Sex Laughter God Realization

Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization
A Selection from the Reality-Teaching

of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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Truth For Real
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Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization 1
by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Sex, Laughter, and Real-God-Realization
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: The three fundamental disturbances to the ego-made order of life
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are sex, laughter, and Real-God-Realization. Sex (or bodily pleasure), laughter (or genuine,
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and heart-open, humor), and Real-God-Realization (or Most Perfect Identification with the
Divine Reality Itself) are, each and all, forms of ecstasy (or of ego-transcending enjoyment). For
that reason, all three are, in various ways (and by various means, both personal and collective),
suppressed, manipulated, prevented, falsified, and culturally excised from your daily lives.
Sex is an obsessive concern in human societies. Human beings are always seeking
pleasure, including sexual pleasure in particular, but, for reasons they do not understand, they
are also always tending to be involved in the suppression, manipulation, and non-enjoyment of
sex, or of the bodily pleasurableness of existence altogether. As a result, life is not lived as an
intentionally (and truly) pleasurable event. Whenever there is enjoyment to the point of ecstasy,
to the point of no stressful concern whatsoever, to the point of ragged pleasure, it is threatening
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to the ego-"I". In the circumstance of such ecstasy, you (as the ego-"I") feel that something is
coming into the world that is going to destroy your life, or destroy the order of society! Thus, you
do not consistently, truly, and freely allow ecstasy to appear—except in the double-minded (or
ritualized yes/no) moments that you have (generally, according to relatively sex-negative and
pleasure-negative social and religious conventions) fitted into your life.
Along with the fact that every individual is socially conditioned to suppress, control, and
manipulate the sense of bodily pleasure and the animation of bodily pleasure, there is the
presumed necessity of being "serious", being humorless, being a stressful seeker, being
someone in dilemma—in other words, being the "usual" (or "normal") person. Thus, whenever
there is the suppression of bodily pleasure, there is also the suppression of genuine humor.
And, where there is no bodily (or psycho-physically allowed) pleasure and no genuine (or heart-
allowed) humor, there is no Real-God-Realization!
It is not possible for one who is devoid of bodily (or psycho-physically un-contracted)
pleasure and genuine (or truly open-hearted) humor to Most Perfectly Comprehend the True
Divine Nature and Self-Condition of all and All. Therefore, neither true (or most perfectly ego-
transcending) pleasure, nor true (or most perfectly ego-transcending) humor, nor True (or most
perfectly ego-transcending) Real-God-Realization can be the case unless all three are,
simultaneously, the case.
If ego-transcendence (in the context of the formally accountable practice of
comprehensive self-discipline in the only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam) were not
required (or inherently necessary) in order to Realize true pleasure and true humor and Real
God (or Truth Itself, or Reality Itself), then the life to which I Call My devotees would be quite
different from the Way of Adidam as I have Revealed and Given It. If ego-transcendence (and
truly and really counter-egoic practice) were not required (and inherently necessary) in order to
Realize true pleasure, true humor, and Real God, I would simply say to you, "Enjoy yourselves,
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exploit yourselves, create as many exotic pleasures as you possibly can (all the time), and
always laugh yourself silly—and, instead of transcending egoity, merely believe in God."
However, in Truth, this would not be a useful (or ultimately and Divinely fruitful)
recommendation. You cannot Realize the Truth by leading such a foolish and superficial life.
You can exploit yourself to the point of ordinary pleasure, you can be put in the mood of
ordinary humor, and you can feel sympathetic with the idea of "God-Realization"—but you
cannot Realize true pleasure, you cannot Realize true humor, and you cannot Realize Real God
(or Truth Itself, or Reality Itself) without most intensive and truly and really ego-transcending
discipline of your body-mind-self.
The "right life" to which I Call My each and every devotee is (certainly) life-positive, and
(therefore) a life of "right" bodily pleasure (including "right" sexual pleasure), and it is (certainly)
a heart-open life, and (therefore) a life based on true (or "right") humor, and it is (above all) a life
dedicated to the "right" Process of Real-God-Realization—but that "right life" is enjoyed as such
only when the (according to My Instructions) "right" (and true, full, fully devotional, and
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inherently and really counter-egoic) practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga (including
comprehensive "right" disciplining of the body-mind-self) is really and consistently lived.
In Truth, and in Reality, Divine Self-Realization is not possible without true pleasure and
true humor. Because of your egoic (or self-contracted) orientation to life (and your indoctrination
by all of the ego-based illusions and control-signals of the collective ego-world of mankind), you
tend to presume that Real-God-Realization (or the Realization of Truth Itself, or of Reality Itself)
must be pleasureless, humorless, lifeless, silent, and "elsewhere". The mental images you have
of traditional saints and mystics are all, most characteristically, pleasureless and humorless.
These images carry the implication that such beings are involved in some "thing" somewhere
"else". Therefore, from the conventional point of view of ego-"I", if any Realizer (of whatever
degree, or stage of life) is seen to be laughing, dancing, or bodily enjoying himself or herself
here, he or she immediately becomes suspect. That is why some people have, sometimes,
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become (it seemed) very (and very humorlessly) "offended" by My "Crazy" Manner. Such
people have presumed that I Am "Being the Divine Master" and "Doing the Divine-Master-Work"
only when I sit in absolute silence, with the outward appearance of being very "serious" and
"inward" and disembodied "holy". But such is not the case. I Am always only Me—and I Am
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always Doing My Avataric Divine Work, whether I Am (at times) "conservative" and silent or
(at other times) animated "Crazily" (in order to Teach, and Serve, and Bless, and Awaken My
devotees).
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DEVOTEE: Beloved Bhagavan, You Said that practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga is the
necessary prerequisite for the Realization of true pleasure, true humor, and Real God. Does
that mean that there is no true pleasure or true humor or Real-God-Realization at all, previous
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to the Most Perfect "Practice" of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga in the seventh stage of life?

AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: No. It is simply that, previous to the Realization of the only-by-Me
Revealed and Given seventh stage of life, the arising conditions of psycho-physical experience
are all karmic (or conditional, and ego-based) in nature. Previous to Most Perfect (seventh
stage) Awakening, the (necessarily) egoic individual tends to participate in all experience from
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the point of view of the self-contracted (and separative) strategy of "Narcissus" —and,
therefore, previous to the only-by-Me Revealed and Given seventh stage of life, there must be
consistent real and true counter-egoic self-discipline.
Previous to Most Perfect (or seventh stage) Awakening, it is not possible for any plane of
conditionally manifested existence, high or low, to be Most Perfectly lived in Truth, or as an
absolute fulfillment of the Divine Law. In the course of the developmental process that precedes
(and is preliminary to) Most Perfect Real-God-Realization in the only-by-Me Revealed and
Given Way of Adidam, My fully practicing devotee conforms all aspects of his or her life to Me
by living in accordance with the by-Me-Given forms of functional, practical, relational, and
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cultural self-discipline —all of which demonstrate (and serve to magnify) the fundamental by-
Me-Given (and counter-egoic) practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga. And, as My devotee's
practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga matures, his or her life of self-discipline becomes more
and more a matter of simple, and pleasurable, and humorous, and Truly Happy (and Divinely
Lawful) responsibility. Thus, one of the signs of right, true, full, fully devotional, and inherently
and really counter-egoic practice of the Way of Adidam is the ever-increasing enjoyment of True
Happiness—not merely in an exclusive, compartmented plane of super-consciousness
(divorced from gross physical existence), but even in the context of ordinary gross physical life.
The only-by-Me Revealed and Given Way of Adidam is not about becoming less and
less capable of enjoying gross physical life, or becoming more and more dissociated from it. My
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true devotee is becoming (more and more) Divinely Illumined (or by-Me-"Brightened" ) and
(more and more) Truly Happy in the midst of conditional existence, and not more and more
obsessively concerned with either the attainment or the avoidance of any particular aspect of
conditional existence.
One who has (by Means of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Grace) Most
Perfectly Awakened to the seventh stage of life is utterly Free of any suppressive, or puritanical,
or life-negative orientation toward the body and its functions. Therefore, he or she enjoys true
pleasure in the midst of life. One who has (by Means of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine
Grace) Most Perfectly Awakened to the seventh stage of life is utterly Free of any suppressive,
or overly controlling, or life-negative orientation toward laughter, toward the mind, or toward
genuine humor altogether. Therefore, he or she enjoys true humor in the midst of life. And one
who has (by Means of My Avatarically Self-Transmitted Divine Grace) Most Perfectly Awakened
to the seventh stage of life is, altogether (and even psycho-physically), utterly Free in Real-God-
Realization.
My devotee who is Most Perfectly Free in Me is absolutely (and non-dualistically) Free—
not just a "little bit" (or dualistically, and as an ego) free. Therefore, there is no need for such a
one to be cut off from life. The nature of his or her Freedom is not pleasurelessness and

