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"Radical" Devotion

Introduction - Part 4

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Right Life
by Avatar Adi Da Samraj

In this passage, Avatar Adi Da uses
another one of the principal names
of the Reality-Way of Adidam —
"the 'Radical' Way of the Heart".

Rightly Conservative self-Discipline Of the body-mind Is Fundamental To The Practice Of The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given "Radical" Way Of The Heart (or Way Of Adidam).

Indeed, Rightly Conservative self-Discipline Has Always (Traditionally) Been Acknowledged As Fundamental To Spiritual Life. The Responsibility For Right Conservative self-Discipline Is Inherent and Inescapable In The Esoteric Process Of Realization....

These By-Me-Given Foundation Disciplines Of The "Radical" Way Of The Heart Are Not ascetical. They Are Not At All A Matter Of Dissociating From the body-mind or Of Disconnecting the body-mind From its environment Of Participation.

Rather, These By-Me-Given Foundation Disciplines Are Entirely Life-Positive — and Entirely A Matter Of Establishing The Right (and Necessary) Equanimity Of the body-mind (or The Total psycho-physical Complex Of the individual being) Through Disciplines Of Basic Right Life (Understood Not In moralistic, or puritanical, or merely behavioral Terms, but Understood In Spiritual and Divine Terms)....

Right Practice Of The By-Me-Given Foundation Disciplines Of The "Radical" Way Of The Heart Is Simply The Living Of Right Life, Through The Establishment Of Participatory Equanimity, For The Sake Of Devotional and (In Due Course) Spiritual Communion With Me (and, Ultimately, Most Perfect Realization Of Me) — Not In The Mode Of A Seeker, but In The Mode Of A Non-Contracted Participant....

If Such Is The Case, Then There Is (More and More) The Developing Evidence Of Profundity Of life and (Ultimately) Of Realization.

— Avatar Adi Da Samraj
The Dawn Horse Testament
Of The Ruchira Avatar

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— from The Dawn Horse Press —

Radical Devotion Cvr "Radical" Devotion
by Avatar Adi Da Samraj
A supplement to The Way of Perfect Knowledge

This remarkable book contains recent Reality-Way Teachings given by Avatar Adi Da, in August and September of 2006.

The essay titles include:

· The Reality-Practice
· The Ancient Walk-About Way
· The Way of The Mirror Is Me
· Mere Concentration Versus True Surrender
· True Devotion Is Prior Communion
— Not the Search For Union and Unity



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