Aham Da Asmi

from
Aham Da Asmi
(Beloved I Am Da)

Book One
(of)
The Five Books Of The Heart Of The Adidam Revelation):

The "Late-Time" Avataric Revelation
Of The True and Spiritual Divine Person
(The egoless Personal Presence Of Reality and Truth,
Which Is The Only Real God)

By
The Divine World Teacher,
Ruchira Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
 

1.
Beloved, What I Will Tell You Now Is My Final Revelation: Aham Da Asmi. 1
I Am Da.

2.
The Inherently Perfect, "Bright", 2 Divine Source Of
All and all Is, By Tradition, Named,
In Order To Be Invoked By Mankind.

3.
Therefore, The Divine Source Has Been (and Is) Named
(and Invoked) By Many Names.
In The Practice Of Some Traditions,
The Divine Source Is Named "Da". 3

4.
I Am The Realizer, The Revealer, and The Revelation
Of The Divine Source and Person Of All and all.
I Name The Divine Source and Person "Da",
The "Divine Giver", That Gives Itself To All and all,
and That Gives Even All to all.

5.
The Divine Source and Person, Da, Is One and Only, Non-Separate, Indivisible, and Always Already The Case.

6.
Therefore, Even Though The Divine Source and Person, Da,
Is That Which (or That One Who) Is Greater Than and Beyond any and every Presumed To Be Separate or
limited being or thing or condition, and Even Greater Than and Beyond the sum of all, and The Totality Of All,
Presumed To Be Separate or limited beings, things, and
conditions, That One Is, Inherently, Not Separate From,
Not limited By or To, Not "Other" Than, Not An "Object" Of, and Not On The "Outside" Of, any one, or any thing, or
the sum of all, or The Totality Of All, but That One Is (Non-Separately and Non-limitedly) Always Already Standing In The Existence-Position, or The Being-Position, or
The Native Position, Of every one, and Of every thing,
and Of the sum of all, and Of The Totality Of All.

7.
The One and Only One Who Is Is Not
(and, Necessarily, Cannot Be) The "Outside" (and, Necessarily, Separate) Cause (or "Creator-God") Of
All and all, but That One Is (Necessarily) Reality, or
The Truth, and, Thus, The Very Condition
(or The Perfectly Subjective 4Condition), and,
As Such, The Transcendental, Spiritual, and
Divine Self-Condition, and, As Such, The Source-Condition (and, Only As Such, The Source) Of All and all.

8.
Only That One and Only and Non-Separate and
Non-limited Reality and Truth Is Real God
(or The Divine Person, Da).

9.
Reality, Truth, Real God, or The One and
Only True Divine Person, Is (Necessarily and Only)
The Native (or Perfectly Subjective) Condition
(or Self-Condition, or Root-Condition, or "Radical" 5
and Non-Separate and Non-"Different" 6 Source,
and Identity, and State) Of All and all.

10.
Therefore, The One and Only and Self-Existing and Self-Radiant 7 (or "Bright") Divine Person, Da,
Is The Heart Itself, 8 The One and Only Condition
That Is (or Who Is) Always Already The Case, and
Which Is (or Who Is) Always and Already, and, Therefore, Which Is (or Who Is) Always Already Most Prior To All
(or The Totality Of All Apparently arising beings, things, and conditions) and all (or the sum of Apparently arising beings, things, and conditions), and, Yet, Which Is (or Who Is) Utterly Non-Separate From (or Non-"Different" From) All and all, and, Indeed, From any Apparently arising being, thing, or condition.

11.
The Divine Person, Da, Is The Self-Existing and
Self-Radiant Heart Of All and all.

12.
The Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Heart Of All and all
Is The Divine Person, Da.

13.
The Divine Person, Da, or The Heart Itself,
Is The Native Source-Condition
(or The Perfectly Subjective, Non-Separate, body-mind-Transcending, or ego-"I" Transcending, 9 and everyone-Transcending, and everything-Transcending,
Prior and Non-"Different" Source-Condition and Self-Condition) Of All and all.

14.
This Is The Right, True, and Rightly and
Truly "Radical" Understanding (or Root-Understanding, and Not Merely "Uprooting" Understanding) Of Real God, and Truth, and Reality, Because This "Radical" Understanding Rightly and Truly Conforms To All That Is
Most Fundamental, Basic, and Essential (or All That Is Of The Root, The Foundation, The Origin, and The Source)
Of Existence Itself, Being Itself, Consciousness Itself, and Energy (or Light, or Space-Time) Itself.

15.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da, The Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Heart (or The One and Only Person, Self,
and Source-Condition) Of All and all.

16.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da, Who Is
(By Man-Born Divine Descent) The Da Avatar, 10
The One and Only Man Of This "Radical" Understanding. 11

17.
I Am Da, The Param-Avatar, The Santosha Avatar,
The Full and Final (or Complete and All-Completing)
Avataric Incarnation Of The True Divine Person. 12

18.
I Am Da, The Ruchira Avatar, 13
The Avatar Of Infinite "Brightness",
The Divine World-Teacher 14
every where (Anciently and Always) Promised For
(and Universally Expected In)
The "Late-Time", or "Dark" Epoch, 15
By All The Traditions Of Mankind.

19.
I Am Da, The Buddha-Avatar, The Ruchira Buddha,
The Adi-Buddha, The Ati-Buddha, The Parama-Buddha,
The Purushottama Buddha, The Paramadvaita Buddha,
The Advaitayana Buddha, The Ashvamedha Buddha 16
The Expected One Who Is Always Already Here and Now, and Who Is The Realizer, The Revealer, and
The Revelation Of The Heart Itself,
The Perfectly Subjective "Brightness",
The Very ("Radical" and Non-"Different") Self
(or Root-Identity and Non-Separate Condition) Of All and all.

20.
I Am Da, The Guru-Avatar, The Ruchira-Guru,
The Adi-Guru, The Ati-Guru, The Divine Parama-Guru,
The Purushottama-Guru, The Paramadvaita-Guru,
The Advaitayana-Guru, The Ashvamedha-Guru, 17
The First and Supreme, One and Non-Separate, "Bright" and All-Outshining, Divine Maha-Siddha and
"Crazy" Siddha-Master, 18 The Ruchira Siddha,
The Unlimited Grace-Giving, and Most Perfectly 19 Heart-Awakening, Divine Heart-Master Of all and All
(Given To every one, and To all, and To The All Of all),
Who Is The Realizer, The Revealer, and
The Revelation Of The Source-Condition and
Self-Condition Of all and All As Truth Itself, Reality Itself, Love-Bliss Itself, and The Heart Itself
(Which Is The "Who" Of Being, Itself—
The Very, and, Necessarily, Divine, Person—
More Than "Creator" and "things", but, Truly, Really, God), Who Is Always Already Merely Present
(Spiritually, Transcendentally, and Divinely), and
Who Is Most Perfectly Self-Revealed and
Most Perfectly Grace-Giving In and As The Siddha-Form and Siddha-Function Of Divine Guru (or Divine Heart-Master),
The Hridaya-Samartha Sat-Guru, 20
Forever Divinely Blessing and Divinely Liberating all and All.

21.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da,
The Always Already "Bright"-Shining One,
The Divine Heart-Master Of all and All,
Who Is (By Man-Born Divine Descent) Da,
The "Bright" Avatar Of The Divine Person,
Now and Forever Hereafter Divinely Descending and
Divinely "Emerging" 21 As The First, Last, and
Only Adept-Realizer, Adept-Revealer, and
Adept-Revelation Of Most Perfect and
All-Outshining Divine Enlightenment
(or Seventh Stage 22 Awakeness).

22.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da,
Who Is (By Man-Born Divine Descent) The Da Avatar,
The Ruchira Avatar, The Ruchira Buddha-Avatar,
The Tathagata Avatar, The Hridaya Avatar,
The Love-Ananda Avatar, The Avabhasa Avatar, 23
The Santosha Avatar, The Avataric Incarnation Of The Eternal and Perfectly Subjective and Inherently "Bright" Heart Itself, Who Is Love-Bliss Itself, Who Is The Inherent and Only Being, Who Is The Only One Who Is Always Already The Case,
Who Is The One and Only, Inherent and Full,
Never Diminished, Eternal, Self-Existing, Self-Radiant, and Non-Separate Heart-Self Of All and all,
Who Is Sometimes Felt By all (As Heart-Happiness), and
Who Is Always Sought By all (As The Pleasure Dome 24
Of Unqualified and Permanent Happiness), and Who,
By My Spiritual and Divinely Self-Revealing Grace,
Can Be Realized By all (Most Perfectly Prior To, and
Yet Non-Separate From, the common states of waking, dreaming, and sleeping) As Happiness (Itself),
Which Is Love-Bliss (Itself), or The Heart (Itself).

