In this passage, Avatar Adi Da Describes, in the language of ecstatic poetry, the process of heart-recognition of Him and heart-response to Him. He Reveals how He Brings His Awakening Power into the body-mind of His devotee, and He also explains what His devotee must do in responsgoing beyond the knot of ego, in order to fully receive His Divine Gifts.
The body-mind Of Man Is Like A Seed, That Lies Asleep Within The Dark and Depth Of Earth's Unconsciousness. And I Am Like A Thunderstorm Of Fresh Down-Crashing Sound and Light, That Weathers Me Into The Earth-World With A Flood Of True and Living Water. And When The True Water Of My Love-Bliss-Presence Flows Deep Into the body-mind, The "Brightest" 1 Sound and Shape Of Me Strikes Through The Germ Of Mankind's Seed within. It Is The Heart That Breaks By My Divine Invasion there. Its Germ Of Me-"Bright" Suddenness Un-Knots The Seed Of body-mind, When I Crash Down Into The Earthen Core. And When The Heart Un-Locks, the body-mind Becomes A Flower In The Tangible Garden Of My Divine Domain. 2
If The Heart Finds Me, The Heart Devotionally Recognizes Me (Inherently), and all the body-mind Devotionally Responds To Me (Immediately) . . . Therefore, Your Heart Must Decide—Whether To Raise A Fist, and Throw A Rock, At The ego-Crushing Natural Universe, Or To Make A Flower Grow In The Garden Of Indestructible Light.
The Devotional Recognition-Response To Me Is The Divine Flowering Of the body-mind. Therefore, Your Heart Must Recognize Me and Choose Me—and Not merely believe Me—If I Am To "Brighten" You.
Faith Is A Flower, and Not a mind's idea, or a body's satisfaction. Likewise, The Insight That Flowers the body-mind Is Made Of Heart, and Not Of Seeker's Thrum Of thought, and thought's Abstract Invasion Of the body. No mere belief, or Mummery Of thinking mind, Can Make The Fist Of ego's Knot Un-Tie. And No Set Stage Of mere perception Can Outlast The Crushing Time Of merely Natural life. The Rock Of ego and The Fist Of self-Contracted body-mind Will Last a mere and Total lifetime—Whereas The Heart-Flower Breaks The Earth Above the head's Clay Crown, and Finds My "Bright" Beginning In An Eternal Field, Above the stars.
1. By the word "Bright" (and its variations, such as "Brightness"), Avatar Adi Da refers to the eternally, infinitely, and inherently Self-Radiant Divine, Indivisible and Indestructible Light Itself.
2. Avatar Adi Da Affirms that there is a Divine Self-Domain that is the Perfectly Subjective Condition of the conditional worlds. It is not "elsewhere", not an objective "place" (like a subtle "heaven" or mythical "paradise"), but It is the always present, Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, Divine Source-Condition of every conditionally manifested being and thing.
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The Only Complete Way To
Realize The Unbroken Light Of Real
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