Divine Utterances:
Guru-Devotee Relationship




This page includes a small selection from the many Divine Utterances (which Adi Da sometimes humorously called "Holy Mutterances") that Adi Da spoke or wrote from 1972 to 2008, on the topic of Guru-Devotee Relationship. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.


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    The relationship between the devotee and the Guru must be as natural and as simple and as spontaneous as the relationship between lovers.

    "The Guru Is Sufficient" (July 15, 1973)
    (available on DVD)

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship



    The Adept is Radiant throughout all of space-time, and, therefore, that Radiant Transmission can be contacted by the devotee in any time or place.

    The Lesson

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Spiritual Masters,   Spiritual Transmission



    Oh friends, do not fail to mind Me, in and out. I am the Sweetness, the taste of unmortal and unimaged Grace. I am only for a moment, not merely to save you all, but to call to the Wonder that I Am. And everyone Is as I Am, unless they fail to love Me.

    The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

    tags:   Adi Da,   Enlightenment,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Spiritual Transmission



    The Divine Heart-Master Is the Supreme Help Offered by the Real and Ever-Living God. There is no Friend greater than the Divine Heart-Master. Therefore, body and mind should be entirely devoted to the Divine Heart-Master, so that attention is set free in His Heart of "Brightness".

    Ruchira Avatara Gita

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Spiritual Masters,   Way of Adidam



    The Guru is a kind of irritation to his friends. You can't sleep with a dog barking in your ear, at least most people can't.

    "The Primal Urge for Sanctuary" (1979)

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Spiritual Masters



    The conditionally Apparent “world”-Process Of “Everything Changing” Is Simply The Natural “Play” Of Cosmic Life, In Which the (Always) two sides of every possibility come and go, In Cycles Of appearance and disappearance. Winter's cold alternates with summer's heat. Pain, Likewise, Follows every pleasure. Every appearance Is (Inevitably) Followed By its disappearance. There Is No Permanent “experience” In The Realm Of Cosmic Nature. One whose Whole bodily Devotion To Me Is Constant Simply Allows All Of This To Be So. Therefore, one who Truly Listens To Me and “Knows” Me Spontaneously Ceases To Add “self”-Contraction (and, Thus, “conditional-experience-causing” energy and intention) To This Relentless Round Of Natural and Futile Changes.

    "The Divine Avataric Self-Disclosure"
    First Word, The Aletheon

    tags:   Duality,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Self-Understanding,   Whole Body



    Touch My Divine Heart, and I Will Widen You To God-Knows-Where.

    Epilogue, The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   Adi Da,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Heart



    The compassionate Master does not do for others everything He can do within the bounds of propriety. The compassionate Master will do everything, whether in the realm of propriety or not, for the sake of Awakening others.

    Volume IV, The Lesson

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Spiritual Masters



    The Most Direct Way To "Know" Love In every moment Is To Be Love In every moment. Do This By Means Of Devotional (and, In Due Course, Transcendental Spiritual) Communion With Me.

    The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   God-Communion,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Love



    Come to Me when you are already Happy.

    "Come to Me When You Are Already Happy"
    The Way That I Teach

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Happiness,   Way of Adidam



    What is simply not used is intrinsically obsolete — whereas what is opposed is constantly kept in front of you. The creative principle of true and positive change is a combination of always relaxed inspection (and discriminating awareness) of existing tendencies and, on that basis, an active, persistent, full feeling-orientation to right, new, and regenerative functional patterns. If this creative principle of true and positive change is practiced consistently and in ecstatic (or intrinsically ego-transcending) resort to Me, the Divine Avataric Master, free growth — demonstrated as habit-transcending true and positive change — is assured.

    "Right Principle and Right Self-Management: The Secrets of How To Change"
    Part 9, The Aletheon

    tags:   Addiction,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Right Life / Discipline



    Don't be angry and sorrowful and guilty and fearful. Rather, be uncomfortable; in other words, not satisfied, not satisfiable in the framework of ordinary living and you'll find Me, you'll hear Me, you'll practice.

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Positive Disillusionment,   Self-Understanding



    I have not come to satisfy my devotees. A satisfied devotee is still the one he or she was. I am only interested in the utter, "radical" dissolution of that entire limitation that appears as my devotee.

    My "Bright" Word

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Self-Transcendence



    I am Free in God, and only that Freedom is what I would find in my friends.

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Guru-Devotee Relationship



    I am Present in the same kind of bodily form as you — manifested in the same kind of physical condition, the same kind of nervous system, the same kind of brain. But in Me all these things are Raised to an Absolute level of Functioning, so that your entering into Communion with Me brings changes even at the level of the psycho-physical body that you present to Me.

    "The Super-Physics of Divine Enlightenment"
    Part 3, The Aletheon

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Way of Adidam



    You (necessarily) become (or conform to the likeness of) whatever you Behold, or Contemplate, or Meditate on, or even think about. Therefore. . . Contemplate Me, and always transcend even all thought by Meditating on Me.

    Da Love-Ananda Gita

    tags:   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Identification,   Meditation



    The life of devotion to Me is both a Communion with Light and a Purification by Fire. There may be many years of This Fire-Light in My Divine Avataric Company, and you should welcome all of them.

    "The Way of Light Is The Way of Fire"
    Part 19, The Aletheon

    tags:   Enlightenment,   God-Communion,   Guru-Devotee Relationship,   Self-Transcendence








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