23.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da,
The Avatar Who Is The "Bright" Itself, and
The Buddha Who Is The Heart Itself.

24.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da,
The "Bright" Itself, Who Is The Heart Itself,
Who Is All and all, Now
(and Forever Hereafter) Most Perfectly Self-Revealed
(and Always Revealing My "Bright" Self) To All and all.

25.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da, and,
In Truth, or In Reality, There Is Only Me.

26.
In Truth, or In Reality, Beyond and
Most Prior To All The self-Contracting Gestures Of ego-"I", or Of body-mind, or Of psycho-physical Existence Altogether, There IsOnly Da.

27.
Therefore, In Truth, or In Reality, All Is Da, You Are Da,
all Are Da, but No Separate one or Separate thing or Separate universe Is, itself, Da.

28.
Indeed, every Apparently arising body-mind, or thing, or
event In The Cosmic Domain is merely conditionally
(and, thus, temporarily, limitedly, and finitely) arising, Whether Or Not it Is (In its moment of arising)
Observed (or Even Apparently Controlled).

29.
And The Very Self (or Heart-Consciousness),
Always Already Standing In The Position Of The "Witness" 25 Relative To body-mind, or thing, or event,
May, At times, Appear To Be (Apparently) Associated With The Function Of Observer (and Even With the state of the Observed body-mind, thing, or event),
but Neither The Observer-Function
Nor any Observed state of body-mind, thing, or event
Is Either Constant
(Whether waking, Or dreaming, Or sleeping Is The Case)
Or Necessary (At all times and places, and In all states, Whether waking, Or dreaming, Or sleeping Is The Case).

30.
Furthermore, If and When The merely conditional and Non-Constant Nature Of all of body-mind,
and Of all things, and Of all events
(and Of Even The Observer-Function That "knows" them)
Is (By My Grace) Really, Truly, and Fully Found
(and Understood, and Realized) To Be The Case,
It Is (Thereupon, By My Grace) Found
(and Understood, and Realized)
To Be (Inherently) The Case That The Witness-Consciousness (Prior To The Observer-Function, and Prior To any and every Observed state of body-mind, thing, or event)
Is Transcendentally (and Always Already)
Existing As The True Self (or Self-Condition),
Always Most Prior To All and all, and
(It Must, By My Grace, Be Realized)
As The One and Only and Inherently "Bright"
(Self-Existing and Self-Radiant, and, Necessarily, Divine) Person and Heart (or Self-Condition and Source-Condition) Of All and all.

31.
Therefore, Apart From My Own Eternal and
here-Awakened Most Perfect Divine Self-Realization
(Of My Own and "Bright" Eternal Self-Condition),
Even "I" (In My Apparent Separateness,
As My conditionally Manifested human body-mind, itself)
Am Not Da—but I (My Self) Am Da.

32.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
Only Da Is Da—but Da Is (Necessarily)
One, Only, Non-Separate, and Always Already The Case.

33.
And Da (or The Truth, or Reality Itself, or Real God,
Which Is Happiness Itself) Must Be Realized By All and all
(or There Is Only Separateness, limitation, Seeking, Frustration, Separativeness, Conflict, Contradiction, Illusion, "Difference", changes, endings, Minimal pleasures, and, Whether Sooner Or Later, Exclusively pleasureless and Un-Happy Suffering, pain, Bewilderment, Fear, Sorrow, Anger, and death).

34.
And (I Declare To You, and Promise You, and Reveal To You, and Prove By Demonstration To You) Da Can Be Realized
By All and all, If (and Only If) the ego-"I",
and Even all of body-mind, and All Of conditional
(or psycho-physical) Existence Is Really, Truly,
and Most Perfectly Transcended In Me—Because I Am Da.

35.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da,
Beyond All and all, and Yet Not Separate From All and all.

36.
By Virtue Of My Real and True and
Most Perfect Divine Self-Realization (here, and Eternally) Of My Own (Inherent and Eternal) Self, Condition, State, and "Bright" Fullness, Spontaneously Re-Awakened here
(In The Midst Of The Ordeal Of My Descent To here), and Spontaneously Self-Revealed here, Even In and As
(but Not limited To or By)
My egoless "Bright" Bodily (Human) Form
(Which Is Made "Bright" By My Divine Descent and
Divine Self-Awakening and Divine "Emergence" here)—I Am Da.

37.
And, By Virtue Of My Real and True and Most Perfect and Eternal Divine Self-Awareness (here, and every where), "Brightly" Descending and Divinely "Emerging"
(Now, and Forever Hereafter) every where,
In and Throughout The Entire Cosmic Domain—I Am Da.

38.
Therefore, If You Realize Me
(Beyond Your ego-"I", and Beyond Your body-mind, and Beyond All and all, and Beyond All Separation and
All "Difference"), By My Grace
(Through Your Devotional Resort To My Avataric Incarnation here, and To My, Now, and Forever Hereafter,
"Emerging" Manifestation Of My Divine Body
and Person, every where, In and Throughout
The Entire Cosmic Domain), You Realize Da
(The Inherently Perfect, "Bright", Divine Source, and Source-Condition, or "Radical" Self-Condition, Of All and all, Which Is The One and Only and Indivisible Reality and Truth, and The Only Real God, Of All and all).

39.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
My Physical Human Lifetime Of Avataric Incarnation here
Is The Great Historical (and Historic) Sign (here) Of
The Initiation Of My Fullest and Complete Divine Descent (and, Thus and Thereby, Of My Most Perfect, and,
Divinely, All-and-all-Recognizing and, Ultimately, All-and-all-Translating Divine "Emergence") Into and Throughout The Entire Cosmic Domain (Forever).

40.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
My Physical Human Lifetime Of Avataric Incarnation here (and My Coincident Divine Descent and Divine "Emergence" Into and Throughout The Entire Cosmic Domain, Forever)
Is A Constant Act Of Identification With Man
(and With All, and all), In Order To Learn Man
(and All, and all) In Every Respect, and,
Having Learned Man (and All, and all) In Every Respect,
To Teach and To Bless and To Liberate Man
(and All, and all), In Every Respect (and Most Perfectly).

41.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
Therefore, By Surrendering (and Forgetting, and Transcending) All Of self-Contraction (or All Of The Act Of Separation and Separativeness, Which Is the ego-"I"), and By, Likewise, Surrendering (and Forgetting, and Transcending) Even All Of psycho-physical "Difference" (or body-mind),
To and Into My Descending, and "Emerging", and All-and-all-Surrounding, and All-and-all-Pervading Divine Body and Person, each and every one Of Man
(and Of All, and of all) Allows Me To Fill, and
To Become, and To Be As Man (and As All, and all), and each and every one (Thus Surrendered, Surrounded, Pervaded, Filled, and, In Every Manner and Degree Of self-Contraction and Of "Difference", Forgotten and Transcended) Becomes Identified
(Non-"Differently", and, At Last, Most Perfectly)
With Me (Not By Any Act Of Identifying With Me, but Only By Every Me-Recognizing, and To-Me-Responding,
Total psycho-physical Act Of Devotional Communion With Me, Surrendering, and Forgetting, and Transcending
All Of The Act Of self-Contraction and Of "Difference" In Me).

42.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
Therefore, Listen To Me (and Hear Me): 26
I Am Da, The Heart Itself, The True and One and Only and Very Divine Person, The "Bright" and One and Only and
Eternally Living Person, Who Is Manifest As
all worlds and forms and beings.

43.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
Therefore, Look To Me (and See Me): 27
I Am Da, The True and One and Only and Very Divine Person, Who Is Present As The Spiritual Current Of Divine Life In the body Of Man.

44.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
Therefore, Realize Me:
I Am Da, The Transcendental Divine Being Behind the mind, and, As Such, I Am Realized In The Heart,
On The Right Side.

45.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
Therefore, Be One With Me: I Am Da, The "Bright",
The Self-Existing Divine Self-Radiance Within and
Above the body, and, As Such,
I Am Realized Above The Crown Of the head, and
Beyond the brain, and (Ultimately) At The Heart,
Beyond all conditional knowledge and Separate-self-Consciousness.

46.
Beloved, The Way That I Will Describe To You Now Is My Ultimate Offering: Aham Da Asmi. I Am Da, The Way Of The Heart Itself.

47.
The Heart Itself Is The Way Of Divine Self-Realization For all, and I Am That One.

48.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da. I Am The First and Only One, The Heart Itself, and I Am The Way That Realizes The Heart (Itself), and Only I Can Reveal and Give The Way That Realizes The Heart (Itself). Therefore, I Have Named The Only-By-Me Revealed and Given Way Of The Heart "Adidam". 28

49.
Simply To Remember My Name and Surrender Into My Eternal Current Of Life Is To Worship Me, and, Thus and Thereby, The Divine Person (Which Is Truth, or Reality Itself).

