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"Celebrate My Good Company": The 2024 Sacred Cycle of Celebrations in Adidam
Like many of the world's great religious and spiritual traditions, Adidam
commemorates its Spiritual Founder, Adi Da Samraj, in an annual, Sacred Cycle of celebrations
marking particular great events in His life and work.[1]
Through the communication of the many sacred
events of Beloved Adi Da's Incarnation-Life that we celebrate, we come to know Beloved Adi Da in
His Eternal Form, Locating Him through the Sighting of His Eternally-Living Incarnation-Form, and
through Integration with the Revelations that He Made for the sake of all.
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Know that I Bless you through and beyond time and space. Live a life of celebration. True life,
ego-transcending life, is a celebration, a joyous occasion of meeting with others in the universal
circumstance of prior unity and in the joy of Communion with the Indivisible Divine Reality.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj "The Feast of God in Every Body", December 25, 1982 |
I told you even in the earliest
years that the Way of Adidam was a life of celebration. And it is so. . . Now
I have given you a Way of life that can be utterly celebrated, that is only about
celebration, if you would understand what I am talking about and enter into this
relationship with Me rightly, and really do it. It is not boring. It is not depressed.
It is not mechanical, mediocre, conventionally pious, puritanical, or obnoxious
in any way. The Way of Adidam is a self-transcending and really God-Realizing
Way of life, fulfilled by Grace.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj "Celebrate
My Good Company", May 3, 1991 |
Celebrations are particularly important as opportunities for
devotees to come together to invoke Adi Da in the powerful way that
occurs when large numbers of devotees participate — and thus to ecstatically
re-confirm together that Adi Da is here as the Divine, presently and always.
The annual Sacred Cycle in Adidam is a structure of twelve Holy Months. Each month is devoted to the celebration of a specific aspect of Adi Da's Divine Incarnation and His Gifts of Eternal Divine Agency (listed at the beginning of each month below).[2]
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Several sacred calendars are available. The 2024 Sacred History calendar lists Adidam History events for each day of the year. A 2024 Adidam Pocket Calendar is also available. The 2024 Image-Art calendar features a selection of images from the suite Geome Three: The Scale of Perfection. The image-art of Adi Da reveals that the natural world is entirely constructed from these "primary geometries".
NEW: The Perpetual Brightness Calendar, with a special compilation of daily photographs and quotations, created in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Adidam (1972-2022). |
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March is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Supreme Word of Divine Avataric Self-Revelation. |
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Adi Da (March 11, 1973)
The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Supreme Word of Divine Avataric Self-Revelation. On March 11 of each year, Adi Da's devotees celebrate the anniversary of Adi Da gifting His devotees with His Supreme Word — His "Good News" (the literal meaning of "Gospel") — in an extraordinary essay that He called, "The Heaven-Born Gospel of The Ruchira Avatar". On March 11, 1973, after reading this essay to His devotees, He engaged them in a consideration about it. |
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The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Gift of "Perfect Knowledge". |
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The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Call to the "Perfect Practice". |
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The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction. |
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April is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Adidam Ruchiradam Revelation. |
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May is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the "First Room" Orpheum-Revelation. |
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Adi Da reciting from His Orpheum Trilogy
The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Completed Orpheum-Revelation. "The Orpheum is a Direct Expression and Sign of My Own Person and Life . . . Indeed, it is upon the Base of My Orpheum Trilogy that I have Revealed and Given the entirety of My Divine Avataric Teaching-Revelation." (The Aletheon) |
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The continuation of the Celebration of the Completed Orpheum-Revelation. |
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The conclusion of the Celebration of the Completed Orpheum-Revelation. |
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The Day of the Establishment of the Sapta Na Sannyasin Order of Adidam Ruchiradam. |
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June is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Image-Art Revelation. |
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August is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Prophesied Completing of the Great Tradition. |
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September: Da Self-Confession |
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September is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Avataric Self-Confession. |
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Arrival at Adi Da Samrajashram, shortly after the event of September 7, 1994
The September 7 Event, the Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of Completed Teaching-Submission: Adi Da's Declaration of the Completion of His Work with devotees, and the establishment of His Eternal Spiritual Presence in all the conditional realms, at Pacific Harbor, Fiji, on September 6, 1994 (September 7, 1994, Fiji time). |
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Da Re-Awakening, the Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Divine Re-Awakening: Adi Da's Divine Re-Awakening at the Vedanta Temple on September 10, 1970. |
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In the sand: the Sanskit symbol, Da Mahavakya, the Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Divine Disclosure: Adi Da Revealed His Name "Da" on September 13, 1979. |
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The continuation of the Celebration of the Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Avataric Self-Confession. |
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The conclusion of the Celebration of the Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Avataric Self-Confession. |
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October is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Eternal Hermitage Stand at Adi Da Samrajashram, which focuses on the broad scope of Adi Da\'s Empowerment of Naitauba for all time. |
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Adi Da puts on His "third hat", in celebration of His Fijian Citizenship
The Day of Native Establishment Beyond East and West, honoring Bhagavan Adi Da's acceptance of Fijian Citizenship in 1993; and the Initiation of the Sovereign-Avataric Holy Celebration of the Great Acception. |
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Adi Da first steps onto Naitauba Island at 1:32 pm, October 27, 1983 (Fiji time).
