Beloved Bhagavan Adi Da
Samraj
passed into Divine Mahasamadhi at 9:05 pm, Wednesday November 26th
PST
November 28, 2008 [Fiji]
Bhagavan Adi Da’s bodily (human) Divine Avataric Form in
procession from Picture Perfect to Aham Da Asmi Sthan, evening,
November 27, 2008
Divine Revelation-Word — From “Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga” in Part
7 of The Aletheon
I Am Acausally Coincident with all-and-All.
I am not “causing” Realization—in any one.
I Am Realization—in every one.
Such is the correct understanding.
Da Is the Perfect Silence of Transcendental Spiritual Thunder.
Da Is the Prior-Unity-Force That Always Priorly and Totally
Dissolves all dis-unity, all non-unity, all “difference”.
Da is not merely a physical sound.
When I Speak of the “Sound of Da”, I am Speaking a Metaphor for
Non-”difference”, for Conscious Light Itself, for the “Emergence” of
the Divine “Bright” Spherical Self-Domain As the “Room” of Existence
Itself, rather than the (otherwise presumed) ego-”world” of
bondage.
Da Is the Sound of Divine Translation.
Da Is the Event of Divine Translation.
I Am the Event of Divine Translation.
[November 26, 2008]
To whole bodily recognize Me is to Enter into My Divine “Bright”
Spherical Self-Domain.
To whole bodily recognize Me is to Exist in My Divine “Bright”
Spherical Self-Domain.
That Instantaneous Translation Is Da.
That Is the “Thunder-Crack” of Reality Itself, when Reality Itself
Shatters the illusion of all appearances.
Then you Are in the Infinite “Room”, Prior to the mind, the body,
and the “world”.
The Boundlessness and Centerlessness of Love-Bliss That Is My
Divine “Bright” Spherical Self-Domain Is What There Is to
Realize.
The “cause-and-effect” appearance of here is merely one among
countless “cause-and-effect” appearances.
There are countless “worlds” of conditional appearance, of
“cause-and-effect”-illusion, of ego-bondage, and of would-be
seeming—all of which is, itself, the “cause” of all
“effects”.
My Divine Avataric Calling Is for you to Perfectly transcend what
appears—no matter what appears.
[November 26, 2008]
Aham Da Asmi.
Beloved, I Am Da, the Self-Revelation of Reality Itself.
My Teaching Is Atma Nadi Shakti Dharma, the only-by-Me Divinely
Avatarically Self-Revealed Transcendental Spiritual Way of Reality
Itself, Which Is Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga, the One and Perfectly egoless
Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam.
I Say This.
The following are excerpts from Adi Da’s writing from past
years.
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The “condition” that is Truth is far superior to this limitation.
And those who live Truth while alive are not glorifying life in
itself. They are glorifying Truth. When you enjoy Truth, you are
already free. And if you are free, what has all of this compulsive
limitation to do with you? Such a one lives Truth until death, and
then slips away. And everyone will slip away in Truth sooner or
later. The Guru is only looking for company on his way out! He has
already discovered who you are, he already is living with you in
another sense, as real life, as love, as Truth. He no longer requires
your physical existence or his own. He looks forward to your perfect
enjoyment. But he sees that those who are living in the earth plane
are not clear about this, not certain of it, a little confused. So he
communicates it in as many ways as he can. But all he is trying to do
is to take you away, to take your separate life away, to snuff you
out of darkness into Light.
Method of the Siddhas – Chaper
4 – Vital Shock
Avatara Adi Da: …but you see it is a Play, a leela of Divine
Manifections……how can you account for it? …I am trying to help
you understand the way it is and how it keeps moving and never taking
it for granted, never become conventional or static, you see. ….My
Play is with All. There always will be a Play. I am Teaching,
Learning you about it in My physcial lifetime so that after My
physical lifetime you will have this learning, the cultural
supposition, this understanding, this Yoga to do, and I won’t have to
be physically present. But you will know that I will be Present. I
will be with you, you see, not gone forever. I have Helped you by My
physical Incarnation to identify or locate Me as I’ve always been,
which you never noticed before. And I will have learned you, taught
you about how to notice Me, having physically incarnated.
Thereafter, you will be able to associate with Me as I was before,
but now that you have noticed it you will be able to locate Me
forever. I will never leave you or ever be dissociated from you or
ever be separate from you….and after my My physical lifetime I will
be in the same Play with you, exactly as present with you. By
concentrating on Me, you will have My Murtis and My Holy locations
and so on. It will not end. It will always be fulfilled and always be
Mysterious and never to be taken for granted, you see.