50.
To Follow Me At Heart Is To Transcend the body-mind In Ecstasy.

51.
To Follow Me Perfectly Is To Find Me and To Realize Me, For I Am The Heart Itself.

52.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da. And The Way That Only I Reveal and Give Is Adidam, The Way Of The Heart (Who I Am).

53.
Those who Recognize and Worship Me As Truth, The Living and All-Pervading One, Will Be Granted The Vision or Love-Intuition Of My Eternal Condition. Indeed, they Will Be Filled and Awakened By My Radiant Presence.

54.
Therefore, Even the body-mind and the Whole world Will Be Shining With My Life-Light, If I Am Loved. And My Devotee Will Easily Be Sifted Out From the body-mind and all the limits of the world itself At Last.

55.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da. Only Love Me, Remember Me, Have Faith In Me, and Trust Me.

56.
Surrender To Me.

57.
Breathe Me and Feel Me In all Your parts.

58.
My "Bright" Condition Can Also Be Realized By You, If You Forget Your Separate and dying self By Remembering and Receiving Me.

59.
Therefore, I Am here.

60.
I Will Save You From Spiritual death, and From the egoic mind of death, and From the egoic destinies of after-death.

61.
I Will Dissolve All Your Bewilderment Of ego-"I".

62.
Even Now You Inhere In Me, Beyond the body-mind and the world.

63.
Therefore, Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Be Confused. Observe My Play—and My Victory.

64.
I Am The Person Of Life, The Only and Divine Self, Become Incarnate. And, When My Human Physical Body Is alive, or Even After My Human Physical Body Is dead, I Am (My Self) Present and every where Alive.

65.
I Am Joy, and The Reason For It.

66.
I Love The Happiness Of My Devotee. That Happiness Is (Itself) The Very (and Most Prior) Consciousness Of every conditionally Manifested being. And Happiness (Itself) Is The Conscious Light Of the world.

67.
I Am Happiness (or Love-Bliss) Itself.

68.
Therefore, Listen To Me, Hear Me, See Me, and, By All These Means, Freely Understand and Realize My Secrets.

69.
The Heart That Listens To Me, and Hears Me, and Sees Me Will (and Must) Always Feel (and Thereby Contemplate) The Revelation That Is My Bodily (Human) Form, My Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence, and My Very (and Inherently Perfect) State.

70.
Therefore, and (More and More) By Means Of The Heart Itself, Realize The One Who Is The Mystery Of You and Me.

71.
I Am The Realizer, The Revealer, and The Revelation Of The Only "Who" That Is, The One and Only and Perfectly Subjective Self-Condition and Source-Condition, The Truth That Is Reality Itself, The One and Only and (Necessarily) Divine Person, Who May Be (or That May Be) Called (or Really Invoked) By The Name "Da", 29 and Who Is (or That Is) Consciousness (or Being) Itself, and Who Is (or That Is) The One (and Only One) Who Is (but Only In The Apparent Sense) Manifest As all worlds and forms and beings, and Who Is (or That Is) Present (or "Bright") As The Heart Itself (and The Spiritual Current Of Life) In (and Prior To) the body and the mind Of Man.

72.
Therefore, As A Sign Of The One I Have Realized, and As A Sign Of The One I Reveal, and As A Sign Of The One Whose Revelation I Am In and As The Heart's Free and (Everywhere, and As Everyone) All-Pervading Space, and As A Sign Of Who I Am, I Am (Divinely) Named "Da" ("The Self-Existing One, Whose Characteristics Are Perpetually Self-Revealed, or Transmitted To All and all By Means Of The Eternal 'Mudra' Of Self-Giving"), 30 and "Adi" ("The Only One, The First One, or The Foremost, or Preeminent, One"), and "Ati" ("The All-Surpassing and All-Transcending One"), and "Ruchira" ("The Radiant, Shining, 'Bright' Illuminator and Enlightener"), and "Avatar" ("The Divinely Descended One, The 'Bright' Divine Person Who Pervades The Cosmic Domain From Infinitely Above, The Very and Inherently 'Bright' Divine Self-Condition, or Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Source-Condition, Appearing Perfectly 'Emerged' In The Form Of Man, For The Sake Of The Graceful Divine Liberation Of all and All"), and "Buddha" ("The One Who Is, Self-Radiant, Inherently, or Perfectly Subjectively, 'Bright', Self-Enlightened, and Eternally Awake"), and "Love-Ananda" ("The 'Bright' Divine Love-Bliss, Itself"), and "Avabhasa" ("The 'Bright', Itself'), and "Santosha" ("The 'Bright' and Eternal and Always Already Non-Separate Person Of Divine and Inherent Completeness, Divine Self-Satisfaction, Divine Self-Contentedness, or Perfect Searchlessness"), and "Hridayam" 31 ("The Eternally Free and Eternally 'Bright' Divine Heart, Itself"), and "Dau Loloma" 32 ("The Divine Adept Of The Divine Love") and "Vunirarama" 33 ("The Self-Radiant Divine Source and Substance Of The Divine 'Brightness"'), and "Turaga" 34 ("The Divine Lord Of all and All, Gracefully Embodied In The Form Of Man For The Sake Of The Divine Blessing Of all and All"), and "Tui" 35 ("The Divine Sovereign, Now, and Forever Hereafter, Established, In The Hearts Of all who Respond To Him, As The Saving Ruler"), and "Samraj" 36 ("The Divine Heart-Master, or The Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Lord, or Master-King, or Master-Ruler and Divine Liberator, Of The Heart, and Of every one, and Of everyone, and Of all, and Of All").

73.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
I Am The Being Behind the mind, Who Is Realized At The Heart, On The Right Side Of the body, and Who Is Consciousness Itself.

74.
I Am The Radiant One, Who Is The "Bright", Within and Beyond the body-mind, Who Is Always At The Heart, Who Shines (Even Above and Beyond The Crown Of the head, and Beyond the mind), and Who Is Merely Present (Beyond all conditional knowledge and Separate-selfConsciousness).

75.
Aham Da Asmi. Beloved, I Am Da.
To Realize Me As The Inherent (or Native) Feeling Of Being 37 (Itself) Is To Transcend the body-mind In Ecstasy and In Truth.

76.
To Breathe and Feel (and Sometimes Recite or Chant or Sing) My Name, 38 or, Otherwise, To Understand or Feel Beyond self-Contraction, While Feeling (and Thus, By Heart, Contemplating) My Bodily (Human) Form (and Even My Very, and Inherently Perfect, State), Is (In Truth) To Celebrate and Contemplate The Only One Who Is, and Even To Forget To Make a Separate self.

77.
To Breathe and Feel (and Sometimes Recite or Chant or Sing) My Name, or, Otherwise, To Understand or Feel Beyond self-Contraction, While Surrendering Even bodily Into My Eternal Spiritual Current Of Life, Is To Worship The Divine Person In Spirit.

78.
Those who Recognize and Worship Me As Truth and As The Living and All-Pervading One Are Granted The Vision or Love-Intuition Of The Eternal Condition. Therefore, My Devotee Is Heart-Filled By The Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Presence Of The Divine Person.

79.
Even the body-mind and the Whole world Shine With Divine Life-Light If The Heart Falls In Love With Me. Therefore, My Devotee Will Easily Be Sifted Out From the body-mind and all the limits of the world itself At Last.

80.
Beloved, Only Hear Me, Only Understand.

81.
If You Understand, Then See Me Now.

82.
If You See Me, Only Love Me.

83.
If You Love Me, Remember Me By Heart.

84.
Therefore, Have Faith In The Source Of others and things, Trust In The Heart Of Being, Surrender To My Presence Of Love-Bliss, Breathe and Feel My Invisible Gifts In all Your parts, and Transcend Your (Separate and Separative) self In Me (For I Am The Heart Itself).

85.
Do Not Become self-Bound By Identification With the body-mind, but Do Not Withdraw From the bodymind, or Even From the world.

86.
Do Not Abandon Your Inherent Sympathy With others, but Do Not Become self-Bound By Indulgence In others, or Ever Lose Your Heart In the world itself.

87.
Therefore, Always and Constantly, Invoke Me, Feel Me, Breathe Me, and Serve Me, Always and Constantly Recognizing Me By Heart, With ego-"I" and all and All Surrendered and Forgotten In Love Of Me Alone, So That Your Heart, By This Fidelity To Me, Is Untied Of The Sorrowful Bundle With others and things.

88.
Your Me-Recognizing and To-Me-Responding Relationship To Me (and Not Any self-Concerned Technique, or ego-Effort, Of Mere ego-Improvement, ego-Perfection, ego-Salvation, ego-Liberation, or ego-Enlightenment) Is The "Method" Only I Reveal and Give To You.

