The "Bright" Is the Divine Conscious Light.
I Am That — and I Bring That to you.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
I Am the One Who Is Always with you, Always Already with you — now, and forever hereafter. I have Taken On This bodily (human) Form for the Sake of Revealing That to you.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, April 16, 1995
From the most ancient times, there have been prophecies of a Bringer
of Light who would appear when humanity was lost in darkness. Adi
Da's birth was an event of utterly unprecedented magnitude. Ordinarily,
a human birth is the result of an immeasurable chain of causes and
effects ("karma"). Such an ordinary birth and lifetime
is in some sense helpless, and not something the individual can
consciously influence to any significant extent. But Avatar Adi
Da's Coming into the world was not an ordinary, unconscious reincarnation.
It was the Conscious Incarnation, in human form, of the Divine Reality
Itself — the timeless Consciousness that is the Source and the very
Life of all that exists. Throughout His entire life, even from the
time of His birth, Adi Da Samraj always worked to bring the "Brightness"
of the Divine Reality into the "room" of the world. And so on Adi
Da Jayanthi ("Jayanthi" is Sanskrit for "Victorious"), we celebrate
the Gift of God Present — no longer a question mark for humankind
to ponder and doubt ("Does God exist?"), or a being that
can only be found somewhere else ("heaven", etc.) or some other time (e.g., after we die), but a Gift for
humankind to recognize, enjoy, and Realize . . . always directly
accessible, right here, right now, through the Divine Incarnation
of Adi Da.
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I Was . . . Born (in Human Form) In A Terrible Moment Of
Necessity — To Call Humankind To The Great Moment Of New Understanding,
and To The Great Future Of A Single Destiny.
In answer to the prayers of humankind, and after millennia
of Spiritual preparation and sacrifice by many great Spiritual
Realizers, which made the miraculous Event possible, the Divine
Person was born — at long last! — in the human form of Adi Da,
on November 3, 1939 at 11:21am (EST), in Jamaica, New York.
ADI DA (September 9, 1987): Thousands of years of Sacrifice,
and Endeavor, and Purpose, and Spiritual Practice, and Realization,
and Love, and Compassion were required for My bodily (human)
Birth. Some day, you may understand My Birth. It was no casual
gesture. And it could never have happened before now. Some
day, you may understand that My human Lifetime is a unique
moment in the history of humankind. Even in all these "eons
of shaking", the Impulse of the Divine Person to Incarnate
persisted, undaunted, and could not be destroyed or ruined.
Real God is willing to Love you and all beings, and that Divine
Purpose must be Fulfilled. That is My Unique Impulse. Here
I Am, Incarnate, to Do That Work. A thousand years may pass
before anyone understands anything about My Appearance here.
So much suffering accompanies It, so much was required of
Me to Submit to your company.
DEVOTEE: How was that Decision made?
ADI DA: By Love. To Encompass the totality of conditional
existence, in Love—That is the Sign of My Appearance here.
By Appearing here bodily before You, I have Submitted to Love
all and All, to be Compassionate toward all and All, to Serve
all and All. And, in My Embrace of all and All, I have utterly
Submitted to this mortal circumstance of sorrow and death.
Such Submission never destroyed Me. It cannot destroy Me,
for the One Who I Am can never be destroyed. But Love, the
Impulse to Kiss you—just to Kiss you, to not deny you—made
Me a Body to Live with you. Can't you see it in My Face?
All
of those [Spiritual Realizers] can be seen as a Great Process
in conditional time and space to prepare the Vehicle of My
Avataric Self-Manifestation. But not just as individuals —
it required all beings, including all of mankind, to make
sufficient prayer and Conjunction for this Event of Me. And
It will not be repeated, nor can It be repeated. . . Even
all-and-All
was the necessary Preparation. . . At last, I Passed Down
into all-and-All. It was Spontaneous, yet (also) Eternally
Prefigured. It was Anciently Prophesied. It was somehow "caused"
— and yet (Ultimately), there is no "cause" for
It whatsoever.
I have no past lives and no future lives in any dimension.