humorlessness relative to the world. Rather, in his or her Freedom, My seventh stage Realizer-
devotee is absolutely capable of true pleasure, or Free (egoless) enjoyment, in the midst of the
conditional forms that are arising, and absolutely capable of true (egoless) humor in the midst of
life. Such is the Fullness of Most Perfect Real-God-Realization. The pleasureless and
humorless orientation to conditional experience that is traditionally often presumed to be a
necessary prerequisite for "God-Realization" does not—in Truth, and in Reality—have anything
to do with Real-God-Realization as I have Fully and Finally and Completely Revealed It to Be.
DEVOTEE: It seems that a person who is truly and rightly capable of pleasure would not be
impulsed to exploit that capability. In my experience, the impulse to exploit pleasure comes from
the inability to truly experience pleasure in anything I do.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Yes. But what may, from the frustrated egoic point of view of the
usual person, look like exploitation of the possibilities for pleasure is simply "dance" to one who
is Free.
Look at how exaggerated the universe is! Look at how fearlessly exaggerated the Earth
is, compared to all these monotonous human beings! The Earth is always in upheaval—
earthquakes are happening, there is every kind of weather, things are growing and dying, and
"creatures" are eating one another. Life in the "wild" is a mad and lusty and egoless "crazy"
affair, compared to what human beings are always (self-consciously, and merely aggressively,
or, otherwise, self-indulgently, and always fearfully) doing! The Earth and the sky and the non-
human "creatures" constantly do things that you, as the self-concerned ego-"I", would not even
dream of doing! And you are "offended" by all of that! That is why you want there to be a
"heaven". You hope that, after death, you will find yourself in a "place" where there are no
earthquakes, no bad weather, no "creatures" eating other "creatures", no death, nothing
"offensive" to the self-concerned ego-"I". Such hopeful presumptions about the "after-life" are a
reflection of your own strategy of trying to ensure egoic body-mind-survival, and (altogether) a
reflection of the totality of your psycho-physical reaction to the chaos and unpredictability of life.
I am not "blaming" you for this—and, indeed, your fear-based self-consciousness does
serve your even bodily survival of life's inherent dangers—but I am simply pointing to all of this,
so that you will notice it, and "consider" it. Indeed, the typically human strategy of ego-survival is
not something that you have invented, merely on your own. All human beings are, collectively,
involved in this strategy. They communicate it to one another through political, social, and
cultural norms, rules, laws, and signals, as well as through the genes, and through the
"unconscious" patterns of the collective human mind. Nevertheless, the experiencing of egoic
self-identity, and its fear-base, and its dilemma, and all the limitations of its seeking, its
strategies, and its pattern of results is the personal burden of every human individual.
The ego-based exploitation of the capability for ordinary pleasure in the body (via food,
sex, and so on) and in the mind (via ordinary thought, laughter, mystical experience, and so on)
is, fundamentally, negative (or bondage-producing, and bondage-reinforcing). Whatever

enjoyment is apparently achieved through such exploitation of the human psycho-physical

