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The Evolution of Adi Da
Samraj
from Franklin Jones to Adi Da
Samraj
1939 - Born with intuition of
"Bright"
(Brilliant Clear White Heart-Light).
1960 - "awakening, utter
transformation, sudden realization, conscious realization
and intuition of the Divine reality, Amrita
Nadi".
Testing, psychic opening, internal
work of writing leads to external work.
1964 - Finding a teacher,
Albert Rudolph (Rudi - Rudrananda).
1967 - Lutheran Seminary,
Philadelphia - The Death of Narcissus - 4th
Stage of Life.
Beginning of independence, following
'the force'.
"The fulfillment of my own work
of self-transcendence in the context of the..four(th) stage
of life was...in..a..spontaneous ordeal of ego-death (three
and one-half years previous to..my...Re-Awakening"
The
Dawn Horse Testament - Chapter 42
"After a time I got up from the
floor. I walked around and beamed joyfully at the room. The
blissful, unthreatened current of reality continued to
emanate from my heart, and not a pulse of it was modified by
my own existence or the existence of the world. I had
acquired a totally new understanding. I understood Narcissus
and the whole truth of suffering and search. I saw the
meaning of my whole life to that moment. Suffering, seeking,
self-indulgence, spirituality and all the rest were founded
in the same primary motivation and error. It was the
avoidance of relationship in all its forms."
Knee
of Listening - Chapter 9
1968
He visits Swami Muktananda in India during April. Returns to
New York and involves himself with Scientology. Returned to
Scientology to 'investigate' continued arising content.
Nirvikalpa Samadhi -
The
Great Yogic Event of "Penetration"
of the True "Maha-Bindu" - 5th
Stage of Life
Discovery, contents of mind and body
experience are not what needs to be handled. "the one
who reacts is also part of the contents. what is
directly experienced is simply the mind itself, is the
mechanism, the screen that reflects experience, the complex
of I-That." There is only Consciousness. Sadhana is
necessary for purification."
1969
July ends relationship with
Scientology and in August returns to India and spends a
month with Baba Muktananda. Receives name from Muktananda,
Sri Dhyanananda Yogi.
"...You are a promising student
of Shree Gurudev Ashram. Chiti Shakti, the Kundalini, which
brings about Siddha Yoga, is activated in you. You have also
studied Vedanta The Inner Self which is the secret of
Vedanta, the basis of religion, the realisation of which is
the ultimate object of human life, is awakened in
you.
Only he who has himself seen can
show unto others. On the same principle you can now initiate
others into meditation."
Swami
Prakasananda shows Franklin
the fifth stage signs of Spiritual Transfiguration of the
physical body
Returns to New York. In November
finishes 'Water and Narcissus'. Begins teaching.
1970 - Franklin Jones
February - Severing of sahasrar, "headless horseman"
- Knee of Listening, Chapter
14
May - returns to India to
live.
June - Vision of Virgin Mary - more
on The
Mother (Shakti)
July - August - Christian
Pilgrimage
August - Settles in Los
Angeles.
September - 'Attains' full
Enlightenment
at the Vedanta Temple in Los
Angeles.
Shakti
and Siva merge.
First of the three Siddhis. The
Siddhi was associated with the seven
stages of life and it's
culmination in Full Enlightenment.
"Much of the fullest awareness of
My Nature and Work and the import of it altogether was
Revealed in the years after the Vedanta Temple incident. All
of it was accomplished there, but the Revelations to the
mind so that It could be spoken fully and clearly were
progressive, as I have explained and as I have clearly
Demonstrated in all the years before now, all the years
previous to My Divine Emergence here."
People begin to come to him and his
teaching begins, The
Way of Understanding
In this period Franklin becomes
enlightened, but we have to remember there is a 'force'
associated with his presence. Many
who were with him in Los Angeles
prior to him opening the bookstore testify to his
extraordinary presence, even in locations he had been in a
presence could be felt. This presence is the siddhi or
shakti power associated with Franklin which he describes the
days leading up to his enlightenment 'experience' in the
Vedanta Temple in Los Angeles. "I went to the temple and
asked Her to come and dwell permanently in me, and always to
manifest Herself to me wherever I was. When I left I felt
Her with me, and when I arrived at home, I continued to feel
Her constant Presence Filling the space."