And your Leela from here on should be that He Spoke, and He
Talked, and He Explained, and He did everything, and He did it for 23
years…..and one day (Beloved makes gasping noises)…and the Body
got inert, so we put it up at the “Brighness”…and He’s always with
us, and it is the same now as it was then. It goes on and on and
on.
Fiji -December 7, 1994
The Death and Birth of the God-man
a talk by Heart-Master Da, July 12, 1976
Heart-Master Da: Devotees submit themselves to the God-form
through one another, through ordinary relations, all the while
remembering the Divine, in some cases the Divine in this appearance,
this human gesture, with legs and trunk and arms and head, with face,
with all perception, with all knowledge, above and below. Such
fortunate people are the intimates of such a one. It is not necessary
to be intimate with that form to engage in such a practice of Truth,
but it is fortunate.
And so these intimates of this necessity, particularly the lovers
of this one, become the expressions, by intimacy, of this birth,
become the only appearance, become the only figurement, the only
argument, of its necessity or form, and seem to be it without
self-consciousness, and therefore serve others without argument of an
ordinary kind. The Ashram as a whole, the church of this enjoyment of
my intimacy, becomes the aura, embodied, of this unnecessary and
actual non-birth, so that the only birth of this one, who is not one
in concentration or in fact but one in you, becomes knowable and
factual in devotees. It is only in the next generation beyond this
body that the factuality of this circumstance becomes apparent. There
is therefore no gesture, no accomplishment, no fulfillment, of this
expression in this life. This life becomes a sacrifice to its own
expression. Having no center in itself, it becomes many, centered
nowhere but expressed in everywhere.
And so devotees, or those intimate with this birth, which is
apparent only, become the form, or the body, in many without a
center, without a single one. If they all stood in a circle looking
to the center, they would see nothing except someone on the other
side. And yet to those who view them, who live with them
compassionately, they are, for the first time, the bodily expression,
the incarnation, of God, without a center. The incarnation of
devotees is the birth.
The gesture of the God-man in human form is sexual, is an
instigation, a suggestion, an intrusion, in the midst of human life
that produces the birth, in the form of those already born, of his
own domination. You see how it occurs? Probably not. But that is the
way it occurs. And it never is fully expressed, never acknowledged,
until the complete disappearance of the apparent bodily form of the
born one, or the God-man. The birth, the expression, the appearance,
of the God-man implies its, his, her own death, sacrifice, before
there is any feeling at large for the Divine. Because as long as this
apparently born one continues to exist, the eyes turn inward, turning
toward the center, toward the cultic object or to some withinness
that has a focus. It is only when the God-man is dissolved in his or
her appearance, is completely gone, has no longer any focus even in
devotees in a place, it is only then that expression that is knowable
to men and women at large communicates itself, becomes knowable, only
when the reflection turns outward and becomes Radiant.
And so you can see that the birth of the God-man implies
sacrifice, or death, of the God-man, and it must occur quickly. Such
a one cannot live to be an old, old man or woman. Such a one can live
only as long as it takes to prepare the being of devotees, of lovers.
Oh, perhaps before that occurs, such a one may begin to look old, to
accumulate years, and those who desire that objective person may
resist their knowledge long enough that he or she may become old in
years, and only begin to become sensitive to the Teaching, to the
transforming Influence, when it seems that, well, he’s lived long
enough, and suddenly they begin to become Enlightened, and he
hurries, or she hurries, to be dead. This hurrying can begin very
early in the life of such a one. It can occur in the middle of life,
it can occur in the middling of life, fifties, sixties, or seventies
of years, or it can occur very late in life. Its persistence depends
entirely on the response of devotion.
But when that preparation is sufficient—and this is not knowable
to devotees—it is then that this appearance is vanished, like a
magic object given to you in a devotional afternoon. The
disappearance of the God-man is therefore sudden—whenever it occurs
it is sudden. Its significance is that the aura of his or her
communication moves through his or her lovers, only through them. And
the entire process depends entirely, then, without a center, on the
process of the community, on the process of the gathering of
devotees, who no longer have a center in the case of the death of the
God-man, but who have a burden of Light, who suffer or enjoy a speed
in them that they could not recollect or engage while that one
lived.
