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HEART CONVERSION TALK SERIES Volume 1, Number 11 DISCOURSE 2 I Am the Divine World-Teacher A Discourse Given by Sri Da Avabhasa on December 4,
1992 SRI DA AVABHASA: [in response to an anti-Semitic joke
and the mention of an official of a concentration camp
during World War II] How can human beings purify
anything by getting rid of other human beings? How can
mankind be purified by getting rid of people with such a
wonderful tradition as the Jews? What gets more pure through
murdering such people and eliminating them, not hearing
their voice anymore, not seeing their sacred performance?
What could possibly be purified by doing that? Why should the mockery of such a great people continue?
It should be erased from human consciousness and human
speech-not only the mocking of the Jewish people but the
mocking of all people. There should be no common degrading
remarks coming from My devotees, no notions of lesser
classes of people or lesser forms of life. I find it
disgusting, and I just will not have it. You may not have any bad intentions, but you see how you
pick up such notions in your mind. Such intolerance is not
about anything. It is total garbage. There is nothing lesser
about people of any color-white, black, yellow, red,
anything. Intolerance is total and absolute garbage, and it
is not to be made light of. There are many things about the
absurdity of human existence to make jokes about, fine.
Making jokes about what all human beings do lightens
everybody up and relieves stress. But jokes that are
demeaning, that undermine the integrity, the honor, of
people because of their race or their tradition, are
garbage. And I will not have such intolerance in any of My
devotees. I wish all of you who have felt yourself to be
inferior because of color, race, tradition, or whatever
would just let go of that nonsense, and stop thinking you
must insult your race or your tradition in order to please
the dominant culture. You just do not have to do it. Never
consent to do this as a matter of principle. Never!
Absolutely never. You may not be Jewish as a matter of your
present commitment and practice, but if you are Jewish as a
matter of birth why hate yourself in the name of your
people? I do not like it. This lack of tolerance and compassion must come to an
end. The sooner it comes to an end, the sooner you can make
the progress necessary to overcome the terror of this Yuga.
If you do not overcome it, such things as esoteric practice
and meditation are going to be against the law, even within
your lifetime. Be full of tolerance and love, therefore, and
appeal to everyones greater instincts, the greater part of
their tradition, not their fundamentalist nonsense but their
esotericism, their Saints, their impulses toward tolerance
and cooperation. There is enough of such impulses in every
tradition. Am I becoming too righteous here? I just do not like
it, and never did. When I was a boy in high school, the American Legion
had an oratory contest. I dont know how I decided to enter
the contest, but I gave a speech about tolerance. I spoke
against racial hatred, and I won a couple of medals, until I
was defeated by those who were waving the American flag and
proclaiming something about George Washington. I never liked intolerance. I do not like it now. I do
not like seeing people mock themselves. [to a man who
was born a Jew] I do not like seeing what you do with
your body when you mock yourself. I do not like seeing it.
It is not necessary. It is not right. You should never
consent to it. It is time you all grew up about this
garbage. It is garbage. [to a dark-skinned woman] You and your hatred
of your complexion. DEVOTEE: Yes, Im from a race of dark people. SRI DA AVABHASA: Dark people! Nonsense. They used to
be among the masters of the Earth. Whenever some race other
than your own is dominant in your society, you think you
must mock and hate yourself. Instead, you should demand
tolerance, love, cooperation-that is your business on
Earth. Never mock yourself. Be humorous, fine. Any mockery,
just for fun, should be done about the human condition-the
condition you share with all other human beings. But never
size up race against race, tradition against tradition. My
devotees should never indulge in that ritual of common
society. It should be absolutely abandoned. The so-called
differences between colors, traditions, races, and so on are
total garbage. And people should just flat not indulge in
mocking them. You do not have to do it anymore. DEVOTEE: Sri Gurudev, You purified that intolerance
in me about sexuality. SRI DA AVABHASA: Yes, the discrimination against
homosexuals is nonsense. What did you ever do to become a
homosexual? Did you command it from birth? You never did.
Genetic, social-so what? Who cares? Because of the politics
of the time, if you are homosexual, you must mock yourself,
hide in the closet, and muscle up in the streets to somehow
find an allowance of freedom to live. Mediocre heterosexuals
might just as well be suppressed! Among people there are so
many differences that are genetically inherited, socially
received, intrusions, adaptations-everybody is different.
Tolerance, cooperation, love, wisdom-this is the word, not
only My Word but the word that has come down through all the
ages. There should be no digression from it. Nothing less
than tolerance should be acceptable. Everything else should
be shouted at vigorously. Everybody is in the same boat
here. This does not mean you must be a social activist.
