Unimagined Success


Roger Briggs


Roger Briggs is the founder and CEO of Naptech, a company specializing in refurbishing electronic testing equipment for resale. Starting on his own, Naptech is now one of the major companies in this field. Even from the beginning, Roger has always given generously for the support of Adi Da, Adidam, and renunciate devotees. He has always been an inspiration to other devotees in this regard. He has become one of Adi Da Samraj's patrons.

Roger Briggs In 1975, I came to Beloved Adi Da Samraj as a young man, not knowing what I would be doing as an "adult", and not really feeling capable of working in the world and fulfilling the American dream. I could very clearly relate to the internal dilemma Adi Da spoke of, and felt in that state of dilemma chronically. The only relief I felt was from drugs and alcohol. 

 

I became a student, and Adi Da's requirements in this area were very clear: either work fulltime or go to school fulltime. Because I didn't really have any marketable skills and because I could collect social security and veterans payments from my father who had died, I decided to go to college and learn electronics. I figured I could find lots of work in this field.

 

I got my AA degree in electronics and over time worked as a technician for Raytheon, Ford Aerospace, TRW, and other companies. I learned some useful skills in calibrating and repairing test equipment. I specifically tried to get jobs with test equipment, with my goal being to land a job at Hewlett-Packard in Santa Rosa, which would get me as close as I thought possible to The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary in Lake County, working in electronics. 

 

After working in the industry in Silicon Valley for several years, I decided to venture out on my own, and go into business myself, repairing and calibrating test equipment for companies in the Silicon Valley area. The business did well and after a few years I started selling used test equipment to some of these companies. All during this time, I was a devotee of Beloved Adi Da living in the Palo Alto area where several other devotees lived, but I wasn't really living in a cooperative community situation there. Most of that time I lived in an apartment with one or two other devotees or sometimes by myself.

 

The business did well, especially the buying and selling aspect of the business. After a few years the business became primarily a buying and selling of used test equipment business. I was selling it and shipping it all over the country and internationally as well. Because I was familiar with Adi Da's Teaching, I assumed no limitations on growth.

 

As a devotee, I wanted to go on retreat at Adi Da Samrajashram, on Naitauba, in Fiji, as many of my devotee friends in Marin and Lake County had done. I had heard wonderful stories about their retreats in 1990. However, I did have a problem, because for the past ten years I hadn't really been living in a cooperative community situation — which was one of the criteria for qualifying for retreat.  I began to realize, though, since I was buying equipment from all over the country, and since I was selling equipment all over the world, that I actually had a mail order business that could be operated from almost anywhere.

 

And so as a devotee who wanted to go on retreat and live the Way more fully, I began considering where I could move to while still operating my business. I realized as a devotee, the best place to live is near an Empowered Sanctuary, so I split up the business with my partner in Silicon Valley and moved to Lake County, near the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.

 

I started a new business called Naptech (a name Adi Da gave me for the business), buying and selling test equipment from Lake County. The business did very well, and doubled in sales every year for about the first five years. I had to move the business three times because we kept running out of space. It is 2006 now, we continue to be an active business in this field, well known for integrity and quality, with 25 employees. I always give as much excess as I can to Adidam and try to hire devotees as much as possible.

 

Since I first heard about Adi Da Samraj, my first goal was to be His devotee, as I knew He was all about Truth, Happiness, and Real God. My next goal was to live as close to the Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary as possible — although I never thought I'd get closer than Santa Rosa. As it turns out, I now have a great income and business in a low cost area, and I live just up the street from the Empowered Sanctuary at The Mountain Of Attention! I owe all my good fortune to my Guru Adi Da, and to following His direction as much as possible.

 

I've also noticed how the giving of excess is a sacred relationship with Adi Da and God, and I attribute all the success and growth we've had in the business to my relationship with Adi Da. I really don't think I could deal with all the problems and difficulties I have had to encounter and work with in growing the business all these years without the helping "arms" my relationship with Adi Da has given me.





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