Love of the God-Man

A Comprehensive Guide to the Traditional and Time-Honored Guru-Devotee Relationship,
the Supreme Means of God-Realization,

As Fully Revealed for the First Time by Da Kalki
(The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Love-Ananda Hridayam)

By James Steinberg

Only edition: 11/90.
©1990 The Free Daist Communion.
ISBN: 918801-22-2.
LOCCCN: 90-19466.

(1/29/76)
Preface: About Da Kalki by Saniel Bonder:
A Brief Celebration of Da Kalki's Life.
About Da Kalki's Names, and the Relationship of the Way of the Heart to the Great Tradition.
Why Da Kalki and His Devotees Capitalize Some Words and Do Not Capitalize Others.

Introduction: The Supreme Secret of the Great Tradition: The Way of Distracted Love for the God-Man:
1. The Mere Sight of Sat-Guru Da Love-Ananda Is Sufficient, but You Must Be Prepared.
2 The Appearance of Da Kalki, The Divine World-Teacher, Whose Word and Acts Are the Supreme Help for Men and Women of the Modern Age (4/6/87).
3 My Own Graceful Instruction at the Feet of My Sat-Guru.
4 The Divine World-Teacher and the Universal Disease of Ego-Addiction (BoT).
5. Love of the God-Man Leads to the Literal Realization of God (12/16/75).
6. The Message of This Book Is Ultimately the Appearance and Gift That Is Sri Da Kalki Himself.

Chapter One: Love of the God-Man: (11/30/83).
1. "I Am Here to Be Love and to Do the Work of Love" (12/16/75).
2. "Do They Really Know That I Love Them?"-Sat-Guru Da Is the Heart-Husband of His Devotees (11/30/84).
3. Love of the God-Man (10/10/83).
4. The Secret "Method" of the Sat-Guru Love without Limit (9/13/79), (11/4/80).
5. The Love That Is the Happiness of My Life-A Story of Being Drawn Beyond My Egoic Self by Divine Attraction.
6. The Divine Love of the Sat-Guru Becomes the Sole Desire of the Devotee (EotWB).

Chapter Two: Who Is the Sat-Guru?: The Identity and Ecstatic Speech of Sri Da Kalki: (12/17/82)
1. Who Is a Sat-Guru? (KT), (BoT)
2. The Hridaya-Samartha Sat-Guru (Narasimha Swami), (BLoH), (Ben Fugitt),(3/90), (Susan Carroll).
3. The Divinely Born Maha-Purusha (1/6/89).
4. The Avataric Incarnation Hridaya-Avatara Sri Da Kalki (BoT), (8/19/82), (GITA).
5. The Mleccha-Guru.
6. The Revelation of the Divine Identity of Da Kalki and the Ecstatic Speech of the Sat-Guru (DHT), (7/28/75), (TEACH), (PROOF), (EotWB), (8/12/82).
7. "What a Miracle! What a Wonder! I Am the Adept of Our Generation" (12/17/82).

Chapter Three: The Tradition of Devotion to the Adept: An Essay by Da Kalki (BoT).

Chapter Four: Beyond the Cultic Tendency in Religion: The Prejudices and Other Limitations That Must Be Overcome If Practice in Relationship to a True Guru Is to Be Fruitful: (HYMN)
1. A Call for Genuine Tolerance and an End to the Bigotry and Prejudice Directed towards Gurus and Minority Religions.
2. Sat-Guru Da Love-Ananda's Purification of Cultic Approaches to the Guru.
3. Beyond The Cultic Tendency in Religion (PROOF), (HYMN).
4. "Who Will Cast the First Stone?": Sri Da Kalki's Struggle with Cultism among His Early Devotees.
5. Sri Da Kalki's Instruction to Devotees in the Wake of the Jonestown Incident (12/17/78).
6. The Re-Education Required of Every "Westerner" (Whether of the East or the West) Before the Right Relationship to the Sat-Guru Can Be Established (BoT), (11/4/80), (GITA).
7. True Surrender at the Feet of the Sat-Guru Requires the Real and Constant Exercise of Discriminative Intelligence and Free Will, Not the Abandonment of These.
8. The Responsibilities of the Devotee and the Sat-Guru in the Guru-Devotee Relationship (12/20/73).
9. Seeking Attention from the Sat-Guru.
10. Undoing the Presumptuousness and Delusion of Beginners (EotWB).
11. The Voice of the Sat-Guru Must Be Heard (EotWB).
12. "Transcend Illusions, Motives, self-Imagery, and All Conceits"- Sri Da Kalki's Graceful Lesson about My Own Cultism ('Dear James').
13. The Culture of Tolerance (EotWB)(BoT).
14. True Surrender Requires the Transcendence of Childish and Adolescent Attitudes(EotWB), (PROOF), (HYMN).

