What IS True Wealth and Giving?

Please scroll down the page, to see Adi Da’s Words, below the images.

Adi Da's Words are the same as hundreds of exactly the same kind of Instruction He gave consistently up until His Mahasamadhi. The issues which He points to and refers to as "devotees must not do this " are exactly the same as what is being done now in 2026. 

Adi Da: "The failures of the institution in the past have occurred because the people in charge were not able to transcend these qualities in themselves. Something in their tendencies causes them to betray their own Help. They are psychologically tending to be weak because of a weak commitment to the Way and a lack of awareness about the world and its processes. They must transcend their lack of knowledge, their naivete, and their dramatization of the adolescent’s need to control everything.

It is not that they should retire into a cave. They should serve in their functions by growing up and living like devotees. There are many, many forms of service in the institution, and the small group at the top must not try to do everything. To do so is to keep a stranglehold on the institution. To do so is a sign of craving for power and authority. It is a false motivation, and it must be transcended. To make this Work grow, devotees must pass the Prasad. They must grant people their energy. They must stop killing life and holding on to information.

I gave it all away. I created it, and I gave it all away. There is enough there for thousands of people. But devotees do not understand what has been given to them. They must come to that understanding. They must be manly, and they must take this Prasad as a Gift. They must know that the Teaching Revelation has been given to many, and that I am in Communion with countless people who have not yet been notified.

It is the institution’s responsibility to notify those people, to help them practice, and to encourage them to serve the institution. Devotees have inherited a great estate. They do not yet know that they are millionaires. The institution must therefore notify them. People are always coming to the Sanctuary and being surprised by the Presence there. They always say that they want to come back. Why aren’t thousands of people coming there constantly as a Source of refuge? And why aren’t they telling their friends about it?

The institution must be vigorous and expansive. People must be communicated to. People are dying and suffering even though there is religion and everything else out there, but most of religion and everything else are fake, a compromise. They do not serve and help people truly. My intention has been to establish an institution that is a Transmitter of the Greatness of this Way, and to see it be wholly and vigorously alive and dealing with things that other religions do not want to think about yet, but that must be addressed.

The institution must help many people become involved with all the unique areas of this Teaching. Practitioners must stop interfering with the Process that is working in them, and they must become the inheritors of what they have been given. They should be the happy inheritors of this Way of life. When I see devotees, I want to notice how they have expanded their wealth.

I have given you an immense fortune. Go beyond your neurosis. Get involved with many more people. Be creative with your wealth. You have been given so much. It seems impossible to fail when you have been given so much, but you will fail if you do not recognize what you have been given."