Naitauba Padavara Mela (The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the First Footstep on the Great Island-Hermitage of Adi Da Samrajashram in 1983). During this Celebration, we commemorate Adi Da's Empowerment and Transformation of the Island of Naitauba, Fiji, into His Hermitage and Blessing-Seat for the whole world. For more, read the Celebration pamphlet, Naitauba Padavara Mela. |
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Adi Da Empowers Padukas at Padavara Loka on October 27, 1993. The conclusion of the Celebration of Naitauba Padavara (The First Footstep on the Great Island-Hermitage of Adi Da Samrajashram in 1983). |
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The time for Purification Pujas — one of two regularly performed each year. This one coincides with the secular celebration of Halloween (or "All Souls Day"). More about Purification Pujas here. |
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November is The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Avataric Incarnation and the Divine Mahasamadhi. |
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Adi Da Jayanthi, the Supreme Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Human Birth of the Divine Person. |
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The Installation of the Divine Spirit-Tree of Light ("Tree Trimming Day") and the Initiation of Danavira Mela (The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Celebration of the Divine Hero of Giving) or The Season of "Light-in-Everybody", as part of the Sovereign-Avataric Holy Celebration of the Great Acception. Adi Da: "The tree at Danavira Mela time is a symbol. It represents something in the human scale. The Danavira Mela tree represents the human nervous system and the esoteric psycho-physical structures that have been associated with the Spiritual process in all traditions, including the Light that shines from above. The Danavira Mela tree is a representation of that. It is a symbolic tree-like form, a 'Tree of Life' kind of form." (from The Danavira Mela Book). More about Danavira Mela here. |
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The Outshining Brightness Temple
The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Empowerment of Atma Nadi Shakti Loka (honoring Bhagavan Adi Da's initial empowerment of the Brightness Temple in 1993). |
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The Supreme Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Divine Mahasamadhi (honoring Bhagavan Adi Da's Divine Mahasamadhi, 2008). This is November 27, Fiji time. The three-day Mahasamadhi Vigil begins at 5:05pm Fiji Time. |
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The continuation of the three-day Mahasamadhi Vigil. |
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The continuation of the three-day Mahasamadhi Vigil. |
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The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Eternal Bodily Establishment at Atma Nadi Shakti Loka (honoring the Interment of Bhagavan Adi Da's Divine Body at the Brightness Temple in 2008). The three-day Mahasamadhi Vigil ends at 5:05pm Fiji time. |
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December is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the All-Revealing Leela of the Divine Person. |
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The beginning of the period of Danavira Mela gifting, traditionally initiated by Avatar Adi Da's Blessing of Prasad cookies (hence the day is also known as "Cookie Day"). |
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Ocean view from Tat Sundaram, Trinidad.
The Day of the Hermitage Stand at Tat Sundaram. |
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The start of the Great Vigil of Universal Heart-Prayer. It is also the day for the Blessing of the Danu Daru (Sacred Firewood). |
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