Adi
Da's Divine Mahasamadhi and Adidam In Perpetuity
At Adi
Da Samrajashram, in the early evening of Thursday, November
27, 2008 (Fiji time), Avatar Adi Da Samraj departed from the
body. Many times throughout His life, Avatar Adi Da Samraj prepared
His devotees to rightly understand the significance of His human
lifetime: the fact that it would inevitably come to an end at
some point; and that the primary purpose of His life and work
was to establish the means necessary for all future generations
to be able to link up with Him, making the Way of Adidam available
to all in perpetuity.
This section explores
both Adi Da's Passing and the natural companion topic: the future of Adidam. It
includes the following subsections:
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- Adi Da on the Passing of His Human
Form and His Eternal Presence
- Adi Da on the long term Purpose of Adidam
- Adi Da on the future of Adidam and the
Great Calling of His devotees
- Stories from devotees and non-devotees related
to Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi
- Further perspectives
- Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi Commemorated
Around the World
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1. Official releases about Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi
2. Adi Da on the Passing of His
Human Form and His Eternal Presence
The following readings (and
audio/video clips) all share a common theme: That Adi Da will always be eternally
present, and furthermore, that He has provided us with all the means necessary
to locate Him, making His Presence forever available
to us. | full page linkIf video won't play in place, refresh the page and try again. Or you can click "full page link" (above). | disc one, track 1 of After My Lifetime length: 03:34 event date: April 22, 2006 views: 2208 On April 22, 2006, Adi Da recited this passage from "The Happen of the 'Bright'", in Chapter Three of The Happenine Book.
This excerpt is disc one, track 1 of the double-CD, After My Lifetime, an exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering the significance of His Divine Mahasamadhi (the passing of His physical Body), the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless and Awaken all beings.
The album is available through iTunes and The Dawn Horse Press. For more about this double CD, read this special Adidam Revelation Magazine article.
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| Technological Advances and the Life of the Spiritual Master length: 02:20 event date: September 9, 1984 listens: 3890 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da describes how the advances in technology (in photography, video recording, etc.) have made His life and work uniquely available to future generations, in a way that simply was not possible during the time of Jesus and other great Spiritual Masters.
A key responsibility of the Adidam Archives is to do the work of preserving all of the various forms of recordings and documentation that Adi Da is describing. Of particular importance at the current time is the conversion of all temporary (perishable) forms (like audiocassettes; handwritten sheets of paper — Adi Da wrote all His books in this manner; etc.) into more permanent (digital) forms of recording and record. You can help! |
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Is How I Got To Here — Excerpts
(text and audio) from a discourse given by Adi
Da Samraj on at Adi Da Samrajashram: "There
will be a time when I am not physically present, just as most hours of every day,
devotees don't have Me physically present anyway; they're somewhere else. When
this body passes, it will be the same. Exactly the same. . . .
You are always
able to enter into Communion with Me. That capability for Ultimate, Most Perfect
Realization has been made possible only by this Divine Avataric Intervention.
This Divine Avataric Intervention having been Made, It is Eternalized."
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I Will Not Leave — Excerpt
from a talk by Adi Da on August 11, 1995. "No one will feel Me leave when this Body dies, because I will not leave." |
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This
Is My Only Birth
— "After the Spiritual Master's retirement or death, his initiatory function
may be presumed still to be alive in and relative to the living functions of his
true devotees. Therefore, wherever his devotees gather together, the initiatory
Power is also Present." (from Breath
and Name, 1977) | |
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I Am As
One Who Left His Home To Do A Thing For Man — Poem from Crazy
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Ruchiradama Nadikanta is a member of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order
and has been a devotee of Avatar Adi Da for over thirty-five years. She was present
in the room with Him at the moment of His Passing. She tells us:
The
purpose...we have as a collective...[is] to Realize the Divine Revelation that
Beloved [Adi Da] has given us, which is the Absolute Reality of His Always Present,
Eternal Presence and the fact that He is Here exactly as He has always been, which
is such a profoundly miraculous Secret that it surprises me every moment. But
He has been Revealing this to me so strongly. Ruchiradama
Nadikanta The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary,
February 2009 from "I
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3. Adi Da on the long term Purpose of Adidam
Adi Da incarnated here for
a greater Purpose than simply providing a means by which devotees could locate
His Eternal Presence or "feel" His Spiritual Transmission forever —
but not necessarily realize anything great Spiritually:
"Consider" this: Everything you have ever "experienced"
— even what you felt was, somehow or other, My Divine Avataric Transcendental
Spiritual Self-Transmission — is really not "It", really not Me.
