Beyond Religion

The fullness of what Avatar Adi Da Samraj is Revealing to human beings is without precedent — not found in any past or present form of religion.

One of the unique fundamentals of the Divine Avatar's Teaching is that human beings, themselves, are preventing the Realization of Reality through something they are doing. Each one is contracting from Reality, presuming to be an ego, a separate self.

This ego-act — the act of self-contraction — is the source of all suffering and unhappiness.

The self-contraction makes human life into a constant drama of seeking — every kind of search to attain, or avoid, or identify with experience, high and low.

The purpose of Avatar Adi Da's early life was for Him to "Learn Man" — to enter into the entire range of human seeking and experiencing.

Around the age of two years, in a spontaneous gesture of Love toward those around Him, He relinquished His unbroken Samadhi of the "Bright" and identified with the self-contracted state of human beings.

At first, in His childhood and during studies at Columbia College (New York), Avatar Adi Da imbibed the world of ordinary life, exoteric (or belief-based) religion, and scientific materialism — in other words, the gross, or merely physical, view of reality.

Later, with His Gurus, Swami Rudrananda (in New York) and then Swami Muktananda (in India), He went beyond conventional life, and embraced the ancient Spiritual way of Guru-devotion.

In the relationships with His Teachers, He became concentrated in the esoteric point of view of the Yogis and their search for the Divine through the means of Kundalini Yoga.

With Swami Muktananda (and under the guidance of Swami Muktananda's Guru, Bhagavan Nityananda, who Instructed Him from the subtle plane), He Realized all the subtle experiences and Samadhis that are potential in the Siddha tradition.

While living at Swami Muktananda's Ashram in early 1970, Avatar Adi Da Samraj experienced the direct intervention of the Goddess-Power, or Shakti, revealing herself as a Divine Personality present to guide the final stages of His Sadhana.

Appearing in the forms of the Hindu goddess, Durga, and as the Virgin Mary of Christianity, the Shakti mysteriously led Avatar Adi Da on a pilgrimage of the major holy sites of Europe. There He spontaneously experienced the depth of the Western psyche in mystical Christian visions of extraordinary intensity.

Those visions, in their turn, faded, and His sadhana entered into the deep root-place where attention arises. In that meditative seclusion, resting prior to all experience, He fulfilled the goals described in the highest forms of Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta.

But none of this was sufficient for Avatar Adi Da Samraj. He was not diverted or satisfied by any temporary experience or limited point of view. Only the "Bright" Itself, His Native Divine State, was Sufficient.

And so He persisted in His unrelenting enquiry into Reality until the process fulfilled itself. Seated in the Vedanta Temple in Hollywood, California, on September 10, 1970, He suddenly knew that His Realization was unqualified and irrevocable. He was fully Re-Established in the "Bright".

After Re-Awakening to the "Bright", Avatar Adi Da continued to relate to the gross dimension, continued to see visions associated with the subtle dimension, continued to be aware of the causal depth.

But none of these experiences had (or have) any power to bind His attention. He Recognized that all these experiences — gross, subtle, and causal — were mere passing modifications of the "Bright" Reality Itself, unnecessary, temporary, and non-binding.

What His years of Sadhana had conclusively shown was this:

Through His Avataric Incarnation here, the Divine Person, Adi Da Samraj, has Revealed the entire structure of human bondage. He has literally broken the "ego-barrier" that apparently separates human beings from Divine Enlightenment, or Absolute Awakeness in and as the "Bright" Itself.

This is what the Avataric Global Mission of Adidam is about — the possibility for every being, through the devotional and Spiritual relationship to the Divine Avatar, Adi Da, to be Liberated from bondage to the play of experience and Awaken to Reality Itself, the "Bright".

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• Note to the Reader
• The Ruchira Sannyasin Order
• Adi Da and Adidam
• Adi Da, The Promised God-Man Is Here!
• The "Bright" and the "Thumbs"  1|2|3| 4
• The Divine Yogic Events
• The Twenty-Three "Source-Texts"
• The Hermitage Ashrams
• The Institutions of Adidam
• The Revelatory Art of Adi Da Samraj
• What Others Have Said
   
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