The Celebration of the Establishment of
the "Radical" Reality Way of Adidam Ruchiradam

. . . and the Gifted calling, and the By-Me-Given Responsibility, For Devotionally Responsive "Consideration" Of My Avatarically Self-Revealed Divine Word, and Of All My Instructive and Revelatory Avataric Divine Work, or My Avatarically Self-Manifested and Forever Living and Me-Revealing Leelas.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj, The Dawn Horse Testament

Gerald Sheinfeld: One day, while the few of us who were already students of Beloved Adi Da's were working full speed to get the bookstore and Communion Hall ready, Beloved Adi Da and one of the students came into the center with two very large wooden objects: the letter 'C' and the symbol '&'. They had found them in an alley, where an advertising company had thrown them away. The symbols were both quite large — five or six feet tall and three or four feet wide. Beloved Adi Da asked us to clean them up and paint them white so that He could use them in the bookstore. The 'C', lying flat, was perfect as a check-out counter. The ampersand was placed in front of the entrance to the Communion Hall. It was a most unusual object to encounter before entering the Hall! When we asked its significance, Beloved Adi Da said, 'There is only God! The 'and' is the problem.'"

Avatar Adi Da Samraj, See My Brightness Face to Face

Yes. There is a disturbance, a feeling of dissatisfaction, some sensation that motivates a person to go to a teacher, read a book about philosophy, believe something, or do some conventional form of Yoga. What people ordinarily think of as Spirituality or religion is a search to get free of that sensation, that suffering that is motivating them. So all the usual paths — Yogic methods, beliefs, religion, and so on — are forms of seeking, grown out of this sensation, this subtle suffering. Ultimately, all the usual paths are attempting to get free of that sensation. That is the traditional goal. Indeed, all human beings are seeking, whether or not they are very sophisticated about it, or using very specific methods of Yoga, philosophy, religion, and so on. . . .

As long as the individual is simply seeking, and has all kinds of motivation, fascination with the search, this is not understanding — this is dilemma itself. But where this dilemma is understood, there is the re-cognition of a structure in the living consciousness, a separation. And when that separation is observed more and more directly, one begins to see that what one is suffering is not something happening to one but it is one's own action. It is as if you are pinching yourself, without being aware of it. . . . Then one sees that the entire motivation of life is based on a subtle activity in the living consciousness. That activity is avoidance, separation, a contraction at the root, the origin, the "place", of the living consciousness. . . .

There is first the periodic awareness of that sensation, then the awareness of it as a continuous experience, then the observation of its actual structure, the knowing of it all as your own activity, a deliberate, present activity that is your suffering, that is your illusion. The final penetration of that present, deliberate activity is what I have called "understanding".

Avatar Adi Da Samraj, "Understanding", My "Bright" Word [2]

All My Wisdom-Teaching is intended to be a direct address to you. A relationship, in other words, is the context of My Wisdom-Teaching of the Way of Adidam. This is what you must come to understand and appreciate. Therefore, make your study of My Wisdom-Teaching into a form of relationship with Me, not just thinking about ideas by reading books.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj, August 3, 1987

You could still smell the wet paint when I first arrived. I sat down in the main area. Franklin was sitting by Himself, in a chair on a platform towards the back of the room. And He had a bright orange aura around His Head! My first thought was: they must have put an orange floodlight behind His Head.

While I was sitting, I thought to myself, "this place is going to close in a few weeks." Just as I was in this doubting mood, Franklin stood up and left His Chair. The bright, vivid halo followed Him, as He walked around the room!!!!

Years later, I was with the silent yogi, Baba Hari Dass, up in Santa Cruz. I described my experience to him, and asked him what an orange aura means. He wrote on his little chalk board around his neck: "What you saw was not orange — it was a combination of gold and red. It is extremely rare, and is the sign of total fearlessness."

Randall Moffett