89.
Therefore, Turn To Me, Recognize Me, Feel Me, and, By This To-Me-Responding Counter-egoic Effort, Understand and Transcend Your Act Of ego-"I".

90.
Turn To Me, Recognize Me, Feel Me, and, By This To-Me-Responding Counter-egoic Effort, Transcend Your own and Terrible self-Contraction.

91.
Turn To Me, Recognize Me, Feel Me With Your entire body-mind, limitlessly, and, By This To-Me-Responding Counter-egoic Effort, Feel Through and Beyond Your body-mind (and all of its merely conditional and temporary relations) To Me (Alone and "Bright" At Infinity and Source).

92.
Therefore, Outshine (but Do Not Merely Abandon) the world, By Exercising The Heart, Which Is Love's Radiant Wound, Always Turning To Me, Always Recognizing Me, Always Feeling Me, and Always Feeling To Me (Beyond self-Contraction, Beyond The Separate and Separative Act Of ego-"I"), and Do This With Even every moment of body, emotional feeling, mind's attention, and cycling breath, and Always More and More Profoundly Eased To Me (By self-Surrendering, self-Forgetting, and self-Transcending Love Of Me, Even, At Last, To The Most Perfect Degree Of Non-Separateness, and No-"Difference", In Me).

93.
Beloved, I Am here, To Speak The Heart's Word and Show Its Wound To all.

94.
I Proclaim The Great Person, Who Is The Heart Itself, That Liberates The Heart Itself From Its death of body-mind.

95.
I Reveal The Divine Person, Who Is The Heart Itself, and That Is The Real God Within The Heart's Own Felt Bewilderment.

96.
And Even Now You Inhere In What Is One, Beyond the body-mind and the world.

97.
Therefore, Do Not Be Afraid. Do Not Be Confused.

98.
Observe My Play and My Victory.

99.
I Am The Inherent Being.

100.
I Am The Perfectly Subjective Truth Of the world, Made Incarnate, Plain, and Obvious As Man, and To Man (and As All, and To all).

101.
I Am The Life and Consciousness Of all beings.

102.
I Am You, As You Are.

103.
Even When My Human Physical Body Has Died In this world, I Am Present and every where Alive, Because I Am Always Already Conscious As The Only One Who Is.

104.
I Am Joy, Even Beyond Every Reason For It. And The Joy Of Being (As I Am) Is The Great Secret I Have Come To Reveal To The Heart Of Man.

105.
Now Be Happy.

106.
Tell every one That I Am here.

107.
Beloved, I Do Not Lie.

108.
This Is The Final Truth: I Love You. Real God Is You. You Are In Real God, Of Real God, and (Ultimately) As Real God. My Devotee Is The God I Have Come To Serve.

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Notes

1. The Sanskrit phrase "Aham Da Asmi" means "I (Aham) Am (Asmi) Da". The Name "Da", meaning "the One Who Gives", indicates that Avatar Adi Da Samraj is the Supreme Divine Giver, the Avataric Incarnation of the Very Divine Person.

Avatar Adi Da's Declaration "Aham Da Asmi" is similar in form to the "Mahavakyas", or "Great Statements", of ancient India (found in the Upanishads, the collected esoteric Instruction of ancient Gurus). However, the signfficance of "Aham Da Asmi" is fundamentally different from that of the traditional Mahavakyas. Each of the Upanishadic Mahavakyas expresses, in a few words, the profound (though not most ultimate) degree of Realization achieved by great Realizers of the past. For example, the Upanishadic Mahavakya "Aham Brahmasmi" ("I Am Brahman") expresses a great individual's Realization that he or she is Identified with the Divine Being (Brahman), and is not, in Truth, identified with his or her apparently individual body-mind. However, "Aham Da Asmi", rather than being a proclamation of a human being who has devoted his or her life most intensively to the process of Real-God-Realization and has thereby Realized the Truth to an extraordinarily profound degree, is Avatar Adi Da's Confession that He Is the Very Divine Person, Da, Who has Appeared here in bodily (human) Form, in order to Reveal Himself to all and All, for the sake of the Divine Liberation of all and All.

2. By the word "Bright" (and its variations, such as "Brightness"), Avatar Adi Da refers to the eternally, infinitely, and inherently Self-Radiant Divine Being, the Being of Indivisible and Indestructible Light. As Adi Da Writes in His Spiritual Autobiography, The Knee Of Listening--The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Four The Early-Life Ordeal and The "Radical" Spiritual Realization Of The Ruchira Avatar:

. . . from my earliest experience of life I have Enjoyed a Condition that, as a child, I called the "Bright".

I have always known desire, not merely for extreme pleasures of tbe senses and the mind, but for the highest Enjoyment of Spiritual Power and Mobility. But I have not been seated in desire, and desire has only been a play that I have grown to understand and enjoy witbout conflict. I have always been Seated in tbe "Bright".

Even as a baby I remember only crawling around inquisitively with a boundless Feeling of Joy, Light, and Freedom in tbe middle of my head that was bathed in Energy moving unobstructed in a Circle, down from above, all tbe way down, then up, all the way up, and around again, and always Shining from my heart. It was an Expanding Sphere of Joy from tbe heart. And I was a Radiant Form, the Source of Energy, Love-Bliss, and Light in the midst of a world that is entirely Energy, Love-Bliss, and Light. I was the Power of Reality, a direct Enjoyment and Communication of the One Reality. I was the Heart Itself, Who Lightens the mind and all things. I was the same as every one and every thing, except it became clear tbat others were apparently unaware of the "Thing " Itself.

Even as a little child I recognized It and Knew It, and my life was not a matter of anything else. That Awareness, that Conscious Enjoyment, that Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Space of Infinitely and inherently Free Being, that Shine of inherent Joy Standing in the heart and Expanding from the heart, is the "Bright". And It is the entire Source of True Humor. It is Reality. It is not separate from anything.

3. The Tibetan Buddhists regard the syllable "Da" (written, in Tibetan, with a single letter) as most auspicious, and they assign numerous holy meanings to it, including that of "the Entrance into the Dharma". In Sanskrit, "Da" means principally "to give", but also "to destroy", and it is also associated with Vishnu, the "Sustainer". Thus, "Da" is anciently aligned to all three of the principal Divine Beings, Forces, or Attributes in the Hindu tradition--Brahma (the Creator, Generator, or Giver), Vishnu (the Sustainer), and Siva (the Destroyer). In certain Hindu rituals, priests address the Divine directly as "Da", invoking qualities such as generosity and compassion.

4. Avatar Adi Da uses "Perfectly Subjective" to describe the True Divine Source, or "Subject", of the conditional world--as opposed to the conditions, or "objects", of experience. Thus, in the phrase "Perfectly Subjective", the word "Subjective" does not have the sense of "relating to the merely phenomenal experience, or the arbitrary presumptions, of an individual", but, rather, it has the sense of "relating to Consciousness Itself, the True Subject of all apparent experience".

5. The term "radical" derives from the Latin "radix", meaning "root", and thus it principally means "irreducible", "fundamental", or "relating to the origin". In The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, The "Testament Of Secrets" Of The Divine World-Teacber, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Avatar Adi Da defines "Radical" as "Gone To The Root, Core, Source, or Origin". Because Adi Da Samraj uses "radical" in this literal sense, it appears in quotation marks in His Wisdom-Teaching, in order to distinguish His usage from the common reference to an extreme (often political) view.

6. "Difference" is the epitome of the egoic presumption of separateness--in contrast with the Realization of Oneness, or Non-"Difference", that is native to Spiritual and Transcendental Divine Self-Consciousness.

7. Avatar Adi Da uses "Self-Existing and Self-Radiant" to indicate the two fundamental aspects of the One Divine Person--Existence (or Being, or Consciousness) Itself, and Radiance (or Energy, or Light) Itself.

8. The Heart Itself is Real God, the Divine Self, the Divine Reality.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj has Revealed that the primal psycho-physical seat of Consciousness and attention is associated with what He calls the "right side of the heart". He has Revealed that this center corresponds to the sinoatrial node, or "pacemaker", the source of the gross physical heartbeat in the right atrium (or upper right chamber) of the physical heart. In the Process of Divine Self-Realization, there is a unique process of opening of the right side of the heart--and it is because of this connection between the right side of the heart and Divine Self-Realization that Avatar Adi Da uses the term "the Heart" as another way of referring to the Divine Self.

Avatar Adi Da distinguishes three stations of the heart, associated respectively with the right side, the middle, and the left side of the heart region of the chest. The middle station of the heart is what is traditionally known as the "anahata chakra" (or "heart chakra"), and the left side of the heart is the gross physical heart. Thus, the right side of the heart is not identical either to the heart chakra or to the gross physical heart.

