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Places Adi Da Has Visited


Adi Da visiting the United Nations building
Geneva, Switzerland, 1996
Question:  Thank you for your terrific website and all the heart you put into it!   I'm 28 years old, from Interlaken in Switzerland, and I have begun to study the Dharma of your great Master. I have a bit of a funny question to ask you. It's concerning geographical places that were visited and meditated upon by Adi Da. Stories about the actual bodily visit of Avatar Adi Da to Switzerland (as told for example by Brian Deschamp concerning Adi Da's book, Not-Two Is Peace, His visit to Geneva, His using the public train there, etc.)  awaken a question in me. The intuition of Adi Da's sacrifice and State appear to have Blessed me already since my earliest childhood. Is there a connection? Could Adi Da's visit have served this intuition?  Could you tell me something about what it means when a Divine Incarnation visits ordinary places and meets ordinary people?   I’d be happy and grateful to hear from you!

Brief answer: A full answer to your question has many dimensions, which we'll try to touch on below.

There is no doubt that every place Beloved Adi Da visited during His human lifetime was Blessed by Him. And so it is quite possible that if your heart is open, you may feel His Transmission if you visit somewhere He has visited.

But it is not automatic — it depends on the individual; not everyone will be heart-open in this way.

It is also true that such a Transmission can dissipate over time, unless devotees of Adi Da intentionally keep such places alive as Holy Sites through their devotional care, and even through setting such places apart from the public. If you read our article on non-devotees visiting the Empowered Sanctuaries Adi Da established, you will see that even physically set apart places like Adidam's Empowered Sanctuaries — places where Adi Da has lived, for years — can have Adi Da's Transmission diminish over time, if those who visit or use such a Holy Site do not relate to it as a Holy Site — and as Adi Da's devotees. Indeed, Adi Da had to re-empower the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary a couple of times, because, even though public access to the Sanctuary was very limited, many of the devotees who were visiting the Sanctuary were not relating rightly to the place (bringing business, bringing a worldly disposition, failing to devotionally invoke Adi Da, etc.), and as a result, His Transmission there diminished over time. Indeed, one of the greatest ongoing responsibilities of devotees is to do everything necessary to ensure that "the Spiritual energy of these Sacred Places does not dissipate over time" (Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur).

Another related point is that photographs of Adi Da, videos, His books, etc. can all be incredibly powerful transmitters of His Blessing, perhaps even more so than a place He visited once many years ago (because His book is HIS book — no one else is speaking, and His Words are charged with His Transmission; whereas a public place, not set apart, has many others passing through it, changing its energy). One does not even necessarily have to read His Words to feel His Transmission through one of His books. For example, you can read some of the stories on our site about people's miraculous first encounters with Adi Da's books (from Trish Mitchell and from Anthony Costabile), even without opening the book.

You write, "the intuition of the Adept's sacrifice and State appear to have blessed me already since my earliest childhood". There is no doubt that Adi Da meditates His devotees first, and then they are drawn to Him:


This is how people come to Me to become My devotees, or (otherwise) come to Me for Blessing. They become associated with one or another aspect of My world-Work. It is Prior Meditation. In other words, I Priorly Coincide with everyone and everything, and then Signs emerge. This is how I Work. This is My Divine Avataric Nature Showing Itself in the larger world-picture . . . And this is, in fact, how people end up coming to Me.

The devotional relationship to Me does not begin simply when people formally enter into the gathering of My devotees. My Work begins before people even come into My Divine Avataric Company. Some recognize and know that, and there are rather dramatic signs of it. In other cases, individuals are simply drawn to Me and have nothing in mind to say why, other than they heard about Me and were moved.

Avatar Adi Da Samraj, February 2008
"Tell Everyone My Leela Everywhere"
Adi Da Samrajashram Magazine, Vol. 1, #1


Many of the stories in our Finding Adi Da section reflect this fact that Adi Da was already in a person's life, long before they were aware of Him. For example, Lyn Hart  describes how Adi Da began appearing to her in visions, long before she knew who He was. I tell the story of how I first came into Adi Da's physical company when I was a baby, and He was about 18, at Columbia University.

It is very mysterious! But because Adi Da is the Incarnation of the Divine, this is exactly how He works.

So do be grateful to Him for whatever gifts He may already given to you, however exactly that may have transpired (contact with a place He visited and Blessed; visualizing Him in a place you are at, effectively invoking Him there yourself; etc.) . . . but don't stop there! Many of us can recount extraordinary experiences that were associated with His Grace. But what really matters is whether we deepen the relationship with Him to the point where we actually Realize the Divine. And that requires a LOT of His Grace, and a lot of profound turning to Him, for however long it takes in one's own case — lifetimes, if necessary.

 

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