The famous punch line “You can’t get there from here” is Avatar Adi Da’s starting point for this engaging Discourse. He uses this humorous paradox to perfectly crystallize the condition of all who are caught in the trap of seeking.
“The ‘self’ can’t get to God”, Avatar Adi Da clarifies, because the act that generates the sense of “self” is the act of recoil from the Divine. Life is rightly lived not by concentrating on “fixing” this recoil but as the feeling-embrace of the requirements and conditions of existence. And Avatar Adi Da offers the Way “out” of the trap of “self”-and-“other”: Locate the supreme attractiveness of His Radiant Divine State, and “self” is dissolved in “Brightness”.
Track Listing
1. The self Can’t Get to God - 9:58
2. The Body Arises in a Universal Field - 9:33
3. Realization Has No self - 8:10
4. The Spiritual Master Is Not a Religious Man - 8:05
5. The Ultimate Mudra (October 29, 1980) - 19:43
6. The “Brightness” Will Outshine You (July 9, 1988) - 10:23
The “me” of awareness must surrender to the point of Realizing its identity with the Divine Being. Everything in the body-mind must be released of this illusion of an interior, separate “self” and simply Realize its Oneness with the Infinitely Radiant Being.
—AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ
August 02, 1980
Length: 1 hour 6 minutes
Publication year: 2014
Original recording year: 1980 and 1988
ISBN: 978-1-57097-339-0
Format: Audio CD
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