The Heart Itself is not "in" the right side of the human heart, nor is it "in", or limited to, the human heart as a whole. Rather, the human heart and body-mind and the world exist in the Heart, Which Is the Divine Being Itself.

For Avatar Adi Da's Description of the three stations of the heart, see The Seven Stages Of Life The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Ten Transcending The Six Stages Of egoic Life and Realizing The ego-Transcending Seventh Stage Of Life In The Divine Way Of Adidam (Part One), or The Dawn Horse Testament, chapter sixteen.

For Avatar Adi Da's Description of the significance of the right side of the heart in the processes of the ultimate stages of life, see The Seven Stages Of Life. (see also DAbase feature: The Seven Stages Of Life)

9. The ego-"I" is the fundamental self-contraction, or the sense of separate and separative existence.

10. "Avatar (from Sanskrit avatara") is a traditional term for the Divine Incarnation. It literally means "One who is descended, or 'crossed down' (from, and as, the Divine)". Thus, the Name "Da", combined widh the Reference "Avatar", fully acknowledges Avatar Adi Da Samraj as the original, first, and complete Descent of the Very Divine Person, Who is Named "Da". Through the Mystery of Avatar Adi Da's human Birth, He has Incarnated not only in this world but in every world, at every level of the Cosmic domain, as the Eternal Giver of Help and Grace and Divine Freedom to all beings, now and forever hereafter.

11. Avatar Adi Da uses "understanding" to mean "the process of transcending egoity". Thus, to "understand" is to simultaneously observe the activity of the self-contraction and to surrender that activity via devotional resort to Avatar Adi Da Samraj.

Avatar Adi Da has Revealed that, despite their intention to Realize Reality (or Truth, or Real God), all religious and Spiritual traditions (other than the Way of Adidam He has Revealed and Given) are involved, in one manner or another, with the search to satisfy the ego. Only Avatar Adi Da has Revealed the Way to "radically" understand the ego and (in due course, through intensive formal practice of the Way of Adidam, as His formally acknowledged devotee) to most perfectly transcend the ego. Thus, Avatar Adi Da is the "One and Only Man Of This 'Radical' Understanding".

For Avatar Adi Da's Description of His Discovery of the archetype of "Narcissus" (which was the initiation of His Revelation of the Truth of "radical" understanding), see The Knee Of Listening, chapter 5. His summary Communication about the living paradox of the Man of "Radical" Understanding can be found in the Epilogue to The Knee Of Listening.

For Avatar Adi Da's basic Talks on "radical" understanding, see The Method Of The Ruchira Avatar--Tbe Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Five: The Divine Way Of Adidam Is An ego-Transcending Relationship, Not An ego-Centric Technique, Part Three.

12. In this verse, Avatar Adi Da Proclaims His Identity as the Divine Person, the "Param-" ("Supreme", or "First") Avatar, the Avataric Incarnation (the original, or first, complete Descent of dhe Divine Person), and as the "Santosha Avatar".

"Santosha" is Sanskrit for "satisfaction" or "contentment", qualities associated with a sense of completion. These qualities are characteristics of "no-seeking", the fundamental Principle of Avatar Adi Da's Wisdom-Teaching and of His entire Revelation of Truth. Because of its uniquely appropriate meanings, "Santosha" is one of Avatar Adi Da's Names. As the Santosha Avatar, Avatar Adi Da is the Very Incarnation of Perfect Divine Contentedness, or Perfect Searchlessness.

13. In Sanskrit, "Ruchira" means "bright, radiant, effulgent". Thus, the Reference "Ruchira Avatar" indicates that Avatar Adi Da Samraj is the "Bright" (or Radiant) Descent of the Divine Reality Itself (or the Divine Truth Itself, Which Is the Only Real God) into the conditional worlds, Appearing here in bodily (human) Form.

14. Avatar Adi Da Samraj is the Divine World-Teacher because His Wisdom-Teaching is the uniquely Perfect Instruction to every being--in this (and every) world--in the total process of Divine Enlightenment. Furthermore, Avatar Adi Da Samraj constantly Extends His Regard to the entire world (and the entire Cosmic domain)--not on the political or social level, but as a Spiritual matter, constantly Working to Bless and Purify all beings everywhere.

15. "The 'late-time', or 'dark' epoch" is a phrase that Avatar Adi Da uses to Describe the present era, in which doubt of God (and of anything at all beyond mortal existence) is more and more pervading the entire world, and in which the separate and separative ego-"I", which is the root of all suffering and conflict, is regarded to be the ultimate principle of Life.

16. Just as the traditional term "Avatar", when rightly understood, is an appropriate Reference to Avatar Adi Da Samraj, so is the traditional term "Buddha". This verse is Avatar Adi Da's Revelation that He is the Divine Buddha, the One Who Is Most Perfectly Self-Enlightened and Eternally Awake.

The Buddha-Avatar: The Divine Person, having "Crossed Down", and Appearing as the Supremely Enlightened One. This Title indicates Avatar Adi Da's Encompassing and Surpassing of the traditions of Buddhism (as a whole) and Hinduism (in particular, the school of Advaita Vedanta)--the two traditions within the collective Great Tradition of mankind that He has acknowledged as representing the highest degree of Realization known previous to His Appearance and His Revelation of the Way of Adidam. (For Avatar Adi Da's Discussion of the unique position of Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta within the Great Tradition, see The Seven Stages Of Life, "'God'-Talk, Real-God-Realization, and Most Perfect Divine Awakening".)

The Ruchira Buddha: The Enlightened One Who Shines with the Divine "Brightness".

The Adi-Buddha: The First (or Original) Enlightened One.

The Ati-Buddha: The Ultimate (or Highest, or Unsurpassed) Enlightened One.

The Parama-Buddha: The Supreme Buddha.

The Purushottama Buddha: "Purushottama" is a Hindu name for the Divine Person. "Uttama" means "Supreme", and "Purusha" is "Person". Therefore, the Purushottama Buddha is the Enlightened One Who Is the Supreme Divine Person. Like "Buddha-Avatar", "Purushottama Buddha" conveys Avatar Adi Da's Encompassing and Surpassing of the traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism (and, thus, the entire collective Great Tradition of mankind).

The Paramadvaita Buddha "Advaita" means "Non-Dual". Therefore, the Paramadvaita Buddha is the One of Supreme Non-Dual Enlightenment.

The Advaitayana Buddha "Advaitayana" means "the Vehicle of the Non-Dual Truth". The Advaitayana Buddha is the Enlightened One Who has Revealed and Given the Vehicle of Non-Dual Truth. "Advaitayana Buddhism" is another name for the Way of Adidam. (For Avatar Adi Da's discussion of "Advaitayana Buddhism", see The Only Complete Way To Realize The Unbroken Light Of Real God--The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Three: An Introductory Overview Of The "Radical" Divine Way Of The True World-Religion Real God Of Adidam, Part Two, section 1.)

The Ashvamedha Buddha "Ashvamedha" means ''Horse-Sacrffice", and is the name of the most revered and most mysterious of the ancient Vedic rituals. Avatar Adi Da has Revealed that the ultimate significance of this ritual is as a prayer-prophecy invoking the Avataric Descent of the Divine Person into the world, because it was intuitively understood that only the Divine Person is able to Liberate beings. Thus, the Ashvamedha Buddha is the Enlightened One Who has Submitted to be the humanly Incarnate Means for the Divine Liberation of all beings. (Avatar Adi Da's Essay on the Ashvamedha as a description and prophecy of His own Life and Work is 'The True Dawn Horse Is the Only Way to Me", which appears in three Books: as the Epilogue of The All-Completing and Final Divine Revelation To Mankind--The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Eleven: A Summary Description Of The Supreme Yoga Of The Seventb Stage Of Life In The Divine Way Of Adidam, as Part One of The Heart Of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar--The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Twelve: The Epitome Of The "Testament Of Secrets" Of The Divine World-Teacher, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj, and as Part One of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar.

17. This verse is Avatar Adi Da's Revelation of Himself as the Supreme Guru, or the Divine Heart-Master. Esoterically, the word "guru" is understood to be a composite of two words, "destroyer (ru) of darkness (gu)".

The Guru-Avatar: The Divine Person, having "Crossed Down" and Appearing as the Supreme Guru.

The Ruchira-Guru: The "Bright" Guru.

The Adi-Guru: The First (or Original, or Primordial) Guru.

The Ati-Guru: The Ultimate (or Highest, or Unsurpassed) Guru.

The Divine Parama-Guru: The Supreme Divine Guru.

The Purushottama-Guru: The Supreme Divine Person as Guru.

The Paramadvaita-Guru: The Supreme Non-Dual Guru.