So—all the time that I appear to be with you, even though there
isn’t really a center among you except your own face, I continually
realize that center in your faces that moves in the sphere,
unrecollected, of your appearance, and play upon it, so that you seem
to find in me a center, a one, an individual, a case of
Enlightenment, and continue to play upon you in your bodies until
that face in you is sublimed beyond your hairs, being the only thing
changing. Perhaps this is the time for my disappearance—it is not a
threat—perhaps this is the time. Perhaps there is another time, but
you will not know it, and I will not prophesy it, because it is not
effective upon any single one. It is effective upon you. The event is
not my disappearance, but your revelation.
Taking that into account, this is obviously not the moment!
(Laughter.) But it could come any time. I’m always hopeful for
it.
These extremities below the throat are not desirable to me. This
face is not visible to me. You cannot see your own head, except by
reflection. All the time you are arms and legs and trunk, breathing
and beating and desiring and moving, but no face, except to others,
from time to time reflected in a mirror, in imagery, in dreams, in
recollection, in the mind, but never really, always a medium between
yourself and your own face, never your own face directly. None of you
has ever seen your own face, only imaged it. Has anyone seen it?
Never. And you never will.
You may see yourself shoulders and below. You may see all of this
bodily life. You may see everything below the throat. But you may
never see your face, except by mediumship, except by reflection in
others or in some device like a mirror, which is not your own face
but only an interpretation, an illusion that suggests your own
objectification.
Release yourself from this objectification, from this knowledge by
suggestion that you exist independently. Do not believe your own
face. Only be seen by others. Don’t desire to be seen, but be seen in
spite of the desire. Then you may be known radiantly, only when you
forget it, when you give up all reflections by knowledge, by
understanding, and become faceless, with only this body receding from
it, knowing all beings not from face but from the heart, which is
without perception, reflected in the face, but not known by you.
In that case, you may become Divine in your agency and known Godly
to ordinary people, without self-consciousness. This is the function
of the Guru. It is the function of his devotees, or his lovers, after
death, after preparation. Know that that preparation is not complete
until the God-man dies in his body, and the implication of the birth
of the God-man is his death, not to be regretted like an event that
is over, but be known as the sign that his or her birth has finally
occurred.
The life of the God-man is like the interim in the womb of an
ordinary man or woman. The death of the God-man is like the birth of
an ordinary man or woman, in which the case the God-man finally
achieves form without self-consciousness in the bodies, head, arms,
trunk, and legs of devotees, true devotees. Spurious individuals will
make claims for themselves, become self-conscious, trying to replace
the center. But those who are the lovers of that one, who have known
that one truly, will be completely free of self-consciousness, free
of strategy, will live that proces in relationship, communicated in
person by the God-man without person, will live that in relationship
to one another without face, without consulting the mirrors of
consciousness or this world. In that case they may become the media,
the gesture, the argument, that is the service of God-Realization in
ordinary beings.
November 10, 1996
Land Bridge Pavilion,
The Mountain Of Attention
Avatar Adi Da Samraj arrived at Land Bridge Pavilion at 5:10 p.m.
on Sunday, November 10, 1996. He was wearing a black velvet suit and
a purple silk shirt. He wore His hair loose around His shoulders. The
Pavilion was full of devotees, who had come from all over the West
coast for the weekend, in celebration of Adi Das Revelation of His
new Title, “The Ruchira Buddha”. Beloved Graciously Granted silent
Darshan for the first fifteen minutes of the gathering—infusing
all devotees with His Blessing-Regard.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Mm-hm?
DEVOTEE: Theres a question, Beloved, that Ive wanted to ask You
for a long time. And I havent known how to verbalize it. You have
sufficiently demonstrated to me that Guru is God. I know that my own
Spiritual submission has fallen short. What I ask is, when Your
physical Body takes Mahasamadhi and theres no longer the physical
Incarnation of You as You Appear now in this Pattern—and I know
that there will be a Living Murti that will be transparent such that
we will receive Your Darshan through all eternity—but Ive always
wondered how the direct intimacy to You, as Guru, will manifest
physically for those who will be born after You have taken
Mahasamadhi. Because I have observed that there is the irreplaceable
Play between the Guru and the devotee that is the process.
AVATAR ADI DA SAMRAJ: Yes, of course, but the intention and
purpose of My physical Manifestation here, conditional Manifestation
altogether, is to transmit My Pattern, to establish it in the midst
here through all kinds of Signs.