Just be without hate, and do not mock yourself and your
lineage of ordinary life. Do not do it at all. And do not
mock reality. It is all in God, and That is all there Is.
You are not going to make a utopia on Earth with this
disposition, but you can make a circumstance of sadhana for
everyone. That is what should happen-not utopia but
sadhana. When will My devotees ever receive me, make a great
voice, and do a great mission on Earth? When will they no
longer stand hat in hand, knowing that the Revelation I have
Given them is unique? When do you ever Realize Who I Am?
When do you ever embrace Me? When do you ever get my
Revelation? When does it ever become strong with you? When
do you ever fulfill My Admonitions? This practice? When do
you ever become great? You must become great. I Am Great.
When will you become great in My Company? When does it ever
happen? After my lifetime? Do you think I am going to live
forever? When will you choose to do it? Stop being small.
Stop being weak. Stop failing. Stop mocking yourselves. Stop
thinking, “Oh-the Great Tradition is full of the same
thing.” It is not. When will you receive My Revelation for real? I Am
the Divine World-Teacher. There is no Realizer like Me who
has ever appeared in the flesh on Earth. None! When will you
ever Realize it? When will you ever get the message in your
mouth and speak, stop being small, make a mission in this
world, and have your effect in this terrible time? When will you make the choice, then? How many more
years of My suffering in your company will it take for you
to get My Revelation and make a mission among mankind? When
is there ever going to be a Free Daist movement, a unique
gathering with a unique revelation, strong, no more hat in
hand, My devotees, and the end of the garbage on Earth,
staying strong, speaking straight, getting on with My
Message, and bringing Me My devotees? When is it going to
begin? How many more speeches like the one I have Given you
tonight must I Give before you begin the sadhana? I am straight and true. I am not a public teacher. I
am not a public person. When will My devotees understand Me,
acknowledge Me As I Am, give My Message, tell people Who I
Am, tell them I am here, bring them to Me? It is a simple
matter, but when will it be done? There is just more and
more self-mockery. Does it go on forever? Are you just
entertaining yourselves in My Company? Dont you understand
Who I Am, Where you are, What has occurred in your company,
what history has been made by My Appearance here? When do
you ever grasp it and do your work? Truly, I am asking real questions here. This
conversation is being recorded, so I am speaking to all My
devotees. When will you do it? I am still waiting here. DEVOTEE: Sri Gurudev, I have a question. Living here
in Your Great Hermitage Ashram, I have observed the things
that You do during the day-you go to the office or watch a
video. When You sleep, what is really happening? SRI DA AVABHASA: Nothing. DEVOTEE: Nothing? SRI DA AVABHASA: Just whatever is necessary for
those who are with Me. I do nothing. I have no process,
nothing more to be Realized, nothing more to be done. I
relate to whoever is with Me as they are, to address their
limitations and help them overcome them. I have no business.
My Work is Absolute and already Accomplished. It is up to
you to respond. I relate to everyone according to their
limitations – just that, whatever it takes. I have absolutely nothing to gain, nothing, not one
more thing to Realize, no limitation in my Realization. My
Realization is Absolute. My Siddhis are beyond your
comprehension. I have proven to you the Absolute Reality of
God, if you only see Me, hear Me, listen to Me even, find Me
out. You have been visited by That Which Is Absolutely Real.
When you find Me out, then you have a mission, then you have
a community, then you have a culture. I accept no separation between us, nor between you
and any another. None! Do not “oink” yourself into
separation and stupid oblivion. Embrace My Person, hear My
Word, practice the Way of the Heart I have Given you. Do so
diligently, consistently, with great intensity. This is My
Admonition to you, and it is all I can Give you. If you want
to ignore My Intervention, the burdensome Yuga that is
coming upon mankind will be visited upon you and all, and
its consequences will be absolutely terrible. This is not My wish. I am here in the midst of the
beginning of this grossness to give everyone the option to
bring an end to this fate. Either you will listen to Me,
hear Me, see Me, love Me, change, or you will not. This is
the opportunity for all mankind, My Birth, My Lifetime. Hear
My Word. It is so. Without this response, what is to come is
terrible. You must get serious sometime about your own
suffering and the suffering of all other beings, and about
the stupidity of all movements on Earth, whatever they are
called-political, economic, religious. Whatever they are
called, they are utter stupidity. There is no siddhi in
them, no blessing, no unique capability invested in the
world. I Am the One Who is here to do that. There is no
other. Either you will receive Me, or you will not. It has gone too far. This world of beings cannot
afford your neglect anymore. It is time you stood firm. Stop
deluding yourself, stop being mediocre, stop finding the
loopholes in My Instruction. You do not have much more time
of comfort. The world is closing in in its results. No one
is superior to this gathering. No one is superior to Me.