Washing-Machine Philosophy

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ:

Isn't it curious that there's all this experiencing?

Why? Just what is it for?

(Everyone, including Adi Da Samraj, bursts out laughing, and Adi Da's beautiful, ringing laugh continues after the other laughter has subsided.)

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ:

There are so many difficulties involved in experience. And so much is required to make it possible for there even to be any experience. It makes you wonder: Why isn't experience a lot better? Why should experience be the way it is? And what's the point of it? What is there to understand about it?

This is something to be "considered" seriously while you are alive, rather than just "going with the flow".

Such investigation of the nature of your experience is not a matter of being self-involved. Fundamentally, it's a matter of going beyond your apparently separate self in order to Realize the Truth about Reality, in order to Realize What Is (whatever that turns out to be). It's not merely some kind of question about the gross mechanics of conditional existence, some kind of "how does it all work" question—not merely [in a dry, bored voice] "why or how to connect this to that to the other thing, plug it in, and the lights turn on" kind of stuff. It's a more profound matter.

You must, while alive, find out fundamentally what this is all about. Ultimately, you must find the Source of all this-everything that you are experiencing, everything that seems to be happening to you. Otherwise, you're just caught up in a pattern, you're allowing your life to be dictated by a pattern. And there's not a lot of good news to say about organisms of your type in the pattern of things. Haven't you noticed? It's all difficult and brief and who-knows-what.

Doesn't it seem curious to you that you would choose to just go along with that?

To find the Source, the most positive "what it's for" Origin, you don't really want an instruction booklet. It's a more profound question than that. It requires a more profound investigation than reading a few lists of instructions.

I mean, which is more interesting? The washing machine?—is that the most mysterious thing?—or the electricity coming out of the wall there that runs the washing machine?

There's just so much interest one can have in a washing machine. But, generally speaking, the washing machine is all people ever want to talk about. You're always missing the point of what runs the washing machine—the electricity coming out of the wall, the connection to the Source. That is what is profound. And that is what I am here to talk about—the Spiritual Matter, the electricity side of the wall, the Source of all motion, all life, all this pattern, all this process here.

Why would you consent to just jiggle along with some sort of plastic flow, being the puppet? Why would you consent to be not involved with the Source of all life, the Spirit—"connected" ultimately?

You hear a lot of washing-machine philosophy (or limited-mindedness) these days, a lot of propaganda that taking good care of the washing machine is what life is all about. Yes, you do have to handle your washing-machine level of life-business, the practicalities of existence in the world. That is not a question. But you don't have to do it in such a way that you don't get to explore what is really of interest to you-which is not just more and more replications, more and more washing machines, generation after generation of washing machines. What's it all for? Just so much of that is interesting after a while-really interesting, anyway. And then it must be more profound for you, or you just start getting sleepy and puppet-like.

So if you want to get to the bottom of all this experiencing-to go beyond it, ultimately-you can't just stay superficial. You have to get Spiritually straight, heart-straight, for real. And let that brighten you up. And live on that basis.

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