Adi Da explains he is not a tantric teacher -- quote from year 2000
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Years ago, when I began to Work, what I did was not My Way but a reflection of My devotees. I Submitted Myself in order to Teach them, but, in that process, I was not Revealing Myself. It was about revealing my devotees to themselves. That was the nature of My Purity. I made that Submission and did that Work until the time came when I Revealed Myself as I Am. That was My Divine Emergence. And so the revelation, during My Teaching Years, was never about Me, Myself. It was about Revealing the Way of Adidam to all and addressing the world and its present-time reality. There was nothing conventional about it.
The distinction between Who I Am and what egos are about has to be made clear. I could not ignore the sexual realities in My devotees, and so I Worked with them. I Worked according to the nature of the people I Taught. There were many teachers in the 70s and 80s and even now, who have engaged in sexuality and the so-called "tantric" manner of Teaching. But the way that others worked cannot be used to describe what I did. I did my Teaching Work as a satire on conventional life and religion, revealing the bullshit and the absurdity and the egoic nature of it all. And I Revealed the egoic nature of every strategy that human beings are up to.
Anyone who is really sensitive to Me knows Who I Am and knows that I maintain My Sign in this world in a "Raymond" manner [Ed: this is a reference to a character in Adi Da's avante garde novel, The Mummery].
I am not here to posture and talk and seem or engage in illusions about Spiritual life. Generally now, I do not have much to say. The only way you can recognize Me is through the sight and feeling of Me. So either you feel My Transmission or you don't. I show Myself Divinely to those who are sensitive to Me and relate to Me rightly. And My Siddhis are shown only in this manner. Otherwise I maintain a kind of invisibility and naturalness.