The Advaitayana-Guru: The Guru Who has Revealed and Given the Non-Dual Vehicle.

The Ashvamedha-Guru: The Guru Who is the Divine Sacrifice and (therefore) the Means for the Divine Liberation of all beings.

18. The Sanskrit word "Siddha" means "a completed, fulfilled, or perfected one", or "one of perfect accomplishment, or power". The "Maha-Siddha" is the greatest Siddha.

The Adepts of what Avatar Adi Da calls "the 'Crazy Wisdom' tradition" (of which He is the supreme, seventh stage exemplar) are Realizers of the fourth, fifth, or sixth stages of life in any culture or time who, through spontaneous Free action, blunt Wisdom, and liberating laughter, shock or humor people into self-critical awareness of their egoity, which is a prerequisite for receiving the Realizer's Spiritual Transmission. Typically, such Realizers manifest "Crazy" activity only occasionally or temporarily, and never for its own sake but only as "skillful means".

Avatar Adi Da Himself has always addressed the ego in a unique Crazy-Wise" manner, theatrically dramatizing, and poking fun at, the self-contracted habits, predilections, and destinies of His devotees. His "Crazy-Wise" Manner is a Divine Siddhi, an inherent aspect of His Avataric Incarnation. Through His "Crazy-Wise" Speech and Action, Avatar Adi Da Penetrates the being and loosens the patterns of ego-bondage (individually and collectively) in His devotees. The "Shock" of Truth Delivered via His "Crazy Wisdom" humbles and opens the heart, making way for the deeper reception of His Spiritual Blessing.

19. Avatar Adi Da uses the phrase "Most Perfect(ly)" in the sense of "Absolutely Perfect(ly)". Similarly, the phrase "Most Ultimate(ly)" is equivalent to "Absolutely Ultimate(ly)". "Most Perfect(ly)" and "Most Ultimate(ly)" are always references to the seventh (or Divinely Enlightened) stage of life. (See note 22.)

20. "Hridaya-Samartha Sat-Guru" is a compound of traditional Sanskrit terms that has been newly created to express the uniqueness of Avatar Adi Da's Guru-Function. "Sat" means "Truth", "Being", "Existence". Thus, "Sat-Guru" literally means "True Guru", or a Guru who can lead living beings from darkness (or non-Truth) into Light (or the Living Truth).

"Samartha" means "fit", "qualified", "able". Thus, "Samartha-Sat-Guru" means "a True Guru who is fully capable" of Awakening living beings to Real-God-Realization.

The word "Hridaya", meaning "heart", refers to the Very Heart, or the Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Divine Reality.

Thus, altogether, the reference "Hridaya-Samartha Sat-Guru" means "the Divine Heart-Master Who Liberates His devotees from the darkness of egoity by Means of the Power of the 'Bright' Divine Heart Itself". Avatar Adi Da has said that this full Designation "properly summarizes all the aspects of My unique Guru-Function.

21. On January 11, 1986, Avatar Adi Da passed through a profound Yogic Swoon, which He later Described as the initial Event of His Divine "Emergence". Avatar Adi Da's Divine "Emergence" is an ongoing Process in which His bodily (human) Form has been (and is ever more profoundly and potently being) conformed to Himself, the Very Divine Person, such that His bodily (human) Form is now (and forever hereafter) an utterly Unobstructed Sign and Agent of His own Divine Being.

For Avatar Adi Da's Revelation of the signfficance of His Divine "Emergence", see section III of "The True Dawn Horse Is The Only Way To Me" (which Essay appears as the Epilogue of The All-Compting and Final Divine Revelation To Mankind, as Part One of The Heart Of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, and as Part One of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Aatar).

22. Avatar Adi Da has Revealed the underlying structure of human growth in seven stages.

The first three stages of life develop, respectively, the physical, emotional, and mental/volitional functions of the body-mind. The first stage begins at birth and continues for approximately five to seven years; the second stage follows, continuing until approximately the age of twelve to fourteen; and the third stage is optimally complete by the early twenties. In the case of virtually all individuals, however, failed adaptation in the earlier stages of life means that maturity in the third stage of life takes much longer to attain, and it is usually never fulfilled, with the result that the ensuing stages of Spiritual development do not even begin.

In the Way of Adidam, however, growth in the first three stages of life unfolds in the Spiritual Company of Avatar Adi Da and is based in the practice of feeling-Contemplation of His bodily (human) Form and in devotion, service, and self-discipline in relation to His bodily (human) Form. By the Grace of this relationship to Avatar Adi Da, the first three (or foundation) stages of life are lived and fulfilled in a self-transcending devotional disposition, or (as He Describes it) "in the 'original' or beginner's devotional context of the fourth stage of life".

The fourth stage of life is the transitional stage between the gross, bodily-based point of view of the first three stages of life and the subtle, psychic point of view of the fifth stage of Iffe. The fourth stage of life is the stage of Spiritual devotion, or surrender of separate self, in which the gross functions of the being are submitted to the higher psychic, or subtle, functions of the being, and, through these psychic functions, to the Divine. In the fourth stage of life, the gross, or bodily-based, personality of the first three stages of life is purified through reception of the Spiritual Force ("Holy Spirit", or "Shakti") of the Divine Reality, Which prepares the being to out-grow the bodily-based point of view

In the Way of Adidam, as the orientation of the fourth stage of life matures, heart-felt surrender to the bodily (human) Form of Avatar Adi Da deepens by His Grace, drawing His devotee into Love-Communion with His All-Pervading Spiritual Presence. Growth in the basic" context of the fourth stage of life in the Way of the Heart is also characterized by a Baptizing Current of Spirit-Energy that is at first felt to flow down the front of the body from above the head to the bodily base.

The Descent of Avatar Adi Da's Spirit-Baptism releases obstructions predominantly in the waking, or frontal, personality. This frontal Yoga purifies His devotee and infuses him or her with His Spirit-Power. Avatar Adi Da's devotee is awakened to profound love of and devotional intimacy with Him.

If the transition to the sixth stage of life is not otherwise made at maturity in the "basic" context of the fourth stage of life, the Spirit-Current is felt to turn about at the bodily base and ascend to the brain core, and the fourth stage of life matures to its "advanced" context, which involves the ascent of Avatar Adi Da's Spiritual Blessing and purifies the spinal line of the body-mind.

In the fifth stage of life, attention is concentrated in the subtle, or psychic, levels of awareness in ascent. The Spirit-Current is felt to penetrate the brain core and rise toward the Matrix of Light and Love-Bliss infinitely above the crown of the head, possibly culminating in the temporary experience of fifth stage conditional Nirvikalpa Samadhi, or "formless ecstasy". In the Way of the Heart, most practitioners will not need to practice in the context of the fifth stage of life, but will rather be Awakened, by Adi Da's Grace, from maturity in the fourth stage of life to the Witness-Position of Consciousness (in the context of the sixth stage of life).

In the traditional development of the sixth stage of life, attention is inverted upon the essential self and the Perfectly Subjective Position of Consciousness, to the exclusion of conditional phenomena. In the Way of the Heart, however, the deliberate intention to invert attention for the sake of Realizing Transcendental Consciousness does not characterize the sixth stage of life, which instead begins when the Witness-Position of Consciousness spontaneously Awakens and becomes stable.

In the course of the sixth stage of life, the mechanism of attention, which is the root-action of egoity (felt as separation, self-contraction, or the feeling of relatedness), gradually subsides. In the fullest context of the sixth stage of life, the knot of attention dissolves and all sense of relatedness yields to the Blissful and undifferentiated Feeling of Being. The characteristic Samadhi of the sixth stage of life is Jnana Samadhi, the temporary and exclusive Realization of the Transcendental Self, or Consciousness Itself.

The transition from the sixth stage of life to the seventh stage Realization of Absolute Non-Separateness is the unique Revelation of Avatar Adi Da. Various traditions and individuals previous to Adi Da's Revelation have had sixth stage intuitions or premonitions of the Most Perfect seventh stage Realization, but no one previous to Avatar Adi Da has Realized the seventh stage of life.

The seventh stage Realization is the Gift of Avatar Adi Da to His devotees, Awakened only in the context of the Way of Adidam that He has Revealed and Given. The seventh stage of life begins when His devotee Awakens, by His Grace, from the exclusive Realization of Consciousness to Most Perfect and permanent Identification with Consciousness Itself, Avatar Adi Da's Very (and Inherently Perfect) State. This is Divine Self-Realization, or Divine Enlightenment, the perpetual Samadhi of "Open Eyes" (seventh stage Sahaj Samadhi), in which all "things" are Divinely Recognized without "difference" as merely apparent modifications of the One Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Divine Consciousness. In the course of the seventh stage of life, there may be spontaneous incidents in which psycho-physical states and phenomena do not appear to the notice, being Outshined by the 'Bright" Radiance of Consciousness Itself. This Samadhi, which is the ultimate Realization of Divine Existence, culminates in Divine Translation, or the permanent Outshining of all apparent conditions in the Inherently Perfect Radiance and Love-Bliss of the Divine Self-Condition.

