Reality-Humanity
Transformation must occur in the consciousness of human beings, human individuals collectively. Collective humanity must become involved in the fulfillment of the Divine Law. If this does not happen, the earth is going to have to live through a cycle of purification that is devastating, absolutely devastating. It is almost inevitable. All the comfortable conditions that you value in your life at the present time have a very short life span considering the state of the world at this time." More on this: The Law is Absolute Peace Letter - Adi Da's Open Letter to Everyone Cooperation and Doubt - An Essay by Adi Da on politics and freedom Politics for Men and Women - Talk by Adi Da on politics Jesus
and Me - Politics and the
times
“This Teaching Is the Prophetic Fire of God’s Life, Not the Signal of a New Age of Peace”. The Realization of Truth restores
the heart to love and even humor, without irony. But love
must also weep. I see the signs of great world conflict
still ahead of us. It is not inevitable, but it is likely,
unless Enlightened people grow in numbers and accept
responsibility for the daily world. Childish revolutionaries
and parentlike Machines of State continue to conspire to
enforce order by means of chaos. Since there are no nations
made of responsible men and women, there are no nations of
free men and women. Therefore, freedom will only arise after
a long time of terrible and wonderful struggling.
.....murder for political reasons is something that human beings somehow feel is justifiable. War is murder. It is evil. War is not being carried on by people who think of themselves as evil or who are the embodiment of the “devil” or anything of the kind. Rather, political justifications are the excuses humanity comes up with for its conflicts. Political conflicts no longer takes place on the scale of two tribes getting together and beating the shit out of one another. At this point, conflicts that in reality what amount to nothing more than silly, tribal skirmishes can destroy mankind. All of the horror in the daily news is nothing more than reports of tribal skirmishes. But they have the potential to destroy life on earth. That is what is so horrific about it. W.C. Fields said that he thought the best thing to do about political conflicts an alternative to war would be to send two leaders out onto a hillside with socks full of horseshit and beat the hell out of one another. And the winner determines the outcome. In the twentieth century more people were killed as a direct result of war than were counted in the entire population of the United States when I was born. This has been the most horrific and obscene period in human history. And while there are all the remarkable technologies and all the discoveries of great principles in the realm of nature that are the sign of human genius, the stupidity relative to the world system is extraordinary. Look at the terrible situation in Africa the whole continent. Nothing being done for all these poor people. Terrible. Not just nothing being done for them in the social activist sense, but nothing being done to change the ceaseless chaos and the treating of human beings as if they are nothing. Look at South America. Look at the chaotic interactions and such going on there now. And the Middle East. What can ever come to settle that? Every day it is another drama, another reason why they cannot come to any agreement. And in addition there are terrorists or disturbed, politically motivated individuals who want to draw attention to their cause by getting on TV. So much of the horror that takes places is little more than an effort to get on television. They hope that by getting on television the world will do something for their problem. When the telegraph was invented in the nineteenth century, people noticed that you could telegraph news from a war front to someplace where people would hear about it in a short time. Likewise, you could communicate instructions over distance. Well, one of the first things noticed is that the enemy could hear what you said. So they began putting out false information on the telegraph to mislead the enemy. And now we have television and newspapers and all the rest of it in the service of exactly the same tactic. Such public communications are intended to prompt your opponent to think a certain way, react a certain way, be willing to do something, make a concession whatever it is, it is all propaganda. Everybody lying and manipulating everybody else in an effort to satisfy their own ends. Politics is played like a game without any ultimate human concerns being truly served. Each individual and nation plays it for the day for the sake of the advantage they can get in their conflict-negotiation at the moment. (April 16, 2000)
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Mankind is now in a state of delusion; that is a characteristic of this time. That is why I call it the "late-time", or the "dark epoch". Mankind is possessed by false views, illusions about life, that the purpose of life is some kind of self-directed or collectively directed intention toward fulfillment -- utopian, or for the sake of the species, or even going into outer space, or some ultimate fulfillment -- or whatever they advertise on TV. Life, as being purposed toward fulfillment in the gross context of body, the nature domain, the potentials of the cosmic universe -- all views that presume living on the basis of motivations, desires, intentions and patterns that are for that purpose are deluded. Life is not of that nature. Mankind is not divine; Reality is Divine. Mankind inheres in That -- but in and of itself, mankind is simply another primate species of animal in the earth world. There is no ultimate fulfillment to be pursued. In The Knee Of Listening, 33 years ago, I Wrote about this very matter, looking for a new age of men and women, Speaking there specifically in these terms. It is not this utopian drama of the future and all this perfection of human possibility, or fulfilling the life of egoity, the technological fulfillment, or any other kind of means of fulfillment in the cosmic sphere. That is not it. Egoity must be transcended. Therefore, bondage to the body-mind is transcended in that process, because egoity is an activity of the body-mind. The process is a Spiritual one, not merely a philosophical one. It involves the Profound Effort of Grace, Divinely, Avatarically Given, Extended from Me in My Regard of people, by the Work that I do in Spiritual terms. August 16,2005
Earth is a school, not a place of
perfection. Even into the future, it is likely only a few in
every generation will respond to the Divine Teaching.
