What Is Your Intention?

If the gross personality is not relinquished, not effectively transcended, then it remains your destiny, regardless of how many mystical experiences you may have had…Now you are all kinds of sorrowful and afraid, because of the gross body. That is your commitment, you see. You are afraid to die and you are afraid to lose all relations, and so forth, that you can enjoy when you are alive bodily. Well, yes, it is the body that has these tendencies, but you can—ultimately must—transcend that gross personality. It can be as afraid and sorrowful as it pleases. You must stand beyond it….To move beyond the plane of gross bodily destiny you must become identified with That in Which the gross body is arising, rather than be identified with the gross body itself.

[Avatar Adi Da] is a contemporary spiritual Hero, offering his transcendental gifts to a culture without a tradition for or even “taste” for Avatars...yet he bears the burdens of sagehood with persistence and love.