I Am Only. . . . The seventh stage Reality-Way is What I Reveal to you,
What I Call you to embrace. Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"The Way of Zero Bargaining", in The
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His greater Purpose
for Adidam was (and is) to enable all beings to realize the seventh stage of life
(and to Outshine the conditional universe, one by one):
My seventh stage devotee can notice what is apparent to others
as phenomenal arising — but my seventh stage devotee Divinely Self-Recognizes
all conditions as the Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State of Reality
Itself, such that all conditions are simply "Brighter" and "Brighter"
— in due course, to the absolute degree of Divine Indifference. Most Ultimately,
there is the Outshining of conditional existence itself — in Which there
is no "cause" for the continuation of the appearance of conditions.
. . . In the case of the Realization of the seventh stage of life, the seed of
all psycho-physical destiny, egoity itself, is transcended — and the seed
of the psycho-physical motion to fulfill conditional purposes is vanished. Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
"The Way of Zero Bargaining", in The
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Ultimately, the
Force of large numbers of beings in the seventh stage of life will lead to the
fulfillment of Adi Da's greatest Purpose: the "Outshining" of the entire
conditional universe altogether:
And,
Most Ultimately, When all-and-All have become Most Perfectly devoted to Me [the
Divine Person], even all conditionally manifested beings (and even the total Cosmic Mandala Itself) will
be Divinely Translated into the beginningless and endless, Self-Existing and Self-Radiant,
Spiritually Self-"Bright" Divine Person and Spherical Self-Domain —
Merely (and Only) by Means of this Most Perfect Awakening-Work I have Done (and
will forever Do) for all-and-All. Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The
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to Disappear in Light? — Adi Da: "All of this appearing universe could vanish
in a moment. It does not have to wait to disappear only after all beings get enlightened.
If there could be a sufficient awakening on the part of all of us, perhaps the
universe would disappear. If there could be sufficient awakening to the point
that equanimity is established at the level of universal Force, then all of this
moving universe would vanish." (Laughing Man Magazine, 1980) |
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4. Adi Da on
the future of Adidam and the Great Calling of His devotees
When I Say My Work is Done, I mean . . . The Work
does not rest on Me anymore. It rests on you.
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj, November 30, 1985
The significance of My [Divine Mahasamadhi] is that all responsibility is Given over to you — not you separate from Me, but you participating in Me. And I need not maintain a Mechanism within the cosmic domain, because now I have countless forms of such Mechanism — My devotees — in devotional Communion with Me, As I Am, Merely Present.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, March 29, 1994
You are the way to Me. . . Tell everyone I am here.
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The word "calling" traditionally refers to a life purpose or destiny
that defines one's life and one's commitment of time and energy.[1]
The implicit understanding is that something greater than oneself (possibly even
prior to this lifetime) is "calling" (or moving, or inspiring) one to
this greater-than-conventional life purpose. To "find one's calling"
is to finally be able to relax (at a very profound level) into the very purpose
for which one was born, with which one's entire being resonates. Unlike
many still in search of their calling, the devotees of Adi Da know their Calling.
They even know Who is Calling them to it, even now after His human lifetime. The
following readings all share a common theme: they lay out the immense, sobering,
and joyous Great Calling of all of Adi Da's devotees and all those who appreciate
and wish to serve Adi Da's Work.
Elements
of the cosmic domain Uniquely Came Together in a Manner that Enabled Me to Make
My conditionally apparent Sign of Divine Avataric Self-"Emergence" here. I have
only this brief span of Lifetime in which to Make My Divine Avataric Self-Revelation
and Forever Establish the seventh stage Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam. Therefore,
in My Divine Avataric Work here, I must be actively supported by the whole-bodily-responsive
devotional recognition of My devotees.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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And what is that Great Calling? It is to fully embrace the following tasks:
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To completely fulfill one's Eternal Vow to Adi Da (and to one's heart),
and fruitfully practice the Way of Adidam, growing in practice, to the point of finally fully Realizing Adi Da's Perfect Divine State.