Twenty-five years ago—something like that now isnt it?
Twenty-five years ago—its still a relatively small group of
people here—the room full of you, hearing something or other,
whatever it may have been, to cause you to come around to the Melrose
Avenue Ashram, would have come there, and what of My Pattern would
you have found there? Very little of My Word had been communicated.
There was The Knee of Listening in manuscript there and so on.
Nothing much else. No other elaborate Instruction, Confession on My
Part, no Leela. People had not conformed to Me to the point of
accepting all different kinds of responsibilities—even very
practical ones.
Twenty-five years later there are still many things still lacking,
but, on the other hand, you see how much more of My Pattern is
manifested, independent of this Body, such that the process for
devotees to that degree no longer depends on the continuation of this
Body.
Other aspects of this process of the Revelation of this Way depend
on the continuation of this Body. So I have Work yet to fulfill
through this Bodily Manifestation, but some of the Work has been
fulfilled. Some of that Pattern exists. You have an archive here
overflowing with My Word and Leelas and so on. And all of you are a
walking manifestation of My Leelas. [Devotees: Da!] And the
gathering, such as it is, with all of its limitations, nonetheless,
has, in addition to My Instructions, some degrees of conformity to
Me, handling some responsibilities and growing in that.
In other words, enough has occurred to show you how My physical
Manifestation here works. It is a matter of transmitting My Pattern
in forms that can be perpetuated. And the more that is done, the less
that is required of Me in terms of physical Incarnation here.
Ultimately, it will be obsolete. From that point, then there is this
Mahasamadhi.
I will function through that Pattern that I have generated
independent of this Body. My Pattern will still exist. It simply will
not be confined to this Body any longer. And I will make use of means
such as Sanctuaries, Empowered Places, and, of course, theres all My
Word of Instruction, the recorded Leelas and the Leela-voice of
devotees altogether. Ill make use of the Instrumentality of devotees
in the advanced and ultimate stages. Ill make use of the “Living
Murti”, a Murti-Guru who will be a psycho-physical mechanism like
this Body, you see, but it will be vehicle for Me.
But that Murti-Guru will not be My successor. I will already have
accomplished in this Body many, many things. And so that individual
will not have to do those things. That individual will have a
cultural role to play as the “Living Murti”, transparent to Me. That
one wont have to invent Instruction. I will have Given Instruction
already. But that one, being My devotee, conformed to My Word and to
Me, will certainly be able to respond to devotees intelligently and
wisely, embody My Instruction for them. He or she will be able to
interact with devotees in a way that serves their sadhana.
And not only that individual will have a unique function as the
“Living Murti” in the gathering, but all those others who are
functioning as part of the collective Instrumentality, will likewise
be able to serve uniquely. The Sannyasin Order and the Lay Renunciate
Order then—all of them—will serve within My Pattern which
has already been Revealed. Devotees will be able to measure all of
these individuals by simply looking to see if they are conformed to
Me. Looking to see if their communication, their life altogether,
conforms to My Word which I have already Given. My Word need not be
invented after the lifetime of this Body. Its already Given.
The Play with Me will continue, then, in the form of the sadhana
that all devotees do in this Sangha. The Sangha is necessary, along
with the Realizer and the Word. The Sangha is My Pattern
emerging—a pattern that is conformed to Me, through submission
to Me. When it has integrity based on real and right practice, then
more and more it is My Sign. It is a Pattern that coincides with Me
that is virtuous—able to Realize Me, able to serve anyone who
comes into it, therefore, relative to the whole process of Realizing
Me.
I will not be dead—just as even now I am not in this Body or
limited to it. I am even now here to be Realized as I Am. And so it
will be then. My Spiritual Transmission of My Very Person will be
continued through various means of Agency and Instrumentality. They
will simply be vehicles for My Transmission of My Own Person, My Own
Presence. And this will be obvious to devotees—not a cultic
invention. But it will not be obvious until this integrity is
established, until there are renunciate orders, and the Sangha, the
gathering itself, has real integrity, conformed to Me, fulfilling its
obligations, and there are significant numbers of people practicing
in the advanced and ultimate stages. This is urgently required.
The beginnings of this Way have had their quarter of a century. Im
not here to struggle with that any longer, and fundamentally, I have
nothing further to Reveal about it. I have communicated My Pattern
relative to that level of things and now you have to live it,
individually and as a gathering. That, as I was saying earlier, is
what is required of you all right now and from now.
