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June is The Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Image-Art Revelation, which includes the Celebration of the Initiation of Free Light-Imagery.
July 9-10 is The Celebration of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas, the ultimate mode and final period of Adi Da's Divine Self-Revelation.
Da Purnima(July 16-17) is Adidam's unique version of the traditional Guru Purnima celebration. During this Celebration, the great and Divine Guru-Function of the Divine Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, is honored. "Purnima" means "full". Guru Purnima is traditionally celebrated during the brightest full moon of the year, usually occuring in July.
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Today is 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.
1921:
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Amma (Swami Prajnananda) is born, in Ahmedabad, India. Amma was a Sanskrit professor and one of the earliest and closest disciples of Swami Muktananda. She served as his assistant and secretary for many years. She wrote the earliest essays on Muktananda's Siddha Yoga, kundalini and Shaktipat, and thereby gave a form to Muktananda's teachings. Adi Da writes of His interactions with Amma in The Knee Of Listening.
1980:
At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks about the "attitude of participation" as the foundation for a Real-God-Realizing life. "If you take up the attitude of science, the analytical, 'self'-contracted view, and make that the sole position from which to understand your existence, you define yourselves in limitation, in 'Narcissistic' roles, as a contracted, independent entity. In other words, the attitude of science is always tending toward the contracted state, the independent principle, whereas the attitude of participatory 'knowledge' is always tending toward universal expansiveness, universal connectedness. The body must feel into the Universal Field. The mind must feel into the Universal Field. This is fundamental to the Spiritual process. MOREWhat is fundamentally lacking in human beings is the capability of participation, ego-transcending participation, ecstatic participation in the Universal Reality and Divine Being. You are contracted upon yourself and have all kinds of cultural justifications for doing that, as well as ordinary emotional, psychological reactivity, ordinary personal conditioning. The total force of your life is tending toward contraction. When you understand this most basically, when every aspect of the body-mind is returned (through surrender) to participation in the Universal Reality and Divine Being, you break this lock of contraction. As soon as that is done, in any moment when it is done, there is a tacit Awakening at every level of the body-mind-complex. If it is done profoundly, then there is a profound Awakening. If it is done consistently, then that profound Awakening is associated with all kinds of Wisdom, Awakened 'Knowledge' of a higher kind."
1984:
At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, "For The Love". (Text excerpt here.) Adi Da (talking to devotee, Aniello Panico): "Eating beings is always disturbing — not necessarily the eating, but the witnessing of the eating. There is nothing I can do about this, Aniello. This world is dreadful. Do you have any idea what is happening in conditional nature? All beings are My own. Yet, you must sacrifice them in order to live. You beings, you humans here, require the murdering of living beings to eat and survive. You must come to terms with this fact. To do so you must come to terms with your own life and death and accept the fact that you are a sacrifice, and that conditionally manifested existence is not merely a jolly time. All of you could potentially die a painful death and live a painful lifetime. By entering into relationship with Me, I am Giving you another slice of possibility. . . I love rats, Aniello. I Embrace them — rats, mice, walls, amoebas, frogs — I Embrace everybody. I Love everybody. I want to Wake Up every being into this Ecstasy in the midst of death."
2002:
Sacred Images for Avatar Adi Da's Sukra Kendra at The Mountain Of Attention, and Hanuman statues for all Sukra Kendras, arrive at Da Love-Ananda Mahal (after completing a Yajna of Holy Sites in India) and are Blessed by Avatar Adi Da.
2008:
At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da completes The Aletheon with a change to the title page; He adds "Final Word (Something New Must Emerge)" to Not-Two Is Peace.
2008:
The Divine Mahasamadhi of Avatar Adi Da, 5:05 p.m., November 27 (Fiji Time), Adi Da Samrajashram.
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NOVEMBER is The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Month of the Divine Avataric Incarnation and the Divine Mahasamadhi. Short Adidam name for November: Da Jayanthi. For more about the annual cycle of months and Celebrations in Adidam, click here. 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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