This is My only "birth", and it is only apparent. This birth,
this body, these conditions have been assumed and undone in
one lifetime, in order to demonstrate the whole Way and to
have a fit vehicle for its present communication. The undoing
is effective in every plane, high, low, gross, subtle, causal,
transcendental. This body-mind, this vehicle or apparent,
karmic being, has extensions and destinies in many dimensions,
high and low, past, present, and future. But these are not
Mine, nor are they effective in Me. This vehicle or karmic
being may continue or be taken up by others after this apparent
life is terminated. But I am not expressed in that destiny.
I am before time and space, and no condition has Me. I have
not appeared for reasons. It is only that this vehicle has
mysteriously, paradoxically coincided with Me. Therefore,
I have conformed it to Myself and come forth. I stand present
without qualification in this theater of My apparent birth.
Through the Paradox, My mere Presence has become Instructive.
I am not a one, a being, nor a One, a Being, I am not object
or subject, Object or Subject, except I may appear to be so
to devotees, until they Realize Me Perfectly.
I
am not born. And I am not one who has been born, I am not
a reincarnated individual. I am not even an incarnated individual.
I am not one who has a future. I am not one who is in the
worlds. I am not one whose consciousness is here or there.
I have seen all things and they all exist in Me, so I can
describe them to you. But I am not always meditating on them,
so they are really beside the point for Me. And I fundamentally,
know nothing about them, except that I recognize them perfectly.
So the simple little drama of my life, however dramatic it
has appeared to be, is simply a way of restoring you to the
Disposition of Truth that you have always intuited, so that
you may realize no conventional destiny and no mere experience,
so that you can become free of this suffering existence. Because
all things upon which you may meditate, all things that may
be reflected in you, all things that may arise in the mind
in this life or in another life, all things that may be known
in meditation or in perception, in memory, recollection, or
knowledge in the present, everything altogether may be released
from bondage to the self. The separate self may be dissolved.
And in the dissolution of this self, you may know, in this
moment, that Condition which is beyond performance, beyond
knowledge, beyond acquisition. It is so Perfect that no being
has ever spoken it, except that I have been permitted to speak
it, to suggest it. This is not because of any merit. I have
never been born, so there is no merit involved. I am simply
a Voice that instigates your own insight.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, July 12, 1976
Vision Mound Magazine, Vol. 2 #5
Adi Da was born in the most ordinary of circumstances — to Frank
and Dorothy Jones, a middle-class couple, who named their son "Franklin
Albert Jones", and who had no conscious knowledge of Who
He was.
Adi
Da with His parents
Adi Da with His parents
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Even so, the name they chose was esoterically auspicious, suggesting
freedom ("Franklin") and brightness ("Albert"). "Franklin"
derives
from the Middle English frankelin, "freeman".
"Albert" is
from the Germanic name Adalbert, which is composed of
the elements adal, "noble", and beraht,
"bright". "Jones" is the English form of Iohannes
and the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης
(Ioannes), itself derived
from the Hebrew name "Yochanan" meaning "God is gracious". So
altogether, the esoteric meaning of the name, "Franklin Albert Jones",
is:
A Free Man Who is the 'Bright', and through Whom God
is Gracious
From the very moment of His birth, Adi Da was confronted by the
fragility of the human condition. Like many infants, His life was
threatened by the umbilical cord, which was wound around His neck.
But unlike other infants, He was fully aware of what was taking
place. While the doctors worked to keep His body alive, He remained
perfectly Conscious and Free of all concern — Self-Aware as the
Divine Reality. He recalls that, in that Divine State, untouched
by the drama of His human birth, He instead was moved to regard
the people lying in all the nearby hospital wards, Blessing them
and healing them.
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On November 3, 1939, at 11:21 A.M., in Jamaica, Queens County, New York, I was born "Franklin Albert Jones".
The sign of my birth is Scorpio, marked by the images of Spirit and Sex, the eagle and the crab. It is the sign of internal warfare, the problem and perfection.
The sign of Scorpio should indicate to you the kinds of forces that aligned to generate my birth. Whatever significance you may attribute to astrology, it is true that my personal life has often cycled high and low, marked by equal and opposing determinations to ascend and to descend.
And the external adventure of my life has turned me in and out of every kind of religious and Spiritual path, every kind of ascending means, and (likewise) every form of pleasure, ecstasy, and self-indulgence.
The signs of my birth suggest (and have required) a drama of opposites. However, in spite of all of that, it has also been my lot to remain untouched by cosmic and human circumstance. This is perhaps the first key to what I must Communicate. From the beginning, I have also Known a perfect Alternative to the revolutionary internal dilemma of my natural existence.