In terms of My Own Work, I must be active developing
Instrumentality and Agency. This means I need a body of devotees,
level two and beyond. And I must concentrate in working with them,
and they must fulfill their service role in the gathering. When that
occurs, then other dimensions of My Pattern will be established here,
and more of the service this Body has been Born to do, to accomplish,
will have been accomplished.
My Leelas, the Leelas of My Lifetime of physical Embodiment will
always be there to be told, to be recited, to be studied, to be
rendered in artistic form even, and so on, forever. The culture of
that, you see, is a culture that has the gift of My Design in that
form. I neednt be here generating more of it. It neednt be repeated,
you see. It cannot be repeated. But it also need not be repeated.
You must remember the serious purpose of this Way altogether and
the reason to be serious to begin with. The nature of this
conditional happening is very fragile, temporary only. You must not
waste this opportunity. This Way must flourish. This is not utopia or
heaven here. What great fortune that this conjunction has occurred at
all and that there has already been this full twenty-five year
Revelation. And that it is also continuing.
None of this continues forever, but rightly it should serve its
purpose—because all devotees in the future will likewise be
living in mortal conditions. And it is not My Purpose to maintain a
form of embodiment here thats forever consoling and so forth. My
Purpose is to serve you in the realism of this event, so that youll
be moved to go beyond these conditions and enjoy the Realization of
Me that cannot come to an end. If you are in My Company during My
Revelation time, youre in My Company for the sake of Realizing Me.
Altogether, that is your purpose. Your purpose of Realizing Me
happens to coincide at the moment with My physical Embodiment here.
That is your good fortune. Generations from now, there will be other
devotees called just as well to do this sadhana seriously, but I will
not be physically Embodied at the time. There will be other
conditions which I have described to you. And those will be the
conditions in which they will practice. But their purpose will be the
same as yours must be now, which is that of Realizing Me and not
taking this event for granted, not wasting it, but being serious, and
understanding, appreciating, the mortal and limited nature of human
existence and being moved profoundly by that, and be made profoundly
serious altogether.
The passing of this Body, therefore, should not be looked at in
terms of ego-based sorrow. Its not an event of that kind. Bodies die
anyway. So there’s no news about it. This Body’s Appearance and, in
due time, Its passing, are not bad news. This Body also coincides
with ordinary, natural processes, so it has its time and then passes.
But it is an event of great good fortune, great Gifts, great
Transmission, that, if embraced and taken seriously, enable beings to
be Liberated from unhappiness and limitation and to Realize That
Which Is Happiness Itself. Then, in due course, there are no further
embodiments, no more bondage or bewilderment caused by apparent
dissociation with the gross human body or any other form, no more
bewilderment caused by waking state illusions or dreaming state
illusions or sleep state illusions.
You’re not in My Company to realize utopia or any kind of
conditional arrangement, but to Realize Unconditional Samadhi Which
Is the Divine State Prior to waking, dreaming and sleeping, even
Prior to the fourth state—the Witness of the three—Prior
even to that. The Divine Condition Itself, in Which even this, all of
this, is Recognizable. That is what you must Realize, this ultimate
Samadhi and the Yoga of the seventh stage of life—Ati-Ruchira
Yoga, the Yoga of the All-Outshining “Brightness”.
So you certainly should value My Incarnation here and the fact
that you coincide with it. But you must embrace it as a devotee, one
doing sadhana—therefore not merely clinging to conditions for
their own sake, but understanding that the purpose of this
coincidence is Realization and the Transmission of the Pattern that
makes Realization possible. Then, in every joint of time in the
future, the Pattern Ive Manifested will be continued under those
conditions, enlivened by the living in that moment.
The human moment in and of itself, you see, is brief and carries
its delights, but it is also poor, limited, mortal, passing. I heard
President Clinton during his election campaign recently—he
turned 50 not long ago, some weeks ago—speaking of some friend
of his who said that it doesnt take long to live a lifetime. And
President Clinton was reflecting on this, having turned 50 and
realizing how quickly he got to be 50. It didnt take long at all. And
many of you have been in My Company for nearly all of this last
quarter of a century. It didnt take long at all. I can remember, as
if it were very recently, times when I spoke to you all telling you
of just such a time as this. “Twenty-five years from now youll all be
blah-blah-blah-blah-blah-blah”—including all of the aging signs
and all the rest of it. And now its true. It didnt take long for that
to happen. It doesnt take long to live a life. And you shouldnt take
it for granted. You have to become serious.
