Celebrations
> The Prophesied Completing of the Great
Tradition
The
Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month
of the Prophesied Completing of the Great Tradition
I have always lived, in every time, and I am here again to mind you of the Real.
In the Holy Month of August, devotees acknowledge the Supremacy of the Avataric Revelation of the Divine Sovereign-Avatar Adi Da Samraj in relation to humanity's Great Tradition of religious, Spiritual, and Transcendental endeavor.
Adi Da's devotees understand His unique and unprecedented Appearance here to be the Prophesied Completion of the Great Tradition. The "Great Tradition" is the term Adi Da coined to describe the "historical traditions of truly human culture, practical self-discipline, perennial religion, universal religious mysticism, esoteric (but now openly communicated) Spirituality, Transcendental Wisdom, and Perfect (or Divine) Enlightenment". Throughout the Great Tradition, it has been prophesied that there would be a human incarnation of the Divine Being who would bring the perfect Divine Revelation to Complete the Great Tradition. During this month, we celebrate Adi Da Samraj as that very One.
Several of Adi Da's visits to India (1969, 1973, and 1977) are associated with the month of August.
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| Adi Da with Swami Muktananda
in 1969 |
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| Adi Da in India in 1973 |
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| Adi Da in India in 1973 |
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| Adi Da in India in 1973 |
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| Adi Da in India in 1977 |
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Adi Da in India in 1977
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Most significantly, in 1969, on August 6, three days after Avatar Adi Da Samraj arrived at Mumbai, Swami Muktananda sat with Him in meditation, and afterward wrote a letter acknowledging Avatar Adi Da's "Yogic Self-Realization" and granting Him the name, "Dhyananda" (meaning "One Whose Bliss Is In Absolute Surrender To His Innermost Self").
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During the same visit, the name "Love-Ananda" was privately communicated to Avatar Adi Da by Swami Muktananda, via his secretary, Amma. Avatar Adi Da received this Name as the more profound and personal acknowledgement of Him, but He did not choose to use it until after the Yogic Establishment of His Divine Avataric Self-"Emergence" in 1986, when His Divine State of Love-Bliss, or "Love-Ananda", was most fully Revealed.
(Swami Prajnananda)