I have played in the problem of my alternatives, but from my earliest experience of life I have Enjoyed a Condition that, as a child, I called the "Bright".
I have always known desire, not merely for the extreme pleasures of the senses and the mind, but for the highest Enjoyment of Spiritual Power and Mobility. But I have not been seated in desire, and desire has only been a play that I have grown to understand and enjoy without conflict. I have always been Seated in the "Bright".
Even as a baby, I remember only crawling around inquisitively with a boundless Feeling of Joy, Light, and Freedom in the middle of my head that was bathed in Energy moving unobstructed in a Circle — down from above, all the way down, then up, all the way up, and around again — and always Shining from my heart.
It was an Expanding Sphere of Joy from the heart. And I was a Radiant Form — the Source of Energy, Love-Bliss, and Light in the midst of a world that is entirely Energy, Love-Bliss, and Light. I was the Power of Reality, a direct Enjoyment and Communication of the One Reality. I was the Heart Itself, Who Lightens the mind and all things.
I was the same as every one and every thing, except it became clear that others were apparently unaware of the "Thing" Itself.
Even as a little child, I recognized It and Knew It, and my life was not a matter of anything else. That Awareness, that Conscious Enjoyment, that Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Space of Infinitely and inherently Free Being, that Shine of inherent Joy Standing in the heart and Expanding from the heart, is the "Bright".
And It is the entire Source of True Humor. It is Reality. It is not separate from anything.
From my birth, I have not been centered in Scorpio or the dilemma of alternatives, but in the "Bright". So it is with True Humor that I describe how I existed all this time.
Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New
York
birthplace of Adi Da Samraj
Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New
York
birthplace of Adi Da Samraj
park across from Mary Immaculate Hospital
where Adi Da's father "paced" while awaiting His birth
Adi Da's first home,
in St. Albans, New York
the house of Adi Da's grandfather
in Hollis, New York
Mrs. Farr's house
in Hollis, New York
Ascension Lutheran Church
in Franklin Square, New York
Adi Da as a young child
Adi Da as a young child
3. Esoteric
Details Behind Adi Da's Birth
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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The time and place of Adi Da's birth were not arbitrary.
The deeper-personality-vehicle
enabling His Incarnation was made available to Him on July 4, 1902,
upon the death and perfect surrender of Swami
Vivekananda. This deeper-personality-vehicle enabled Adi
Da's immediate appearance in the higher realms of the Cosmic
Mandala in which that vehicle existed.
It should be understood about this intentional Birth of Mine that no "decision" was made
from an absolute point of view, out of the blue. The Deeper Personality Vehicle of Swami Vivekananda was
provided conditionally, as I have indicated. I, My Self, was brought into conjunction with the conditional
reality by these means. In that conjunction, I "Consented" to the Ordeal of human manifestation.
The Deeper Personality Vehicle of Swami Vivekananda arose in the conditional domain and provided the
conjunction with Me (As I Am). That Vehicle was conjoined with My Very Being. Swami Vivekananda
was given up completely, and the Vehicle became transparent to Me.
Out of a deep love for Westerners (developed during in his time in the West), Swami Vivekananda had intentionally set up his karmic vehicle for a reincarnation in the West. So in conjoining with Vivekananda's Vehicle, the Divine also was consenting to an eventual human incarnation (in the West):
Swami Vivekananda experienced the utter frustration of getting on a boat and going to the West. He knew it was not enough.
And He knew what He was going to have to do, therefore — He was going to have to die and be reborn in the West. And His Western
connections were the means for His rebirth. . . He became heart-sympathetic with people in the Western circumstance and disposition. But He realized that —
as a Hindu, as an Easterner — He was not equipped to transform the West. So he went back to India and died.
But Adi Da did not choose to immediately incarnate in the physical
realm in 1902.
The Second World War began in 1939. It was a war that resulted
not only in the death of tens of millions of people, but also in
the moral devastation of the world. This pivotal crisis in humanity's
history was the inevitable time for Avatar Adi Da to be born.
There was yet another factor in the vast constellation of conditions
which drew Avatar Adi Da to delay His Incarnation until 1939: the
birth of global communication and interconnectedness. Only in a
world that was globally interconnected would His Spiritual gifts
and influence be able to touch millions, with unprecedented immediacy.
