The Divine Emergence of the World-Teacher: The Realization, the Revelation, and the Revealing Ordeal of Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda (the World-Teacher

In our usual understanding of things, spiritual biography is perhaps an implicit contradiction. Biography represents "Bios", literally the writing of a life, the same life of creatures and cells described by biology. And the journey of the spirit, if it is acknowledged at all, appears to lie otside of time and space. Its "experiences" are unconditional. The life story of Heart-Master Da Love-Ananda "answers" (and refutes) popular abstractions about spirits and spritual energies: Spirit is not an it. When Divine Consciousness mysteriously incarnates in the Form of a Person, we have the special reality of a Being who is also unconditoional. In this book Saniel Bonder, a devotee of Heart-Master Da, acknowledges that trying to put such Life into a biography is "like trying to photograph a huricane, or lasso a comet, or to travel into the heart of the Sun". Yet this biography, while taking issue precisely with the notion of the Divine as a mere abstraction or a metaphysically conceived other-dimensionality, demonstrates that there is no inherent separation between the conditional Spirit and Life. The "plot" of such a story is not transendence or initiation but universal opening of the Heart. This story weaves ondinary life experiences with extraordinary Revelation, thus providing us with a crucial understanding of not only how much love the Master of the Heart brings into the world but how much sorrow He encounters in doing so. That is the meaning of story-telling here. Reflectioned in His own chosen Personality as a Western man Heart-Master Da confronts precisely the depth of exile and pain present in all of our experiences. Here we have the incredible tale of a Teacher Who so loved His Disciples that not only did He chose an Incarnation in the West to meet them but when His Disciples would not adopt His Form, He adopted their Form to show them their own reflection. The result of this sacrificial effort was His Divine Emergence, which marks a new chapter in epochal Spiritual History. excepts fron Foreword by Richard Grossinger