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Become a Patron

This article has the following subsections:

  1. Introduction
  2. Planned Gifts
  3. Immediate Gifts
  4. Support the Sacred Archives of Adidam
  5. Support the Sacred Island of Naitauba
  6. Support the Mountain of Attention Sanctuary
  7. Support the Dawn Horse Press
  8. Support the Da Love-Ananda Mahal Sanctuary
  9. Support Fear-No-More Zoo
  10. Support The Adidam Library
  11. Support Vision of Mulund Institute

1. Introduction

NaitaubaIn 1983, an individual patron offered the island of Naitauba, Fiji, to Avatar Adi Da. Because of this magnificent gift, the entire Life and Work of Adi Da Samraj began to evolve in ways that were not possible before. Naitauba offered Avatar Adi Da a pristine, protected place to do His Spiritual Work and an opportunity to establish a unique Seat of His Divine Presence for all generations to come. (The book, The Eternal Stand, tells the extraordinary story of how, over the course of three decades, Adi Da transformed this two-by-three-mile island in the middle of the Fijian Koro Sea into the most Empowered Sacred Space and Hermitage Ashram on the planet.)

Gestures such as this from individuals of wealth and influence have been made to Spiritual Realizers throughout history. For example, Gautama Buddha had a major patron, a merchant called Sudatta, who was passionately moved to provide for Gautama and His monks and who called on others to respect and celebrate and accommodate the life and work of the great Spiritual Realizer living in their midst. Gautama greatly blessed Sudatta and the story of Sudatta's exemplary generosity is preserved to this day in the earliest annals of Buddhist history.

It is also traditional for those who are attracted to the Spiritual Master — His or Her Presence, Teaching, and Works — but are not currently moved to become devotees to express their appreciation of the Spiritual Master through supporting the Spiritual Master's Work. This often is the basis of a natural progression, from the "first discipline" of "patron", "friend", or "supporter", to the greater discipline of "devotee" — in this lifetime, or over several lifetimes.[1] So for someone who has a heart-response to the Spiritual Master but is not ready or able to become His devotee, becoming a patron of His Work is a traditional and honorable choice, and a way to deepen one's relationship to the Spiritual Master.


Even a little of the Teaching and an honorable relationship to the Teacher cast out much fear and guide the individual in a more balanced course. The Way of Adidam Ruchiradam is a Great Process, an ordeal Of self-Sacrifice to the Divine Person. Many may Respond to My Offering, but some may need time to ponder and to prepare themselves for the greater discipline of Ultimate Devotion.

Those who find themselves in the “pondering and preparing” stage of Response to Me should not feel that they must remain apart from Me and outside Adidam.

Let everyone who Responds to Me begin to honor that Response by accepting the obligation to be an active patron, friend, student, and beginning devotee. Let them do the sadhana of pondering and preparing in My Company, Served by the Agency of this fellowship. However many years may pass in the First Discipline, let it be lived in an honorable and serious manner.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj


The Divine Work of Adi Da is so vast that the opportunities for specific forms of patronage are endless. This generation has the unique responsibility of ensuring the survival in perpetuity of Adi Da's Gift of Adidam, and for the preservation of His Work, in all its many dimensions, for all time.

To serve Avatar Adi Da's Divine Work in these ways through patronage, or through one's position of influence in the world, is to transform one's own life and destiny, and, potentially, the life and destiny of countless others, in a most auspicious and enduring way.

 
Dennis Duff

Growth as a Patron — A story by Dennis Duff about commiting to being a patron and learning how to do that. Dennis was the patron who provided the funds that enabled Adidam to acquire The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.

   

We invite you to become a patron of Adi Da's Work — on whatever scale you are moved to do so. You don't have to be able to buy an island to help!


2. Planned Gifts

By including Adidam as beneficiary in your will, trust, or other planned-giving instrument, you help to ensure that the Agency and Instrumentality established by Adi Da Samraj exist in perpetuity. This page helps you make such a planned gift in support of the Eternal Work of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.


