Also known as The Supreme Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the "Return" to Native "Brightness".
At
6:30 pm on April 12, 2000, shortly after Avatar Adi Da traveled to Lopez Island,
in the State of Washington, an extreme crisis occurred.
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Ruchira
Dham Hermitage
Ruchira Dham Hermitage
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Avatar Adi Da calls this event the "Ruchira Dham Event", because
the house where He was staying when the crisis occurred is now His
renunciate Hermitage, which He named "Ruchira Dham" ("the Abode
of Brightness").
Within a couple of hours of His arrival
at the house on Lopez Island, Avatar Adi Da Samraj felt great pressure on His
chest and was having difficulty breathing. His arms and hands would continually
cramp up and convulse. His Bodily discomfort was so strong that He had to be carried
to His bed. To the degree that He could speak, Avatar Adi Da Samraj described
a profound Ascent: "I am here. Can you see Me Up Here?" His Divine Light was dissolving
the room. To the devotees attending His body, He was obviously way beyond
the apparent "here" where they were. At the point where He seemed most
Ascended, His Face took on an expression of the purest bliss. Avatar Adi
Da came to Reveal the deep mystery of the Ruchira Dham Event over the following
eight and a half years of His Life. In that event, He had actually demonstrated
the absolute Outshining of the entire cosmos what He calls "Divine Translation",
the culmination of the process of Divine Enlightenment that He Reveals. For
all others, such Perfect Outshining would coincide with the death of the body.
But Avatar Adi Da had miraculously "re-Emerged". He was able to maintain association
with the body, even though every fraction of the impulse of the submission that
had animated His Life from birth was now vanished.
After the Ruchira Dham Event, Adi Da Samraj was able to describe
and confirm the entire Reality-Way of Adidam from direct experience.
His continued Life from that time was simply a mysterious gift
His body became an agent of direct Revelation of His "Bright"
Eternal State.
At
Lopez Island, I Fell Out of the world. Now I Speak only from Beyond.
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj, March 24, 2003
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In some sense, I As I Am First Appeared here in the year 2000. In some sense, I As I Am Was only "on the way" to here before the Ruchira Dham Event..... A Profound Process Began, Which has Been Unfolding since That Great Event of Yogic Death.... The Happenings That have Occurred since the Divine Avataric Event at Ruchira Dham Hermitage Are All Outer Signs of the Divine Avataric Process That Is the Direct Self-Revelation of My Divine Self-Nature, Self-Condition, and Self-State.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Boundless Self-Confession
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In 1986, I described the Initiation of My Divine
Self-"Emergence" time, and I described it as a sympathetic
descent to the toes, a kind of universal embrace of conditionally
manifested beings.
And
I have described the Ruchira Dham Event as the reverse of that. It was the demonstration
of Divine Translation, My Establishment in the position and in Perfect Identification
with My Own Sphere and Divine Condition of Being. Since that Event, I have only
been what could be described as "Looking back to here from There." I did
not return. The view returned, and there were various super-normal phenomena associated
with the returning of the view of conditional beings but I did not return. I
stand in My Own Sphere and Domain, the "Bright" Itself. The fact that I
continue to appear here it seems to Me I am continuing to appear here anyway,
I am not so sure you all notice it but there is a continuing Appearance of My
Person here in this Bodily form. It is a Radiation of My Person. It is not any
longer a manifestation of a born condition. Rather My unborn Divine Person
is manifest as this Body. And I have a kind of sighting here, but I have not
returned here. This Body is a Murti. It is ash, vibhuti. It is a Divine Gift to
beings. Its purpose is to serve the purposes already served by My Incarnation
and then, after that, through the place of My Burial and through all of the
photographs and other Murti-Forms of My Incarnate Person. . .
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"My Unborn Divine Person Is Manifest as This Body", Easy Death
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There
is a Process whereby the body-mind is transcended, wherein the brain is transcended,
and there is entrance into the Divine Sphere what I call the Midnight Sun. I
Am That. This Body is the leftover of a Process in which that Sphere
was entered, in the midst of a lifetime that is apparent to others. The
paradox is that I am here to tell you about it. Whereas, no one who might otherwise
enter into it has ever returned, ever been able to stand, both heels imbedded
in the earth, and be established in the Divine Sphere, in order to speak of it.