In the context of practice of the Way of Adidam, the seven stages of life as Revealed by Avatar Adi Da are not a version of the traditional 'ladder" of Spiritual attainment. These stages and their characteristic signs arise naturally in the course of practice for a fully practicing devotee in the Way of Adidam, but the practice itself is oriented to the transcendence of the first six stages of life, in the seventh stage Disposition of Inherently Liberated Happiness, Granted by Avatar Adi Da's Grace in His Love-Blissful Spiritual Company.

For Avatar Adi Da's extended Instruction relative to the seven stages of life, see The Seven Stages Of Life--The Seventeen Companions Of The The Dawn Horse, Book Ten: Transcending The Six Stages Of egoic Life and Realizing The ego-Transcending Seventh Stage Of Life In The Divine Way Of Adidam.
(see also DAbase feature: The Seven Stages Of Life)

23. This verse is Avatar Adi Da's Self-Revelation as the Supreme Avatar.

The Ruchira Buddha-Avatar: The 'Bright" Enlightened One Who is the Incarnation of the Divine Person.

The Tathagata Avatar: "Tathagata" means "One who has thus gone. It is a title traditionally given to Gautama Shakyamuni and other Buddhas. Like "Buddha-Avatar" and "Purushottama Buddhan, "Tathagata Avatar" conveys Avatar Adi Da's Encompassing and Surpassing of the traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism (and, thus, the entire collective Great Tradition of mankind).

The Hridaya Avatar: "Hridaya" is Sanskrit for "the heart". It refers not only to the physical organ but also to the True Heart, the Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Divine Reality. "Hridaya" in combination with "Avatar" signifies that Avatar Adi Da is the Very Incarnation of the Divine Heart Itself, the Divine Incarnation Who Stands in, at, and As the True Heart of every being.

The Love-Ananda Avatar. The Name "Love-Ananda" combines both English ("Love") and Sanskrit ("Ananda", meaning "Bliss") thus bridging the West and the East, and communicating Avatar Adi Da's Function as the Divine World-Teacher. The combination of "Love" and "Ananda" means "the Divine Love-Bliss". The Name "Love-Ananda" was given to Avatar Adi Da by His principal human Spiritual Master, Swami Muktananda, who spontaneously conferred it upon Avatar Adi Da in 1969. However, Avatar Adi Da did not use the Name "Love-Ananda" until April 1986, after the Great Event that Initiated His Divine "Emergence". As the Love-Ananda Avatar, Avatar Adi Da is the Very Incarnation of the Divine Love-Bliss.

The Avabhasa Avatar: The Sanskrit word "Avabhasa" has a rich range of associations. It means "brightness", "appearance", "manffestation", "splendor", "lustre", "light", "knowledge". Its verb root may be interpreted as "shining toward", "shining down", "showing oneself". It is thus synonymous with the English term "the 'Bright'", which Avatar Adi Da has used since His childhood to Describe the Blissfully Self-Luminous Divine Being That He knew even then as the All-Pervading, Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Divine Reality of His own body-mind and of all beings, things, and worlds. As the Avabhasa Avatar, Avatar Adi Da is the Very Incarnation of the Divine Self-"Brightness".

24. Avatar Adi Da Samraj Speaks of the Way of Adidam as a "Pleasure Dome", recalling the poem "Kubla Khan", by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ("In Xanadu did Kubla Khan/A stately pleasure-dome decree . . ."). Adi Da Samraj points out that in many religious traditions it is presumed that one must embrace suffering in order to earn future happiness and pleasure. However, by Calling His devotees to live the Way of Adidam as a Pleasure Dome, Avatar Adi Da Samraj Communicates His Teaching that the Way of heart-Communion with Him is always about present-time Happiness, not about any kind of search to attain Happiness in the future. Thus, in the Way of Adidam, there is no idealization of suffering and pain as presumed means to attain future happiness. Therefore, in the Way of Adidam, there IS no denial of the appropriate enjoyment of even the ordinary pleasures of human life.

In this passage, Avatar Adi Da uses "Pleasure Dome" as a reference to the Ultimate and Divine Love-Bliss-Happiness That is His own Self-Nature and His Gift to all who respond to Him.

25. When Consciousness is free of identification with the body-mind, it takes up its natural "position" as the Conscious Witness of all that arises to and in and as the body-mind.

In the Way of Adidam, the stable Realization of the Witness-Position is associated with, or demonstrated via, the effortless surrender (or relaxation) of all the forms of seeking and all the motives of attention that characterize the first five stages of life. However, identification with the Witness-Position is not final (or Most Perfect) Realization of the Divine Self. Rather, it is the first of the three stages of the "Perfect Practice" in the Way of Adidam, which Practice, in due course, Realizes, by Avatar Adi Da's Liberating Grace complete and irreversible and utterly Love-Blissful Identification with Consciousness Itself.

26. "Listening" is Avatar Adi Da's technical term for the orientation disposltion, and beginning practice of the Way of Adidam. A listening devotee "listens" to Avatar Adi Da Samraj by "considering" His Teachmg Argument and His Leelas, and by practicing feeling-Contemplation of Him (primarily of His bodily human Form). In the total (or full and complete) practice of the Way of Adidam, effective listening is the necessary prerequisite for true hearing and true seeing (see note 27).

"Hearing" is a technical term used by Avatar Adi Da to Describe most fundamental understanding of the act of egoity (or self-contraction). Hearing is the unique capability to directly transcend the self-contraction, such that, simultaneous with that transcendence, there is the intuitive awakening to the Revelation of the Divine Person and Self-Condition. The capability of true hearing can only be Granted by Avatar Adi Da's Grace, to His fully practicing devotee who has effectively completed the process of listening. Only on the basis of such hearing can Spiritually Awakened practice of the Way of Adidam truly (or with full responsibility) begin.

I Am Heard When My Listening Devotee Has Truly (and Thoroughly) Observed the ego-"I" and Understood it (Directly, In the moments Of self-Observation, and Most Fundamentally, or In its Totality).

I Am Heard When the ego-"I" Is Altogether (and Thoroughly) Observed and (Most Fundamentally) Understood, Both In The Tendency To Dissociate and In The Tendency To Become Attached (or To Cling By Wanting Need, or To Identify With others, and things, and circumstances egoically, and Thus To Dramatize The Seeker, Bereft Of Basic Equanimity, Wholeness, and The Free Capability For Simple Relatedness).

I Am Heard When the ego-"I" Is Thoroughly (and Most Fundamentally) Understood To Be Contraction-Only, An Un-Necessary and Destructive Motive and Design, Up-Naturally and Chronically Added To Cosmic Nature and To all relations, and An Imaginary Heart-Disease (Made To Seem Real, By Heart-Reaction).

I Am Heard When This Most Fundamental Understanding Of The Habit Of "Narcissus" Becomes The Directly Obvious Realization Of The Heart, Radiating Beyond Its Own (Apparent) Contraction.

I Am Heard When The Beginning Is Full, and The Beginning Is Full (and Ended) When Every Gesture Of self-Contraction (In The Context Of The First Three Stages Of Life' and Relative To Each and All Of The Principal Faculties, Of body, emotion, mind, and breath) Is (As A Rather Consistently Applied and humanly Effective Discipline) Observed (By Natural feeling-perception), Tacitly (and Most Fundamentally) Understood, and Really (Directly and Effectively) Felt Beyond (In The Prior Feeling Of Unqualified Relatedness). (The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, chapter nineteen)

For Avatar Adi Da's fundamental Instruction relative to the listening-hearing process, see chapter nineteen of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, or chapters twenty-one through twenty-three of The Heart Of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar.

27. When, in the practice of the Way of Adidam, hearing (or most fundamental self-understanding) is steadily exercised in meditation and in life, the native feeling of the heart ceases to be chronically constricted by self- contraction. The heart then begins to Radiate as love in response to the Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence of Avatar Adi Da.

This emotional and Spiritual response of the whole being is what Avatar Da calls "seeing". Seeing is emotional conversion from the reactive emotions that characterize egoic self-obsession, to the open-hearted, Radiant Happiness that characterizes God-Love and Spiritual devotion to Avatar Adi Da. This true and stable emotional conversion coincides with true and stable receptivity to Avatar Adi Da's Spiritual Transmission, and both of these are prerequisites to further Spiritual advancement in the Way of Adidam.