3. Immediate Gifts

Your immediate gift of any amount (as a one-time gift or an ongoing, monthly gift) helps to ensure the perpetuation of Avatar Adi Da's Work of Revelation and Blessing. Below are several immediate gifting opportunities to support the Eternal Work of Avatar Adi Da Samraj. If you would like to designate your gift to support a purpose that is not listed on this page, please contact the Samrajya Patronage Office.

Gifts to the Adidam Ruchiradam Fund are especially appreciated. The Adidam Ruchiradam Fund is a single "umbrella" fund for receiving donations to support all core aspects of Avatar Adi Da's Work. Gifts made to the Adidam Ruchiradam Fund are allocated wherever the need is greatest. Read more about this Fund here.

A gift to the Adidam Ruchiradam Endowment helps to ensure the support of all core aspects of Avatar Adi Da's Work over a long period of time. The endowment assets are kept invested, while the investment income is available for use. This allows for the donation to have an impact over a longer period than if it were used all at once. Read more about the Endowment here.

You can also express your support for any of the following Adidam (and Adidam-related) projects that are currently in need of financial support, by going to the appropriate page (links provided below) and reading about how you can help.

Listed below are just some of the many ways you can help:

You can also make an immediate gift to any of the following organizational entities:

  • Adidam Holy Samrajya
  • Adidam Holy Domains
  • Adi Da Foundation
  • Adidam Holy Institution
  • "Bright"-House Adidam
These gifts are allocated by each organization's Board of Directors in accordance with sacred principles and current priorities. Read more here.

In time, we hope to add ways you can help other areas of Adidam including: The Tat Sundaram Sanctuary; the Ruchira Dham Sanctuary; DaPlastique; Da Orpheum; the Adidam Cooperative Forum; the Radiant Life Clinic; and Mate Moce.


4. Support the Sacred Archives of Adidam


Adidam Library and Archives

Adi Da's Work with devotees formally began in 1972, over 40 years ago. From then until His Divine Mahasamadhi in 2008, thousands of hours of His talks and notes to the community of devotees were recorded, thousands of hours of video footage were shot, and hundreds of thousands of photographs were taken. The Adidam Archives is responsible for the preservation of the audio, video, photographic, and handwritten artifacts of the life and work of Adi Da, and their digital preservation. The audio tapes, photographs, etc. have a limited lifespan and will soon deteriorate to the point of unusability. The window of opportunity is closing — any delay could result in loss. Please join us in preserving and protecting the sacred legacy of Avatar Adi Da's Life and Work, so that His Gifts may continue to be available for humankind forever into the future.

Some of the Current Projects

The Digital Preservation Project — This site describes the preservation tasks the Archives are engaged in. This includes: 4,000 hours for converting analog video tape (some close to 40 years old) to digital media; the scanning of 250,000 photographic negatives; 18,000 hours for digitizing audio tape; a custom database system for searching everything in the Archives; and much more.
An Interview with Elliott Mehrbach — Elliott is General Manager of the Digital Preservation Project.
An Interview with Tim Holmes — Tim is the Chief Video Engineer for the Digital Preservation Project.
An Interview with Jane Lind — Jane is a longtime archivist and a member of the Digital Preservation Project Team.
Charles Campbell An Interview with Charles Campbell — Charles is Photographic Preservation Team Leader.
Linda Perez An Interview with Linda Perez — Linda is a longtime archivist and a member of the Digital Preservation Project Team.

Archives staff

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5. Support the Sacred Island of Naitauba

Naitauba

Naitauba Island, Fiji is the Hermitage Sanctuary of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Spiritually Empowered by Him as the primary place from which His Divine Blessing flows perpetually to the world.

You can help! We welcome your support in the form of financial contributions and professional expertise for our current projects (below). Your generosity helps to develop and maintain Nautauba's facilities and durable sustainability.