Chapter Five: "History Will Be Made by the Event That Has Occurred in My Room": The Functions of the Sat-Guru as Supremely Exemplified by Sri Da Kalki: (DHT)
1. Satsang: The "Method" of the Siddhas (BoT), (METH), (7/7/74).
2. The Necessity for the Sat-Guru as Described in the One and Great Tradition of Mankind (METH), (Vivekananda), (BoT), (Maharshi). Hinduism (Ramakrishna), (Vivekananda), (Muktananda), (KT). Sikhism (GGS). Buddhism (Naropa), (Patrul Rinpoche). Islam (Rumi). Christianity (Sister Donald Corcoran), (St. Seraphim). Judaism (Samuel Dresner).
3. Sri Da Kalki's Unprecedented Mission of Founding a New Tradition (Chogyam Trungpa).
4. The Nine Principal Functions of the Sat-Guru.
i. The Sat-Guru as the Giver of Divine Blessing to Devotees (1/89).
ii. The Sat-Guru as the Object of Contemplation for His Devotees (GITA), (Maharshi), (KT), (Shirdi) (A. Schimmel), (N. G. Shah Baba), (St. Tereasa of Avila), (St. Seraphim), (Gershom Sholem).
iii. The Sat-Guru as Demand and Guide, Who Establishes the Culture of Expectation and Inspiration for His Devotees (PROOF), (METH).
iv. The Sat-Guru as Clarifier and Purifier of the Great Tradition (CDMS), (7/5/79), (NIRV).
v. The Sat-Guru as Prophet, Who Instructs the Entire World by His Criticisms (EotWB), (12/23/73), (Tukaram).
vi. The Sat-Guru as Giver of the Written Teaching, Whose Word Is a Unique Transmission of His Blessing-Grace
vii. The Sat-Guru as Demonstrator of the Teaching in Life, Whose Teaching Leelas Clarify in Living Terms Every Aspect of Human Existence (NIRV).
viii. The Sat-Guru as Creator of the Means by Which His Blessing Transmission May Forever Be Made Available (6/15/74).
ix. The Sat-Guru as Transcendental Blesser of the World (1/1/84), (79), (11/7/83).

Chapter Six: "I Am the Secret of the Heart": The Realization of the Sat-Guru Its Mysteries and Psycho-Physics: (2/5/89)
1. The Transcendental Identity and Supreme Realization of Sri Da Kalki (PROOF),(WtIT), (DHT), (Maharshi), (HYMN), (Seage).
2. As the Devotee Grows In Practice, the Divine Identity of the Sat-Guru Becomes Obvious (GITA), (7/10/79), (KT).
3. "I Feel More Than You"-The Sat-Guru, Although Founded in Realization, Is Profoundly and Vulnerably Human (HYMN), (11/14/85), (GITA).
4. The Seventh Stage Realizer, Alive as the Heart Itself, Communicates Heart-Realization at All Times (8/5/87), (METH).
5. The Divine Sat-Guru Is the Heart of the Universe, and Everything Arises in Synchronicity around Him (Kerry Rottman), (5/20/87), (Baba Faqir Chand),(Brahmagna Ma), (Subbaramiah).
6. The Divine Realizer Has Transcended the Body and the Deeper Psyche and Lives as the Very Self (88), (8/15/88).
7. Blessing Regard of Others Is Inherent in Divine Realization: The Traditional Bodhisattva Ideal and Da Kalki's "Radical" Understanding (Vimalakirti), (Maharshi).
8. Sri Da Kalki's Living Divine Sacrifice: The Ashvamedha.
9. Sri Da Kalki's Own Description of the Miraculous Event of His Divine Emergence (2/5/89).

