Divine Utterances:
Renunciation




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



Renunciation in the Way of Adidam is a commitment to ecstasy. Renunciates are about ecstasy, not dried-up, conventional lawfulness.

tags:   Happiness,   Renunciation



You may fantasize that Spiritual life is about living in caves, wearing your robes, and renouncing everything. Such a notion is just a dream. It is nonsense. True renunciation is here, in the body, suffering it, becoming Illumined by submitting to be a human being. The practice of such true renunciation is the agony of self-knowledge and knowledge of another.

"The Heart Is in Bondage Until Love Is Incarnated in the World" (October, 1993)
The Incarnation of Love

tags:   Renunciation,   Self-Understanding,   Spiritual Life



Love is not mere attachment, or any kind of fascination with objects or others that represent the possibility of self-fulfillment. Love itself is renunciation of separate and separative self, in relationship to another.

The Incarnation of Love

tags:   Love,   Renunciation,   Self-Transcendence



She May Have Kissed you but it's still Klik Klak. Better let go or you'll be back.

The Happenine Book

tags:   Positive Disillusionment,   Renunciation



A man went to his Master and said, "Master, I feel like there are two dogs fighting inside me, a good dog and a bad dog. Which one is going to win?" The Master said, "The one that you feed the most."

tags:   Renunciation,   Right Life / Discipline






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