Some of the Current Projects

Naitauba Development Fund — Gifts to the Naitauba Development Fund are especially appreciated and allow us to channel resources where the needs are the greatest. For more information contact island manager Chris Merz via this contact form.

Naitauba Reef Preservation — The Naitauba reef is of extraordinary beauty. Last year, a research team from the Univerity of the South Pacific studied the reef to assess and monitor the status of the reef. For ongoing monitoring there is the need to install research-quality data loggers to record ocean temperatures in and around Naitauba's reef. For more information, visit www.naitaubareef.org or contact David Forsythe via this contact form.

Naitauba on Solar Power — Solar energy development is an important project on Naitauba. Our goal is to minimize dependency on fossil fuels and increase Island self-sufficiency. A pilot project was launched in 2009 and the first large project is scheduled for the later part of 2013. If you are moved to support solar power on Naitauba, please contact Cornel Naumann via this contact form for more information.


Adi Da Samrajashram Temples — Like everything else in the tropics, the Temples on Naitauba require dedicated care to protect these sacred places from deterioration, mold, corrosion, infestation. If you are moved to provide funds for the upkeep of the Temples on Naitauba, please contact Gilbert Evans or Bradley Crawford via this contact form.

Current project: four large carpets for Temple Adi Da.


Community Facilities in Ciqomi Village — Since 1983 the Fijian residents of the village of Ciqomi have used a large bure in the middle of the village square for gatherings. However the existing bure has been deteriorating to the point that it is not longer usable nor safe. Therefore a new bure is needed to provide a place for village meetings, celebrations, weddings, graduations, community meals, meke practice sessions, and much more. It is the heart of the village and very important for the cooperative life on Naitauba. For more information, contact island manager Chris Merz via this contact form.


Equipment for the Naitauba Farm — The big tractor and the rototiller used on the farm need replacement. The big tractor is a primary piece of equipment on the farm. It not only pulls the trailer, rototiller and plow but also operates a bulldozer blade and backhoe. If you are interested in supporting farm equipment, contact island manager Chris Merz via this contact form.


The Naitauba Farm — Learn more about the Naitauba Farm through this video series.

Equipment for the Naitauba Clinic — The clinic provides essential services for all Naitauba residents, staff and their families and even in occasional emergencies for people from nearby islands. Some of its equipment is old and in need of replacement. For example the defibrillator is an essential piece of equipment that can save a person's life in the event of a heart attack, and a more up to date and reliable model is urgently needed. For more information, contact island manager Chris Merz or doctor Charles Seage via this contact form.


Support Naitauba's Scholarship Program —Since 2005 devotees of Adi Da Samraj have sponsored a scholarship program which enables ten children from Ciqomi and a neighboring island to attend secondary school for up to 5 years. This program is known and admired throughout Fiji, and in addition to enhancing the lives and opportunities of the children involved and their families, very positively serves Naitauba's reputation and standing in the local area and nationally. If you would like to contribute to this program, contact Hanneke Vlaar via this contact form.


Specialized Skills and Expertise — If you have special skills in areas such as self-sufficiency, island and reef ecology, organic gardening or environmental protection, we invite you to contact island manager Chris Merz via this contact form about how you may be of service to Naitauba Island.


6. Support The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary

The Mountain Of Attention

The Mountain Of Attention is the primary Ruchira Sannyasin Sanctuary in the United States. Located in Northern California, it was the first Sanctuary Empowered by Adi Da (in 1974), and the principal site of His Teaching Work from 1974 to the early 1980's.

You can help! We welcome your support in the form of financial contributions and professional expertise for our current projects (below). Your generosity helps to restore, develop, and maintain this extraordinarily Holy Place.