Vedanta
Experience
The Shakti
and Franklin's enlightenment are tied together. What becomes
apparent when you read Adi Da's writings and witness his
'evolution' one can see a 'pattern' of changes and a sort of
development that matches his 'seven stages of life'
teaching, obviously referring to the higher stages of human
development.
It is important the remember that
the 'individual' Franklin Jones or the identity of the
separate individual was no longer there. Many people who
have had contact with Franklin Jones at this time (and
later) comment on the 'absence' or 'death' of a separate
person. "No one was there" is a common observation when
commenting about what Adi Da appears as.
Adi Da himself talks about
this:
"I don't have any sense of
identification with this life. I don't have any images about
it that particularly impress me as being my own. I mentioned
to you how, after the event in the Vedanta Temple, I would
sit down and meditate and other people's minds and bodies
would arise. I would work with them just as if they were my
own, and it was all my own, without any sense either of
identification with or separation from any of it. It was
just the pattern arising to be meditated. just so, there is
no sense in me of identification with these vehicles at the
level of life."
Garbage
and the Goddess - chapter
13
So now he apparently enters the
true
Bodhisattva phase of life.
Not the phase where he relinquishes his enlightenment but
now becomes a direct agency of the Enlightened state of
Mind.
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The second Siddhi: The Siddhi of
meditating all others, the spontaneous awakening of
purification, meditation, and Spiritual signs in others
through his regard, by their spending time in his company,
or by them giving him their regard at a distance.
"This confrontation...is unlike
our ordinary experience...life provides conditions whereby
they are indulged, frustrated or avoided. But in (this
relationship) of the Heart what arises is confronted by
silence without and the Heart within"
For the skeptics this is where they
bow out (or react against). They bow out because the whole
thing becomes 'other worldly' and no longer reflects their
physical or psychological understanding of how the world
works. It just gets too weird. And it does!
There is the body and the natural
identification with it, there are memories and habit
patterns of mind and body.
Dissolution
of the habit-energies of attention
In his notes after his realization
he writes:
"I have one motive now in the
midst of all of you. It is to be heard. I appear now as a
communication. I am the other side, who speaks in time and
space, I am that One. The Universe is my present work. My
efforts are not in the great search. All my efforts, my
force, is creative, emerging, appearing and making possible
the universe of love. Thus, you can understand the reason
for my appearance in my present form. I am not Franklin. I
am the universe of love. I am all of this. Franklin is a
form of my speech. He has no independent existence.
Therefore, he does not appear separate from me, nor from
you. His moods are my own, and also those of the present
time, But I am the universe of love. And I will be
heard."
Crazy
Wisdom, Vol 6, No., March/April 1987, p.9
Regeneration
of Amrita Nadi - Months later
"regeneration was shown. It
appeared several months after the experience in the Vedanta
Temple....there was a sudden strong movement in me and a
loud crack that could be heard in the room. It sounded like
my neck had broken. In that instant there was a tracing of
the form of Amrita Nadi and a clear demonstration to me of
the full, regenerated connection of Amrita Nadi."
Garbage
and Goddess - Chapter 9
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Acknowledgment ? Franklin looks for
historical references to his 'experience' and
understanding
Previously - Swami
Muktananda's letter 1969
giving him the right to teach meditation to others
"according to the rules of the lineage." (Saraswati
order).
Also see:
The
Spiritual Instructions of Swami
Muktananda
1973 - Bubba Free John
Franklin
goes to India and returns
with the name Bubba Free John.
Franklin visits Muktananda to
propose four questions. He does not get any answers or
acknowledgment.
