The Empowerment of Holy Cat Grotto
September 17, 1979

I remember Master Da coming over the hill as the evening fell upon us. The twilight purple mountain framed the fading-blue sky and highlighted His white formal clothing. I sat across the grotto far away and I relaxed into the formality with which the Master always conducted Himself. I observed myself, relaxed and opened in a most natural way — as was my practice.

Adi Da at Holy Cat Grotto, The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary
Northern California, September 17, 1979

Suddenly, the air became as if thick, and I could see, literally see, from Master Da’s walking outline, waves of light and energy emanating from Him. As these waves washed upon me, my body was thoroughly engulfed in a raging sweetness! I watched in awe. With every successive wave that washed upon me, I relaxed more deeply than at any time in my life, each time deeper than before.

Soon my body and life were utterly melted into the infinite life field. My breaths were waves in the body of the nameless divinity as I continued to visually see this divine light emanating from Master Da. This was not mental insights and spiritual ascension, peaceful or clear; it was not a transcendental or sublime buzz; it was vibrant, powerful transmission of heart-bliss, rapturous baptism dissolving every limitation. I was joyfully stunned, then let loose in recognition of a full-fledged, God-transmitting Master.

I saw that my harbored doubts about the divinity of the Master were at last only reflections of my own recoil, and the previous years of doubt were seen in truth as my own avoidance of relationship. My contractions dissolved into the Current of His Force of Love.

I experienced the sensation of the mortal lower coil of my loveless life unfold in His Transmission. Wave after wave of joyous bliss washed across and through me until my body was One with the manifest universe.

The Awe of the procession surrounding the initiations took place in a timeless time. To say I was awestruck belittles the majesty with which He had engulfed me.

Then, surprisingly, I felt a similar coil from the heart upwards unwrinkle and uncoil. Soon, I began to see a light golden mist falling across everything as the mind followed the body into the same uninterrupted Vibrancy. Now, the fulfillment of the traditions, whereby the body-mind is made One with the all-pervading, living divine bathed me into delicious sublimity and pure awareness. The brightness of angelic visions and the nectarous sweetness of yogic soma completed the grand evolutionary urge.

As this full unfolding became blissfully complete, I could see that even this great fulfillment was nothing! Nothing compared to the Heart of the God-Man. The Transmission of His Heart-Bliss outshines all phenomena, low and high. Now I understood the Teaching for the first time. I had been given the fulfillment of traditional seeking and evolutionary unfolding with its visions and bliss and it was insignificant compared to the awesome divinity of His Loving Company.

Dissolved and exploded in the love-bliss of the Heart, my deepest voice shouted thankfulness eternally again and again.

Finally, I fully understood it when He said the way of the Heart is greater than the path of evolution; finally I understood the way of Satsang, the way of simple relationship with Him, exceeds all else; finally I was available to the method of the Siddhas. I felt a vibrant, heart-felt relationship with the Divine Power and Person.

What elegant Help!

How Graceful!

What a Gift!

Da! Da! Da!

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