Chapter Seven: The Sacrament of Universal Sacrifice and Other Inherent Laws of the Guru-Devotee Relationship: (B&N)
1. The Sacrament of Universal Sacrifice, Which Fulfills the Eternal Law of Mutual Surrender (Deborah Kristal).
2. The Principle of the Guru-Devotee Relationship Is the Constant Surrender of the Separate and Separative self, and the Reception of Divine Blessed Gifts, or Prasad. (B&N) (Maharshi)
3. The Sat-Guru Absorbs into Himself the Karmas of His Devotee (Aniello Panico), (Tom Klosser), (Ramakrishna).
4. The Sat-Guru Is a Fire That Destroys the Karmas of the Devotee Who Surrenders, but That Same Fire Burns the Unsubmitted Ego (11/29/75), (EotWB).
5. "The Law in My Company": Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda's Compassionate Instruction to His Western or "Westernized" Devotees in How to Approach Him Rightly (9/20/78).
6. The Sat-Guru's Grace Is Always Given, but the Devotee Can Only Use as Much of It as He or She Is Prepared to Receive (Michael Thompson), (Ramakrishna).
7. True Surrender Requires Great Will, Discrimination, and the Gift of Grace.
8. The Bond of Love between the Sat-Guru and the Devotee (1/11/76), (Muktananda), (B&N).
9. Sri Da Kalki's Gift of Love.

Chapter Eight: "My Requirements Are for Your Good": Sat-Guru-Seva: (HYMN)
1. "What Do You Do When the Avadhoot Comes to Town?" (Maharshi).
2. Attending to the Needs of the Sat-Guru Is the Principal Responsibility of the Devotee.
3. The Obligation That Is a Gift (IItBoL), (GITA), (6/15/74), (Amma), (Upasani Baba).
4. "I Am Bodily Dependent on My Devotees" (HYMN),(78), (Jnaneshwar), (BLoH), (Stephan Blas), (Swami Prahudananda).
5. The Various Types of Sat-Guru-Seva: A Traditional Description of the Four Sevas.
6. Through Service the Devotee Is Given the Means to Contemplate the Sat-Guru in the Midst of Every Action (GITA), (Narasimhaswami), (HYMN), (7/9/88), (Sivananda), (Gnanananda), (GITA).

Chapter Nine: "Come to Me When You Are Already Happy": Spiritual Qualifications: (11/14/75), (TEACH), (DHT).
1. "I Could Not Speak This All-Revealing Word Until One of You First Confessed You See the Vision of God in My Bodily (Human) Form": The Necessity for the Devotee to Be Rightly Prepared to Make Use of the Sat-Guru (HYMN), (KT), (Shankara).
2. Sri Da Kalki's Creation of a Genuine Culture of Spiritual Preparation.
3. The Bond That Liberates: The Eternal Mutual Commitment between the Sat-Guru and the Devotee (1/10/89).
4. The Devotee Must Understand and Acknowledge Who the Sat-Guru Is.
5. The Acceptance of the Sat-Guru and His Word as Spiritual Authority.
6. The Understanding of the Sat-Guru as the Embodiment and Supreme Example of the Living of the Way (GITA), (HYMN).
7. Come to Me When You Are Already Happy: The Lesson of Life (DHT).
8. The Understanding That the Sat-Guru Has the Power to Liberate the Devotee.
9. The Basic Physical and Emotional Qualifications Traditionally Required of the Aspirant.
10. The Gift of Gratitude, and the Urge to Liberation.
11. The Gift of Self-Awareness, Born of Understanding, That Makes Surrender Possible and Necessary (Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye), (Shrimad Rajchandra), (3/8/79).