So if you allow yourself to be moved, to be really serious with
Me, then you make right use of this mortal time and are not disturbed
about the mere fact of mortality itself. Because it is so, you should
do sadhana.
You, self-contracted in the midst of conditions, feel disturbed,
full of stress, unhappy and so forth, and so you sometimes get the
notion of indulging yourself in this, that, or the other thing, to
feel better and then, having found that worked at least a little bit,
you want to repeat it and so forth. And so you develop habits of
self-indulgence, which in their repetition become less and less
pleasurable, more and more addictive, and stressful in the seeking.
Rather than become addicts then, of anything at all, seekers, you
should “consider” this seriously, the fact that you dont feel good,
that simply in the midst of this human condition here, you dont just
feel good. Youre not just happy. Its not enough. Its all kinds of not
enough. Its a lot worse than not enough. But dont make the judgement
that because it doesnt feel good you should become addicted, a seeker
after this or that fulfillment, pleasure and so forth. Thats
fruitless involvement.
But take the fact thats at the origin of all addictions
seriously—youre very right. All addicts are right. They dont
feel good and they know it. And they want to feel good. And thats
good. [laughter] But the method of seeking and addiction and
habit, and so forth, doesnt achieve that. So rather than becoming
addicted or reactive, neurotic and whatever else, you should be made
serious by this fact—that you dont feel good. And no kind of
addiction or pleasure-seeking is going to make you feel good in the
sense of Realizing Happiness altogether.
Allow this seriousness to generate the only choice that makes
intelligent sense. And that is the religious life. Not the life of
gleeful, cultic enthusiasm. I mean the life of real sadhana. That is
the process, the serious and profound human process, that is about
the Realization of Happiness. True, most profound Happiness, That
Which Is Always Already the Case, that cannot be lost, cannot be
destroyed—True Freedom. The true religious life is about that.
Not the merely consoling, ordinary, exoteric religious life and all
the variations of cultism around it, but the real religious life is
about this seriousness. Its not about show business, you see.
The real religious life is about the serious ordeal of life
committed to Happiness. Its for one, for all, who cannot commit
themselves to anything but Happiness—and true pleasure,
therefore. It cannot be realized apart from the sadhana of the real
religious life. And it is not realized ultimately, apart from the
Realization of the seventh stage.
This seriousness is the ground you should be standing on in My
Company even while this Body lives, and after Its passing, or
whenever youre not in My physical Company even while this Body lives.
This is the basis of your integrity, this seriousness. It frees you,
liberates you from a casual life. And because this Body is mortal
like the mode of your own appearance here, all the more reason to be
serious now and always, and, obviously, then, in the lifetime of this
Body.
And you will notice—if you havent noticed already—that
it doesnt take long to live a life. And you shouldnt waste it. You
should be here to duplicate My Pattern (Which is God-Realizing),
rather than to replicate your own (which is about ego-bondage and
perpetuation, the illusions of waking, dreaming and sleeping in the
realm of opposites, of klik-klak—which ultimately, and in its
laws, is utterly indifferent to your concerns and objections about
anything at all).
So this Sangha is principal means for the incarnation and
extension of My Pattern here in perpetuity. Its not merely a matter
of having My Word in the archives, therefore. Its a matter of the
Sangha practicing the Way, fulfilling all aspects of the
responsibility associated with this Way, and then there will be
Instrumentality and Agency—all of Realization.
DEVOTEE: Can a Guru who has died still be Guru for the living?
FRANKLIN: It is limited only at the level of life. He can’t
function as Guru in any way that requires a physical presence. So he
usually tries to leave genuine disciples in the world who can
continue certain aspects of the Guru-function. One who has had real
experience spiritually can read a book written by an experienced man
in spiritual life and see things there that he knows are true. It
corroborates his own experience. Just so, one who is already living
the real form of spiritual life can approach the burial site of a
deceased saint or go to holy places, and benefit from the pilgrimage
in that same sense of corroboration or recognition. The current of
spiritual force continues to be emanated by such beings after death,
but Truth is not lived by them bodily in the world. At times people
appear to have experiences on a subtle level with people who are
dead. In my own experience, in the case of Swami Nityananda, Ramana
Maharshi, Sai Baba of Shirdi, and others there have been very
concrete and complex experiences of their subtle influence. Baba
Muktananda remains in physical form to this day, but I am able to
visit him only occasionally. Therefore, my experiences with him are
generally of a subtle although perfectly concrete variety, entirely
apart from the gross physical medium. Just so, my own work with
disciples is fundamentally subtle.