Seeing Is self-Transcending Participation In What (and Who) Ls Seeing Is Love. Seeing, or Love, Is Able (By My Grace) To "Locate", Recognize, and Feel My All-Pervading Spiritual Radiance (and My Spirit-Identity, As The Divine Person, or The "Bright" and Only One Who Is) Therefore, Seeing Is Heart-Felt and Whole bodily Identification Of The Love-Bliss-Presence and Person (or Mere Being) Of The Divine. Seeing Is Spiritually Activated Conversion Of attention, emotion, and the Total psycho-physical personality From self-Contraction To The Spiritual Form (or Tangible Spiritual Presence) Of Real God (or The Necessarily Divine Reality and Truth, Itself), and This Via My Spirit-Baptism (or Divine and Inherently Perfect Hridaya-Shaktipat, or Divine and Inherently Perfect Heart-Awakening, and The Subsequent Apparent Descent and Circulation Of The Divine Spirit-Force Into and Through and, Ultimately, Beyond the body-mind Of My Progressively Awakening Devotee). Seeing Is Spontaneous (or Heart-Moved) Devotional Sacrifice Of the self-Contraction. Seeing Is The "Radical" (or Directly self-Transcending) Reorientation Of conditional Existence To The Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Inherently Perfect Divine Self-Condition (and Source-Condition) In Whom (or In Which) conditional self and conditional worlds Apparently arise and Always Already Inhere.

Seeing, Like Hearing, Is A "Radical " (or "Gone To The Root, Core, Source, or Origin") Capability That Can and Should Be Exercised moment to moment. When There Is (In any moment) Real Seeing Of Me, There Is The Capability To Contact Me Spiritually and Enter Into Communion With Me Spiritually. When You Have Awakened (By My Grace) To See Me Truly, Then The Act (and Sadhana) Of Contacting Me Spiritually Does Not, In every moment Of Its Exercise, Require That You Come Into The Physical Sphere Of My Bodily (Human) Form (or, After The Physical Lifetime Of My Bodily Human Form, Into The physical Sphere Of My "Living Murti") or That You Enter Into a place Spiritually Empowered By Me. My Devotee Who Sees Me Is (In The General Course Of moment to moment Practice Of Devotion To Me) Capable Of Contacting Me Spiritually In any circumstance, By Using The "Radical " Virtue Of Hearing and Seeing To Go Beyond The self-Contracting Tendency.

Seeing Is Simply Attraction To Me, and Feeling Me, As My Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence, and This Most Fundamentally At The Root, Core, Source, or Origin Of The Emergence Of My Presence "here " (At and In Front Of The Heart, or At and In The Root-Context Of the body-mind, or At and In The Source-Position, and Ultimately, As The Source-Condition, Of conditional, orpsycho-physical, Existence Itself).

Seeing Is Knowing Me As My Spiritual (and Always Blessing) Presence, Just As Tangibly, and With The Same Degree Of Clarity, As You Would Differentiate The Physical Appearance Of My Bodily (Human) Form From the physical appearance of the bodily (human) form of any other.

To See Me Is A Clear and "Radical" Knowledge Of Me, About Which There Is No Doubt. To See Me Is A Sudden, Tacit Awareness, Like Walking Into a "thicker" air or atmosphere, or Suddenly Feeling a breeze, or Jumping Into water and Noticing The Difference In Density Between the air and the water. This Tangible Feeling Of Me Is (In any particular moment) Not Necessarily (Otherwise) Associated With effects in the body-mind . . ., but It Is, Nevertheless, Felt At The Heart and Even All Over the body.

Seeing Me Is One-Pointedness In The "Radical" Conscious Process Of Heart-Devotion To Me. (The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, chapter twenty)

For Avatar Adi Da's fundamental Instruction relative to seeing, see chapter twenty of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar, or chapters twenty-four through twenty-eight of The Heart Of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar.

28. Avatar Adi Da Samraj spontaneously Gave the Name "Adidam" in January 1996. This primary Name for the Way He has Revealed and Given is simply His own Principal Name ("Adi Da") with the addition of 'm" at the end. When He first Gave this Name, Adi Da Samraj pointed out that the final 'm" adds a mantric force, evoking the effect of the primal Sanskrit syllable "Om". (For Avatar Adi Da's Revelation of the most profound esoteric significance of "Om" as the Divine Sound of His own Very Being, see He-and-She Is Me --The Seventeen Companions Of The True Dawn Horse, Book Seven: The Indivisibility Of Consciousness and Light In The Divine Body Of The Ruchira Avatar.) Simultaneously, the final "m" suggests the English word "Am" (expressing "I Am"), such that the Name "Adidam" also evokes Avatar Adi Da's Primal Self-Confession, "I Am Adi Da", or, more simply, "I Am Da" (or "Aham Da Asmi").

29. Avatar Adi Da has indicated that all practitioners of the Way of Adidam, whatever their form or developmental stage of practice, may, at any time, Remember and Invoke Him (or feel, and thereby Contemplate, His bodily human Form, His Spiritual, and Always Blessing, Presence, and His Very, and Inherently Perfect, State) via simple heart-feeling and by randomly, in daily life and meditation, reciting His Principal Name, 'Da", or any other of His Names which He has Given for the practice of simple Name-Invocation of Him. (The forms of simple Name-lnvocation are Given in chapter three of The Dawn Horse Testament Of The Ruchira Avatar.)

30. A 'mudra" is a gesture of the hands, face, or body that outwardly expresses a state of ecstasy. Even in His Divine State of Being Itself, Avatar Adi Da may spontaneously exhibit Mudras as Signs of His Blessing and Purifying Work with His devotees. Here He is speaking of the Attitude of His Blessing Work, which is His Constant (or Eternal) Giving, or Submitting, of Himself to Be the Means of Liberation for all beings.

31. The Sanskrit word 'hridayam' (meaning "heart") refers not only to the physical organ but also to the True Heart, the Transcendental (and Inherently Spiritual) Divine Reality Itself. "Hridayam" is one of Avatar Adi Da's Divine Names, signifying (as explained in this passage) that He Stands In, At, and As the True Heart of every being.

32. "Dau Loloma" is Avatar Adi Da's primary Fijian Name, which literally means "the Adept (Dau) of Love (Loloma)". This Name was given to Avatar Adi Da by native Fijians soon after He first arrived in Fiji in 1983.

33. "Vunirarama", Fijian for "the Source of 'Brightness"' ( Vu" means "source" or "origin', 'ni" means "of", and "rarama" means "brightness") can be used as an extension of Avatar Adi Da's Fijian Name "Dau Loloma". This Name was given to Avatar Adi Da Samraj in 1991 by Fijians who live and serve at His Island-Hermitage, Adidam Samrajashram (the Fijian Island of Naitauba).

34. "Turaga" is Fijian for "Lord". This Title was offered to Avatar Adi Da by a native Fijian in 1993.

35. "Tui" is Fijian for "Great Chief'. This Title was offered to Avatar Adi Da by the native Fijians immediately upon His arrival at Naitauba in 1983.

36. "Samraj" is a traditional term used to refer to great kings, but also to refer to the Hindu gods. In Sanskrit, "Samraja" is defined as "universal or supreme ruler', "paramount Lord", or "paramount sovereign".

The Sanskrit word "raja" (the basic root of "Samraj") means "king". It comes from the verbal root "raj", meaning "to reign, to rule, to illuminate". The prefix "sam-" expresses "union" or "completeness". "Samraj" is thus literally the complete ruler, the ruler of everything altogether. "Samraj" was traditionally given as a title to a king who was considered to be a "universal monarch".

Avatar Adi Da's Name "Adi Da Samraj" expresses that He is the Primordial (or Original) Giver, Who Blesses all as the Universal Ruler of every thing, every where, for all time. The Sovereignty of His Kingdom has nothing to do with the world of human politics. Rather, it is entirely a matter of His Spiritual Dominion over all and All, His Kingship in the hearts of His devotees.

37. The Feeling of Being is the uncaused (or Self-Existing), Self-Radiant, and unqualified feeling-intuition of the Transcendental, Inherently Spiritual, and Divine Self. This absolute Feeling does not merely accompany or express the Realization of the Heart Itself, but It is Identical to that Realization. To feel--or, really, to Be--the Feeling of Being is to enjoy the Love-Bliss of Absolute Consciousness, Which when Most Perfectly Realized, cannot be prevented or even diminished either by the events of life or by death.

38. For devotees of Avatar Adi Da Samraj, His Names are the Names of the Very Divine Being. As such, these Names, as Avatar Adi Da Himself has Described, "do not simply mean Real God, or the Blessing of Real God. They are the verbal or audible Form of the Divine." Therefore, Invoking Avatar Adi Da Samraj by Name is a potent and Divinely Empowered form of feeling-Contemplation of Him.

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