Chapter Ten: "Sadhana Hurts": The Sacred Ordeal of Practice in the Way of The Heart: (12/19/87)
1. "Love Is a Heat"-the Spiritual Process Requires Everything of a Man or a Woman (HYMN), (12/19/87).
2. Beware of Those Who Balk at the Ordeal of Submission Required in the Company of the Sat-Guru (PROOF), (SotSS).
3. The Genuine Spiritual Process "Offends You Absolutely" (11/15/75), (METH), (Jeff Polson), (Gnanananda).
4. The Spiritually Mature Devotee Is Grateful for the "Heat" of Practice, and Remains Ever Vulnerable to the Sat-Guru (11/15/73).
5. The Two Beginner's Cases: Guru-Doubt and self-Doubt (METH).
6. The Greatest Blessing Is the Sat-Guru, Who Requires His Devotee to Go through the Sacred Ordeal of Practice (Bob Sabatino), (METH).
7. The Secret of the Relationship to the Sat-Guru Is to Remain Obedient, Responsible, and in Vulnerable Relationship to Him No Matter What Arises (KNEE), (50VoGD), (Vivekananda), (METH).
8. The Mature Devotee Always Allows the Sat-Guru to Freely Express Himself (Milarepa), (Marpa), (79), (1/29/76).
9. The Sacred Ordeal as Seen in the Great Tradition (Marpa & Naropa), (Muktananda), (Upsani Baba), (Hakuin), (Rinzai), (1/1/89).
10. The Sacred Ordeal of the Sat-Guru (BLoH), (PARA), (Buddha), (Ramalinga Swami), (ShirdiSB), (Jesus), (CDMS).

Chapter Eleven: "Always Allow the Divine Person to Stand Even As Your Own Body-Mind": The Practice of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga: (3/22/86)
1. The Sat-Guru Is the Ishta, or the Chosen Form of the Divine, Embraced and Ultimately Realized by the Devotee (4/11/86), (3/22/86).
2. Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga Requires the Devotee's Moment to Moment self-Understanding and self-Transcendence (4/8/87), (GITA).
3. Sri Da Kalki's Own Practice of Ishta-Gum-Bhakti Yoga and His Description of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga in The Love-Ananda Gita (1/3/74), (KNEE), (GITA).
4. The Tradition of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga in Sri Da Kalki's Own Lineage of Teachers (1/29/76), (Rudi), (Muktananda), (METH).
5. The Tibetan Guru Yogas.
6. The Principle of Darshan and the Hindu Practice of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga (ShirdiSB).
7. The "Jain Man" Murti: A Personal "Spiritual Exercise" of Instruction in Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga.
8. "LOOK AT ME! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? WHO?" (GITA).
9. Prapatti: The Unconditional Surrender That Makes Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga Possible for the Devotee (DHT), (BG), (Trungpa).
10. Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga and Sri Da Kalki's Admonition and Blessing (1/87).

Chapter Twelve: "Love Me with Open Eyes": The Concrete and Practical Relationship to the Sat-Guru Surrender through Obedience and the Formalities of the Guru-Devotee Relationship: (BLoH)
1. When One Is Rightly Related to the Sat-Guru, One Naturally Acts Appropriately (Shankara), (Divine Disclosure).
2. A "Culture of Respect" Rightly Accompanies the Appearance of Any Superior Individual, and Most Especially the Divine Sat-Guru (GITA), (DHT), (GGITA).
3. Surrender through Obedience: The Secret of Always Remaining in the Blessing-Sphere of the Sat-Guru:
a. Always Act in Accord with the Sat-Guru's Word.
b. By Following the Sat-Guru's Instructions, the Devotee's Practice Becomes Fruitful (GITA).
c. The Traditional Admonition Is to Be Obedient to the Sat-Guru.
d. True Obedience Requires Great Devotion and Great Discrimination (KT), (Sivananda), (GITA).
4. The Most Basic Principle: "Do Whatever Pleases Your Guru and Avoid Doing Anything He Would Not Like" (BLoH).
5. The Rules of Protocol of the Guru-Devotee Relationship:
a. How to Conduct Oneself in Relationship to Sri Da Kalki's Bodily (Human) Form:
i. Every moment in the physical Company of Sri Da Kalki is a moment of Darshan. Therefore, always feelingly Contemplate Him in every circumstance (HYMN), (6/28/73), (EotWB).
ii. Always rightly acknowledge the Sat-Guru by expressively showing your devotion (GGITA).
iii. Allow your intimacy to be expressed through formality.
iv. The devotee's posture is a reflection of his or her relationship to the Sat-Guru (50VoGD).
v. Admonitions relative to other specific behavior in the Sat-Guru's Company.
vi. Allow the Sat-Guru to be free to express himself in whatever manner is necessary.
vii. Give everything to the Sat-Guru: your attention, your energy, and your "fleeting wealth" (50VoGD).
b. How to Conduct Oneself When Communicating to or about the Sat-Guru, or When Relating to Him at a Distance (DHT).
c. How to Relate to the Objects He Uses and the Places Where He Lives.
d. How to Conduct Oneself in the Company of, or in Relationship to, Those That Are Graced to Live in (or Be Part of) Sri Da Kalki's Intimate Sphere.
e. How to Conduct Oneself in Relationship to the Other Sacred Treasures of the Way of the Heart (?), (Muktananda), (Maharshi).
6. True Culture Arises out of Right Relationship to the Sat-Guru (12/25/86), (PROOF).

