech of that form itself. This One [Beloved Adi Da points to Himself] is, in Its Deeper Personality, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda. Not Swami Vivekananda in His historical Form, not Ramakrishna in His historical Form, but That One, Shiva-Shakti, the One Who was foretold to Do Great Work, the Work that was not Manifested in the physical Lifetimes of those two but that is now Manifested in My own physical Lifetime here. I Am the Fulfillment of that prophecy. As I have Said in The Basket of Tolerance, "I Am the One They Have Realized There." That One is Siva, Consciousness Itself, Who is Shakti, That Very Energy of Which everything appearing is the modification, able to Manifest in your sight to Communicate to you, to Act among you, to Play with you, because of vehicles long made. The vehicles may be historically accounted for in the lifetimes of Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna. Only the most extraordinary individuals, who otherwise traveled a path of leading into the subtle realms, claimed the Goal to be utterly beyond and thus independent of the way of their own experience. As testimony to the rightness of the explicit or implicit claims of these great individuals, whom we may call Siddhas,9 Godmen, the Heaven-Born (to be distinguish them from the lesser individuals who traveled the same path but had no such radical comprehension of the Goal), the practitioners of the causal path have attained the transcendent Goal of all the Godmen by a process that bypasses all the phenomena experienced in the gross and subtle paths. They attained the Goal of the three "paths of return" (which together form a single or great path) by intuitive penetration of the Nature of the subject-consciousness, independent of its subtle and gross extensions. This is the way of the sages,and those who have been Siddhas or Godmen in that line have also claimed the radical and transcendent Nature of the Goal to be independent of the phenomena of their path, while at the same time, they declared their path to be the most direct, assuming one had the intuitive capacity and intelligence for it. Paradox of Instruction - pp. 151-152 Also see: The Evoution of Adi Da Paul Brunton's Notebooks, Chapter 6: Student-Teacher It is not necessary to be living always near a guru..... as so many seem to think. What is really necessary is to meet him on this physical plane once only, even if it be just for five minutes. After that ..help can be received (in other ways)...this is because the real guru is not the body.......... There are three kinds of instructors for people in spiritual work. The first we would call a spiritual friend. We enjoy spending time with the person, and in some way we feel this companionship adds something to our life. The second is what we normally think of as a teacher or instructor. Within the context of our association with a particular spiritual person, we become interested in his (or her) philosophical perspective, the "teaching" he gives. We begin to cultivate an intellectual rapport, and we have a certain appetite to absorb the ideas, attitudes, and cultural context that such a person exists in. In the third and highest level of relationship, a guru/disciple relationship, there is more than a meeting of the minds, there is a meeting of the hearts and souls, a co-penetration of the energy of two beings. In that co-penetration (or union) one spirit emerges. At this level of relationship, we are beyond our mind. We are beyond our self. The individual that we were doesn't really function any more. Even though that person still exists, it is a whole different heart, a whole different spirit, that functions. We don't become the other person. The guru/student relationship does not exist for you to become me, or me to become anybody else. It exists in order to reveal that the master that exists within the teacher is the same master that exists as the essence of the student - and not only that, but as the essence of Life Itself. These three levels - spiritual friend, instructor, guru - exist at the same time, one within the other; one thing emerges and blooms and blossoms into another. We begin to understand that it is not the physical presence of a teacher, and not his mind or his personality, but the living, creative essence of that teacher, which is the fundamental event we want to learn about and merge into. Doing so liberates us. Five Keys to Mastery (1987) by SWAMI CHETANANANDA American meditation master and abbot of Nityananda Institute The modern era is unique in that the old religious cults are gradually giving way to the new religion of political and scientific materialism. Everywhere we see moral and cultural decay, warfare, exploitation of environments and creatures, and the sufferings of an unenlightened humanity. The man or woman who is sensitive to our absurd commitment to chaos and suffering may well begin to question the usual round of our existence. Adepts appear to reestablish the Way of Truth among human beings. The "method" of these World-Teachers is to draw living beings directly into the context of Realization. Here we must distinguish the ultimate Teaching or Realization from the Teachings based on the traditional solutions to the "problem." A true Siddha is One who comes out of the God-World, not just one who emerges from some extraordinary state into a human birth with various powers or capabilities. The true Siddha is One who lives in the God-Condition while alive in the manifest worlds. He is not extraordinary. He is simply living the appropriate form of life or the natural state. He appears extraordinary only over against those who are living from the point of view of karma, limitation, ignorance. But his assumption is that there is only Truth already, that there is only God already, that there are no world and no change of state to be sought as if they are the Truth. In this instant, whatever the apparent condition, Truth is the Condition, God is the Condition. One who moves into relationship with such a Siddha has come face to face with Real-God and the God-Light. The Siddha, the Heaven-Born One, manifests the heaven Condition to his devotee. Thus, the devotee of such a Siddha lives the heaven Condition while alive, whatever condition he may apparently be living. The Siddha brings the heaven Condition into the world and lives it and makes it entirely available to those who will turn to Him, or Her. Such a One does not create the heaven appearance. In other words, he does not perform magic and make this world seem like the God-World. This world remains what it is, whatever is its appropriate, lawful appearance. Perhaps he expands the range of some of its faculties, but essentially it remains what it is, what it latently is. It is just that the God-Condition becomes also the condition of the world in which the Siddha is appearing. This is the purpose of such Siddhas, to appear in the conditional worlds and live the real Condition there for those who turn to them. ...the Guru is an agent of the Divine work, not because he has all kinds of heroic accomplishments in his psyche, but because he has become nothing. All the assumptions you want to make about the Guru, because of your present and chronic state of conscious awareness, are fundamentally false. The Crazy Horse - Garbage and the Goddess Also see: The Evoution of Adi Da Link to historical Siddhas and Great Masters Adi Da on the necessity for a teacher

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