Some of the Current Projects

The Valley Fire at The Mountain Of Attention — In September, 2015, a devastating fire (called the "Valley Fire") swept through a large area of Lake County, California, with extraordinary speed, burning virtually everything in its path, before 4,000+ firefighters finally succeeded in containing it. Miraculously, the core temples, archives, and residences of The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary were untouched. However, several outlying buildings and holy sites were destroyed; and the homes of many devotees living near the Sanctuary were also lost. Links where you can find further information and can actively assist are provided in this presentation.  
The Valley Fire at The Mountain Of Attention
 


7. Support the Dawn Horse Press

From 1970 to 2008, Adi Da produced a vast body of Wisdom-Literature that addresses literally every aspect of human, Spiritual, and Divine life. Since 1072, The Dawn Horse Press has been dedicated to making this Teaching available to all, in a variety of formats: books, eBooks, DVD's, CD's, and more. The DVD's and CD's provide a means for making Adi Da's thousands of talks available to the public.


Some of the Current Projects

You can help! Here are a couple of ways you can help support the work of The Dawn Horse Press.

The Dawn Horse Express — Perhaps the greatest ongoing need of any publishing house is to always have the funds available to print new books and keep existing books in print. (The same is true for DVD's and CD's.) A primary way The Dawn Horse Press manages this cashflow issue is through its Dawn Horse Express monthly subscription program. As a member of this program, you help patronize the Press's ongoing publication efforts; and at the same time, you receive the latest books and other products from the Dawn Horse Press. Help the Dawn Horse Press keep offering new forms of Adi Da's Wisdom by becoming a member of the Dawn Horse Express.
 

Dawn Horse Press Friends and Benefactors — Avatar Adi Da's Wisdom has the potential to profoundly change this world. The Dawn Horse Press has been publishing Avatar Adi Da’s Reality-Teaching since 1972, and we know that His Work is deeply valued by many. Yet there is much, much more to do — many critical Works by Adi Da Samraj still need to be published, both audio-visual and written, in both printed and digital forms. We also need funding to reach out to those who have never been given the opportunity to be touched by His Divine Word.

You can help us support these very important aspects of Avatar Adi Da's Work by becoming a Benefactor of the Dawn Horse Press. Your financial contribution will not only support the publication of Adi Da Samraj’s unparalleled and vast Reality-Teaching, but also help to bring Avatar Adi Da's Liberating Wisdom to a world desperately in need.

 


8. Support the Da Love-Ananda Mahal Sanctuary

Situated in the heart of Kauai Island, underneath the sacred mountain of Waialeale (pronounced “wy-ah-lay-AH-lay”), Da Love-Ananda Mahal is a pristine, sacred sanctuary Spiritually Empowered by Adi Da. Adi Da first moved to Da Love-Ananda Mahal in 1979, using it as a set-apart place to do His unique Work. From 1979-2003, Adi Da spent frequent, extended time at Da Love-Ananda Mahal, engaging in periods of consideration, writing, discoursing, and sitting with those who came to Him. These periods were documented in such books as The Dreaded Gom-Boo, Hridaya Rosary: The Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction, and the forthcoming publication of The Overnight Revelation of Conscious Light. Da Love-Ananda Mahal is imbued with the Divine Presence of Adi Da, from the many years that He spent here. Because of this, Da Love-Ananda Mahal will be served in perpetuity, maintained as a place of sacred invocation, and spiritual retreat for present and future generations of devotees of Adi Da.

Some of the Current Projects

You can help! For more information, contact us using this form.

 


9. Support Fear-No-More Zoo

Fear-No-More Zoo

In response to the increasingly challenging effects of humanity upon the natural world, on November 4, 1974, Adi Da initiated a new, fresh, and sacred approach to the non-human world. “Fear-No-More Zoo” is the name He gave to this process. Fear-No-More Zoo is an enjoyable and unique environment where all can learn about our sacred connection to the natural world.

There are Fear-No-More Zoos worldwide in California, Europe, and Fiji. Non-human residents at these sanctuaries include a herd of Bactrian camels, horses, llamas, and more. These non-humans live in a conscious, sacred circumstance where they are free to live their lives in safety and love.. The animals living here provide a circumstance where people can come and reconnect with the non-human world in a sacred manner. This is not a conventional animal park for tourists, or a regular zoo where people go to simply look at animals in cages. Fear-No-More Zoo is a place where non-humans are understood and respected for who and what they are. Visiting here, in the fullest sense, requires something of each human. By lending your support to the Sacred Herd you will be helping others to experience and benefit from this essential learning.

