In these two Discourses Avatar Adi Da considers the cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth—as it pertains to realms beyond (or “deeper” than) physical existence. He Reveals that the unique purpose of a human lifetime is sadhana, or ego-transcending practice, in response to the Realizer—which purifies this entire cycle, making room for True Awakening to Reality Itself.
The uniqueness of human birth [is] not that you can evolve subtly but that you can transcend . . . all aspects of the conditional personality, in Ultimate (Truly Divine) Realization. . . .
If you will receive My Teaching—if you will “consider” It, if you will become responsive to Me—then you become capable of making use of this lifetime for the purpose that it inherently can serve.
—Avatar Adi Da Samraj
August 15, 1988
Further Study
In these Discourses, Avatar Adi Da describes specific moments and qualities associated with the “Vehicles” (or manifest forms) through which He Appeared here—both His physical Body (born “Franklin Albert Jones”) and His Deeper Personality (Revealed to be the combined Vehicles of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda). To learn more about these specifics, and about the Nature and Purpose of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Lifetime and Work altogether, see The Knee of Listening and The Avatar of What Is. In addition, both audio Discourses on this CD are available in print form in the book Easy Death: Spiritual Wisdom on the Ultimate Transcending of Death and Everything Else. In that book, the Discourse of December 8, 1980, appears as “The Paradox of Reincarnation”, and the Discourse of August 15, 1988, appears in two parts: “The Gross Personality, The Deeper Personality, and The Ultimate Identity” and “There Is Nothing Left but the Ash”.
