GURU AS PROPHET
from My "Bright" Word
DEVOTEE: Beloved Master, could You speak about Your role as Prophet in the world?
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: I have Revealed that the intelligence of "radical" self-understanding must already (in the foundationary sense) be established before I can Initiate My devotee into the True Spiritual process in My Avataric Divine Company.
Therefore, My Function as the True Divine Guru is (necessarily, and inherently) not a public function. I do not walk down the street and "zap" people — telling them that "life is a fountain" (pretending that everything is already all right), or showering blessings on them, or consoling them, or fascinating them. None of these things serves the crisis of self-understanding that is required for the Real Spiritual process.
One who Functions as Guru exercises the Guru-Function only in relation to those who are his or her devotees. If the Guru addresses public society at all, he or she may also (in the public setting) assume the role of prophet — which is, essentially, an aggravation, a criticism, an undermining of the usual life.
My Function as the True Divine Guru is not a public function. My Guru-Function is not manifested in the public circumstance. And the public is not invited, as public (that is to say, as those who are not yet My formally practicing devotees), to presume a devotional relationship to Me — as if the True Spiritual process in My Avataric Divine Company were something that a person could merely "decide" to do, or embrace, or believe, and could then go ahead and perform, independent of the formal practicing relationship to Me.
Therefore, in relation to the common world, I Manifest only the Function of Prophet and Critic. As Prophet, I do not exploit the seeker's approach to Me. Rather, I Call the seeker to observe the suffering, dilemma, and dis ease that is motivating his or her search — whether the search is to take on Spiritual practices and other kinds of disciplines or (otherwise) to exploit the possibilities of ordinary life.
My Spiritual Function as Divine Siddha-Guru is essentially hidden, until an individual (having formally embraced the Eternal Vow of devotion to Me) becomes established in the fundamental devotional discipline of turning the four psycho-physical faculties (of body, emotion, mind, and breath) to Me and in the basic life-disciplines I Require of My devotees — and has (thereby) begun to become established in "radical" self-understanding.
Only then does it become Lawful, and even Effective, for Me to Grant My Initiatory (and Love-Bliss-Full) Spiritual Blessing to My devotee.
To the extent that I appear in public at all — for example, by writing books, or even simply by the existence of the gathering of My devotees in this world — My visible Role can only be that of Prophet. I do not serve people's random needs to be fulfilled, to be consoled, to be fascinated.
Every individual who is moved to Realize Real God, Truth, and Reality in My Avataric Divine Company must approach Me as My formally practicing devotee — and, in every such case, the usual egoic process will (and must) be Offended, Criticized, and Undermined by Me.
As the Avataric Incarnation of the Very Divine Person, I must be Paradoxical, I must be Free — in order to Serve the Divine Liberation of My devotees. The qualities of My Avataric Divine Activity cannot be predetermined.
I do not consistently assume the qualities of any particular archetype — the holy man, the Yogi, the Sage. I must be Free to Appear as I will. I am always Acting to Undo the egoic life of My devotees — even if only by Merely Being Who I Am.
I Call My devotees to understand that the Real Spiritual life in My Avataric Divine Company is not identified with any particular qualities, tendencies, or preferences. Thus, I Call My devotees to drop all the armor that people tend to take on when they think they are turning away from the world of suffering and toward the Truth.
Religious or Spiritual seeking is not the Way to Truth. No remedial (or strategic) path is the Way to Real God. No experiential process directly (or in and of itself) Realizes Real God.
Only present-time Divine Communion is the Foundation of genuine religious and Spiritual life. All the strategic paths to God are merely seeking for God. All forms of seeking for God are ego-based — not Real-God-based. No such strategic (or merely seeking) path can ever serve the crisis of "radical" self-understanding.
Therefore, My devotees must be purified not only of their ordinary self indulgent and irresponsible habits, but also, equally, of their accumulated notions of "spirituality". Real God is not Realized by mere experiences, or by the fulfillment of prescriptions, moralities, or presumptions about how things are, were, or will be. In My Function as Prophet, I must always find ways to Undo people's illusions.
In Satsang with Me, the crisis of self-understanding is an entirely individual process for each of My devotees. There is no end to the variety of conditions that may arise at one moment or another in the life of Satsang with Me.
Therefore, life in My Avataric Divine Company cannot be predetermined. It cannot be fixed or ritualized. Satsang with Me is a living Condition in Which I Draw My true devotees to Myself, so that the Real Spiritual process may then come alive, through My Siddhi of Avataric Divine Spiritual Self-Transmission.
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