THE FIVE BOOKS
Gift of Devotional Relationship
Book Two:
Ruchira Avatara Gita (The Way Of The Divine Heart-Master)
The "Late-Time" Avataric Revelation Of The Great Secret Of The Divinely Self-Revealed Way That Most Perfectly Realizes The True and Spiritual Divine Person (The egoless Personal Presence Of Reality and Truth, Which Is The Only Real God)
Having made His Identity known to us in Aham Da Asmi, Avatar Adi Da goes on to make His Offering to all—the opportunity of entering into the devotional and Spiritual relationship to Him, in the time-honored manner of the Guru-devotee relationship.
In writing this "Song of the 'Bright' Avatar" (Ruchira Avatara Gita), Avatar Adi Da took as His "starting point" the traditional Guru Gita. He selected key verses and then transformed them entirely into His own unique (and beautifully poetic) Communication. Thus, the very method by which this book was composed is an expression of Avatar Adi Da's Completing of the Great Tradition.
In the Ruchira Avatara Gita, Avatar Adi Da makes clear that, in all the religious traditions of the world, the true esoteric Spiritual process has only ever taken place in the context of the Guru-devotee (or Master-disciple) relationship.
He also makes clear that the tendency to wrongly relate to the Guru—the fault of "Guru cultism"—has always been present in religious communities, just as "cultism" altogether is a collective manifestation of egoity that is evident in secular as well as religious contexts.
While Avatar Adi Da's Offering of the Guru-devotee relationship is in some sense traditional, it is also "radically" new. His Way of Adidam is founded in His Living Presence here as the "Bright", Flooding down into the world via the "Thumbs"—and, therefore, all forms of seeking (religious and otherwise) are transcended in His Company, the Company of the Very Divine Person as Guru.
Avatar Adi Da's Ruchira Avatara Gita has been carved out of the Heart of a great, presently living Master, out of compassion for aspiring humanity. Only those who are ready to go beyond themselves can taste the ambrosia that flows out of such a Heart-Master as Avatar Adi Da. I feel this Gita will be of immense help to aspirants for a divine life.
M. P. Pandit, author,
The Upanishads: Gateways of Knowledge and
Studies in the Tantras and the Veda
Read Excerpts:
The Grace of True Realizers
The Supreme Help
The Error of Cultism
The Grace of True Realizers
From "If I Am your Guru, you Must Consent To Be Mastered By Me"
Where Avatar Adi Da's Name appears in capital letters at the beginning of a quotation, this indicates that it was spoken (rather than written) by Him.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: The ego-"I", in its characteristic ignorance and separativeness, is (both "inside" and "outside") bereft of Truth. The Truth has come to mankind only from ego-renouncing True Realizers (in their various degrees, or stages, of profoundly ego-transcending Realization). Yet, when it comes to the matter of Great Realization, the ego-"I", in its self-preoccupation, imagines it is an independent unit of Absoluteness, a self-authority, inherently fit to rightly govern itself. Indeed, the collective of human egos presumes it is fit to govern even the entire world of beings and things! How can it be so?
The human ego-"I" is a mere "organism"—self-contracted, self-preoccupied, and self-bound. The ego-"I" does not know Where it is. The ego-"I" does not know What even a single thing Is! Because of its presumption of separateness and separativeness, the ego-"I" (or "Narcissus", the self-contraction) presumes—and prefers—its independence and self-sufficiency. And that presumption of separateness, separativeness, independence, and self-sufficiency is the very means whereby the ego-"I" dissociates itself (inherently) from Truth, Reality Itself, Real God, or the Divine Condition Itself. Naive egoic "realism" (or conceptual and perceptual bondage of every kind) and ego-possession (willful and obstinate in its separativeness and un-love)—this is the sphere of the ego-"I". And Truth, and the Process of Realizing the Truth, has broken through the ego-sphere of mankind only through the Grace of True Realizers (in their various degrees of ego-surrender).