We are grateful for your support. We are a nonprofit 501c(3) organization funded entirely through individual donations. Your support will help to cover the costs of food for our animals, veterinary care, and maintenance of their environments as beautiful and healthy spaces in which they may live peacefully and happily, and receive their human visitors appropriately and safely. Please consider becoming a member by donating monthly. We are also grateful for one-time donations of any amount!

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10. Support the Adidam Library


Adidam Library and Archives

The Adidam Library is located at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in northern California. Adi Da created the Adidam Library "to provide a basic, inclusive, and comprehensive (but not overlong) representation (and Revelation) of the entire Great Tradition (or common Wisdom-Inheritance) of mankind." The core collection of the Adidam Library is Adi Da's The Basket of Tolerance: 17,000 books, videos, and audio recordings. It is organized uniquely by Adi Da to communicate the major points of view of human culture in terms of Adi Da's "Seven Stages of Life" framework, which reflect the inherent (esoteric) structure of the human body-mind. Altogether, the Adidam Library now houses the world’s foremost collection of esoteric Spiritual literature from the Great Tradition of humankind's spiritual, religious, philosophical, and cultural history.

You can get a feeling for the incredible and comprehensive nature of The Basket Of Tolerance by visiting this page on the Adidam Library website, which includes some representative items from The Basket Of Tolerance.

Support of the Adidam Library helps to complete, maintain, and expand the Library's collection, and also helps the Library's longterm goal of releasing The Basket Of Tolerance to the world in a variety of forms (website, book, digital download, etc.)

You can help! If you shop on Amazon.com, using any of the links on the Adidam Library home page to get to the Amazon site will enable the Adidam Library to receive a 7% to 15% referral fee from Amazon.com, at no cost to you. All you need to do to help support the Adidam Library is click one of these links before shopping at Amazon.com. (You can also save this link, so you don't need to keep returning to the Adidam Library website to click it.)

 


11. Support the Vision of Mulund Institute

Established by devotees of Adi Da, the Vision of Mulund Institute (VMI) is a non-profit organization that provides education and other resources to support the human and Spiritual growth of children and young adults. VMI publishes Adi Da’s extensive Wisdom-Teaching on “conscious childrearing”, conception, and birth, and creates practical and inspiring courses and manuals for children, young adults, and their adult caregivers. We also support the Adidam Youth Fellowship by running meditation and study retreats and serving a developing youth culture in response to Avatar Adi Da worldwide.

Some of the Current Projects

  • In the past, donations have helped us to publish books and courses on conscious childrearing and to run retreats for children and young adults. Current projects include the development of study courses for children, the establishment and running of the VMI website, and retreats for young people and their caregivers.

  • VMI also coordinates donations to Adidam projects benefiting children and young people in general, like the sponsorship of non-sectarian educational materials for indigenous children at Adidam’s principal retreat sanctuary in Fiji.

You can help! Contact us (via email at info@visionofmulund.org or by phone at 707-928-6932) to learn more about becoming a patron of VMI or to find out about additional Adidam projects that benefit children and young people.

 


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Adi Da's view of Reality includes reincarnation, which he instructs His devotees to seriously consider as part of their studies in support of their practice of the Way of Adidam. (More from Adi Da on reincarnation can be found in His book, Easy Death.) There is a growing body of evidence in support of reincarnation, most notably, the extensive work done by Dr. Ian Stevenson, which involved his travelling around the world and documenting 3,000 cases of children having "past life" memories that he personally confirmed (by finding and correlating the places and people in their "past life" memories). For more, read Dr. Stevenson's books, which include Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation, Children Who Remember Previous Lives, and Where Reincarnation and Biology Intersect (1997).

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