Divine Utterances:
Enlightenment




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 Enlightenment. For more on Adi Da's Divine Utterances, click here.


Related words and topics:
  • Liberation
  • Salvation
  • Awakening
  • God-Realization
  • Realization of Reality Itself


    The body-mind of Man is structured for Enlightenment. It's structured to self-destruct in God.

    "There's No Escape, There's Only Realization" (1995)
    The "Brightening" Way Talk Series

    tags:   Enlightenment



    Pleasure undoes the body. Humor undoes the mind. And Realization undoes the sense of “self”.

    "Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization"

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Mind,   Sexuality



    There is no Enlightenment, no evolutionary entrance into the truly Spiritual Condition of human existence, without ego-death, or transcendence of the mind.

    "Ego Death and the Chaos of Experience"
    Scientific Proof of the Existence of God
    Will Soon Be Announced By The White House!

    tags:   Egoity,   Enlightenment,   Mind,   Self-Transcendence



    If you have one more place to go, you will not endure this moment as the great bliss.

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Seeking





    So there are not a lot of ways to be "Saved"! There is only one way to be "Saved" — and that is to love the Divine ecstatically, to the point of egolessly Perfect Distraction.

    "Perfect Distraction"
    Part 9, The Aletheon

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Religion,   Way of Adidam



    If the Adepts do not speak, the only voice that will be heard is that of ordinary people who are not God-Realized. The Adepts are the Sources of Spiritual life. Such individuals must therefore enter into the stream of society, to purify the culture and reestablish the process of God-Realization. If they do not speak and become influential, there is no hope at all for humanity.

    The Enlightenment of the Whole Body

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Spiritual Life,   Spiritual Masters



    The Unconditional Reality Is Modified (but Only Apparently) As The conditional Reality. This Must Be Realized. Until This Truth Is Realized, all conditional experience Is A School With A Single Lesson. This Is The Lesson (The Lesson Of Life): "I" Cannot Become Happy. "I" Can Only Be Happy.

    The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Happiness,   Lesson of Life,   Nature of Reality,   Truth



    You must be willing to vanish completely, to be completely obliterated. You will become capable of that sacrifice only by degrees, because your fear is profound.

    The Way That I Teach

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Fear,   Surrender,   Way of Adidam



    During the night of mankind, I Awakened as perfect, absolute, awesome Love-Bliss, in Which the body and the mind, even every functional sheath, boiled into a solder of undifferentiated Reality.

    The Knee Of Listening

    tags:   Adi Da,   Enlightenment



    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



    This conditional "world" passes.
    This "everything" always dies. . .
    Therefore, Fall Awake in Me!

    tags:   Death & Dying,   Enlightenment



    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



    For those who Are Committed To Love (and who, Therefore, Always Commune With Me, The One Who Is Love-Bliss Itself), Even Rejection By others Is Received and Accepted As A Wound, Not An Insult. Even The Heart-Necessity To Love and To Be Loved Is A Wound. And Even The Fullest Realization Of My Love-Bliss Is A Wound That Never Heals.

    The Dawn Horse Testament

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Heart,   Love



    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



    Divine Enlightenment is a literal change of the whole body. . . The changes are as literal as evolving from a dinosaur to a human being, and they are as dramatic as that, but they principally occur at more subtle levels of the physics of the conditional being. There are literal changes in the nervous system, literal changes in the chemistry of the body, literal changes in the structural functioning of the brain.

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

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Whole Body



    Remarkably enough, the reason you are so disturbed about the facts of life that might make you fearful, sorrowful, and angry is that whenever something arises that you might appropriately be angry, fearful, or sorrowful about, you do not feel it completely. . . If feeling becomes limitless, if you do not contract, then feeling becomes Being itself — no reaction, no contraction. . . . It is Love-Bliss. . . It is Divine Enlightenment.

    Feeling Without Limitation

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Feeling



    Spiritual life is about Realizing utter Love-Bliss, greater Bliss than is realized through sex or any other conditional experience.

    "This Liberating Impulse" (February 1, 1985)
    Easy Death

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Happiness,   Sexuality,   Spiritual Life



    The people who went to Jesus or Mohammed or Moses wanted to know what they should be doing to enjoy a future that would be Blessed by God. . . In the Orient, on the other hand, if they went looking for a Master, they wanted to know how the hell they could get out of here and bring an end to all this torment!

    "The Religious Ambivalence of the West" (November 3, 1977)

    tags:   Destiny,   Enlightenment



    The essence of un-Enlightenment is concern for "self" — for its survival, well-being, pleasure, amusement, perpetuation, and so on. Enlightenment is not merely the transcending of "self" or the concern for "self". It is a matter of the Realization of Reality Itself, Which Is Always Already The Case. It is Inherently, in other words, without "self" and without a concern for "self".

    January 19, 1997

    tags:   Egoity,   Enlightenment,   Self-Transcendence



    Insight is when you break through the molecular confusion associated with your own biological existence and Realize the "Intoxicated" Glory of Mere Existence.

    September, 1982

    tags:   Consciousness,   Enlightenment



    Truth Is That Which, when fully Realized (and, Thus, "Known", even via the transcending of all conditional knowledge and all conditional experience), Sets you Free from all bondage and all seeking.

    Eleutherios

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Seeking,   Truth



    I want to Wake Up every being into this Ecstasy in the midst of death.

    "For The Love" (November 26, 1984)

    tags:   Death & Dying,   Enlightenment,   Nature of Reality



    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





    An Infinite Degree of Yes! Is All 'It' Takes.

    tags:   Enlightenment,   Spiritual Life,   Surrender






    Da


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