Perhaps it will always be so — or at least for decades,
or millions of years. Therefore, let those who hear Me
cherish the Truth and its Way. Let them find sanctuary, a
hidden place or room, or let them practice the body of God
without attracting the angular notice of the world. Let them
find a way to preserve the Teaching and the Way of Life,
even through the coming and ungraceful Age. Let them yield
to the Life, and go to Real God, free of all that is yet to
come.
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.
Let us never collapse into
self-destructive doubts. Let us join with all the friends
and allies of Man to serve all beings with the Blessings of
the Great One. Let us meet every trial that comes upon us
with the strength of Truth. Let us do what is right for the
sake of mankind, and let God determine the trial and all
results for whatever purposes the very Divine will choose to
serve this world. Let us surrender into doubt-free and
positive commitment to the One we cannot deny. Let us
recognize the humor of it all, and so let us be ready to
freely defend the Way with intelligence and vital
strength. I am interested in finding men who are free of every kind of seeking, attendant only to understanding, who will devote themselves to the intentional creation of life in the form and logic of reality rather than the form and logic of Narcissus. Such men are the unexploitable presence of reality. They will not devote themselves to turning the worlds to dilemma, exhaustion and revolutionary experience, nor to the exploitation of desire and possibility, nor to the ascent to and inclusion of various goals, higher entities, evolutionary aims or ideas of spiritual transformation. They will create in the aesthetics of reality, turning all things into radical relationship and enjoyment. They will remove the effects of separative existence and restore the form of things. They will engineer every kind of stability and beauty. They will create a presence of peace. Their eye will be on present form and not on exaggerated notions of artifice. Their idea of form is stable and whole, not a gesture toward some other event. They will not make the world seem but a symbol for higher and other things. They will constantly create the form of truth while conscious of present reality. Thus, they will serve the order of sacrifice and knowledge. They will evolve the necessary and good and make economic and wise use of all technology. They will not be motivated by invention but by reality, which is the present thing to be communicated in all forms. They will not pursue any kind of victory for man, any deathlessness or overwhelming survival. They will only create the conditions for present enjoyment, the communication of reality, the form in which understanding and real knowledge can arise, live and become the public foundation of existence. Thus, I would find a new order of men who will create a new age of sanity and joy. It will not be the age of the occult, the religious, the scientific or technological evolution of men. It will be the fundamental age of real existence, wherein life will be radically realized entirely apart from the whole history of our adventure and great search. The age envisioned by seekers is a spectacular display that only extends the traditional madness, exploitability and foolishness of mankind. But I desire a new order of men who will not begin from all of that but apply themselves apart from all dilemma and all seeking to the harmonious presence of real existence. I am equally certain that such a new order of men must arise as a force in the world in the present generation or else this world must suffer the karma of dissolution. Knee of Listening Table of Contents
Peace Letter - Adi Da's Open Letter to Everyone Cooperation and Doubt - An Essay by Adi Da on politics and freedom Politics for Men and Women - Talk by Adi Da on politics Jesus and Me - Politics and the times 
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