For the last 20 years I have become ever more increasingly sensitized to the frustration (and the justifiable why of it) that Bright Siddha Da expressed most potently at the end of his life. He expressed that devotees and the world were refusing to engage the obvious and doable humanly self/other relational discipline of most fundamental right action that is signed by no conflict and dropping of ego politics.
For decades he put up with this refusal from all those came to him. Then in the last years of his life he expressed the urgency of this right action for the sake of the entire world.
He then indicated that this refusal was the same refusal all Siddha Masters had to acknowledge before their passing. Why? Egos do not want to yield or surrender or endure the esoteric tapas/discipline required for True Divine Self insight, awakening and Realization. Egos want do it yourself techniques and programs, in a field that is not about Prior Unity.
He left here saying (paraphrased) "you and the world are not interested in what I have to Give and can Awaken. My purpose is done. It is up to you to make right use of the Means I have established".
His frustration and description of refusal is entirely and clearly felt and understood now, without any reactivity or questions. I have heard for years and years now excuses as to why this right action cannot be engaged and will be so in the future because of ......blah blah blah blah.
The antithesis of Radical Reality Truth and Understanding.
Adi Da: "There is no cheap “super-truth” or “clever method” for “everyman” in this entropic time of aggressive consumerism, universal indiscriminate and waste-bound consumption of everything, and virtually totalistic scientific and technological “world”-domination.
The True Reality-Way of Intrinsically ego-transcending devotion to Me Is (now, and forever hereafter) as demanding and difficult as all the seeking-paths ever were in the past, before My Divine Avataric Self-“Emergence” here—and the fundamental requirements of the practice of devotion to Me are, essentially, the same requirements declared by all Realizers, even since the ancient days.
If you are My devotee, I Am the Unique Advantage Given to you—but, nevertheless, there is no “easy” (or egoically “self”-preserving) path by which to live the Reality-Way of Adidam in My Divine Avataric Company.
The Divine Avataric Reality-Way of devotion to Me Is a “manly” Way of life—for man and for woman. It Is a Way of life that Is “creative” in the highest sense, because It Is a Way of life purposed to the intrinsic and the always active transcending of the patterns of egoity, rather than to “self”-fulfillment of the body-mind in this “world” (or to the utopian “Perfecting” of this “world” itself).
That Is the Intrinsic, Self-Evident, and Perfectly Necessary Divine Law."
From You The People (Not-Two Is Peace)
Adi Da: "The working-presumption of prior unity—rather than
the search for unity—is the right and true context for
all human exchanges. If there is the working presumption
of prior unity, then ego-surrendering cooperation
and tolerance make perpetual human peace. If there is
no working-presumption of prior unity, then human interactions
become a mere game of competitive egos. And that
competitive game is, now, on the verge of destroying
humankind and the Earth itself—even at every level of ordinary,
and natural, and economic, and political, and, altogether,
social life. That competitive and, at last, constantly
confrontational ego-game is a struggle that inevitably occurs
in every context of presumed non-unity and separateness—
thus producing a situation in which everybody is trying to
dominate everybody else. That relentlessly competitive and
confrontational situation is a lunatic-asylum game that, ultimately,
threatens the very survival of life on Earth.
The entire world is now on the verge of absolute
destruction—and for no necessary or justifiable reason whatsoever.
The Measure of Truth is not being brought to bear
on this situation. Therefore, there is, apparently, no readily
applicable means for controlling the madness. It appears
there are only competing crowds of factionalists, each crowd
advocating its local “absolute”—in political or religious or
whatever terms. Nothing—no Truth or Greater Reality—is
presumed to be senior to the local beliefs, claims, and
demands of every “tribe” of “Everyman”.
Conflict and destruction take all kinds of forms in the
human world and in human history. There has already been
a long chain of terrible tyrants in the human sphere—but
people everywhere seem to be unaware of the fact that the
latest tyrant is everybody—or “Everyman”. The latest—and
the last—tyrant is “Everyman”. The last tyrant is “the people”.
In this “late-time”, “the people” have, as a collective,
become merely another ego-driven, manipulatable, chaotic,
and entirely mad entity—a kind of lunatic “herd”, a chaos of
gross collectivity. That tyrannical “herd” is subject to the
same whims and absurdities as any individual tyrant ever
was or is. That terrible “herd” knows no limits—and even all
and everything it merely thinks it knows is not Reality and
Truth. The “herd” that “the people” have become is simply
another tyrant—and the last to rise and fall in human-time.
The “tyranny of everybody” is what is happening now.
In the now, every individual wallows in the “Narcissistic selfidea”,
demanding immediate satisfaction of the every wantingneed
and random impulse in the body-mind, and threatening
all-and-All with “consequence”-to-come, if separate “self” is
found still wanting or unsatisfied at end of any day. The
“neighborhood wars” between all egos, “tribes”, and cults of
“thing” are what is happening now. The private wars of
“Everyman”, the society of “Everyman”, the religiosity of
“Everyman”, the “late-time” of “Everyman” is what is happening
now. The “Everyman” is “Narcissus”, the last tyrant—
the ego itself. When the tyrant becomes everybody, that is
the end-time. When the tyrant is just somebody-in-particular,
then there are revolutions, ups and downs and cycles.
However, at the last, when the tyrant becomes everybody,
there are no more cycles, but only a linearity of sames—and
everyone and everything disintegrates in stops. Such is the
awful nature of the present time, of ego’s rule of all.
Therefore, it is absolutely urgent that there be an immediate
and total transformation at the root of human culture and society
and politics. A new kind of human institution must emerge
in the world—an institution that truly establishes a global
cooperative order. That new (and, necessarily, global) institution
must establish and enact a non-tyrannical (and even
counter-tyrannical, or entirely post-tyrannical) order of
rightly and effectively functioning cooperation between
everyone—between all nations, between all cultures and
“tribes”, between all the “neighborhoods”.
What is required is not a matter of merely “having a dialogue”
and “working toward” unity. In any such effort of
“working toward”, there is, in all the works, still plenty of effort
to dominate. Therefore, what is required is the establishment
of the universal working-presumption of prior unity—such
that “the people”, in every guise, lay down their arms, lay
down their conflicts and their aggressive competitiveness,
and, on that basis, straightforwardly handle all the business
that is in the interest of everybody altogether.
That “handling of business” is not being done at the present
time. Now, everybody is “on the brink” with everybody
else. It is everywhere like that. The “daily news” is that.
Everyone’s daily life has become something like an insane
sporting event—that is played to the death. The human
world of nowtime is like colossal Reality-TV—a dreadful
mini-series, a few weeks until death. The common world of
nowtime is mere insanity—Reality-madness. Everyone and
everything is mad with “Everyman” now—mad with ego, mad
with “Narcissus”. The last tyrant is everybody—everybody at
war with everybody, to the death.
If this mad world-mummery continues unchecked, the present
time of human history is the end of humantime. It is no
longer a matter of one principal tyrant somewhere, some head
of state somewhere, who is the “whomever”, or the “whatever”,
that everyone loves to hate as everybody’s “enemy”. In
this “late-time” (or “dark” epoch), everybody is the “enemy”.
Everybody is wrong. Everybody is at fault. Everybody is
“Narcissus”. Everybody is “Everyman”. “Everyman” is everywhere.
The “objectified self” is at large. If “Everyman” is not
soon disciplined by the Truth That Is Reality Itself—so that
the world of “Everyman” discovers and accepts “its” limits,
“its” place—then “Everyman” is going to destroy not only
humankind but all life, and the Earth-world itself."
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