Adi Da Jayanthi:
The Celebration of the Human Birth
of the Divine Person
From the most ancient times, there have been prophecies of a Bringer
of Light who would appear when humanity was lost in darkness. Adi
Da's birth was an event of utterly unprecedented magnitude. Ordinarily,
a human birth is the result of an immeasurable chain of causes and
effects ("karma"). Such an ordinary birth and lifetime is
in some sense helpless, and not something the individual can consciously
influence to any significant extent. But Avatar Adi Da's Coming into
the world was not an ordinary, unconscious reincarnation. It was the
Conscious Incarnation, in human form, of the Divine Reality Itself
— the timeless Consciousness that is the Source and the very Life
of all that exists. Throughout His entire life, even from the time
of His birth, Adi Da Samraj always worked to bring the "Brightness"
of the Divine Reality into the "room" of the world. And so on Adi Da
Jayanthi ("Jayanthi" is Sanskrit for "Victorious"), we celebrate
the Gift of God Present — no longer a question mark for humankind
to ponder and doubt ("Does God exist?"), or a being that can only be found somewhere else ("heaven", etc.), but a Gift for
humankind to recognize, enjoy, and Realize . . . always directly accessible in present time
through the Divine Incarnation of Adi Da.
I Was . . . Born (in Human Form) In A Terrible Moment Of
Necessity — To Call Humankind To The Great Moment Of New Understanding,
and To The Great Future Of A Single Destiny.
In answer to the prayers of humankind, and after millenia of Spiritual
preparation and sacrifice by many great Spiritual Realizers, which
made the miraculous Event possible, the Divine Person was born —
at long last! — in the human form of Adi Da, on November 3, 1939
at 11:21am (EST), in Jamaica, New York.
All of those [Spiritual Realizers] can be seen as a Great
Process in conditional time and space to prepare the Vehicle
of My Avataric Self-Manifestation. But not just as individuals
— it required all beings, including all of mankind, to make
sufficient prayer and Conjunction for this Event of Me. And
It will not be repeated, not can It be repeated. . . Even
all-and-All
was the necessary Preparation. . . At last, I Passed Down
into all-and-All. It was Spontaneous, yet (also) Eternally
Prefigured. It was Anciently Prophesied. It was somehow "caused"
— and yet (Ultimately), there is no "cause" for
It whatsoever.
I have no past lives and no future lives in any dimension. This is My only "birth", and it is only apparent. This birth, this body, these conditions have been assumed and undone in one lifetime, in order to demonstrate the whole Way and to have a fit vehicle for its present communication. The undoing is effective in every plane, high, low, gross, subtle, causal, transcendental. This body-mind, this vehicle or apparent, karmic being, has extensions and destinies in many dimensions, high and low, past, present, and future. But these are not Mine, nor are they effective in Me. This vehicle or karmic being may continue or be taken up by others after this apparent life is terminated. But I am not expressed in that destiny. I am before time and space, and no condition has Me. I have not appeared for reasons. It is only that this vehicle has mysteriously, paradoxically coincided with Me. Therefore, I have conformed it to Myself and come forth. I stand present without qualification in this theater of My apparent birth. Through the Paradox, My mere Presence has become Instructive. I am not a one, a being, nor a One, a Being, I am not object or subject, Object or Subject, except I may appear to be so to devotees, until they Realize Me Perfectly.
I am not born. And I am not one who has been born, I am not a reincarnated individual. I am not even an incarnated individual. I am not one who has a future. I am not one who is in the worlds. I am not one whose consciousness is here or there. I have seen all things and they all exist in Me, so I can describe them to you. But I am not always meditating on them, so they are really beside the point for Me. And I fundamentally, know nothing about them, except that I recognize them perfectly.
So the simple little drama of my life, however dramatic it has appeared to be, is simply a way of restoring you to the Disposition of Truth that you have always intuited, so that you may realize no conventional destiny and no mere experience, so that you can become free of this suffering existence. Because all things upon which you may meditate, all things that may be reflected in you, all things that may arise in the mind in this life or in another life, all things that may be known in meditation or in perception, in memory, recollection, or knowledge in the present, everything altogether may be released from bondage to the self. The separate self may be dissolved. And in the dissolution of this self, you may know, in this moment, that Condition which is beyond performance, beyond knowledge, beyond acquisition. It is so Perfect that no being has ever spoken it, except that I have been permitted to speak it, to suggest it. This is not because of any merit. I have never been born, so there is no merit involved. I am simply a Voice that instigates your own insight.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, July 12, 1976
Vision Mound Magazine, Vol. 2 #5
Adi Da was born in the most ordinary of circumstances — to Frank
and Dorothy Jones, a middle-class couple, who named their son "Franklin
Albert Jones", and who had no conscious knowledge of Who
He was.
