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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (13873)	10/31/2002 10:06:25 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The Divine speaks everyone but there is a little "transmission difficulty" (called the ego) here and there, (not you, of course, Frederick)<<<ggg>>> to the point that you could almost say that the Voice of the Divine is almost not to be found anywhere (except fleetingly). Namaste! Jim

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (13873)	10/31/2002 10:25:12 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

"Am I correct?" Yes. "others whom Adi Da recognizes as speaking/having spoken "AS the divine"" All the great Realizers, particularly in their ecstatic speech. In modern times he specifically refers to: Ramana Maharshi Swami Muktananda Swami Nityananda Rang Avadhoot Swami Vivekananda (an earlier antecedent of himself) Ramakrishna (an earlier antecedent of himself) Sai Baba of Shirdi but he references MANY others in this context. The most advanced texts of others included in Adi Da's "Basket of Tolerance" are: A. Astavakra Gita 3966. The Song of the Self Supreme (Astavakra Gita): The Classical Text of Atmadvaita, by Astavakra. Preface by Adi Da Samraj. Translation and Commentary by Radhakamal Mukerjee [Epitome List 927] *3967. Ashtavakra Geeta. Translated by Swami Chinmayananda [Epitome List 927a] *3968. Astavakra Samhita. Translated by Swami Nityaswarupananda [Epitome List 927b] 3969. Ashtavakra Gita. Translated by Hari Prasad Shastri B. Avadhoota Gita 3970. Avadhoota Gita. Translated by Shree Purohit Swami. Edited by Shankar Mokashi-Punekar 3971. "The Avadhuta-Gita", in Dattatreya: The Way and the Goal, by His Highness Sri Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, Maharaja of Mysore. pp. 151-237 [395] *3972. Avadhuta Gita: Song of the Ever-Free, by Dattatreya Avadhuta. Translated by Swami Chetanananda [Epitome List 928a] ESSAY Preliminaries to the Premonitorily "Seventh Stage" Realization 3973. Avadhuta Gita (Song of the Free). Translated and annotated by Swami Ashokananda [Epitome List 928] 3974. Avadhut Gita, by Mahatma Dattatreya. Translated by Hari Prasad Shastri C. Tripura Rahasya 3975. Tripura-Rahasya, (Jnanakhanda). Translated by A. U. Vasavada [Epitome List 930] 3976. Tripura Rahasya, or, The Mystery Beyond the Trinity. Translated by Swami Sri Ramanananda Saraswathi (Sri Munagala S. Venkataramaiah) [Epitome List 930a] D. The Diamond Sutra 3977. "The Diamond Sutra", in The Diamond Sutra and The Sutra of Hui Neng, first section, pp. 3-75. Translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam [see also 3986 (Epitome List 937); Epitome List 931] 3978. "The Diamond Sutra", in Buddhist Wisdom Books (Containing The Diamond Sutra and The Heart Sutra). Translated and explained by Edward Conze. pp. 15-74 [1285] 3979. The Diamond Sutra (Chin-Kang-Ching), or, Prajna-Paramita. Translated by William Gemmell 3979a. [commentary] The Sutra of Hui-Neng: Grand Master of Zen. With Hui-Neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra. Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary. pp. 83-144. Boston: Shambhala, 1998 [see also 3986a (Epitome List 937a); Epitome List 931a] 3980. "The Diamond Cutter of Doubts: A Commentary on the Diamond Sutra (Vajracchedika-prajna-paramita-Sutra)", by Ch'an Master Han Shan, in Ch'an and Zen Teaching (Series One). Translated by Lu K'uan Yu (Charles Luk). Pages 147-206 [3908, see also 3989] E. Mahayanavimsaka 3981. Mahayanavimsaka of Nagarjuna. Edited by Vidhusekhara Bhattacharya [Epitome List 932] F. Lankavatara Sutra 3982. Studies in the Lankavatara Sutra (One of the most important texts of Mahayana Buddhism, in which almost all its principal tenets are presented, including the teaching of Zen), by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki [Epitome List 933] 3983. Self-Realization of Noble Wisdom (The Lankavatara Sutra). Compiled by Dwight Goddard, based on D. T. Suzuki's rendering [Epitome List 934] *3984. The Lankavatara Sutra: A Mahayana Text. Translated by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki [Epitome List 935] G. The Sutra of Hui Neng 3985. The Zen Doctrine of No-Mind (The Significance of the Sutra of Hui-Neng [Wei Lang]), by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki [Epitome List 936] 3986. "The Sutra of Hui Neng", in The Diamond Sutra and the Sutra of Hui Neng, second section, pp. 1-114. Translated by A. F. Price and Wong Mou-Lam [see also 3977 (Epitome List 931); Epitome List 937] 3986a. [sutra] The Sutra of Hui-Neng: Grand Master of Zen. With Hui-Neng's Commentary on the Diamond Sutra. Translated from the Chinese by Thomas Cleary. pp. 1-81. Boston: Shambhala, 1998 [see also 3979a (Epitome List 931a); Epitome List 937a] 3987. The Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch on the Pristine Orthodox Dharma. Translated by Paul F. Fung and George D. Fung 3988. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Tun-Huang Manuscript. Translated by Philip B. Yampolsky 3989. "The Dharma Treasure of the Altar Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch (Lu Tsu Ta Shih Fa Pao T'an Ching)", edited by his disciple Ch'an Master Fa Hai, in Ch'an and Zen Teaching (Series Three). Translated by Lu K'uan Yu (Charles Luk). Pages 9-102 [*3908, see also 3980] Namaste! Jim