The Perfect Realization and
the Ultimate Human Potential and Destiny:
The Perfect Happiness of "There Is Only God"

	To have no greater sense of Reality than the physical is to be like a trapped rat, trapped on all sides. You just cannot endure the confinement of mere mortality — your heart cannot accept it, you see. To be in that disposition, to have that sense of Reality, is obviously a disturbance. So, obviously, the human being requires a Way — not merely a way out. A way out, yes in some sense — but, for the integrity of your existence, you need direct access to the Divine, even as a matter of ordinary sanity. Avatar Adi Da Samraj in Carolyn Lee, Ph.D., The Promised God-Man Is Here

	You must, while alive, find out fundamentally what this is all about. Ultimately, you must find the Source of all this — everything that you are experiencing, everything that seems to be happening to you. Otherwise, you're just caught up in a pattern, you're allowing your life to be dictated by a pattern. And there's not a lot of good news to say about organisms of your type in the pattern of things. Haven't you noticed? It's all difficult and brief and who-knows-what . . .

These two views on what our greatest potential is as human beings — the traditional religious view and the materialistic view — sell us far short of our true potential. But because of the widespread political and social influence of these viewpoints, we seldom here of a greater alternative, and tend to simply "go with the flow".

If each of us is the Divine Consciousness, mistakenly trapped in identification with a limited body-mind and perpetuated in that identity through an unconscious, moment-to-moment act of separation, then our greatest potential is to be restored to the Position and Identity of Divine Consciousness.

This is an infinitely greater destiny than the purposes we tend to organize our lives around (to the extent that we even have a conscious purpose to our lives), or that tends to happen to us (if our lives are more the "go with the flow" type). Avatar Adi Da Samraj once humorously said, "if you go with the flow, you go down the toilet!" It is an observation worth considering.

This Greater Destiny and Ultimate Realization stems from the understanding that each apparently separate being is the one Divine Consciousness, trapped in a mistaken but self-perpetuating identification with a limited body-mind.

It's something like dreaming, where, except for the occasional "lucid dream", we are certain that the dream is real and actually happening; we take the dream very seriously, and act accordingly, until we wake up and realize that we were in our beds the whole time, and are completely free of the implications of the dream. It is for this reason that the Buddhist tradition refers to Gautama the Buddha as "The Awakened One".

If one simply awakens from the dream, then, as the waking state is already free of the "awful" that appears in dreams, one is already free of the implications of the billions upon billions of deaths that can be dreamed. The one who understands is simply one who is awake. Such a one has no other specific and necessary peculiarities. Such a one is not elaborate at all. It is the one within the dream who is very complex, because he or she has so many things to do. . . . Such a one may seem extraordinary and a paradox to the dreamer, because the dreamer is very serious about all of this, but the one who is only awake is not serious about it anymore. . . The Divine Self is not behind all that appears. The Divine Self is this, without a doubt. There is no separateness whatsoever. Therefore, Divine Self-Realization is entirely compatible with human existence. One who is Divinely Self-Realized is no longer suffering, no longer inward, no longer award. The dilemma is gone.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Method of the Siddhas