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The Evolution of Adi Da Samraj - from Franklin Jones to Adi Da Samraj "One has to open to
receive, if one is closed you can't get it, you will only
get yourself reflected back" The
Beezone
To understand the transformation and enlightenment of Adi Da Samraj it is important and necessary to understand that Enlightenment or Realization has a yogic or energetic process associated with it. In some individuals a
'spiritual
transimission' is associated
with their Realization and a function is then associated
with that, i.e. Guru Function or Transmission which takes
place in a larger Cosmic or Universal Process, which has a
play in the evolution of the world(s).
'Attains' full Enlightenment at the Vedanta Temple in Los Angeles. Shakti and Siva merge. 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." 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." So now he apparently enters the true Bodhisvatta phase of life. Not the phase where he relinquishes his enlightenment but now becomes a direct agency of the Enlightened state of Mind. 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. 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."
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). The
Spiritual Instructions of Swami
Muktananda
Franklin visits Muktananda to propose four questions. He does not get any answers or acknowledgment. He returns with the name Bubba Free John. Teaching demonstrations
begin Acknowledgment ?
"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
to-day declared to thee by Me, for thou art My devotee and
My friend ; it is the supreme Secret. The "cosmic birthday joke" This event started a process of relative seclusion and his asana of "Standing Firm". Read in Enlighenment of the Whole Body, p.81 paragraph - The seventh stage if full
Bubba receives full 'Acknowledgment' of his realization from Ramana and also simultaneously from the Cosmic Mandala. Acknowledgment = Revelation "It was at the crucial moment, then,
that Heart-Master Da began to fully ackowledge a startling
truth: The Enlighened Process occurring in Him was no long
being mediated, catalyzed, or even corroborted in any way by
any conditional agent whatsoever - even another Enlightened
Adept ..... He was truly "alone in God". "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."
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”.
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. April 11, 1986 formally
accepts "sannyasa diksha" accepting the name Love-Ananda.
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. Establisheds the Advaitayana
Buddhist Communion which acknowledges the relationship
between the Way (That He Teaches) of Adidam and the Great
Tradition as a whole.
Shakti told him "Stand Firm". March 16, 1988
“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
On September 7, 1994, Adi Da Samraj experiences another Yogic Event that signifies His Divine Work has come to Completeness. “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”.
In early 1997, Adi Da Samraj
experiences a profound physical ordeal that corresponds to
the creation of a new Text, Hridaya Rosary.
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.
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