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The Supreme Help
Verses 38-44 of
"Ruchira Avatara Gita
(The Way Of The Divine Heart-Master)"
Every conditional action tends to be followed by an equal and opposite reaction. If the action of psycho-physical attention to the world arises, the self-contraction of the body-mind tends to follow. If the self-contraction arises, the reactivity of separativeness tends to follow. Whenever the ego-"I" is remembered, the states of separateness and limitation seem Real. If separateness and limitation seem Real, the Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Inherently egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Condition and Source-Condition has been forgotten. That One by Means of Whose Grace one Remembers and Realizes the Divine Self-Condition and Source-Condition—He Is indeed the Divine Heart-Master and the One and Only and Non-Separate and Indivisible and Inherently egoless "Bright" Divine Person Incarnate.
The Radiance and Profundity of the Divine Heart-Master's State of Being both Sustain and Dissolve His own Body-Mind. Therefore, feeling-Contemplation of Him Liberates attention from bondage to the world, the body, the mind, and even all of separate and separative self.
The casual Words and Footsteps of the Divine Heart-Master Build a Bridge across the ocean of our bondage. Therefore, attend to This Divine Liberator every moment of your life.
By Means of the Blessings Given by the Divine Heart-Master, the currents of un-Love are dissolved. Therefore, always bow down to His Supreme Help.
The Real and Ever-Living God Is the Heart Itself. The Heart Itself Is the Divine Person, the Very Heart and Person of the Divine Heart-Master. Therefore, by Means of all the Blessings of the Divine Heart-Master, devotees are Gifted to transcend the Heartless bondage of un-Happiness and un-Enlightenment.
Because He Is the Great and Only and Very One, devotees should surrender and forget themselves at the Feet of the Divine Heart-Master. Because He Is the Great and Only and Very One, the Graceful Radiance That Flows from the Divine Heart-Master's Feet Releases attention from the ego-"I" and the world.
The Divine Heart-Master Is the Supreme Help Offered by the Real and Ever-Living God. There is no Friend greater than the Divine Heart-Master. Therefore, body and mind should be entirely devoted to the Divine Heart-Master, so that attention is set free in His Heart of "Brightness".
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The Error of Cultism
From "Beyond the Cultic Tendency in Religion and Spirituality,
and in Secular Society"
"Guru cultism" . . . is a tendency that has always been present in the religious and Spiritual traditions of mankind. Anciently, and in the present time, both true Spiritual Masters and ordinary Wisdom-Teachers have been "cultified", and (thereby) made the merely fascinating Object of a self-contained popular movement that worships the Spiritual Master as a Parent-like Savior, while embracing very little of the significant Wisdom-Teaching of the Spiritual Master.
The error of conventional cultism is precisely this childish, and (otherwise) adolescent, and (altogether) ego-based orientation to fascination with Spiritual Masters, Wisdom-Teachers, "God"-Ideas, myths, sacred lore, inherited beliefs, traditional propaganda, and psycho-physical (or merely body-mind-based) mysticism. And the cultic tendency in religion and Spirituality is the essence of what is wrong with conventional religion and Spirituality.
The "problem" is not that there Is no Real God, or that there are no true Wisdom-Teachings, or that there are no true Spiritual Masters, or that there should be no devotion to any true Spiritual Masters. The "problem" with conventional religion and Spirituality is the same as the "problem" of all ordinary life. The "problem" is the childish, and (otherwise) rather adolescent, egoism that is the basis of all forms of ordinary existence.
Yet un-Enlightened (or, otherwise, not yet Most Perfectly Enlightened) people are ego-possessed. Therefore, egoity is the "disease" that all the true Spiritual Masters of religion come here to cure. . . .
All cults, whether sacred or secular, thrive on indulgence in the psychology (and the emotional rituals) of hope, rather than on actual demonstration of counter-egoic and really ego-transcending action. Therefore, when all egos meet, they strive and compete for the ultimate fulfillment of searches and desires, rather than cooperate with Truth, Reality, or Real God, and in a culturally valued and rewarded mood of fearless tolerance and sane equanimity.
Clearly, this cultic tendency in religion and Spirituality, and the egoic (and, thus, cultic) tendency in life in general, must become the constant subject of fundamental human understanding—and all of mankind must constantly be put to "school", to unlearn the method of egocentrism, non-cooperation, intolerance, and dis-ease.
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