Use your life for the Purpose of Realizing Me, the Purpose of the feeling being, the Purpose of the heart. Fulfill the heart's desire, not the karmic impulses, the egoic tendencies. Those are there, but, as My devotee, you are not living them. You have made a vow instead to Realize Me. This impulse is the intelligence of your life. You are not here to fulfill the motions of egoity, the adaptations of the psyche. You have nothing to do with such things. Those things happen incidentally. You must exhibit the force of the heart, the force of living being, through right relationship to Me.
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To preserve, rightly serve, and rightly use the Sacred Treasures
of Adidam — including all the Sacred
Empowered Places — so that they continue to serve as Agency for Adi
Da's Spiritual Transmission into the indefinite future, and so that "the
Spiritual energy of these Sacred Places does not dissipate over time" ( Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur).
The Sacred Treasures of Adidam must be perpetuated, absolutely guaranteed, no two
ways about it. It must be absolute. The responsibility of the Adidam Holy Samrajya to
perpetuate the Sacred Treasures of Adidam must be absolutely guaranteed — absolute,
for all future time. That is the "root"-obligation. That being guaranteed in perpetuity, then,
in every moment, now and in the future, there is the "root"-source basis (or means) for the
Adidam Mission, for bringing Adidam into the "world", for people to practice Adidam, and
so forth. That will never be lost as long as the "Root"-Domain (or Source-Domain) is
perpetuated. The perpetuation of the Source-Domain is the fundamental obligation (or
"root"-obligation). All of the Sacred Treasures of Adidam, everything I have Brought into
this "world", must be kept intact forever. And all of the Sacred Treasures that exist outside
Adi Da Samrajashram must always be maintained by the Adidam Holy Domains — with
most profound, infinite seriousness. There must be no possibility of anything ever
happening to the Sacred Treasures I have Given.
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- To manifest (as swiftly as possible) those elements (see
here and here)
essential to the continuation of Adidam in perpetuity that did not manifest during
Adi Da's human lifetime: from the practical (a highly
effective, global organization; a far larger culture
of devotees; etc.) to the spiritual (Instrumentality in all its forms: a
group of seventh stage devotees; authentic renunciate orders; altogether,
"significant numbers of people practicing
in the advanced and ultimate stages"; a
flourishing culture based on recognition of and response to Adi Da as incarnation
of the Divine Person; etc.).
And because of the uniqueness of His Realization, His Incarnation, and His Transcendental Spiritual Offering to all beings, we must be sure to "set Adi Da apart" (from all other Realizations, Spiritual Masters, and Spiritual Offerings) as we fulfill that Great Calling:
This is our Calling in perpetuity after Bhagavan Adi Da's bodily human Lifetime: to set Him apart in every circumstance and not subordinate Him to the ego's purposes. And so this is a real question for our Sangha: Can we come to terms with Bhagavan's Calling to us? And can we finally make that gesture of setting Beloved apart in this way and rightly present Him to the public? . . . We have to make sense out of Bhagavan's entire Life for those who are approaching Him now, and present the final view of Beloved, which is the vision of Him in His Eternal Parama-Sapta-Na Stand.
Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur |
To put it another way (using a beautiful metaphor given by Adi Da), it is the
Great Calling of Adi Da's devotees to help Him complete the manifestation
of the Dawn Horse.
The sense of urgency in this task, which Adi Da communicated
to His devotees from the beginning of His Teaching Work in 1972 to the end of
His human lifetime, continues, and is transferred now to the
first generation (or "legacy community") of His devotees:
The poor few who closet themselves with Me on this island [Adi Da Samrajashram], who visit here, who have known
Me before, who have sat with Me — it all depends on you. You must Realize, as
I have since birth, the profound weight of obligation that rests on you because
of what is Given to you. You must Realize It. You must Realize It. Otherwise these
gestures are ghosts. I am an unknowable Spirit for My devotees in the year 2300
unless My devotees in flesh and blood sit there, sublimed by this Realization,
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That first
generation (Adi Da's "children") must
now accomplish everything necessary to ensure (most obviously, through a group
of seventh-stage devotees, yet to be created, but then perpetually maintained)
that there will be future generations of devotees who still have access to the
possibility of (seventh-stage) Divine Realization. We invite everyone who is moved
to help us in this great endeavor to get in touch
with us as soon as possible! Help is needed in every conceivable area, in
the great and enormous work of making Divine Realization available to all beings.