Method of the Siddhas – Vital
Shock – Chapter 4
Formal Announcement – Adidam
December 1, 2008
His Divine Presence,
Avatar Adi Da Samraj,
Has Departed from the Body
In the early evening of Thursday, November 27, His Divine
Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Departed from the Body. He was in His
Fijian Hermitage, Adi Da Samrajashram (the Island of Naitauba).
His Passing was entirely peaceful and free of any struggle. He
Passed of natural causes. At the time of His Passing, He was Working
in His Art Studio, surrounded by devotees who were engaged in serving
His Artwork.
His Body will be interred in the most sacred Place of Adidam-the
secluded Temple which Avatar Adi Da established in 1993 (at Adi Da
Samrajashram) as His burial place.
On the morning of His Passing, He had completed His Writing of The
Aletheon, the book which He designated as “first and foremost” among
all of His Writings. Avatar Adi Da worked on The Aletheon intensively
for the last two years, bringing all of His most essential Spiritual
and philosophical communications into a final form. The Aletheon is
scheduled for publication by The Dawn Horse Press in 2009.
His Divine Presence Bequeathed to humankind a Legacy of
Inexhaustible Profundity and Limitless Blessing-Power.
Spiritual Way
Avatar Adi Da’s Primary Gift is His own Eternal Transcendental
Spiritual Being. The Primary Purpose of His human Lifetime was to
Establish the means by which any and all beings could be truly
connected to Him and in devotional Communion with Him. Thus, He
Worked with utmost intensity, throughout His entire Life, to develop
and establish His Transcendental Spiritual Way-Adidam, or (more
fully) the “Radical” (or Always “At-the-Root”) Reality-Way of Adidam
Ruchiradam. Most fundamentally, the Reality-Way of Adidam is the
devotional relationship to Avatar Adi Da Samraj as one’s Divine
Avataric Master. That Way was established and elaborated by Avatar
Adi Da in the greatest possible detail, during His human Lifetime.
Thus, His precise Instruction relative to all aspects of His Way will
always guide and align practitioners of His Way, in the process of
always deepening Communion with Him.
Teaching Literature
Avatar Adi Da’s literary, philosophical, and practical writings
consist of over sixty published books-including The Knee of
Listening, His Spiritual Autobiography, and The Dawn Horse Testament,
His magisterial Revelation of the entire Spiritual Process from
beginning to end.
His Divine Presence did a tremendous amount of Writing in the
years 2005-2008. Just two weeks before His Passing, He designated the
five books that He Wrote during that three-year period as “the Five
Principal Books of My Forever Comprehensive Seventh-Stage Address to
all-and-All”:
The Aletheon: The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of His Divine
Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
The Gnosticon: The “Perfect Knowledge” Reality-Teachings of His
Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
ThePneumaton: The Transcendental Spiritual Reality-Teachings of
His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samra j
Not-Two Is Peace: The Ordinary People’s Way of Global Cooperative
Order
Transcendental Realism: The Image-Art of egoless Coincidence With
Reality Itself
Prepublication editions of The Aletheon, The Gnosticon, and The
Pneumaton-as well as the second edition of Not-Two Is Peace and the
first edition of Transcendental Realism-are currently available from
The Dawn Horse Press.
Examination of world religions
Over a period of many decades, His Divine Presence undertook a
massive examination of the world’s religious traditions, culminating
in an annotated bibliography of approximately 10,000 items, entitled
The Basket of Tolerance. A briefer “epitome” version of The Basket of
Tolerance is scheduled for publication by The Dawn Horse Press in
2009.
Avatar Adi Da also created original translations of traditional
Spiritual texts, translations in which He brings out the deepest
meaning of the original texts. The recent publication Reality Is All
the God There Is (published by Inner Traditions) presents His
translations of texts from the traditions of Buddhism and Advaita
Vedanta.
Practical literature
Avatar Adi Da’s writings on fundamental practical areas of human
life, examined from the Spiritual perspective, include Green Gorilla
(published by The Dawn Horse Press), relative to raw diet, and The
Complete Yoga of Emotional-Sexual Life (published by Inner
Traditions).