Because the world was becoming Westernized in culture and psyche,
it was necessary for Avatar Adi Da's world-Blessing Work that He
be born in the Western world and that He fully know the Western
mind.
Because of My unique Disposition, I agreed to be born in the
West. . . I was Impulsed to Serve beings in the West especially,
and all beings ultimately. Therefore, I agreed to this Birth,
and was made in this particular form to Serve everyone, and
to suffer all the limitations of ordinariness. So I was born,
and I did My Work. . . This Person standing before you, Serving
you . . . assumed responsibility to be Submitted by Birth —
not merely to get on an airplane, but by Birth to be Submitted
— to Westerners, even to be polluted by the association,
to Submit to it, to Serve them in all ways necessary for the
sake of their Enlightenment, their Realization, to do it all
without the least withdrawal.
Avatar Adi Da was born fully Awakened as the Divine Reality.
While still a child, He named His perfectly Illumined State,
the "Bright".
Adi Da as a child
granting Darshan
On November 3, 1939, at 11:21 A.M., in Jamaica, Queens County,
New York, I was born "Franklin Albert Jones ". . .
Even as a baby, I remember only crawling around inquisitively
with a boundless Feeling of Joy, Light, and Freedom in the
middle of my head that was bathed in Energy moving unobstructed
in a Circle — down from above, all the way down, then up,
all the way up, and around again — and always Shining from
my heart....
And I was a Radiant Form — the Source of Energy, Love-Bliss
and Light in the midst of a world that is entirely Energy,
Love-Bliss and Light.
I was the Power of Reality, a direct Enjoyment and Communication
of the One Reality. I was the Heart Itself, Who Lightens the
mind and all things.
I was the same as every one and every thing, except it became
clear that others were apparently unaware of the "Thing" Itself.
I Am The “Bright” — Itself.
This “Brightness” Speaks.
The “Bright” Is Born AsThis, My Avataric Body-Mind.
My Divine Spiritual Descent Upon the body-mind Of My Devotee
— As The “Thumbs” — Is My Avataric Divine Means.
All This Was Given From The Avataric Birth Of This, My Bodily
(Human) Form.
Indeed, These Words — The “Bright” and The “Thumbs” — Were
Generated By Me As An Infant.
I Am Uttering To You The Revelation That Was Present At My
Birth and In My Infancy — and Nothing Whatsoever Has Been
Added To It or Taken Away From It.
Nothing In The Human Experience Of This, My Avataric Body-Mind,
Has Modified My Revelation or limited It In The Slightest.
My Avatarically-Given Revelation Is A Divine Spiritual Revelation
For The Sake Of all beings.
Therefore, Heart-Recognize Me, and Heart-Respond To Me.
Turn To Me, Receive Me.
Constantly Know Me.
If You Do this, You Will Be Certain Of The Truth I Am Telling
You.
My State now is not, in any sense, different from My State
in the moment when I was Born. My State has always been the
Same. My Life-Adventure was entirely a Teaching, a Revelation,
a Process I had to Suffer. Thus, an Instructional Narrative,
or Sign, has been Made by My Life, as I had to Live It. That
Sign should Instruct you. My Own State Is the Same now as
it was at the beginning — the "Bright" Infant.
[On the difference between an ordinary incarnation and
an Avataric Incarnation:] My True Story is the Divine
Avataric Leela — the Leela of the One Who is Realized from
Birth, Transcendentally
Spiritually Fully Awake from Birth. That is a Unique
Situation — because not only Is It Full Transcendental Spiritual
awakening, but I am not born. Karmic entities are born, and
they seek Realization — and, then, if they achieve It (to
some Real degree), they die. Full Realization does not come
into birth except through an Avatar. Only in Such a Case can
there be bodily survival of a Fully Realized birth. Otherwise,
there would not be any bodily conjunction to begin with, because
it would not be viable.
The purpose of Adi Da's birth — His Avataric Incarnation — was
twofold: to establish a new and complete Revelation of the living
Divine Reality, and the Way by which all beings could Realize the
Divine Reality; and to transform the dire future that human egos
were otherwise making more and more likely.
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
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Adi
Da's Birthday in 1982
Adi Da's Birthday in 1982
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FRANK MARRERO: For His Birthday in 1982, Adi Da received a cake with 43 candles from His devotees. He inhaled. . . and with one poof, blasted them all out. Then in perfect parody, He quipped, "I still got it." Over the next 10 hours, He proceed to blow us all out, breath by breath in unfathomable, nirvanic joy.