It is not in the brain. It is not dependent on the body-mind. It
is not in this world. It is not in the universe. It is not in any dimension
of conditional existence whatsoever. It is not even merely the light at the
end of the tunnel. There is a lot of conditionality about that. And there
is a mechanism for it. I described it after the Ruchira Dham Event, except most
people pass through it and see all their relatives and so on. But there was no
mind in this case, just the mechanism of it, the niches in the walls, the structure,
the lights, the mechanism itself upon which all human experiences depend or are
revealed not the illusions built upon them, not the karmic illusions, not the
ego illusions. I never returned at Lopez. I remain established in the
Divine Sphere. I Am the "Bright", the Midnight Sun. I never left it. I
am here under unique conditions, for the purpose of Revelation to others. That
Sphere is untainted and unconditional. It is the Divine Sphere, the Divine
Condition. It is Self-"Bright". It is Conscious Light. It is not
merely a blank awareness, just sort of feeling aware in an infinite darkness.
It is beyond description. And while being that, Abiding as that, I
am appearing just as you see, and in many other forms that you may see, and am
able to verify to you the supernormal Realities of existence. You must
do the sadhana. You must accept My Grace. You must practice the Way of this
relationship, and prove My Word to you. But My Utterance of it should,
and is intended to, restore your hope and give you heart to do this work, this
sadhana. Avatar Adi Da Samraj
Avataric Revelation Discourses,
2004
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Ruchira Dham Hermitage Is Where My Divine Avataric Work, in Its Ultimate Fullness, Began.
Thus, in the fullest sense, Adidam Began at Ruchira Dham Hermitage.
The Ruchira Dham Event Was and Is the Culmination of My Divine Avataric Birth and Lifetime.
The Ruchira Dham Event Was and Is the Ultimate Divine Avataric Event on Earth.
Indeed, the Ruchira Dham Event Was and Is the Ultimate Divine Avataric Event in the entire cosmic domain.
Now, and forever hereafter, I Am here.
Now, and forever hereafter, Is the Divine Avataric Epoch of Universal Communion with Me.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj "The Universally Consequential Event At Ruchira Dham Hermitage"
Part 19,
The Aletheon
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When you hear Me describe Great Events in the form of My Manifestation here the Initiation of My Divine Self-"Emergence", Great Events such as at the "Brightness" and at Lopez these Events have extraordinary, unspeakable Significance, only some of which I even Utter to you for the sake of your necessary instruction and clarifying your understanding relative to the nature of these things.
But beyond a point, I cannot speak about what occurred at Lopez. I never will, to anyone. There are things, matters of My own Work that go on every moment, that I am never going to tell anyone. It is impossible to tell it to you. There is not even a frame of reference that coincides with human experience that would make it comprehensible to you. It would be utterly meaningless, metaphorical at best, and I am not moved to Speak it. I tell devotees in appropriate circumstances what is necessary for their Realization. I Instruct devotees as required. It does not mean I just gossip about all the signs of My own Existence. It is beyond utterance. . .
It is a paradoxical circumstance, and the association with the Body has been unspeakably different, and uniquely difficult, and difficult to maintain since that time.
The Sphere of My Existence is Great beyond description, but it is also terrible beyond description, particularly when it is brought into conjunction with this Body. Just the normal Work I do, which is unknown to you all and beyond the Body, affects the Body, makes the Body see and know things it should not see and know that are unendurable to a human form, they are too horrific to bear just as the Bliss Absolute is something the Body cannot bear. It cannot bear that, either.
This Body is Prasad. It is a Gift to devotees. It is for as long as you will maintain it. It is here for nothing but the Sighting of devotees.
This is not a karmic entity. It is Divine Prasad. It is your obligation to
recognize Me.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj Avataric Revelation Discourse, September 23, 2004
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The Ruchira Dham Event is a Great Divine Avataric Event, and Unique altogether, Unique for one reason: that I survived it not as an ordinary man, not in an ordinary form except appearing still bodily here in a non-ordinary State, able to Confirm to you, for your sake, that It Is So. . .
The Great Event at Lopez Island was more than a "body" can bear. It was literal death. In some sense it was not survived. It is not possible to survive it. Just this Body, alone, could not survive it. Certainly, you do not know why it would not be survivable, because it is not in your "experience", but it could not possibly be endured.
Divine Translation shatters the body-mind-complex, destroys its foundation of existence. Divine Translation is all-consuming. The body-mind was Outshined. So, there is no body-mind, and, yet, there is this report, this Confirmation.
It is a Divine Grace, this Continuation, and it has made this Vehicle, this Agent here, this Body, Full in its Unique preparedness to serve the Purpose it must serve forever.
It will, of course, in due time, pass, as a natural phenomenon, but it will always be established in the sight of living beings forever and retained by various means forever in Murti Form as this utterly Translated, Transparent, Divine Manifestation of the Divine Bright Reality.
It Is That Doorway.
It Is That Reality.
It Is That Person.
I Confess this to you, and you must realize it through your tacit response and turning to Me, and prove it by your ego-transcending practice. In the course of your practice, prove it. Not just believe it prove it.
