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The spiritual practice recommended by Adi Da for devotees, including his typical inflated description of himself where maybe one out of ten words isn't capitalized

Posted by former devotee

I would love for someone to try and explain to me how this is not a call to the worship of Adi Da as God Incarnate and does not enshrine him in a unique position as cultic God and the source and focus of devotees’ lives.

The Real and True Devotional and Spiritual Process In My Avataric Divine Company Unfolds Only In The Context Of The Devotional-and-Spiritual Relationship To Me — In Which I Self-Radiate (or Avatarically Self-Transmit) The Spiritual Force Of My Own Avatarically Self-Revealed (and Self-Evidently Divine) Person To My Devotee, who Then (On That Basis) Responds To Me, By Fulfilling The Various Instructions I Have Given Relative To The Structures and Patterns and Experiences and Developments Of The Unfolding Devotional-and-Spiritual Process In My Avataric Divine-Spiritual Company.

Quote from Adi Da

Below is a description provided by Adidam that summarizes the spiritual practice recommended for devotees.

Practice in the Way of Adidam

• Ruchira Avatar Bhakti Yoga: Surrender of the four lower faculties of the body-mind to the Divine — In order to fully receive Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Transmission, the body-mind has to be in a very specific position and disposition. Avatar Adi Da Samraj describes this “surrendered position” in terms of a specific orientation for each of “the four lower faculties” of the human being: mind, body, emotion, and breath. Adi Da Samraj calls the practice of turning the four faculties of the body-mind to Him in every moment, Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga.
  
   
• Use of the higher faculties — The four faculties cannot surrender themselves. Activation of the higher faculties — awareness, heart-response, discriminative intelligence, and will — is essential. The right Spiritual functioning of the human being in relation to God only comes about when all the faculties are submitted according to a given, natural hierarchy. Awareness and heart-response allow us to come into contact with God and Reality altogether, through the relationship with the Spiritual Master. Discriminative intelligence then forms conclusions about how to re-organize one’s life based on this greater feeling-awareness. Such conclusions would remain mere “good-heartedness” if not for the accompanying presence of a strong will, which connects the higher and the lower faculties. It is by virtue of a developed will that discriminative intelligence submits the lower faculties to God.
  
   
• The secondary and supportive disciplines in the Way of Adidam — The core of practice in the Way of Adidam is the moment-to-moment contemplation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj Himself, and His Spiritual Transmission. However, engaging disciplines that curb our otherwise endless and overt seeking, and require us to feel instead are critical to allowing self-understanding to proceed to the point of hearing and, ultimately, God-Realization. The ego is a primal action (the self-contraction), compounded by all kinds of secondary actions, and therefore its undermining requires counter-egoic actions or habits to be put in place with consistency.
  
   
• Searchless Beholding of Adi Da Samraj — Searchless Beholding is the Spiritually Awakened practice of Ruchira Avatar Bhakti Yoga — or searchless surrender of the faculties to Avatar Adi Da Samraj. It is a practice that can only be engaged on the basis of Spiritual Initiation by Avatar Adi Da Samraj Himself. That Spiritual Initiation is given by Him in occasions of silent Beholding of Him, in which you sit facing His physical human form and directly receive His Spiritual Transmission face-to-face. This direct Spiritual Initiation is Offered by Avatar Adi Da on special Initiatory retreats to those formally practicing devotees who have completed the initial "student-beginner" period of study and adaptation to the disciplines and the basic practice altogether. This preparatory period can be as brief as nine to twelve months.
  
   
• The Perfect Practice — In our practice of the Way of Adidam, there comes a moment of Grace when we are stably shifted in our identity, from being a Spiritual practitioner practicing absorption in the Divine Being, to being a practitioner practicing Identity with the Divine, standing as, what Avatar Adi Da Samraj calls “The Witness-Consciousness”. Thus begins the first stage of the Perfect Practice. The Perfect Practice has three stages, all taking place in the Domain of Consciousness, that is, in direct relation to the Awakened State and the Divine Person in His Ultimate Identity as Consciousness:
  Be Consciousness.
  Contemplate Consciousness.
  Transcend everything in Consciousness, Recognizing all objects in and as God.
  
  The third stage of the Perfect Practice is Divine Enlightenment: complete Awakening from the dream of limited existence