Adi
Da on His Birthday
Adi Da on His Birthday
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The Divine Avatar's Intervention here is a Spiritual one. And His
Avataric Incarnation refers to much more than His bodily human form
— it refers to the great Emergence of Divine Conscious Light into
this realm. While His primary Work in the body was to establish
a new Way of Divine Realization here, He
is always Working Spiritually, on a universal scale, to purify
the negative energies, influences, and forces that have patterned
(and continue to pattern) world events.
Adi Da Jayanthi, November 3, 2008 (Adi Da Samrajashram)
length: 06:52 views: 4580 Slideshow of images of Adi Da, The Master Dancer.
Soundtrack: the hymn, "Lord of the Dance". Performers: Colin Decio (voice and instruments). Colin is the winner of the John Ireland Chamber Music Prize. Ingrid Prosser (voice - mezzo soprano). Ingrid is from New Zealand. Words by Sydney Carter (who wrote them in 1967, inspired partly by Jesus of Nazareth, but also partly by a statue of Shiva as Nataraja). Set to the tune of the American Shaker song, "Simple Gifts".
From the performers: "The Divine World Teacher Adi Da Samraj was born on November 3, 1939. This is our gift to the Divine Person on the Anniversary of His birth."
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Adi
Da Jayanthi: Kauai, Hawaii, 2018
Adi Da Jayanthi: Kauai,
Hawaii, 2018
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Adi
Da Jayanthi 2014: The 75th Anniversary of Adi Da's Birth:
Writing the Name "DA" with a sparkler in Auckland,
New Zealand, 2014
Adi Da Jayanthi 2014: The 75th Anniversary
of Adi Da's Birth
Writing the Name "DA" with a sparkler in Auckland,
New Zealand, 2014
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Adi
Da Jayanthi 2014: The 75th Anniversary of Adi Da's Birth:
Celebrating together in First Sight, Auckland, New Zealand,
2014
Adi Da Jayanthi 2014: The 75th Anniversary
of Adi Da's Birth
Celebrating together in First Sight, Auckland,
New Zealand, 2014
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Fire Puja in New Zealand, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Fire Puja in Auckland,
New Zealand, 2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland, New Zealand, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland,
New Zealand, 2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland, New Zealand, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland,
New Zealand, 2012
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Coconut
to be dropped into the fire of the Da Jayanthi Fire Puja
with a Divine Horse made from layers of acrylic paint. Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2014
Coconut to be dropped into the fire of
the Da Jayanthi Fire Puja
with a Divine Horse made from layers of acrylic paint.
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria
Hoop, The Netherlands, 2014
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2012
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain
Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge
Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention,
2013
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AUDIO
Ode to Divine Joy length: 04:19 event date: November 2, 2013 listens: 6281 On November 2, 2013, the eve of the seventy-fourth anniversary of Avatar Adi Da’s Birth (Da Jayanthi), a live concert was held at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Northern California to celebrate His Eternal Blessing of all. The recording of this concert is now available on a CD, Ode to Divine Joy.
This audio clip contains a sample medley from the CD, featuring the voices of devotees JoAnne Sunshine ("Made by Your Hand"), Mel McMurrin ("Mary Don’t You Weep"), and Crane Kirkbride ("Ode to Divine Joy"), the voices of the Adidam Choir, and the piano-playing of Naamleela Free Jones. You can also hear the Choir singing devotee and Billboard Award-winning composer Ray Lynch's song, "This Is the Great Gift".
The rendition of Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" (retitled "Ode To Divine Joy" with new, devotional lyrics) performed during the concert was a unique fusion of two performances: the live performance and a 1990 studio recording played as accompaniment. This unique amalgam of both studio and live performances of Ode to Divine Joy, as well as all of the other pieces of the live concert included on this CD, are offered in the spirit of celebration and gratitude.