Chapter Thirteen: Worship of the God-Man:
1. The Native Response of Worship of That Which Is Inherently Venerable (EotWB).
2. The Bodily (Human) Form of the Divine Sat-Guru Is the Supreme "Object" of Worship and Praise (1/3/74), (Vivekananda).
3. The Opportunity to Worship the Sat-Guru Is a Great Blessing, for Such Worship Transforms the Devotee (HYMN), (78), (8/74).
4. The Beginnings of True Worship in Response to Sri Da Kalki as an Example of the Process of True Devotional Reverence (79).
5. Every Action of the Devotee Becomes an Act of Expressive Worship of the Sat-Guru: The Principles Underlying the Worship of the God-Man (DHT), (HYMN).
6. Installing the Sat-Guru before or in the Heart: "The Primal Secret of the Practice of My Devotees" (DHT), (1/19/88).
7. The Worship of the Feet of the Sat-Guru, the Epitome of self-Surrendered Devotion (1/19/88), (HYMN), (3/15/74), (Swami Ramdas), (Muktananda), (HYMN).
8. The Padukas Are a Murti, or Form, of the Guru's Feet, Which Are Worshipped as a Link to His Living Transmission (Muktananda), (Gnanananda), (Swami Ishwaranda Giri), (KT).
9. The Worship of the Incarnate Divine Person at Sri Love-Anandashram (METH).

Chapter Fourteen: "Crazy Wisdom": The Free and Spontaneous Teaching Work and the Blessing Work of Sri Da Kalki and the Great Tradition of Unconventional Instruction: (PROOF).
1. "On The Basis Of A Free Heart-Impulse (and No Great Reception In the world), I Began The Fierce Labor and The Humorous Love-Ordeal Of My Formal Teaching Work": The Sacrificial Work of Sri Da Kalki for His Devotees and, Ultimately, All Beings (CDMS), (LESS), (DHT).
2. The Siddhi of Submission to Devotees That Enabled Sri Da Kalki to Assume the Karmas of His Devotees (9/15/82).
3. January 11, 1986: The Sudden and Mysterious Transition from Sri Da Kalki's Teaching Work to His Blessing Work (DHT 4).
4. The Teaching Work Was Necessary, and Granted to All the Gift of the Lesson of Life, but It Was Also Inevitable That It Would Fail.
5. "I Do Everything to Make a Picture for Man": The "Crazy Wisdom" Teaching Work of Sri Da Kalki (Shankara), (GiEBB).
6. Divine "Consideration" or "Samyama": Sri Da Kalki's Method of Teaching Work (TWO-A).
7. The Way That I Teach: The "Crazy Wisdom" Guru Will Do Anything and Everything Necessary to Truly Serve His Devotee (EotWB), (8/12/82), (DHT).
8. The Historical Traditions of "Crazy Wisdom" (8/15/88) (AGITA).
9. The Avadhoot Tradition of India (AGITA), (Akkalkot Maharaj), (Zipruanna).
10. The Maha-Siddha Tradition of Eighth-to-Twelfth-Century India (Naropa/Tilopa).
11. The Tibetan "Crazy Wisdom" Tradition (Milarepa).
12. The Devotee Should Not Submit to the Sat-Guru Until the Devotee Knows at Heart That the Sat-Guru Acts Only and Entirely out of Love (Dalai Lama), (K. Durckheim).
13. "Crazy Wisdom" throughout the Great Tradition (Hasisdic Rebbe), (Maggid), (Rumi).
14. The Parama-Avadhoota Sri Da Kalki (Crane Kirkbride), (Angelo Druda).
15. The Sat-Guru's Graceful Instruction in Life Itself: Money, Food, Sexuality, and Liberation (BoT), (Maharshi).
16. "Love Is a Wound That Never Heals": A Leela of Sri Da Kalki's Instruction of His Devotees in the Emotional-Sexual Core of Their Being (9/25/82), (DHT), (Angelo Druda).
17. The Blessing Work of Sri Da Kalki (9/5/86).
18. Sri Da Kalki's "Crazy-Wise" Work of Blessing.

