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 FAQs
about Adi Da & Adidam > Numbers and
ValueNumbers
and Value
Questions about whether the
number of devotees, the number of advanced or Enlightened practitioners, or the
degree to which Adi Da and Adidam have been recognized by the world at large,
reflect on the "value" of Adidam.
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Truth does not win. Fundamentally, the entire affair of
the communication of Truth to mankind has been a failure,
and it will always be a failure. It is a fruitless enterprise
— if we consider its results in terms of the true and perfect
Awakening of great numbers of people and the Divine Transformation
of human society as a whole. However, since a few in every
generation are prepared to respond to the Teaching of Truth,
the communication of Truth must be continued in the world.
A few in every generation become a Sacrifice in God, while
mankind in general ignores, denies, and otherwise betrays
the Teaching, the Way, and the Agents of God. This is so,
not only because of the subhuman evolutionary stage of mankind
at this time, but because the embodied soul is naturally
motivated toward its own experiential fulfillment, not the
transcendence of itself. Therefore, only a random few in
any generation Awaken, while all others are oblivious in
their bewildered intoxication.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, June 27, 1978
The Enlightenment
of the Whole Body
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of Advanced Practitioners in Adidam —
Are there any devotees who are never less than perfectly
happy? I have been seriously considering the argument
of the Spiritual Master for decades. My interest is
not academic. The whole argument presupposes the ability
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of Seventh Stage Realizers in Adidam —
How is it that after so many years of Adi Da's Teaching
and work with His devotees, there aren't any seventh
stage realizers among Adi Da's devotees? Weren't
other teachers such as the Buddha, Nisargadatta,
or Ramana
Maharshi much more successful in bringing their
disciples to their level of Spiritual Realization?
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of Devotees — How is it that after so
many years, Adi Da has only a few thousand devotees
and is basically unheard of in many parts of the world?
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Predictions
— Hasn't Adi Da said a few times that
by the year 2000, He will be recognized by the world
as the messiah (or something to that affect)? If
so, why has this not happened?
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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.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, January, 1982
The
Divine Life and Work of the Spiritual Master
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