Visits
Ramana Maharshi's Tomb
Teaching demonstrations
begin
"clear to me that the primary reason why people fail to
practice this Way truly is that they do not yet take the
Lesson of life seriously"
"The Knee of Listening is sufficient by itself, as a
description of the Way and its Realization. But it is
perhaps not sufficient as a source from which people can
generate practice and Realization. That required all the
theatre of Teaching and all the
elaborations."
The
Sadhana of Franklin Jones
(Bubba Free John) - 1973
1975 - December 1st - Announcing
the Way of Divine Communion
"The obligations of the way of Understanding are more
severe, and its communications are more complex. The way of
Divine Communion is simpler in concept, and its disciplines
are obligatory only to the degree each individual chooses or
finds the capacity in any moment."
Bubba Free John spent the first five years of his
Teaching work communicating a special and unique Teaching
among men, which is the way of Understanding....once that
path of Understanding was secure in a small group of his
disciples, Bubba felt free and was moved to offer a
different path of approach to devotees, a path of action
called the way of Divine Communion.
No
Remedy - 1975
1976 - The Yogic Process
"The Blessed Lord said : This
imperishable Yoga...handed on down the line, the King-Sages
knew. This yoga by great efflux of time decayed in the
world, O Parantapa. This same ancient yoga hath been today
declared to thee by Me, for thou art My devotee and My
friend ; it is the supreme Secret.
Bhagavad-Gita, Discourse ii, verse 22.
The Cosmic Birthday Joke
"Now Bubba has
been sifted out, Enlarged upon the smithereens of bodies,
thoughts, experiences, times and spaces and
shapes."
"On November 1, 1976 during a conversation with devotee
Master Da began to feel ill and feverish. He thought a fast
would be good and said the symptoms were signs of a Yogic
process or purification occurring. The next day the symptoms
were beginning to develop to such a degree he went into
seclusion. This purification was rather quick and in a few
days was out of seclusion and talking again with devotees.
He described this purification as a 'death' experience
similar to the one in his seminary days in Philadelphia in
1967."
The Divine Emergence of the World-Teacher - pp. 163-4
(Summary)
This event started a process of
relative seclusion and his asana of "Standing
Firm".
"In the early days
of his Work with devotees, it was possible for Bubba to
serve others by duplicating the habit conditions of the
usual life, and struggling with others until the spell of
common desires and tendencies could break.
But this aspect of his obligation in the world began
to dissolve, having essentially fulfilled itself, from the
date of his birthday anniversary, November 3,
1976."
Read more in The Enlightenment of
the Whole Body, p.81- "The
seventh stage if Full"
1977 - Bubba Free John returns to India and visits
the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi.
Change in Grace - Demonstration
of Grace
Bubba receives full 'Acknowledgment'
of his realization from Ramana and also simultaneously from
the Cosmic Mandala.
Acknowledgment = Revelation
Communion and Identification with Ramana's
Living Presence.
Beginning of his ultimate work.
Which is to demonstrate the Transformation of conditions to
the point of Translation of the whole body-being into the
Radiance of Bhava Samadhi (in Transfiguration, Regeneration,
or Ascension-Translation).
Vision
Mound, Vol 1, No. 5 -
September 1977
"It was at the crucial moment,
then, that Heart-Master Da began to fully acknowledge a
startling truth: The Enlightened Process occurring in Him
was no long being mediated, catalyzed, or even corroborated
in any way by any conditional agent whatsoever - even
another Enlightened Adept ..... He was truly "alone in
God".
pp.170, The Divine Emergence of the World-Teacher
"I can now be available to those
who will know how to make use of Me, who will value a
relationship with Somebody who is not longer
psycho-physcially constricted....(one) who represents a pure
Agency of Absolute Intensity."
1979 - Da Love Ananda
On September 13, 1979, Adi Da sat
down and wrote a letter to his devotees confessing that his
name is “Da”, the One Who is “Manifest As all
worlds and forms and beings”.