All
of you are creative in one fashion or another. You simply must discover where
you are creative. Where is your "demon"? Where is your impulse? To what
area of life is your energy drawn creatively? Where is your service, in other
words? That is what each of you must find out, because each one of you is a genius
at your service when you discover what your service is. Of course, when
you do discover it, then you must do what geniuses do! Each of you has a genius
in you, a "demon" bent to serve positively, a course for your energy
so that you may fulfill the work you were born to do in My Company. You
must discover your genius. You must discover where your energy goes. And when
you discover what your service should be in My Company, then do that service with
a will. Make it real service to Me. And transcend yourself through your real service
to Me, whatever it is. Such transcending of egoity in the context of service makes
your service as sacred an art as any of the so-called fine arts. Avatar
Adi Da Samraj |
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Note:
We highly recommend reading all the talks, essays, and note sets below, if you
want to get a full grasp of what is involved in ensuring the future of Adidam.
You can read all of them in sequence by clicking the "Next Talk/Essay"
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My
Function is Absolutely Identical to the Divine And Yet it is Specific and Unique
— "My
influence remains with those whose connection is with me, even those who are now
on this earth and who do not know Bubba Free John in the body. That influence
is working on them at this moment. They are having dreams, they are having experiences
because of my work. And yet they have never read a book about Bubba Free John,
have never heard about him, have never seen him in a vision that they can remember!
Nevertheless my work with them is just as specific as it is with you who know
me in this body. And it is the same after my death." (November 20, 1975) |
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Bring the Gifts — You Must Respond — "My
Incarnation is associated with Divine Powers That I have Brought into this plane.
My Divine Powers are now Eternally Established here. . . .The Divine Process is
not magic. You must respond. Beings must respond. You must do the work. Otherwise,
you are controlled by the structures of your own adaptation, and no great thing
occurs." (March 23, 1994) |
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Dawn Horse in Adidam — In 1970, Avatar Adi Da had
a vision. He found Himself in a subtle realm, observing a Spiritual Master demonstrating
to his disciples the Yogic power of manifesting objects spontaneously. Avatar
Adi Da watched as the Master began the process of manifestation. After a time,
although nothing had yet materialized, the Master's disciples departed, apparently
satisfied that the work was done.
Avatar Adi Da has commented that, like the Dawn Horse, the effects of His Liberating
Work in the world will appear only gradually — just as, in the vision, the horse
gradually became visible only some time after the Adept had initiated its materialization.
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the Necessity for the Physical Presence of the Spiritual Master has Become Obsolete
— Adi Da describes the essential elements of what He
wanted to be in place by
the end of His human lifetime. The list is very similar to the one He gave in
the previous description, "Everything That I Am Purposed
To Bring To Here". (October, 1982) |
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Death and Birth of the God-Man — A talk given by
Avatar Adi Da. "The incarnation of devotees is the birth. . . . 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." (July 12, 1976) |
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Incarnating
My Pattern Here In Perpetuity — Adi Da summarizes
progress to date in the creation of His "Immense Mandala of Spiritual Transmission":
"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. . . . 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." (November 10, 1996) |
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Incarnation of the Purusha — "Whether my birth
and my association with people can represent the force of some great age, a great
transformation of the world, is to be seen. My work can be relatively modest and
local, as Shirdi Sai Baba's work was in his lifetime, or my work can be associated
with a global transformation. It will depend on recognition, surrender, and acceptance
of a lawful order of existence by many, many, many people." (excerpt from
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Need for Living Agency — "Without such Living
Agency how will that Process take place in the future? Perhaps, as in the past,
people will resort to the pieces of it that men and women of experience represent.
