In this discourse Avatar Adi Da calls all those inclined to Realize True Freedom to first recognize the failure of their search—which is based on the illusion of separation. Rather than engaging the ordinary pursuit of union with all others and things from which we feel separate, Avatar Adi Da says we must find out that our inherent Condition is one of Perfect Non-separation.
With penetrating compassion, Avatar Adi Da leads His listeners through a? concentrated feeling-inspection of the core sense of being separate from everything and everyone. Avatar Adi Da elaborates on the analogy of “pinching one’s self” as an illustration of this painful act of egoic self-contraction.
You are pinching yourself. You are doing this contraction, whole bodily, altogether.... The stress you say you are feeling is the result of that. It is not a result of anything going on in the room or going on in your life at this moment. It is a result of this act you are engaging without inspecting it.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj
April 8, 1993
Avatar Adi Da shows that through persistent, in-depth inspection—and through feeling-sensitivity to Him as the Radiant Force of Non-separateness—it is possible to discover that you are doing this core stress, you are contracting into separateness, in every moment. This discovery, Avatar Adi Da says, is true “self”-understanding.
Avatar Adi Da asserts that the Non-separate Condition is not something to be attained at a later time, after a lot of practice, or by trying to understand yourself. Rather, it is an Awakening that occurs spontaneously. Recognizing and responding to Avatar Adi Da, at heart, and true self-understanding are the requirements.
This Discourse was given by Avatar Adi Da during the historical period of His Great Teaching-Submission Work. During this extraordinary period, Avatar Adi Da entered into direct dialogue and consideration with His devotees, thereby reflecting their ego-patterns and Attracting them beyond self-enclosure to His egoless Divine Reality-State. Yet a profound shift in His manner of Working was also unfolding during this period: Avatar Adi Da was gradually relinquishing the mode of Teaching-by-Submission, and, more and more, simply Radiating His egoless Divine Reality-State. This shift was accompanied by Avatar Adi Da’s continual refinement of the language of His Reality-Teaching. The language (and the context altogether) of this Discourse is a sign of Avatar Adi Da’s manner of Working at the specific time it was given.
About the Divine Siddha-Method Audio Series
This recording is part of the Divine Siddha-Method Audio Series. Every CD in this audio series offers original spoken Instruction that is included (in final written form) in the book series entitled The Divine Siddha-Method of The Ruchira Avatar. This book series contains many of Avatar Adi Da’s most summary Discourses on the foundation practice of Adidam. It is comprised of four volumes:*
1. My “Bright” Word (Discourses of 1972–1973)
2. My “Bright” Sight (Discourses of 1973–1995)
3. My “Bright” Form (Discourse of 1993–1994)
4. My “Bright” Room (Discourse of 2004–2005)
An extended version of the Discourse on this CD appears in print-form in My “Bright” Sight, with the same title. This is an archival recording with some quality variations.
*Volume 4 forthcoming.
Track Listing
1. Seeking Is The Pursuit of Union - 11:43
2. Notice The Pain of Seeking - 10:25
3. The Crisis of Good Feeling - 12:11
4. My Transmission Is Non-Separateness - 11:22
5. You Cannot Be Fulfilled - 09:20
6. Listen To Me - 11:43
7. Be Awake In The Heart Place - 11:10
Total running time: 1 hour 18 minutes