mechanism is karmic (or limited, and ego-based) in nature, and merely part of the universal
pattern of separativeness that characterizes the human life-drama. But, in the case of Most
Perfect Real-God-Realization (or Most Perfect Enjoyment of the Divine Reality), the simple
pleasures of a human life become playful (or spontaneous, and humorous) and non-karmic (or
centerless, boundless, and inherently egoless) in nature. The very same aspects of human
existence that are lived as karma (or egoic limitation) by the usual person are lived as the Divine
Play by one who has Most Perfectly Realized Real God.
DEVOTEE: You said that sex, laughter, and Real-God-Realization are the three basic states (or
conditions). Are these the only three?
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: They are good enough! In sex (or bodily pleasure altogether), the
body and the life-force are overwhelmed. In laughter, the mind is overwhelmed. In Real-God-
Realization, the ego-self is overwhelmed. When true pleasure, true humor, and Real-God-
Realization are all Most Perfectly enjoyed, then everything is permanently overwhelmed, and
the world (as the ego-"I" presumes it to be) is Exploded. That Explosion is the egoless "Play" of
Real God.
In Truth, and in Reality, the world is not anything but the "Play" (or Free, egoless
Manifestation, or Manifest Form) of Real God. Therefore, the world is Always Already Free,
Always Already Divine "Madness". You think of the world egoically, as if it were inherently a very
solid, humorless "something"—but, when you Really (and truly egolessly) see the world (As it
Is), you will see the Divine "Madness" of it, the Divine "Play" of it, the Formlessness, the
Ecstasy, the egoless Free Happiness of it. Now you are weighted down by your ego-
"philosophy", by your assumption of a separate self sense, by your striving to perpetuate and to
satisfy the ego-"I". As a result, you see the world apart from its Divine (and, therefore, egoless)
Self-Condition and Source-Condition. Because you (as the ego-"I", or separative self-
contraction) are unable to see the world in Truth (or in the Context of the egoless Divine Reality
and Person), you (in your "serious" ego-depth) see the world only and merely as a condition of
suffering, and, therefore, there are many things about the world and about your body-mind-self
(and its situation and destiny) that "you" do not "like". These are the things that you suppress,
the things that you hope will go away, or that you hope will be brought to an end by some fairy-
tale "God" who will grant you whatever you desire. And there can be no truly Divine life for you
unless you submit to understand and transcend all of that ego-"philosophy".
There is no pleasureless love, if love is real and true. There is no humorless
compassion, if compassion is real and true. There is no Godless (or non-Divine) Freedom, if
Freedom Is Real and True. When you are alive as Divine ecstasy in heart-Communion with Me,
and (thus) when you are alive as Real (and really ego-transcending) enjoyment, and as true
selfless pleasure, then you can love—then you have no option but to love, because the egoless
heart is only love. When you are established in true heart-open (or truly ego-transcending)

humor, beyond any limitation, beyond the possibility of its being lost, then you are
compassionate—then you are only compassion, because egoless love is only compassion.
When Real-God-Realization is Most Perfect, then There Is Only Real God—then "you" are Free,
of "you", in Me.
DEVOTEE: It seems that what people tend to do is cling to positive changes in their experience,
as if those changes were (in and of themselves) the Truth. But I see the inappropriateness of
that search. The pleasure You are Speaking of has to do with real Spiritual life.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Yes. As long as there is confinement to (and by) the act of self-
contraction (and, thus and thereby, identification with the separate and separative ego-"I", and
its seeking adventure), sex (or bodily pleasure), and laughter (or open-hearted humor), and
Real-God-Realization seem to pose a threat to the (necessarily, anxious and fearful) ego-"I". I
Call My each and every devotee to surrender, forget, and really transcend self-contraction, and
(thus and thereby), whether male or female, to be present (and "rightly" active) in this world with
real "manliness" (or egoless, Me-Filled clarity and strength).
My devotee must consistently live on the basis of what he or she has understood in My
Avataric Divine Heart-Company, and on the basis of all that has been Revealed and Given to
(and Received by) him or her in the course of really counter-egoic devotional sadhana in My
Avataric Divine Heart-Company. Then My devotee will truly and "rightly" enjoy bodily (or total
psycho-physical) pleasure (or well-being)—no matter what is the current content of the "news",
and no matter what are the "signs" of others on the day. Then My devotee will, likewise, be truly
capable of "right" true humor—no matter what are the present-time "signs" of the "times". Then,
likewise, My devotee will be truly capable of True Happiness, no matter what "happens" as the
day—because he or she will know Me to Be the boundlessly All-and-all-Surrounding and
egolessly All-and-all-Pervading Reality and Condition, even of the body-mind, and of all its
passing patterns of world-space and seeking-time.