I call this essay "A Birthday Message from Jesus and Me"
for several reasons. Today is my birthday, first of all. The
essay also speaks of being born again in the Spirit, so it is
in some sense a message about everybody's 're-birthday' or spiritual
birth. And it is 'from Jesus and Me' because the essay also
paraphrases the Teaching of Jesus. . . Jesus preached a Way
of life that involved stepping outside the bondage to tradition
and institutionalized religiosity. His was a radical Spirit-Teaching
that communicated the religion of conversion to the Spiritual
Reality, to the Divine as Living Spirit, rather than to the
Divine as the remembered and honored 'God of our fathers', the
God of the book, and so on. Jesus preached that people should
be altogether converted from their false views and sinfulness,
that they should be transformed by the Realization of the Spirit,
and that they should make their religion a way of life in immediate
and constant Communion with the Divine Spirit.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
from "A Birthday Message From Jesus and Me", The
Fire Gospel
Love Made Me A Body To Live With You: Revelations
of The Divine Avataric Appearance Given by His Divine
Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Published in Celebration of the 80th Jubilee Anniversary
of the Human Birth of the Divine Person: 1939 - 2019
Adi Da Jayanthi, November 3, 2008 (Adi Da Samrajashram)
The great good news is that, in the course of His human lifetime
(from His birth on November 3, 1939 to His
Divine Mahasamadhi on November 27, 2008), Adi Da succeeded in
establishing the Way of Adidam — the Way by which all beings can
now Realize the Divine Reality.
You are Given the Gift of the Incarnation of the Divine Person.
It is the Divine Gift. My most fundamental Gift is in My Very
Form, My Birth to here. My Form, My Birth Itself, is the essence
of the Divine Gift.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
You do not yet know how to estimate the effect of My Birth
and what will occur as a result of My Incarnation.
You are the seed of a great historical change, and you cannot
even see what is before your eyes. We have accomplished great
things already, although you are not yet aware of it. . .
As decades pass, you will see the import of what you have
all experienced in seed form but cannot yet recognize. . .
.
The purpose of My Birth is to transform humankind, everyone,
human history, by bringing you through this terrible transition
in which you now find yourselves. My Divine Avataric Birth
Is an Epic Moment of Transcendental
Spiritual Intervention. . . When you have passed through
this crisis of growth, you will begin to understand what has
happened, what Force has been Brought into the flesh through
My Divine Avataric Birth. . . .
This Birth will then be a tool for the transformation of
humanity altogether. This Is My Purpose. It is true for every
single individual who approaches Me. Every single one is Called
by Me, every single one is Loved by Me, every single one I
Embrace.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, November 7, 1983
The purpose of all the gatherings of devotees is to consider
the Teaching to the point of hearing or self-understanding
and to grant attention to the Spiritual Master in the Forms
of His Person, His Agencies, and His Spirit-Blessing magnified
to devotees to the point of the tangible Awakening to and
acknowledgment of the Spiritual Divine. This entire institution
and this whole community of devotees should be devoted to
these purposes.
Practice daily. Gather constantly for the sake of hearing
and seeing and communicating to one another about actual hearing
and seeing. Tell the stories of your practice. Support one
another's Awakening. Give one another opportunity for the
demonstration of the Way in good company. And call everyone
to the real discipline and technical practice of this esoteric
Way, this radical Way, in daily life.
Do this as individuals and do this as a gathering, a community,
and an institution, and you will see the fruits of My birth
and of your own birth. Then this institution and this community
will be unique and will have great value. They will be real,
they will grow, they will stop stumbling and falling back.
It all depends on true hearing, self-understanding, and the
acceptance of this [Spiritual] Baptism.
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration, Naitauba,
2012
(click to enlarge)
And so we invite all who read this to learn about
and consider taking up
the Way of Adidam — and Realize the Perfect and Eternal Happiness
of Adi Da, that infinitely exceeds every form of suffering and every
passing pleasure in this mortal life and limited world.
What a truly remarkable Revelation He Has Brought to humankind, so many Gifts for us to wake up. I am eternally grateful.
Thank you Master. Thank you Beloved. All that you give. I bow down in gratitude.
Thank you Beloved of all hearts.
What an incomparable Gift!
He came to a “half-made world” where “love is yet to take its hold”.
Excellent presentation.
We are full of gratitude to You, Beloved Adi Da Samraj! Your perfect Gift of incarnating into a form like our own is beyond our full comprehension. Your Presence is unwavering and Full. May You be pleased to guide us.
Happy Da Jayanthi Bhagavan
Jai Jai Avatar Adi Da Samraj! Happy Divine Bright Radiant Birthday!
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