Literary Works
Avatar Adi Da’s principal literary work is His trilogy entitled
The Orpheum. In the late 1990s, poet Robert Lax said of The Mummery
Book (the opening volume of the Orpheum trilogy), “Living and working
as a writer for many decades, I have not encountered a book like
this, that mysteriously and unselfconsciously conveys so much of the
Unspeakable Reality.” The Orpheum is also presented in the form of
cutting-edge theatre-as shown online at www.mummerybook.org.
Spoken Discourses
In addition to His Writings, Avatar Adi Da gave thousands of hours
of recorded Discourse. Many key Discourses have already been
published by The Dawn Horse Press on CD and DVD. And many more will
be published on an ongoing basis.
Artistic Works
Avatar Adi Da was an extraordinarily prolific artist, producing
over 100,000 works, primarily in the years since 2000. He was invited
to show His work in a solo exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale,
and also as part of the 2008 Winter in Florence Festival. Noted art
critic Donald Kuspit has written, “It is Adi Da Samraj’s imaginative
triumph to have conveyed the illusions created by discrepant points
of view and the emotionally liberating effect when they aesthetically
unite . . .” Among the publications of Avatar Adi Da’s art are The
World As Light, Transcendental Realism, and The Spectra Suites. His
artistic work can be viewed online at www.adidabiennale.org
and www.daplastique.com.
Work with non-humans
As an expression of His Deep Love for and Constant Blessing of all
beings and things in the entirety of the natural world, Avatar Adi Da
founded and developed Fear-No-More Zoo (www.FearNoMoreZoo.org). His
Divine Presence created an extensive body of Wisdom about the
Spiritual nature of non-human beings, and of the non-human world
altogether, for the sake of humans’ ongoing understanding, respect,
and stewardship of all life. Avatar Adi Da’s Vision of Fear-No-More
is one wherein human and non-human exist equally, at heart, within
one diverse sacred culture.
Call for World Peace
Another dimension to Avatar Adi Da’s far-reaching Legacy is the
social wisdom embodied in His book Not-Two Is Peace (published by The
Dawn Horse Press). In it He Calls for the establishment of a Global
Cooperative Forum that mobilizes “everybody-all-at-once” on the basis
of recognizing the prior (or inherent) unity of the entire human
family. He proposes that such a forum is the necessary and effective
means for addressing the world’s most pressing issues. Information
about this initiative is available online at www.globalcooperationproject.org
“I Will Not Be Gone”
Many times during His Lifetime, His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da
Samraj, prepared people to rightly understand the significance of His
Bodily Lifetime and the fact that His Bodily Lifetime would
inevitably come to an end at some point. In the following passages
from His Essay “I Am The One Who Has Always Been Here”, written in
1995, Avatar Adi Da Speaks of His Eternal Transcendental Spiritual
Existence, His Everlasting Regard for all beings, and His Constant
Blessing-Grace.
I Will Be here Forever.
I Will Be every “where” Forever.
I Cannot Leave, For My Transcendentally Spiritually “Bright”
Divine Spherical Self-Domain Is Not Some “Where” To “Go To”.
My Divine Self-Domain Is Eternal.
I Am Eternal, and I Am Always Already Merely Present-here, and
every “where” In The Cosmic Domain.
By Means Of My Divine Avataric Incarnation here, I Have Given you
My Divine Secret.
My Divine Secret Is This: I Am Eternally Present, and I Am
Omni-Present.
My Bodily (Human) Avataric-Incarnation-Form Has Its time, Whereby
I connect (or Freedom-”Bind”) you (and every one, and all, and All)
To Me.
When The Time Of My Divine Avataric Incarnation is Fulfilled, Then
I Am “Retired” To My Eternal Form-The Divine-Body-Power Of My Divine
Self-State Made Infinitely Intact In The Cosmic Domain (Forever).
And Then, Forever, As Ever Before, I Will Be Not Gone, Not
Absent-For I Am, Forever, The Same Person, The Same Personality,
all-and-All-Surrounding and all-and-All-Pervading, As I Am Now.
I Love you Now.
I Will Love you every “then” and “there”.
And I Always Loved you.
That Is How I Got To here (and every “where”).
“I Am The One Who Has Always Been Here” (from the book Aham Da
Asmi)
Fiji Times – News
article – Friday – November 28, 2008