People can always experience a little Yoga, a little psychism, a little internal
energy, a little insight. But when the Total Representation of Divine Self-Realization
is Demonstrated in the literal bodily (human) form of one individual, you must
make use of it. It is an Advantage that is unique in human time." (from The
Enlightenment of the Whole Body, 1978) |
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Unknowable Spirit in the Year 2300 — "When
I Say My Work is Done, I mean . . . The Work does not rest on Me anymore. It rests
on you. . . . I am an unknowable Spirit for My devotees in the year 2300 unless
My devotees in flesh and blood sit there, sublimed by this Realization, which
they will not get unless you get it!" (November 30, 1985) |
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5. Stories from devotees
& non-devotees related to Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi
If you have a story about
(or related to) Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi; or if Adi Da has benefitted your
life or transformed your view of Reality, and you'd like to share that story with
others, please send us your story.
I've grown used to miracles.
The wonder is not whether we will be together,
me with those I'm loving,
on some other side.
The wonder is that we've met
and been together, loving here,
in this half-made world,
where love is yet to take its hold. Adi Da Samraj Crazy
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Graceful Touch of My Master
— Paul Litchfield tells the story of his time
with Adi Da on Naitauba, during October and
November, 2008, up to and beyond the day of
Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi. He also tells
of a miraculous healing that took place through
Adi Da's Grace, after he returned to Melbourne,
Australia.
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From Feeling Like a "me"
— The author is from the Southeastern U.S. Region
of Adidam. She became Bhagavan Adi Da's devotee
only a few months before His Divine Mahasamadhi,
and was never in His physical Company while
He was alive. This is her personal account of
traveling to Naitauba for the first time, for
a 10-day pilgrimage retreat during the Vigil
following the Divine Mahasamadhi of Adi Da Samraj.
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Descent of Blessing — Marylu
Miller has been a devotee of Avatar Adi
Da since 1998. She describes the Blessing
she received at the time of Adi Da's Divine
Mahasamadhi.
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Is No "Other" — Dennis
Regan lives in Australia, and has been a
devotee of Avatar Adi Da for many years.
He describes the Blessing he received at
the time of Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi.
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Is Not The End Of Anything
— Elizabeth Solliday tells of her final visit with Adi Da's
bodily human form, during the Vigil period immediately after
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Already Free
— Natalja: "The Force of His dropping of the body literally
opened a hole through time and space . . . The air
became so incredibly still it felt as if the atomic
structure of things could break by a single breath."
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Lovers of the Bright One
— "I was a few hundred meters from Adi Da at the
time of His leaving the body. Thank you, Lord .
. . You did not leave us. Your Presence is brighter
and more attractive then ever."
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to the Guru, Body of Light — Leslie
Waltzer came to Bhagavan Adi Da in 1975, when
she was 29 years old. She went on retreat
at Naitauba, arriving just after Adi Da's
Divine Mahasamadhi. This is her story of what
happened while she was on Naitauba.
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Has Changed and Nothing Has Changed —
Lynne: "I was fortunate to be able to get on a plane
and head over to the Island [Adi Da Samrajashram].
I consider this Auspicious Occasion to be
the most profound in my life, even as I am
still struggling to find words to correctly
explain what that means."
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Is No Loss — "When I arrived at Beloved Adi Da's
House (about thirty hours after His Passing), I
felt such an incredible sense of personal loss of
my dearest, dearest Loved One, that I burst into
tears. In His Company, I gradually stopped crying,
and began to feel Beloved Adi Da Present in the
most extraordinary manner."
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By Him — "On December 1st (2008), the day after
the interment of our Beloved Master's physical remains,
I went up back to the "Brightness" Temple in the
early afternoon.The entire area seemed to vibrate
with a tangible Presence that was very familiar
to me as Bhagavan's Spiritual Form. As I sat down
on the ground, I became conscious of the fact that
this was only about thirty feet away from the chamber
in which Bhagavan's physical form was buried."
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Answer To My Question — "Since Bhagavan Adi Da's
Divine Mahasamadhi, I had felt an urgency to know
why and what happened. And so I participated in
discussions as well as many private conversations
conjecturing about all of this. But over time I
realized that I was more and more disturbed about
all of this. My dearest Heart-Master was gone, and
I felt that I truly needed to know why and what
had really happened."
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Dream About Adi Da's Mahasamadhi — Through a
dream, a devotee is led to be with Bhagavan at the
time of His Divine Mahasamadhi and to feel the miracle
that He has not left at all.
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Came To Me In a Dream — Rex
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God Knows Where — Reading
an article in an Israeli newspaper revealed to Kiam
the identity of the face that had been appearing
to him.