Chapter Fifteen: "I Give The Gift That Is The Heart Itself": Sri Da Kalki's Transmission of Hridaya-Shakti: (FB&S).
1. Divine Initiation at Holy Cat Grotto.
2. "My Blessing Work Is The Transmission Work (or Giving Work) Of The Heart": Yogic Shaktipat and Hridaya-Shaktipat; the Siddha-Guru and the Jnana-Guru (KT), (7/7/83), (DHT), (BoT), (DHT), (Suprithi).
3. The Mere Existence of the Sat-Guru Blesses All (7/29/80).
4. Sri Da Kalki Is Always Blessing All, but He May Also Specifically Serve Individuals (11/14/85).
5. Specific Occasions of Formal Transmission or Initiation.
6. The Means of Initiation (EotWB), (HYMN).
7. Transmission in Silence (Maharshi).
8. Initiation by Touch (Eileen Whiteside) (1/3/74).
9. Other Forms of Initiation: Initiation through Speech, Laughter, and Leelas, through Objects Associated with the Sat-Guru, and through His Mere Regard (Patrick Mahoney), (Jung-kwang), (Sue Setter).
10. The Traditional Types of Blessing and the Great Transmission of the Divinely Self-Realized Adept (KT) (7/82).
11. Tangible Experiential Signs of the Reception of the Blessing-Grace of Sri Da Kalki (DHT24), (DHT37), (Peter Lennon), (Sandy Scott), (Linda Dufau).
12. "My Guru Is My Liberation, My Freedom, and My Joy": A Testimony of the Mature Reception of Sri Da Kalki's Grace as Seen through Kanya Tripura Rahasya's Confession of the Ecstasy and Freedom of the Witness-Position of Consciousness (Tripura).

Epilogue: The Joyous Heart-Mala of the 108 Names of Sri Da Kalki (The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Love-Ananda Hridayam): (DHT).

Postscript: Visions of Your Likeness.

Invitation: "Live With Me": An Invitation to Respond to the Universal Teaching of Da Kalki: Why the Best Thing You Can Do Now (for Yourself, and for Everyone) Is to Become a Friend of Da Kalki International.
Your single obligation, and your many benefits, as a Friend of Da Kalki International.
If you wish to become a formally acknowledged practidoner of the Way of the Heart, we welcome you to apply for admission into The Free Daist Communion.
The Practice of Retreat, and the Gift of Sat-Guru-Darshan.
You Can Make a Great Difference for Everyone on Earth: A Call to Patrons and Advocates of the Divine World-Teacher's Mission.
Glossary.
Further Notes to the Reader: An Invitation to Responsibility. Honoring and Protecting the Sacred Word through Perpetual Copyright.
Da Kalki and His Spiritual Instruments and Agents.
Da Kalki Is a True Renunciate.
The Guru-devotee Relationship in the Way of the Heart.
The Written and Spoken Teaching Word of Da Kalki (The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Love-Ananda Hridayam).
Appendix: Reading List "The Tradition of Devotion to the Adept".
Books and Articles Recommended by Sri Da Kalki, The Divine World-Teacher and True Heart-Master, Da Love-Ananda Hridayam, as presented in The Basket of Tolerance.
Index.
(820 pp.)

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