"Now the name by which people refer to me is prefaced
by the name "Da," which is a kind of title traditionally
used to refer to one who teaches, renounces himself, or
gives of himself in the service of others"
Vision Mound Magazine - Good
Company
1980
"I now finally declare my
renunciation"
"In my own case, acceptance of the broader conditions
of outer renunciation could not occur until I had fulfilled
the obligations of communicating the Teaching to
devotees"
Renunciation
and the Renunciate Order of the Free Communion Church
1986 - Divine Emergence - Revelation
Years - World Teacher - Teaching Work to Blessing Work -
Yogic Descent
End of Teaching Work.
The third Siddhi awakened. The
Siddhi of tapas or renunciation.
Beezone paraphrase:
"You will not be able to
understand it because it is a demand and until you are able
to accept that demand it will be unacceptable to
you."
"Spiritual event, initiated (not
an event in itself) on 1/11/86 and is
continuing. January
11, 1986, was a sudden and spontaneous transition.... to My
Work as the Eternally Free-Standing, and always presently
“Emerging”, Divine World-Teacher. It was a
Transition in My Disposition from My Work of Submitting to
others.... to simply Surrendering My human Body-Mind into My
own Self-Condition."
"My work as heart-teacher and my
struggle to generate the teaching argument in every detail
is complete. Hereafter, those who are interested will simply
"consider" my always heart-revealing word and leelas, and
they will practice true devotion to me. Now my work is only
that of the true heart-master, standing free, always
blessing all to listen to me and to hear me and to see me
where I stand. And only those who have heard me can also see
me with, and at, and as the heart."
The
Dawn Horse Testament - Chapter 4
For a further understanding of the Divine Emergence 'Event'
and the Vedanta Temple 'Enlightenment'. See:
There
is Nothing Left But the Ash
- 1988, Crazy Wisdom magazine.
April 11, 1986 formally
accepts "sannyasa diksha" accepting the name
Love-Ananda.
see The Order of My
Free Names
Aug 1988, Adi Da speaks about
the Emergence:
"I have not wanted to say very
much about this process...this process cannot be accurately
communicated through language... one has to sensitize
themselves..."
In the beginning Adi Da tried to
describe the event in terms of what others perceived it to
be...death....but that was not actually the event, "I
simply allowed people their own experiential
perception....and tried to help them understand what they
had perceived"
Submitting the body to devotees
changed to Surrendering the body into
Self-Condition.
Not a physical death and
resurrection.
"What was unique was a
'turnabout' in My own Disposition relative to the
body."
"Before the Emergence there was a
submission of the body to others, I could teach them......I
used my own body as a means of identification by submitting
to their condition...reflecting people to
themselves."
"In a moment this method was
relinquished....due to the failure of My Teaching
Work...this was a despair collapse bodily and
emotionally....and utter relinquishment of the body...giving
up the body..."
"then the turnabout...the despair
disappeared...no more giving the body up to death...I was
simply (as always) simply 'standing In and As my True
Nature."
"Sacrificial Act unique kind of
Tapas ..producing more Brightness..."
"Not a death but a yogic swoon
(Bhava Samadhi)"
Began as a struggle with
devotees
Talk by Kanya Tripura
Rahasya:
"Ecstatic proclamation about the
uniqueness ...whose appearance surpasses anything that has
ever existed"
"Most profound acknowledgment
that one may make of Adi Da"
In her talk she hoped "his message"
(Divine Emergence) would transform your understanding of his
birth.
"His message is most profound and
fundamental."
"He is no longer working with
just devotees but the whole world."
Establishes the Advaitayana Buddhist
Communion which acknowledges the relationship between the
Way (That He Teaches) of Adidam and the Great Tradition as a
whole.
1988
Shakti
told him "Stand Firm".
March 16, 1988
1991 - Da Avabhasa
“Da Avabhasa” was the
primary Name used in public by Avatar Adi Da Samraj from
1991 through 1994.
In 1991, Avatar Adi Da was presented
with a song praising Him as “Avabhasa”. Avatar Adi
Da Received the words of this song as an acknowledgment of
Who He Is, indicating, on the last day of April 1991, that
He accepted “Da Avabhasa” as one of His True
Names, and the principal Name by which He was to be called.
