Religion and Reality: True Religion Is Not Belief in Any God-Idea But the Direct Experiential Realization of Reality Itself

by Adi Da Samraj

"Religion is 'cult' ". Adi Da Samraj once opened an essay with this provocative statement. By definition, He went on to explain, religion is a sacralized system of philosophical and practical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570972125
• ISBN13: 9781570972126
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Dawn Horse Press
• Length: 99 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Not ideas "about religion" but the direct experiential revelation of what religion points to

There is so much spoken about conventional religion these days in terms of "culture wars" and the politics of the times. Yet who has actually entered into the religious process to the depth degree of actual participatory knowledge (gnosis) of the reality-truth of indivisible unity that religion (universally) points to? This book is subtitled: True Religion Is Not Belief in Any God-Idea but the Direct Experiential Realization of Reality Itself The subtitle directly addresses a fundamental theme of this book, which is that belief is insufficient altogether for true religion. And as a parallel truth, doubt is insufficient as well, in terms of actually dealing the actual root-matters of truth itself. This is a radical vision and voice, a voice of beyond doubt and belief, a voice of reality, of indivisibile indestructible self-evident oneness, of prior unity, of sanity, of heart-awakened consciousness. Of the "binding again" that is the very meaning of the word "religion". Avatar Adi Da Samraj stands out as a uniquely authoritative voice of wisdom-sanity by virtue of his own spiritual and transcendental divine realization of the very condition that is Reality Itself. There is no argument for belief, or for historical propositions of partial "truth", but rather a vast and complex arguement pointing beings to the necessarily experiential ordeal of truth-discovery that is the universal religious process. A process that Adi Da Samraj clearly reveals is an ego-transcending process, since the ego-act of separateness, of the dualistic enactment of "separate self" and "objective world" is the very act of "sin" which separates one from the Living Divine egoless Reality and Truth which is the Only of religion's all. This is a magnificent, sane, bright, inspirational, and clear guide to every human being on the path of deepening religious practice, faith, understanding, and aspiration. A beacon and jewel, and a clarifying voice to a right and universally sane understanding of religion as a whole. In order to help clarify the difference between the various proposals about "God", Adi Da Samraj uses the term Real (Acausal) God as a means to help readers understand directly the egoless nature of Real God versus the ego-based ideas about "God" that can be used for ego based separative purpose, individually or in collective patterns. The Essay: Real (Acausal) God Is The Deep of the World is a beautiful explication on the sacred, profound, universal, egoless, indivisible, and unity-of-all-nature of Truth, Reality, and Real God. Involved in a study of religion at depth? Read this book.

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