Adi Da Samraj gave a series of profound Talks about the true nature of the non-human beings. By the term “non-human,” Adi Da Samraj refers to all beings other than human, including animals, trees, insects, microbes, rivers, and even the air we breathe. He speaks on many levels about the non-humans: their need to survive, their spiritual impulse and nature, their forms of culture, and about human beings’ right and wrong relationship to them.
In the following talks, Adi Da Samraj communicates His Divine Understanding of the real nature of all beings and things in a way that clearly shows that, for Him, right relationship between all beings is a straightforward and obvious matter.
Audio: Compilation of Talks
In these recordings Adi Da Samraj is speaking on behalf of the non-human world so that human beings might better understand, respect, serve, and preserve it. Listen…
A Contemplative State of Exaltation
ADI DA SAMRAJ: You’re desensitized to the point where you can treat [non-humans] like they’re just stuff. You know, so what does a chameleon do that makes any difference? Why “chameleon” it then, you know? It doesn’t seem like it has any real purpose to the human view often, it seems. But these are the true odalisques, all around you. Look at the trees odalisquing. They handle their business in an elegant and very slow manner. And they stand there in constant Contemplation, full conductivity—unless you abuse them, or they get interfered with somehow. Read more…
I Embrace All Beings
ADI DA SAMRAJ: At heart, all are One. At heart, a human being is not the slightest bit different from the reptiles, the birds, the former dinosaurs, the elephants, the plants, the trees, the wind, the sky, the microbes. Apart from their function in conditionality, all beings are the same. Human beings are not uniquely to be Saved. All beings, even all of conditional manifestation, is the Sphere of My Work. I do not make the slightest jot of distinction between a human being and any other form or appearance. There is none to be made. Read more…
Learn It in the Tree
ADI DA SAMRAJ: You have to learn it in the tree. The tree is your right asana, or disposition. When I am in California, I like to visit the redwoods and the sequoias. The redwoods and the sequoias have the sign and disposition of standing there, just as that form, basically just as it looks, all the time. They are always standing right there and getting bigger, increasing the profundity of conductivity. A massive being like that—doing just that for over 2,000 years—is a huge energy system. It can be felt through subtler sensitivity. Read more…
Observe the Non-Humans, and Learn from Them
ADI DA SAMRAJ: Non-humans are not connected to the world via conceptual mind, and, therefore, they have no problems about Realizing the Non-Dual Nature of Reality Itself. The egoless Nature of Reality Itself is perfectly obvious to the non-humans. Read more…
On the Other Side of the Purr
ADI DA SAMRAJ: But when they are purring, cats are not just in the ordinary sense physically aware. Just to be able to get to purr, they have to be in that other dimensional way of relating to the physical, where they’re peripherally associated with it. In fact, that is the way that vibration of the purr occurs. You can feel how they feel themselves as energy, and they basically feel the physical is transparent to that. At the level of energy, you can feel and even see right through the physical. They are meditating on that, knowing that, with each moment of that purring. That’s how they are aware of the physical when that’s occurring. Read more…
Robert the Cat
ADI DA SAMRAJ: Robert himself was nothing less to me than my best friend and mentor. He was more, not less, than human to me. All of his ways seemed to me an epitome of the genius of life . . . and I loved him as deeply as the universe itself. I recognized that Robert had been my Teacher in the wilderness. He had filled my eye and owned a thread of attention in my heart. I knew him and he knew me. Nothing could replace that state of life or console its absence. I treated him in death like a saint. I had him cremated, and I kept his ashes. Read more…
Serving Animals Through the Dying Process
ADI DA SAMRAJ: If you are going to bring animals into your sphere and take them out of theirs, you have to make some sort of arrangement with them in which they have the potential, through their contemplative life, to be just as happy as you want them to be. But in that process of sensitizing yourself to non-humans and placing no barriers between yourself and them, you have to go beyond your previous mind about non-humans as sort of “non-beings”. Read more…
The Bridge to God
ADI DA SAMRAJ: The world is transformed by one’s presumption about it. Those who live in a magical disposition toward the world change their world in one characteristic way: They do not seem to do very much with it as a natural phenomenon. They are very protective of it as a natural phenomenon and want to interfere with it as little as possible, because it is only by letting the world be what it is as a natural process, without interference, that it has the opportunity to produce magical signs and therefore to permit them to engage in magical relations with it. Read more…
The Personality In the Face
ADI DA SAMRAJ: Non-humans are trying to work out emotional things, physical things, disease things, mental things, wonderings, puzzles. They try to work that out in their circumstance. But his circumstance here includes not only sitting in that cage, but associating with you, you see. How do you know what his articulations, or his mumblings or his words and chatterings mean, if you don’t give him some really sensitive awareness time? Like you should with other human beings. It’s not that you even do that much with other human beings. It’s all pretty much a rattle of patternings. How much sensitivity do you bring to it? How much meditation do you bring to existence altogether? Read more…
The Tree is the Fundamental Structure
ADI DA SAMRAJ: There is an attitude, a disposition inherent in the tree-form, the core, the spinal structure of the being. One can be the body-mind that is just functioning, detached from the consciousness of its essential nature and root. Or one can abide in the Native Position, this core structure, as one is before any thoughts, sensation, or presumption—as simple feeling-awareness itself. Read more…
The True and Sacred Zoo
ADI DA SAMRAJ: The necessary essence of the true zoo is love. The true zoo is sacred. It must invoke and allow for the magic that causes people to participate in conditional reality in the sacred sense, or in the sense of love, in the sense of self-transcendence, of ecstasy. True zoos should permit and invite self-transcendence. The true zoo is not merely the product of an idea, which is then to be passively admired, or observed, by others. Participation in a zoo should be a great exercise that enables one to transcend oneself. If it does not serve that purpose, then it has missed its potential. The true zoo has a unique purpose for others, both human and non-human. Read more…
The Yoga of the Tree
ADI DA SAMRAJ: When I held on to the trees, I could feel the “current” working in them. It is the same as in the spinal line of the human being—very profound and equalized. They are in samadhi. Trees are true contemplatives. Their contemplation is constant. Especially the Great Trees. There is this intense force, spinal force, central force. It is the same force as felt in the human being, when it is allowed, and unlocked from the knots. Read more…
Two Birds in the Tree
ADI DA SAMRAJ: There is a description in one of the old Upanishads—to which I have referred to a number of times recently—of some teacher speaking to a devotee and saying, “Just imagine a tree in the midst of the woods. There are two birds in it. One of them is busy eating the fruit and the other simply stands by and witnesses.” Read more…
Walking the Dog
ADI DA SAMRAJ: I am continually impressed, newly impressed from hour to hour, with the insanity of human beings! Animals, plants, inert things have much more intelligence! They are simpler, more pure. Read more…