On the night of December 23, 1995, at the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, in Great Food Dish (the primary kitchen facility on the Sanctuary, formerly known as "First People"), Adi Da Samraj made cookie portraits of devotees with Him in the kitchen. He was accompanied by more devotees singing holiday songs and playing instruments just outside the kitchen window next to Him. The Guru gave loving and humorous instructions to His devotees, inside and outside the kitchen, all night long. Here is just a taste. . .

Marie relayed the Guru's instructions to the keyboardist — me — who happily agreed to let Marie pour vodka down his throat while he continued playing carols.

Five minutes later. . .

Here's an excerpt from a video of the occasion. You can hear the choir singing AFTER I had vodka poured down my throat. (That's my head in the lower right of the choir scene, as I play the keyboard.) And you can hear Beloved Adi Da singing a few notes Himself, and going to the window to check out His choir again.

During one period on the sacred island of Naitauba — perhaps it was in 1995 — Adi Da was having considerations about emotional-sexual matters in gatherings with His devotees. He had explained many times how it is not possible to grow spiritually without understanding and mastering the human, emotional-sexual dimension; that most people were frozen in feeling separate or unloved from early childhood; and that then created complications in their emotional-sexual intimacies. So over the years, He had many considerations with His devotees about this area of life and human maturity. During this particular period on Naitauba, Adi Da had intentionally magnified everyone's sexual energy, in order to have free, unsupressed considerations with them. It was the common experience of all of us there that there was "something in the air" that was greatly magnifying our emotional rawness and our sexual desire. For example, I would have to hold myself back from approaching one female devotee I found attractive, so great was the urge to have sex with her. This was not at all my usual experience of my sexual energy!

One evening, Adi Da encouraged all of us in the room with Him to feel our sexual energy. For example, at one point, He pointed to Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur, who was dressed for the occasion in a sexy, metallic silver minidress. Adi Da observed that she was very attractive, and encouraged everyone to feel that.

At one point, Adi Da had the devotee He had chosen to be His "DJ" turn on upbeat rock music, and we all were dancing, Him along with us, in a way where we fully expressed ourselves naturally, without inhibition — including sexually. When I say this, I don't mean we were all hitting on each other. I mean that, if I felt the music suddenly moving my body so that my hips were swaying forward in a thrusting motion, I wouldn't suppress that movement because of how sexually suggestive it might look to others.

At one moment, I found myself dancing right next to Adi Da. He turned and saw me. And then, looking right into my eyes, He started wiggling His tongue up and down. Then He moved on to dance with someone else.

I was a little surprised by Adi Da's tongue gesture! But I figured it was just a natural part of the overall evening, where everyone's sexual energy was heightened, and He too was animating that in His Own bodily movements.

And that certainly was a part of it. But the full import of His gesture only hit me years later.

One day in 2026, as I was reflecting on that moment with Adi Da, it suddenly occurred to me that He had intended a very humorous double entendre. For the previous two years before that evening, He had had regularly referred to me as "His Tongue" — a play on my surname that also had implications for the nature and scale of service He was expecting me to provide. And I, in turn, always signed all my letters and communications to Him, "Your Tongue".

So that evening, when He turned and looked at me, of course He saw "His Tongue"! And so in the spirit of the moment, He greeted me as "His Tongue" nonverbally — using His tongue in a playful manner that fit the moment and the mood perfectly. It only took me another thirty years to finally grasp His full meaning!