Welcome
to our site! We receive many visitors with many reasons for visiting . . .
Perhaps
you are just discovering Adi Da for the first time; or maybe you have known about
Him and His work for years. Perhaps you have heard of Adi Da through His art,
His literature, or His Teachings on world peace, health, diet, or any number of
other subjects. Perhaps you are a spiritual seeker looking for more than the usual
life of materialistic self-fulfillment, and have heard of Adidam, the new Transcendental
Spiritual Way offered by Adi Da. Perhaps you are merely curious, or seeking answers
to particular questions.
Whatever your background or your
reason for visiting, we hope our site will interest you and will address your
needs!
For Visiting Professionals: Adi Da as Spiritual Master
When
we use the phrase, "visiting professionals", we have in mind readers from the
art world, the literary world, the world of theater, the political and social
circles dedicated to advancing world peace, etc. . . . in short, any of the areas
in which Adi Da has made artistic contributions, or in which He has communicated
wisdom that can have a beneficial impact for others working in that area. In addition
to His many contributions to the world of art, literature, and society altogether,
Adi Da is also the founder of the Spiritual Way of Adidam. For those perhaps more
familiar with Adi Da's work in a different capacity, this introduction serves
as an orientation to Adi Da's function as Spiritual Master, which is the focus
of most of this site.
For
Spiritual Seekers: Adi Da as Incarnation of the Divine
Adi Da Samraj, 1999
All the great Spiritual Masters have been not only teachers,
but Transmission Masters: they literally transmit their Spiritual Realization
to their devotees, communicating a state that is happier than the usual worldly
destiny. The greatest of all Spiritual Masters are the Divine Incarnations, those
rare occasions when the Divine appears in Its own "dream" as a character, as a
tangible means that every one can easily access for Transmitting the greatest
Realization of all — the Divine State of Perfect and Eternal Happiness — which
coincides with awakening from the "dream". In this article, we make the case that
Avatar Adi Da Samraj is just such a rare Divine Incarnation, here to remind all
of their greatest possible destiny, and to awaken all beings to that Divine State
of Perfect Happiness. Practitioners of the Way of Adidam recognize Adi Da as Divine
Incarnation (not on the basis of belief but of Spiritual
Revelation), and on that basis, happily cooperate with His process for awakening
them.
A Brief Biography of Adi Da
From
His birth on November 3, 1939 in Long Island, New York, to His passing from the
body on November 27, 2008 in Naitauba, Fiji, Adi Da's life is the story of the
Intervention of the Divine Person and State in human time, for the sake of the
liberation of all beings. Throughout His life, Adi Da worked first to find the
Way by which it would be possible for everyone
to realize the supremely blissful state of Divine “Brightness” that He had known
since birth; and then to establish that Way ("the Way of Adidam") in perpetuity — by leaving humankind
with forms of Agency
through which His blessing Presence would forever be felt and magnified, and through
which an eternally living relationship with Him would always be possible. Here
is a brief summary of Adi Da's extraordinary life and work.
A Word on Skeptics and Critics of a Most Extraordinary Communication
It
almost goes without saying that, in the world of the twenty-first century, when
the extraordinary suggestion is made that a real human being of our time and place
(not some mythical "long ago and far away") could be an Incarnation of the Divine,
it provokes incredible skepticism and reactivity. We well understand that, in
our time, "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", as Carl
Sagan has put it. We don't blame anyone for harboring doubt, or raising questions
about how such a thing could be. It is extraordinary! But to those of us
with firsthand experience, it is no longer unbelievable. This site is a labor
of love purposed toward providing theevidence — in the form of
hundreds of personal, firsthand
accounts — that supports a most extraordinary communication, and a most extraordinary
opportunity for a world and a time that could certainly use one: Adi Da's Revelation and Offering
of Perfect and Eternal Happiness.