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a Foot and Thumb Appeared — Alaya
Gernon: "The Murti changed to simply light
as it often does for me. Suddenly, within the
Murti, a foot and and thumb appeared. The thumb
then extended and burst into my third eye."
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Glimpse of Him in Truth — "I
was never fortunate enough to have been a true devotee
of a Guru. I was closest to Adi Da. I was an appreciator
of Him, and occasionally let into His world by Grace
to catch a glimpse of Him in Truth."
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Island On Fire — John: "I
am far from that island but I see it shining in
the middle of the black sea. I knew he had come."
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Beauty,
Magnitude, and Serenity — Vinod
Karki is a devotee originally from Uttar Pradesh
in northern India. He describes some extraordinary
visions he had of Adi Da, around the time of Adi
Da's Divine Mahasamadhi.
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Awakens Me To Love — Nancy: "No
one can comprehend what this being represents. .
. . With him it always goes deeper."
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Mahasamadhi HoroscopeDevotee
PM cast a horoscope for the moment of Bhagavan Adi
Da's Divine Mahasamadhi. The most striking feature
was that Neptune was very close to the Midheaven.
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Time
To Return
David: "About a week ago [shortly before Adi Da's
Divine Mahasamadhi], I had a dream about Beloved
Adi Da."
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6. Further perspectives
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Is
Adi Da Still Spiritually Active?
Question: Is Adi Da still spiritually active,
now that His human lifetime is over?
Brief answer: Very much so! We consider Adi Da's
words about this, as well as the experiences of devotees
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Incorruptibility
Question: Didn't Adi Da state that His body was
incorruptible — or at least that it would be suitable
for display (if it did not resurrect) for some years
to come? My understanding is that it was buried on the
third day after death, due to its poor condition.
Brief answer: No, Adi Da never said His body
would be incorruptible after death. He also considered
a variety of alternatives for exactly what to do with
His body, to make it as potent as possible for Spiritual
Transmission, and decided in favor of an approach along
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Adi
Da's Successor
Question: Who will be Adi Da's "Murti
Guru" or successor?
Brief answer: Since Adi Da is Eternally Present,
and the direct relationship to His Eternal Presence
is the Way of Adidam, there can be no successor
for Him (and there is no need for one).
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Dead
Gurus Can't Kick Ass
Question: Does Adi Da's famous saying apply to
Him, now that He is no longer alive?
Brief answer: Adi Da's saying epitomized His
Work with devotees during the "Teaching Years". But
from 1986 on, it became increasingly clear to Him that
"kicking the ass" of His devotees — in other words,
submitting to work with His devotees one-on-one in every
possible way: being their friend, humanly loving them,
answering their questions, reflecting them to themselves,
granting them Spiritual experiences of every kind, persuading
them to practice, shouting at their lack of practice,
etc. — was fruitless for actual growth in the seventh
stage Way He was offering. (It might have made a difference
in the context of a lesser Way, but not in the Way of
Adidam). It became clear to Him that the only thing
that worked was for devotees to submit to Adi Da, through
recognition of Him as the Divine, and response to Him
on that basis. In other words, in the Divine Way of
Adidam, the Guru's Divine Revelation and Transmission
is always available and sufficient for growth, and ultimately,
Divine Realization. But actual growth in the Way depends
entirely on the individual devotee's recognition of
the Guru as the Divine, and response to Him on that
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Use
of the term, "Mahasamadhi"
Question: You describe how Adi Da passed
away due to natural causes, but you refer to it
as His "Mahasamadhi". I thought the term,
"Mahasamadhi", was reserved for when Spiritual
Realizers, in a moment of their own choosing, intentionally
leave the body. But what you describe could just
as well fit Joe Smith down the street, dying of
a heart attack, no?
Brief answer: The term, Mahasamadhi, more
generally indicates the passing of any great Spiritual
Master, regardless of what form that passing may
take. More specifically, we use the phrase, "Divine
Mahasamadhi", to indicate the passing of a
human Incarnation of the Divine.
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The
Way of the Bone vs. the True Way of Adidam
Question: I'm a devotee. While Adi Da was
still alive, my whole practice every week was oriented
around Adi Da's newest gifts to us (His books, His
image-art, His communications to devotees, etc.)