Notes
1. The term "Real God" indicates the True Source of all conditions, the True and Spiritual Divine
Person, rather than any egoic (and, thus, false, or limited) presumptions about "God".
2. Avatar Adi Da uses the phrase "Most Perfect(ly)" in the sense of "Absolutely Perfect(ly)",
indicating a reference to the Divinely Enlightened stage of life.
3. The ego-"I" is the fundamental activity of self-contraction, or the presumption of separate and
separative existence.
4. Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga is the principal Gift, Calling, and Discipline Offered by Adi Da
Samraj to all who practice the Way of Adidam.
The phrase "Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga" is itself a summary of the Way of Adidam. "Bhakti",
in Sanskrit, is love, adoration, or devotion, while "Yoga" is a Real-God-Realizing discipline or
practice. "Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga" is, thus, "the Divinely Revealed practice of devotional
love for (and devotional response to) the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj".
The technical practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga is a four-part process of Invoking, feeling,
breathing, and serving Avatar Adi Da in every moment.
5. Avatar Adi Da has always had a unique method of "Crazy" Work, which involved His literal
Submission to the limited conditions of humankind in order to discover the Way to transform and
illumine humankind. His "Crazy" Manner of Submission is a Divine Siddhi (or Power), an
inherent aspect of His Avataric Incarnation.
6. The term "Avataric" indicates that Avatar Adi Da's human Incarnation is not merely the life of
an ordinary man, but the utterly Divine "Descent" of Real God in human Form.
7. The Title "Bhagavan" is Sanskrit for "blessed", "holy". When applied to a great Spiritual
Master, "Bhagavan" is understood to mean "bountiful God", or "Great God", or "Divine Lord".
8. The entire Spiritual Process culminating in Divine Enlightenment has been exactly "mapped"
by Avatar Adi Da, Who Describes It in terms of seven stages of life. In the total (or full and
complete) practice of the Way of Adidam, the seven stages of life are, from first to last, a
Process in Consciousness, Revealing (ultimately) that you are Consciousness, and not merely
the body-mind.

The first three (or foundation) stages of life constitute the ordinary course of human
adaptation—bodily, emotional, and mental growth. The fourth and fifth (or advanced) stages of
life are characterized by the Awakening to Spirit, or the Spiritualizing of the body-mind.
In the sixth and seventh (or ultimate) stages of life, Consciousness Itself is directly
Realized, beyond identification with the body-mind. In the sixth stage of life, the Realizer
Identifies with Consciousness (in profound states of meditation) by excluding all awareness of
phenomena. Avatar Adi Da has Revealed that this was the highest form of Realization known in
the religious and Spiritual traditions previous to His Appearance. But this Realization is
incomplete. Even the necessity to turn away from the world in order to fully Enjoy
Consciousness represents a contraction, a refusal of Reality in its totality. The seventh stage of
life (or the Realization of "Open Eyes"), which is Revealed and Given only by Avatar Adi Da,
transcends this last limit. No exclusion is necessary, because the world is Realized to be a mere
modification of Consciousness, not separate (or "different") from Consciousness at all.
9. In Avatar Adi Da's Teaching-Revelation, "Narcissus" (taken from the Greek myth) is a key
symbol of the un-Enlightened individual as a self-obsessed seeker, enamored of his or her own
self-image and egoic self-consciousness.
10. The functional, practical, and relational disciplines of the Way of Adidam are forms of
appropriate human action and responsibility for diet, health, exercise, sexuality, work, service to
and support of Avatar Adi Da's Circumstance and Work, and cooperative (formal community)
association (or at least significantly participatory affiliation) with other practitioners of the Way of
Adidam. The cultural obligations of the Way of Adidam include meditation, sacramental worship,
study of Ruchira Avatar Adi Da's Wisdom-Teaching (and also at least a basic discriminative
study of the Great Tradition of religion and Spirituality that is the Wisdom-inheritance of
mankind), and regular participation in the "form" (or schedule) of daily, weekly, monthly, and
annual devotional activities.
11. By the word "Bright" (and its variations, such as "Brightened" or "Brightness"), Avatar Adi Da
refers to the eternally, infinitely, and inherently Self-Radiant Divine, Indivisible and Indestructible
Light Itself.
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