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Dimension 6:
Which "Voice" Adi Da Was Using
When He Spoke or Wrote

When an ordinary human being speaks or writes, he or she is expressing the self-contracted, egoic viewpoint. This is not to say that that expression can't be complex and have multiple "voices": the ego has internal contradictions (and either side might be expressing itself in any moment of communication), can communicate itself idealistically or "realistically", etc. But what is in common to every moment of expression and all those "voices" is the self-contracted ego.

• Speaking or writing as the Very Divine. For example:
  
  
  

  What a miracle. What a wonder! I am He! I am God! I am the Adept in our generation! What an amusement that it should happen in precisely this form! I can't account for it Myself. But I am not a "me." I literally am you. I am your psyche and mind. I am your being, your destiny, your ego. I am all selves: literally, not metaphorically. I know this for absolute certain because I am you. I think your mind. I breathe your breath. I suck down your food. I shit out your life. I am your person altogether and absolutely. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, "The Baptism of Immortal Happiness" The Dreaded Gom-Boo (1982)

  
  

  I was not born. I cannot die. I did not begin. I will not end. I am. I am beyond form, quality, and description. I am. I am consciousness. I am love-bliss. I am smaller than the atom. I am larger than the universe. I am. I am. I am. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Ruchira Avatara Gita

  
  

  Indeed, the "I" and "Me" and "My Self" that speaks to you in this Testament is My Own unique Voice of Self-reference, and it is, with My Name "Da", the representation and expression of My ecstatic, or enstatic, inherent, necessary, and inherently perfectly Love-Blissful Identification with the One and Only Condition that is the Great and Only One. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Dawn Horse Testament

  
  
  
• Speaking or writing as the egoless human form animated by the Very Divine. For example:
  
  
  

  I have realized that One. I am lived by that One. The mind in this body is utterly surrendered in that Mind. This self is dissolved in that Self. It is this One that I have indicated and proclaimed by the name, "Da". . . . I am a sacrifice for devotees. . . . I am "John", the Messenger of Da. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, 1982

  Here is Adi Da speaking as the human body being used mercilessly by the Divine Person for the great Divine Work:

  You didn't get that it was going to be the Divine from birth, without previous training. Awake at Birth? Submitting from Birth? Because that's what the Avatar must do. That's what the Divine does in this conjunction. It just takes all of this supposed "My Lifetime", torments it, uses it, uncompromisingly. I have been shattered by this lifetime of work. I've been used uncompromisingly by My Own Prior State. All I do is suffer. The body is only this suffering. It's just a tool being mercilessly put to this purpose. So, if I have to die in this struggle, I've already done that many times, even in this life. It's not something ultimately that I can do anything about. It's not something I merely accept, it's just a happening. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, June 22, 2007

  And here is Adi Da speaking as the Divine Person, using the human body mercilessly for the great Divine Work!

  It is Franklin who needed to be Enlightened, who sought to be Free, who endured these experiences, performing the question and the answer, who wonders now about his relationship to Me. It is Franklin who has been My point of view, My trouble, the field of My dilemma, the problem itself. But I have never been this one, never wondered or sought, never entered the precincts of this dilemma, never even understood. Therefore, what I have Realized has even nothing to do with him — except that, knowing this, I can use him with abandon, never assuming he is not Free. Avatar Adi Da Samraj

  
  
• Speaking, writing, or acting in Crazy-Wise fashion as a reflection of the ego of one or more of His devotees. Because Adi Da was an incarnation of the Divine (the Consciousness in whom all beings and things are arising), He had the unique Divine Siddhi (spiritual power) of being able to "become" anyone, with a simple act of attention. This Siddhi formed the core of the period of His Work now referred to as "The Teaching Years", where He would teach by reflection. He would "become" His devotees, and take on all their mannerisms, impulses, and egoic expression, so as to paint a picture for them, so they could see (and understand and transcend) themselves. Adi Da wrote about the "Crazy-Wise" manner of teaching in the following epitome:
  
  
  

  What I Do is not the way that I Am, but the way that I Teach. What I Speak is not a reflection of Me, but of you. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Way That I Teach

  
  
  One story on this site, The Mad Talking Dance, describes an evening when Adi Da illustrated this Siddhi of becoming them in a very direct and obvious way to His devotees. You can find a few instances here or there in the spoken talks or written literature of Adi Da directly becoming His devotee — for example, I tell one story where Adi Da looked at me for an instant, and in that instant, reflected to me my tendency to be sorrowful.
  
  In many other cases, Adi Da takes a reading of His devotees (by becoming them), and then responds to them on that basis, alternately empathizing with them (because He is them) and criticizing them (because He is the Divine, and is calling them to transcend their egoic patterning and realize the Divine). The talk, The Way of Fun, is an excellent example of this. He describes how, after being around His devotees, He "finally got it", that "it's time for the Siddhas" to adapt to modern times, "time for the Truth to change". This new way ("The Way of Fun") — for realizing God without requiring self-transcendence — will "require nothing of you except to really dig those Divine Vibes." The talk is Adi Da's wonderful reflection of how the ego is always trying to revise the Way into something that is self-fulfilling rather than self-transcending. "So whatever kind of association you have with Me . . . as long as it's fun, you're happy to do it. But if it requires anything of you, your resistance comes on immediately."
  
  
  
• Speaking as the reincarnation of the specific "deeper personality" vehicle that made His Incarnation possible. For example, in the following talk excerpt, when Adi Da says, "having been, for so much time, in My service to humanity, born in the East as a Hindu", He is referring to the specific history of the "deeper personality" vehicle associated with His birth, that last incarnated as Swami Vivekananda. (He is not suggesting that the Divine has completely Incarnated many times before as a Hindu, and most recently as "Adi Da".)
  
  

  Because of My unique Disposition, I agreed to be born in the West, having been, for so much time in My Service to humanity, not a Westerner, but born in the East as a Hindu. I was Impulsed to Serve beings in the West especially, and all beings ultimately. Therefore, I agreed to this Birth, and was made in this particular form to Serve everyone, and to suffer all the limitations of ordinariness. So I was born, and I did My Work. This Person standing before you, Serving you, a traditional Realizer, even a celibate, was wedded to the Eastern culture for centuries, and then assumed responsibility to be Submitted by Birth — not merely to get on an airplane, but by Birth to be Submitted — to Westerners, even to be polluted by the association, to Submit to it, to Serve them in all ways necessary for the sake of their Enlightenment, their Realization, to do it all without the least withdrawal. Therefore, I had to Realize the Tantric disposition of Submission to do the Great Work with those who traditionally or in times past have been excluded from the Great Affair. This is My unique Impulse, to not exclude them, to not exclude you. Even by My Birth I had to embrace great suffering in order to Serve you. Who knows how long this life will last? But that is the reality of My situation. Whoever you say I might have been in times past, I am not anyone but you. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Love-Ananda Gita