I'm somewhat at a loss as to what to do now, after
His Divine Mahasamadhi.
Brief answer: In the relative quiet after
Adi Da's Passing, we may finally have the space
to feel a fundamental error many of us may have
been making in our practice: that the Way of Adidam is not just a matter of receiving Adi Da's Gifts, but is a relationship, characterized by mutual gift-giving. No significant growth in the Way of Adidam will ever happen otherwise.
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7.
Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi Commemorated Around the World
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Divine
Mahasamadhi Commemoration: Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Divine Mahasamadhi Commemoration: Melbourne,
Australia, 2019
(click to enlarge)
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Divine
Mahasamadhi Commemoration: Melbourne, Australia, 2019
Divine Mahasamadhi Commemoration: Melbourne,
Australia, 2019
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8.
Related books and CDs
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After My Lifetime: A Collection of
Talks (1974–2004) Given by His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi
Da Samraj, on His Eternal Divine Work
Two-CD Set
November, 2011
order
here
An
exceptional collection of Adi Da’s Instruction covering
the passing of His human Form, the significance of this
Yogic Event, the ever-present Gift of the direct relationship
to Him, and the never-ending Nature of His Work to Bless
and Awaken all beings.
Click
here to read an article about this CD Set.
All the tracks from this CD are also available for playing on our website.
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The Eternal One:
The Divine Mahasamadhi
of The Divinely Translated Master,
Parama-Sapta-Na Adi Da Samraj
by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba
November 2009 edition
order
here
The
Eternal One commemorates the extraordinary events surrounding
Avatar Adi Da's relinquishment of the physical body, and
describes the beginning of the yearlong worldwide vigil
period established to honor his passing and celebrate his
Eternal presence.This full-color 320 page 81/2" x 11" book
has countless photos of Adi
Da Samraj during His physical Lifetime, and also includes
many images from the events after His Passing.
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The Divine Mahasamadhi of Parama-Sapta-Na
Adi Da Samraj
introduction by Naamleela
Free Jones
April 2009 edition
order
here
This
booklet contains Avatar Adi Da's own words about the event
of His death. It reveals the deep significance of His passing
and His ongoing Transcendental Spiritual Regard of all beings.
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Da Mahasamadhi Vigil Chanting Compilation:
Celebrating the Culmination of Avatar Adi Da Samraj's Heroic
Life
Special Limited Edition 13-CD boxed set
order
here
The
listener is invited to directly participate in the invocation
of Avatar Adi Da as it unfolded during the Vigil immediately
following His Divine Mahasamadhi (His physical passing).
Hear devotional chants, music, and puja sounds recorded
live during the Vigil on the day of Avatar Adi Da's Physical
Interment in November 2008, and from anniversary occasions
in 2009 and 2010.
Proceeds benefit the "Brightness" Temple.
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You cannot hold on to anything. This world is not about "home".
You must transcend everything.
Everything.
You cannot find a place of consolation in My Company.
I am not "home" either.
I shift My shapes.
I Am Invisible, a Moment of Influence, a Sound, a Word for the moment, a Gesture, an Appearance, an Act, a Form.
It disappears. What was its Purpose? To Wake you up.
To relieve you of "home", "homewardness".
I Am the Interference, the Awakener. Even This, My human Body, will be Sacrificed for the sake of your Awakening, ultimately, eventually.
For now, It remains useful — as long as It lasts.
But It is not "home".
You may find It attractive in a variety of ways, but It is Attracting you to That Condition Which is not "objective" to you, but Which Requires the transcending of egoic "self" to Realize.
And That Is What I Am Up To here.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj August 19, 1987 |
Standing Free—
without shape,
without center,
without perimeters.
Stand Free.
Who is Being
the Witness-Consciousness
here?
I Am!
Therefore,
Go to Home
by Always As
with Me.
The conditional "world"
is always already dead.
It is now finished.
I Call you to the "Perfect Practice"
by devotion to Me.
Here I Am.
I Am Here.
Stand Firm Here—
Where I Am
As I Am.
I Tell you now:
No idea of "God"
will protect you from death.
There is no bargaining
with Indivisibility.
The Only One Who Is,
Only Is.
I Am
the One Who Is.
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