I Am Here (video)
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music: Chris Tong
sung by: the Adidam New England Choir
(with all devotees joining in)
choir members:
Chris Tong, Paul Caswell, Patricia Rydle, Lisa Alexandra Fry
pianist / choir director: Chris Tong
date: Danavira Mela, 1993
CHRIS: I just ran across an old audio tape with this recording. The quality is not the best, and the choir is not professional, but there is so much heart-feeling in devotees’ singing, and our Beloved Heart-Master’s Words are so beautiful and heart-moving, that I felt compelled to share this for Danavira Mela.
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I AM HERE
I Am here.
And that is all you need to feel.
I am your hungry heart’s Full Meal.
Touch My Heart
and all My Secrets
are Revealed.
I am most accessible.
You’re the one
who hides your heart.
I am always waiting
for your heart to find Me.
Fall in love with only Me.
Be, by that act,
Consciousness,
And be
the mindless Feeling
Of Happiness.
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I drew Adi Da's words from many sources. For example, "Fall in love with only Me" is drawn from “My Most Secret Revelation of Only and Absolute Adherence To Me” in Always Enact Fidelity To Me:
ADI DA: I Am The Only Lover In The Cosmic Domain.
If You Do Not Yet Love Only Me, You Are “Narcissistically” Luxuriating In Being With Me — Until You Truly Wake Up To Me.
I Am Jealous For My Devotee’s attention To Me.
Whenever It Is That You Truly Find Me, You Will Spend Only a little time With Me here In this place. The Great “Time” You Must Spend With Me Is Beyond this place.
That Great "Time" Is Eternal, and That Great "Place" Is Boundless — Without perimeter or parameter, Non-conditional, Beyond psyche and thought.
I Am That One.
Find Me Out.

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Kathleen Lynch - Middletown, CA December 22, 2021 11:31PM
So beautiful Chris, full of Grace and feeling, thank you for posting this song.
Jackie H. - Trinidad, California December 19, 2021 11:49PM
Oh Chris, this is wonderful. I was there in Boston when we did this — I think 1993.
Lucy A. - Auckland, New Zealand December 14, 2021 6:23AM
Beautiful. Thank you.