Adi Da Samraj: The Test of Human Existence

A talk by Adi Da from 1977. The limits of both worldly knowledge and mystical experiences. The test of human existence is whether you will persist as love.

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[integralsun]

True, 99.99999% of the population are not going to be able to 'hack' it. That leaves a few hundred people at most who might.

While his teaching is ingeniously sublime it is at once elitist, in the sense so few are prepare to go the distance.

This planet doesn't have the luxury of elitist paths - Nature needs to provide an eight lane interstate highway to Awakening.

[filmco24]

@integralsun Adi Da has always said that was His impulse: to enlighten everybody instantly, and that if it were possible, He would have done it. But it is NOT possible. "Nature needs to provide an eight lane interstate highway to Awakening" is like saying "Nature needs to change the law of gravity" -- sorry, the laws of Nature are different from social laws. We may not like the laws of Nature, but we can't change them.

[filmco24]

@filmco24 What Adi Da has provided is the most direct & "easiest" way of Realizing God. Does that make it "weekend enlightement"? No, because that's not possible within the laws of Nature. What we can do is communicate this Way far & wide, so more people have a chance to participate in it. Just because everyone won't be Enlightened in this lifetime doesn't mean there isn't a point to practice. I'd much rather be Enlightened 10 lifetimes from now than 1 million -- practice serves that outcome.

[integralsun]

One contribution science provides is validation of a given methodology. For instance, how many people who have followed this teaching have reached an awaken status? What's the efficacy of this teaching. If it can't be demonstrated or attested to then why should anyone take up this practice?

[filmco24]

@integralsun It has been demonstrated! Large numbers are not necessary. Realizing God is different from getting to the corner store. We can assess the "efficacy" of directions to the corner store because everyone can do it if they're good directions. Far fewer people will Realize God -- not because the means doesn't work, but because most people won't actually do what it requires. Very few people get physics Ph.D's -- not because the graduate schools suck, but because most people can't hack it.

[integralsun]

Science and technology are not idiocy. I wouldn't have the benefit of his teaching right here, right now on my laptop, without technology and science, right?

That aside, the Test of Human Existence is can now transcend our egoic self. Do we recognize that is the most immediate and pressing concern and by comparison everything else is a kind of idiocy (if we turn away or ignore this understanding).

[filmco24]

@integralsun Adi Da rightly acknowledged the usefulness and contributions of science and technology, and made use of technological advances Himself, all the time. What He criticized (strongly) was turning science into a philosophy -- scientific materialism -- in which everything other than the material is rejected or ostracized.

[alreadyhappy2010]

this is one of my favourites. Life is a test. Every moment for a spiritual practitioner, for a devotee of Love, is a test. For there is always a choice: either one can go with with the mechanism of ones egoic patterns, or one can transcend them by living in satsang with the Divine, and thus be purified of that mechanism and live from and as the heart, as love, as the Divine in human form. It is a radical choice, and an uncommon one. One simply must have no other choice than to live as love.

[jaymacone]

All of you arguers.... please!!!! The ego, which by the very definition you hold yourself AS, IS what you ARE, can never argue sucessfully about things egos cannot possibly know about from the standpoint of being the ego. A being self-identified as separate CANNOT fathom unity, or love, only separateness, and the absolute starvation of spirit that that self viewpoint is. You are starving, and your viewpoint is that food is poison to your intellect... the opposite is true.

[KigreTheViking]

We are ONE.

[alreadyhappy2010]

oh, how this video clip says IT ALL, in a nutshell. To live with HIM at all times is ones salvation, undoing. To Love God first places one in an entirely different disposition, under all the conditions of life. Simply Love That that is Prior, and Adi Da is That.

[adidam77]

what greater message is there?