YOU ASKED--HERE'S A SNIPPET OF A REPLY:
(a small part of a spontaneously given talk)
ADI DA SAMRAJ: "Have you all heard about the Dreaded Gom-Boo? Or the impossible Three-Day Thumb-and-Finger Problem? Ah ha! You see? Nobody tells you about these things except me.
A myth has been circulating for many centuries now that mankind is diseased, that all beings are suffering from what I call the Dreaded Gom-Boo, also called sin, maya, ego, suffering, separated individuality, illusions, delusion, confusion, and indifference. We are all supposed to accept this diagnosis, realize how diseased we are, and submit ourselves to the local religious hospital, where a father or mother doctor will confirm our disease and require us to submit for the rest of our lives to various regimes for our own healing and ultimate cure. This is the basic proposition of traditional religion, and it begins with the diagnosis of the dreaded disease.
Tradition has it that we are all, by birth, by virtue of our very existence, even now diseased, sinful, separated from the Great One. What a horror! Yes! What an obscenity has been laid upon us through the traditions of society, which, merely because of the impulse to survive as the body-mind, have for centuries required human beings to invest themselves with the belief in this disease and to suppress their own life-motion, which comes only from the Great-One, in order to fulfill the presumed needs of our chaotic society.
I come to tell you, as I stand in the midst of the priests of this horror, that not even one of you is suffering from this disease. It is an imaginary disease, a terrible disease, but altogether imaginary. No one has ever actually had this disease. No one single being has ever had the Dreaded Gom-Boo, or the impossible thumb-and-finger problem. It has never happened! It does not exist!
What is the Truth? We are Happy. We live in God. The Great One is our very Being. We inhere in the Blissful, Forceful Being of the Starry God, the Wonder, the Mystery, the Person of Love. This is our Situation and our Destiny. I am only one among many voices, but this is my Message to you: There is no disease. There is nothing to cure. We are not patients and we are not parented. We are not children. No dreadful destiny.
How do you contract this imaginary disease and become involved in seeking its imaginary cure? I call you to observe yourself, and you will see, you're grabbing your ass! You are pinching your belly, you're causing yourself great pain because of your motive to be independent.
You will never be independent. There is not even a molecule of wood in this wall that is independent. Nothing and no one is independent. All of us inhere in the Great One, the Wonderful Lord, the Marvelous Starry Person, the Delight of Being. All of us live in That. That is our situation now. This moment is the moment of Happiness, as is every future moment, every moment after death, beyond this world and other worlds, higher worlds, after worlds, no worlds. It is all the moment of infinite Delight, unless we become self-conscious and withdraw from our relations and contract upon our Happiness and forget It."
Website at:
adidam.org
DISCLAIMER: I have been a devotee of Adi Da for 20 years and have spent hundreds of hours in his personal company. In my estimation, at the very least he is a wide-ranging genius far exceeding anything previously seen in this world. In actuality, he is much more than that. But as stated, I have my own bias.
However, I spent 20 years LOOKING FOR such a Teacher, before becoming his devotee, so he wasn't just a casual discovery.
Namaste!
Jim |
