A Monkey's Tale On the Divine Person by Frank Marrero , For Beloved Leelas in Praise of Beloved Da, Avatara Adi Da Love-Ananda, Samraj, Eleutherios, The Bright Ruchira Buddha Chapter Eleven: The Last Night   On February 3, 1983, to our surprise, we found out that ten of us would be leaving the next day. Denise and I and a few others were in the first wave. It was over for me. I was relieved. We had been gathering with the Great One four to five times a week, in twelve to sixteen hour sessions for almost five months. The intensity level was way beyond me. I looked forward to processing in calmer surroundings. Appreciating the last night, the Lord took us again through the processes of meditation, self-understanding, spirit reception, spirit baptism, enlightenment and responsibility. He summarized again as He had done for many weeks: He focused us in conducting the Force of God in the Circle: reception down the front, rest in God, then blissful aspiration. Tongue rested against the roof of the mouth for upward yogic inclusions of bliss. Over and over He baptised us in love and enlightenment, with nectars dripping down from high brain harmonies onto the back of the tongue, swooning in sweetness, we floated in adoration. He summarized the sexual theatre, with revelations of body parts doing their thing and the clinging of couples, and all the concerns of conventional living. He recalled our reluctance, our search, our illusions, but let them also float in God. For hours, He held us in dear embrace, He floated us like petals upon still waters. Then in slow, rapturous speech, the Word of the Supreme Self poetically summarized,   "Ah, I long for the vanished gardens of Cordoba, where no thing hangs or rises up desirous to be sucked in or forced out, where all beings are sublime, tasting only the nectar of Love-Bliss in their mouths, their tongues clinging to the roof of their tooth-hood only for Happiness, without the slightest thought of self, without the slightest thought of clinging to another. Such Bliss is not heaven! It is nowhere, nowhere at all, not then, not now, not in the future. Such Bliss has never been experienced by beings at all except in their moment of vanishing when they slide upon the Light from which forms are made. "When nothing even in the slightest is experienced or known or presumed, then there is only the Infinite Light of Bliss, the same state in which you now exist, but without the compartments of your atrocious thought, without even a parcel of it hanging out. Now we are free. Then we are free. Then we were free. Then we will be free. "This space of time is only a figment of your imagination. This body here is the lie by which you are bound. Be willing to give up your body, even now, even now, even now. And your mind, which is your body. Let it go. Let it go. Cling to nothing. Let it go. This is my recommendation."   Beloved Da spoke personally to each devotee who would be leaving. I told Him that I had arrived exactly one year before and He suggested, "Maybe you just signed up for one year." He held me eye to eye and declared my service admirable and that I was going to do Him a lot of good. I bowed in gratitude. The Lord dismissed the gathering as always with "Now, get out!", and because my seat was next to the kitchen, I was the first to file out. I did not want to leave. His baptism was so sublime I didn't want it to end. So instead of walking out the kitchen door, Ipaused behind Him and held up my hands while others walked behind me. I did not cling there long. He never looked back, but dismissed me again with, "I said get out, Frank!" We flew to San Francisco the next morning, where we were taken north to Lake county and the Mountain of Attention Sanctuary. We would be treasured for many weeks as devotees who spend concentrated time with the Master always are. They glow.   66.   Let all the gifts of my worship and service be received by the Ocean of Mercy, by Whose Grace all beings are Liberated from bondage to this world of wonders.       Beloved Adi Da's The Hymn of the Master Table of Contents  Preface Chapter One: The First Time Chapter Two: I Didn't Understand Chapter Three: The Secret Place Chapter Four: Welcome to the Gom-Boo Chapter Five: Body of Light Chapter Six: The Cult of Pairs Revisited Chapter Seven: The Thief Chapter Eight: The Storm of the Century Chapter Nine: The Christmas Miracle Chapter Ten: Divine Radar Chapter Eleven: The Last Night Chapter Twelve: The Aftermath Return to Beezone Articles

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Tripura Rahasya, Chap XX, 128-133