Divine Translation is the Ultimate Demonstration of the seventh stage of life, and it coincides with death or the end of the apparent lifetime. This Case is unique, because this is the Revelation Body, and I must be able to endure and confess the Way Prove it, even in this Body and be able, yet, to Utter it, that it is so. I am not just looking forward to it. It is So.
So, in a miraculous sense, the Ruchira Dham Event was survived. I was able to survive it because I am not touched by it.
And yet, coincident with this Body is this terrible knowledge, this terrible process, of vulnerable sympathy and awareness of all, and of all suffering.
And having the circumstance of perpetual regard of the suffering of all,
and being involved in that,
and being moved by that,
and constantly touching it,
constantly serving to relieve beings,
to limit their suffering,
to transform it,
to awaken beings,
and to heal them,
to touch them.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj Avataric Revelation Discourse, October 12, 2004
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The Profundity of What Happened at the Ruchira Dham Event Is Beyond Words and Beyond accounting.
What Happened in the Ruchira Dham Event Was the Perfection of Atma Nadi, or the Divine Form Itself — the Universal Connection to the True Divine Heart.
What Happened at the Ruchira Dham Event Was a Magnification That Is Unspeakable, That Is Divine.
What Happened in the Ruchira Dham Event Allowed A Final Transformation to Occur in This Body.
That Final Transformation Made the Way of Adidam — in Its "Radical" Reality Form — Possible, Inevitable and Necessary.
I Apparently bodily Survived the Ruchira Dham Event — but not as an ordinary man, and not in an ordinary form.
Nevertheless, I Am yet Appearing bodily here, in a Non-ordinary State — Able to Confirm to you, for your Sake,
that Divine Translation Is the Real and Divine Great Destiny of all and All.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
"The Universally Consequential Event At Ruchira Dham Hermitage", Part 24, The Aletheon
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In the years following the Ruchira Dham Event, Avatar Adi Da worked
tirelessly to generate the fullness of His Eternal Legacy and gifts
to humankind, right up to the moment of His Divine
Mahasamadhi on November 27, 2008.
Adi
Da shortly after the Ruchira Dham Event
Adi Da shortly after the Ruchira Dham Event
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The house on Lopez Island, Washington, where Adi Da was staying when
the Ruchira Dham Event occurred is now the renunciate Ruchira
Dham Hermitage.
The shoreline of Lopez Island near Ruchira Dham Hermitage
Related
Resources
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Adidam Is The Seventh Stage Way
A DVD in the Avataric Discourse Study Series
November, 2011
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Adi
Da's remarkable Discourse of September 23, 2004, in which
He describes, in technical detail, the distinctive qualities
of His Reality-Revelation in the context of the Great Tradition.
In Part Five, Adi Da describes the profound
moment in His Avataric process that occurred at Ruchira Dham
Hermitage.
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Adi Da: The Promised God-Man Is Here
By Carolyn Lee, Ph.D.
(written under the direction of the Ruchira Sannyasin Order
of Adidam Ruchiradam)
A shortened and updated version of the 1998
edition.
August 2004 edition
order
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The
profound and miraculous Story of the Divine Life and Spiritual
Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj including excerpts from
His written and spoken Word and stories told by His devotees.
Chapter 16, "Beyond the Cosmic Doorway", is devoted
to the Ruchira Dham Event.
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Easy Death
by the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj
August 2005 edition
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Whether
you are approaching your own death, facing the death of a
loved-one, or are simply in need of understanding the purpose
of this brief and mortal life, you will find in the pages
of Easy Death a most extraordinary and unique Help Real
Help, not mere consolation or impermanent philosophy, given
in the Wisdom, and in the human Form, of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
For Adi Da was born in and as and from the "Bright" Reality
in which there is neither birth nor death, and His entire
lifetime has been spent unlocking that Ultimate Condition
from limited views of the ego, in order to offer a way for
anyone to Realize It directly. His human body has endured
and "seen" the entire death process and all the after-death
states and has entered into What Is, Beyond all of that. There
is no greater Authority on matters of death and ultimate transcendence.
Easy Death includes sections on the Ruchira
Dham Event.
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The Aletheon
The Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of His Divine Presence,
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
September, 2009
Available in two formats:
- An eight-volume boxed paperback set: order
here
- A single, hardbound book in a slipcase (limited edition):
order
here
During
the final two years of a Lifetime that had been utterly devoted
to the Communication of Truth, Avatar Adi Da created His supreme
Scripture a book of oceanic depth and magnitude. This final
and greatest Instruction by Avatar Adi Da spans over 2300
pages.
The Aletheon includes sections on the
Ruchira Dham Event (for example, "The Universally Consequential
Event At Ruchira Dham Hermitage", Part
19)
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