Pleasurable Oneness With Water Itself

Avatar Adi Da Samraj:

"The wrong relationship to experiential phenomena is to presume that you are a separate person, a separate consciousness, in the midst of a world that you know nothing about, that somehow encloses you, that is objective to you, that is separate from you. In that case, you see, experience is a very serious business. You have no option but to submit to it, to be distracted and tormented by it."

Dialogue between Adi Da and devotees:

ADI DA SAMRAJ:  You can live this Way as the Pleasure Dome in My [Bright] Company. But you refuse to do so. You reject the Pleasure Dome, or have been doing so-in spite of the fact that it seems you all agree that it’s a good idea. Don’t you?

DEVOTEES: Yes.

DEVOTEE: Beloved . .

ADI DA SAMRAJ: Mm.

DEVOTEE: There’s this peculiar experiment that was done some time ago, that if you put a frog in a pan, and put a heating element underneath it, the frog won’t jump out of the pan.

ADI DA SAMRAJ: Won’t?

DEVOTEE: No, even to boiling point. It simply hasn’t got it in its behavioral repertoire to feel the slow changes of the heating.

ADI DA SAMRAJ: Mmm.

DEVOTEE: And it seems to me that the world is heating up more and more as well, and there’s nothing in our nothing in our behavioral repertoire to stop it or react to it. But it seems to me that You are the Person that lifts us out of that particular situation.

ADI DA SAMRAJ: Mm-hm. Tcha.

DEVOTEE: And into the Kiln!

ADI DA SAMRAJ: Mm. So I’ve not been describing, or “considering” with you an ascetical Way, a puritanical Way, a double-minded Way, a Way of seeking based on problems. This is not what I’ve Given you at all. But you have somehow changed this Way in your association with it. It is nothing like all of that.

“Your refusal of Me is the same as your refusal of woman. Your refusal of woman is your refusal of the world.”

You insist on your independence, your refusal of heart-submission, hard-heartedness. But it’s something you’re so used to, because you’re doing it all the time with one another. What heart submission is in your sexing? Your sex problem, your emotional-sexual dramatization that you’re always struggling with, your double-mindedness about it, your guilt about it, your shame about it, your fear about it, your weakness, whatever. That’s what you’re doing with this Treasure, that’s what you’re doing with woman, that’s what you’re doing with the senses, the world, then. Your refusal of Me is the same as your refusal of woman. Your refusal of woman is your refusal of the world. Your refusal of the heart and the Law of the senses, Divinely “considered”.

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Adi Da Love Ananda: "Well, let’s understand it in your human terms. You know what I mean by the Pleasure Dome, then. Make an immensity of Pleasure Dome at the center of your lives. And every day when you go to work, begin from there. If you can find a way to stay in the Pleasure Dome, that’s good, too. If everybody who went to Parliament tomorrow came from the Pleasure Dome, they’d know they have a lot to lose by continuing their struggles with one another, their obnoxious arm-wrestling, and manipulations, and the goring of the world and the earth and humanity, with nothing but sheer stupidity.

So I’m not here to suggest idealistic poetic notions about religion. It is a most profound, concrete matter, and I have no fairy notions about anything whatsoever. If you want to know what to do, I can tell you exactly. If you want to know what to change, and how to change it, and what the Law is, I can tell you exactly. If you don’t like the fact that I know it all and can tell you that, and you want to figure it out yourself, I’ll see you later."