This beautiful, evocative and heartfelt devotional chanting of the Text of Ruchira Avatara Gita was made by Naamleela Free Jones, a daughter and devotee of Avatar Adi Da. The recording was done in March 2001, at Temple Adi Da, on The Mountain Of Attention Pilgrimage And Retreat Sanctuary, in northern California. ·Listen to the Chant |
Book Excerpts Ruchira Avatara Gita(The Avataric Way Of The Divine Heart-Master)
— Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj
It discusses a universal law at work in our lives — "you become what you meditate on" — and why that law is the foundation of esoteric religious practice. The second section, from Part Four of the Ruchira Avatara Gita, is an Essay by Avatar Adi Da titled "Beyond the Cultic Tendency in Religion and Spirituality, and in Secular Society". In this Essay, Avatar Adi Da criticizes the childish and adolescent orientation of Guru-cultism — because that orientation is not capable of the achieving the true purpose of Guru-devotion: freedom from suffering, perfect Happiness, Divine Self-Realization.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Anciently, it was presumed that, in any generation, if you had any interest in Realizing something more than the mayhem of your own suffering, you should go and find a Realizer. It was presumed that you should try very hard to find a Realizer, and that, when such a one is found, you should throw yourself at that one's feet and take his or her Instruction — because that one was the only one (or, at most, one of a few) in that generation who (to some profound degree) enjoyed the capability to go through the ordeal and discover what the Structure of Reality is and what to do within It. This discovery (and this capability) is not something that every individual can find out on his or her own. You are not born with the tendency to do it, and you will not do it on your own. Well — if a person must find the Great Process at the Feet of a Realizer, you see what difficulty this generation is in! This generation is dramatizing a disinclination toward authority — every man for himself, every woman for herself. A struggle against authority characterizes this generation and many generations now past. The great link to the Ultimate Process is being thrown away with this disinclination. Some apparently think that, because of the (generally, Omega-like, or preferentially outward-directed, independent, and ego-preserving) orientation typical of Westerners, the True Spiritual Way (Revealed to any profound degree) cannot be brought to them as It truly Is, and It must, therefore, be changed for Westerners. According to this kind of thinking, the Guru and all kinds of matters associated with devotion and the Spiritual Process as It has been traditionally communicated must be disregarded, and the True Spiritual Way must be changed into something a Westerner can do by himself or herself. However, simply because Westerners are (or have been), by tendency, not disposed (or inclined) to take up the True Spiritual Way as It (necessarily) Is does not mean that the True Spiritual Way can be changed, and that they will (thereby) wind up Realizing It. It does not work that way. The True Spiritual Way is just the way It Is. Its own Laws are inherent within It. The True Spiritual Way is characterized by certain Laws of process. They simply cannot be changed. Individuals are all born with certain tendencies of attention, and they are simply tending to fulfill their destiny. Realizers (of whatever degree) appear in order to help break the spell, and to link individuals with the Great Process. — December 27, 1988 Next: Beyond the Cultic Tendency — from The Dawn Horse Press —
 Ruchira Avatara Gita (The Avataric Way Of The Divine Heart-Master) by The Avataric Great Sage, Adi Da Samraj "Avatar Adi Da's Ruchira Avatara Gita has been carved out of the Heart of a great, presently living Master, out of compassion for aspiring humanity. I feel this Gita will be of immense help to aspirants for a divine life." — M. P. Pandit, author The Upanishads; Gateways of Knowledge; Studies in the Tantras and the Veda learn more quality paperback, 432 pages $24.95 |
Editor's Note: This article is in two sections. The first section, which extends through Pages 1 & 2, is an excerpt from the introduction to the Ruchira Avatara Gita, one of the 23 Divine "Source-Texts" of the Way of Adidam.