Though it is no longer used as His primary Name, “Da
Avabhasa” is still an appropriate reference to Avatar
Adi Da
1993 - The Only By Me Revelation - The First and Only
Seventh Stage Realizer
"by His Divine Re-Awakening and Work, He had brought
into the earth and the conditional realm altogether the
Spiritual Powers and Divine Grace that now makes possible
the seventh stage Awakening in the case of all
others"
read more...
1994 - Adi Da
On September 7, 1994, Adi Da Samraj
experiences another Yogic Event that signifies His Divine
Work has come to Completeness. (Santosha Event)
“Adi Da” is the principal
Name of Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
The Name “Adi Da” was
Revealed to Adi Da (then known as “Da Avabhasa”)
on October 7, 1994. “Adi” is a Sanskrit word that
means “first”, “primordial”,
“source”. It is additionally defined as
“primary”, “beginning”,
“commencement”, and “first fruits”.
1997
In early 1997, Adi Da Samraj
experiences a profound physical ordeal that corresponds to
the creation of a new Text, Hridaya Rosary.
2000 - Ruchira Dham Event - April 12, 2000, on
Lopez Island (in Washington State).
"In some sense, I - As I Am -
First Appeared here in the year 2000."
In some sense, I-As-I-Am - Was only
"on the way" to here before the Ruchira Dham
Event".
Aletheon,
2009
"The Universally Consequential
Divine Avataric Event of My divine Translation and
Re-Emergence" here and everywhere in the cosmic domain,
Began..."
Aletheon,
2009
He later Revealed that, in that
event, He had completed the "opposite" of His Yogic Descent
in 1986 — while His Avataric Divine Self-"Emergence"
was the completion of His Descent into the realm of
conditional beings, the Lopez Island Event was His Direct
Ascent, to the Primal "Bright" Spiritual Self-Condition of
Conscious Light
April 16, 2000
"I cannot describe My Blessing
Work in a way that makes all that much sense to you except
to say that I actually participate, all the time, in the
events and circumstances that potentially effect the global
possibilities of mankind’s survival but I do so outside
of the physical."
2007 - Failure of
Submission Work
"To rightly understand My Divine Avataric Life and
Work, it is essential to understand This Change in My
Own Approach and My Own Disposition."
"In the years after
January 11, 1986, there was no significant response to Me.
Indeed, I was required to endure the demonstration of
implacable indifference in human beings, to the point that
My Impulse to continue Working in the Manner of
Self-Submission utterly Vanished — most conclusively,
on July 10, 2007. "
My
Self-Submission-Time Has Come To An End
"There was no more Vehicle of Self-Submission.
there was the Vehicle of the body That could still Suffer
everyone, but htere was no Vehicle of
Self-Submission"
Aletheon, 2009
2006-2008
"...everything about Bhagavan's
Life and His Revelation-History (or Leela) is to be measured
against the final three years of His Life..."
The
Eternal One - Ruchiradama
Quandra Sukhapur Rani Naitauba
The Revelation of His Final Work
-
Situated, Revealed, Planted and Waiting for a Response -
The Walk-About Way
"It's up to you now and
profoundly consequential for human history
altogether"
"you must never relate to Me as a merely localized
entity"
"I Am Here".
Neither
Outer Nor Inner Is The Space of Reality Itself
(1973) "He only waits, He
is waiting for his Devotees" -
Garbage and the
Goddess - Chapter
13
"My Divine Avataric Teaching-Word has Become Summarized
in the Most "Radical" Form.
Now There Is Only the Ruchiradam Revelation of Adidam,
the Ultimate Revelation of Adidam."
Aletheon, 2009
2008 - November
Adi
Da passes into Mahasamadhi
My
"Secret" Biography
Further Reading - Evolution of Adidam:
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SACRED HISTORY OF ADI DA SAMRAJ'S
DIVINE WORK
The
Wisdom and Practices of Adidam
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