Divine Distraction

By James Steinberg.

Only edition: 11/91.
©1991 Sri Love-Anandashram (Naitauba) Pty Ltd,
as a trustee for the Sri Love-Anandashram (Naitauba) Trust.
ISBN: 0-918801-34-6.
LOCCCN: 91-035601.

Forward by The Reverend Thomas E. Ahlburn.

Introduction:
Part I: The Supreme Secret of the Great Tradition: The Way of Distracted Love for the God-Man:

The Mere Sight of Sat-Guru Da Love-Ananda Is Sufficient, but You Must Be Prepared.

The Appearance of Da Avabhasa, The Divine World-Teacher, Whose Word and Acts Are the Supreme Help for Men and Women of the Modern Age (EotWB), (4/6/87).

My Own Graceful Instruction at the Feet of My Sat-Guru.

The Living God-Man and the Universal Disease of Ego-Addiction (Bot).

"What Is to Be Realized?": The Unique World-View Founded upon Divine Self-Realization.(PROOF).

The Way of Distracted Love for the God-Man (12/16/75).

The Message of This Book Is Ultimately the Appearance and Gift That Is Sri Da Avabhasa Himself.

Chapter One: Love of the God-Man:

Divine Distraction (12/16/75).
"Do They Really Know That I Love Them?"-Sat-Guru Da Is the Heart-Husband of His Devotees (DHT) (11/30/84).
Love of the God-Man (10/10/83).
The Secret "Method" of the Sat-Guru: Love without Limit.
The Love That Is the Happiness of My Life-A Story of Being Drawn Beyond My Egoic Self by Divine Attraction.
The Divine Love of the Sat-Guru Becomes the Sole Desire of the Devotee (EotWB).

The Identity and Ecstatic Speech of Sri Da Avabhasa: (12/17/82).
"The Vision He Granted Me Was Astounding" (Charles Seage).
The Hridaya-Samartha Sat-Guru, (BoT), (Ben Fugitt),(3/90, Susan Isaacson).
The God-Man (11/4/80), (BoT).
The Revelation of the Divine Identity of Da Avabhasa and the Ecstatic Speech of the Sat-Guru (12/17/82).
"I Feel More Profoundly Than You"-The Sat-Guru, Although Founded in Realization, Is Profoundly and Vulnerably Human. (6/29/83), (11/14/85).

Chapter Four: "I Do Not Offer You a Method, but a Relationship: Satsang and the Necessity of a Sat-Guru:

The "Same" Guru Appears in All Religions for the Sake of Divine Association (11/4/80).
Satsang: The "Method" of the Siddhas (METH), (8/5/87), (7/7/74).
The Necessity for the Sat-Guru as Described in the One and Great Tradition of Mankind (METH), (Vivekananda), (BoT), (Maharshi). Hinduism: (R-Veda), (KU), (Ramakrishna), (Vivekananda), (Muktananda), (KT). Sikhism (GGS). Buddhism (Naropa), (Patrul Rinpoche). Islam (Rumi). Christianity (Sister Donald Corcoran), (St. Seraphim). Judaism (Samuel Dresner).

The Prejudices and Other Limitations That Must Be Overcome
If Practice in Relationship to a True Guru Is to Be Fruitful:
A Call for Genuine Tolerance and an End to the Bigotry and Prejudice Directed towards Gurus and Minority Religions (BoT).
Beware of Those Who Balk at the Ordeal of Submission Required in the Company of the Sat-Guru (SoSS).
Beyond The Cultic Tendency in Religion (HYMN).
True Surrender Requires the Transcendence of Childish and Adolescent Attitudes (12/17/78), (EotWB), (PROOF), (HYMN).

The Functions of the Sat-Guru as Supremely Exemplified by Sri Da Avabhasa: (10/80).
The Sat-Guru as the Giver of Divine Blessing to His or Her Devotees (1/11/76).
The Sat-Guru as the Object of Contemplation for His or Her Devotees (GGITA), (88), (GITA), (Peter Lennon).
The Sat-Guru as Demand and Guide, Who Establishes the Culture of Expectation and Inspiration for His or Her Devotees (PROOF), (METH).
The Sat-Guru as Clarifier and Purifier of the Great Tradition.
The Sat-Guru as Prophet, Who Instructs the Entire World by His Criticisms (EotWB), (12/23/73).
The Sat-Guru as Giver of the Written Teaching (TWO-A), (DHT).
The Sat-Guru as Demonstrator of the Teaching in Life, Whose Teaching Leelas Clarify in Living Terms Every Aspect of Human Existence (NIRV), (Crane Kirkbride), (9/15/82), (EotWB).
The Sat-Guru as Creator of the Means by Which His Blessing Transmission May Forever Be Made Available (6/15/74).
The Sat-Guru as Blesser of the World (Maharshi), (1/1/84), (79), (11/7/83).
The Unprecedented Divine Emergence of Sri Da Avabhasa (2/5/89).

The Devotee Must First Acknowledge the Sat-Guru (Patrick Mahoney), (50VoGD).
Come to Me When You Are Already Happy: The Lesson of Life (DHT).
The Bond That Liberates: The Eternal Mutual Commitment between the Sat-Guru and the Devotee.
The Sacrament of Universal Sacrifice (B&N), (Deborah Fremont-Smith).
The Sat-Guru Absorbs into Himself the Karmas of His Devotee (Dan Bouwmeester, M.D.).
Surrender through Obedience: The Secret of Always Remaining in the Blessing-Sphere of the Sat-Guru (GITA), (Dalai Lama).

Chapter Eight: "Always Allow The Divine Person to Stand Even As Your Own body-mind":
The Sublime Practice of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga:
Devotion (EotWB).
Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga (4/11/86), (8/74), (3/22/86), (DHT), (7/1/89).
Enchantment (4/26/83).
"You Are All Going to Become Masts with Me": The Sat-Guru's Ecstasy Does the Yoga (1/3/74).
Worship of the Incarnate Divine Person (HYMN), (Vivekananda), (78).

Sadhana Hurts: the Spiritual Process Requires Everything of a Man or a Woman (12/19/87).
Crisis and Purification in the Genuine Spiritual Process (11/15/75), (Gnanananda), (METH), (72), (Aniello Panico).
Be Devoted Regardless (1/29/76), (Milarepa), (Marpa).
"Your Obligation for Service Is Effective Twenty-Four Hours a Day" (7/9/88), (80).
Cultivating or Pleasing the Guru through Service to Him or Her (BLoH).
The Sacred Ordeal of the Sat-Guru (7?).

Divine Initiation at Holy Cat Grotto.
"My Blessing Work Is The Transmission Work (or Giving Work) Of The Heart": Yogic Shaktipat and Hridaya-Shaktipat (EotWB), (KV), (7/82), (DHT).
Tangible Experiential Signs of the Reception of the Blessing-Grace of Sri Da Avabhasa (Linda Beltrame), (Suprithi).
"My Guru Is My Liberation, My Freedom, and My Joy":
A Further Testimony of the Mature Reception of Sri Da Avabhasa's Grace as Seen through Kanya Tripura Rahasya's Confession of the Ecstasy and Freedom of the Witness-Position of Consciousness.
Sri Da Avabhasa's "Crazy-Wise" Work of Blessing.

"A Unique Advantage to Mankind": An Invitation to a Direct Relationship with Da Avabhasa by Carolyn Lee.
Glossary: A Guide to the Sacred Esoteric Language of the Way of the Heart.
Further Notes to the Reader.
The Sacred Literature of Da Avabhasa (The "Bright").
Index.
(319 pp.)

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