Adi
Da with His parents
Adi Da with His parents
(click to enlarge)
Even so, the name they chose was auspicious, suggesting freedom
("Franklin") and brightness ("Albert").[1]
From the very moment of His birth, Adi Da was confronted by the
fragility of the human condition. Like many infants, His life was
threatened by the umbilical cord, which was wound around His neck.
But unlike other infants, He was fully aware of what was taking
place. While the doctors worked to keep His body alive, He remained perfectly Conscious and Free of all concern
— Self-Aware as the Divine Reality. He recalls that, in that Divine
State, untouched by the drama of His human birth, He instead was
moved to regard the people lying in all the nearby hospital wards, Blessing
them and healing them.
Places in Adi Da's Early Childhood
Pictures Taken in 2011
[click picture to enlarge]
Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New
York
birthplace of Adi Da Samraj
Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica, New
York
birthplace of Adi Da Samraj
park across from Mary Immaculate Hospital
where Adi Da's father "paced" while awaiting His birth
Adi Da's first home,
in St. Albans, New York
the house of Adi Da's grandfather
in Hollis, New York
Mrs. Farr's house
in Hollis, New York
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
(click to enlarge)
The time and place of Adi Da's birth were anything but arbitrary.
The deeper-personality-vehicle
enabling His Incarnation was made available to Him on July 4, 1902,
upon the death and perfect surrender of Swami
Vivekananda. This deeper-personality-vehicle enabled Adi Da's
immediate appearance in the higher realms of the Cosmic
Mandala in which that vehicle existed.
But Adi Da did not choose to immediately incarnate in the physical
realm.
The Second World War began in 1939. It was a war that resulted not
only in the death of tens of millions of people, but also in the
moral devastation of the world. This pivotal crisis in humanity's
history was the inevitable time for Avatar Adi Da to be born.
There was yet another factor in the vast constellation of conditions
which drew Avatar Adi Da to delay His incarnation until 1939: the birth of global
communication and interconnectedness. Only in a world that was globally interconnected would His
Spiritual gifts and influence be able to touch millions, with unprecedented
immediacy. Because the world was becoming Westernized in culture
and psyche, it was necessary for Avatar Adi Da's world-Blessing
Work that He be born in the Western world and that He fully know
the Western mind.
Because of My unique Disposition, I agreed to be born in the
West. . . I was Impulsed to Serve beings in the West especially,
and all beings ultimately. Therefore, I agreed to this Birth,
and was made in this particular form to Serve everyone, and
to suffer all the limitations of ordinariness. So I was born,
and I did My Work. . . This Person standing before you, Serving
you . . . assumed responsibility to be Submitted by Birth —
not merely to get on an airplane, but by Birth to be Submitted
— to Westerners, even to be polluted by the association,
to Submit to it, to Serve them in all ways necessary for the
sake of their Enlightenment, their Realization, to do it all
without the least withdrawal.
Avatar Adi Da was born fully Awakened as the Divine Reality. While
still a child, He named His perfectly Illumined State, the "Bright".
Adi Da as a child
granting Darshan
On November 3, 1939, at 11:21 A.M., in Jamaica, Queens County,
New York, I was born "Franklin Albert Jones ". . .
Even as a baby, I remember only crawling around inquisitively
with a boundless Feeling of Joy, Light, and Freedom in the
middle of my head that was bathed in Energy moving unobstructed
in a Circle — down from above, all the way down, then up,
all the way up, and around again — and always Shining from
my heart....
And I was a Radiant Form — the Source of Energy, Love-Bliss
and Light in the midst of a world that is entirely Energy,
Love-Bliss and Light.
I was the Power of Reality, a direct Enjoyment and Communication
of the One Reality. I was the Heart Itself, Who Lightens the
mind and all things.
I was the same as every one and every thing, except it became
clear that others were apparently unaware of the "Thing" Itself.
I Am The “Bright” — Itself.
This “Brightness” Speaks.
The “Bright” Is Born AsThis, My Avataric Body-Mind.
My Divine Spiritual Descent Upon the body-mind Of My Devotee
— As The “Thumbs” — Is My Avataric Divine Means.
All This Was Given From The Avataric Birth Of This, My Bodily
(Human) Form.
Indeed, These Words — The “Bright” and The “Thumbs” — Were Generated
By Me As An Infant.
I Am Uttering To You The Revelation That Was Present At My Birth
and In My Infancy — and Nothing Whatsoever Has Been Added To
It or Taken Away From It.
Nothing In The Human Experience Of This, My Avataric Body-Mind,
Has Modified My Revelation or limited It In The Slightest.
My Avatarically-Given Revelation Is A Divine Spiritual Revelation
For The Sake Of all beings.
Therefore, Heart-Recognize Me, and Heart-Respond To Me.
Turn To Me, Receive Me.
Constantly Know Me.
If You Do this, You Will Be Certain Of The Truth I Am Telling
You.
My State now is not, in any sense, different from My State in the moment when I was Born. My State has always been the Same. My Life-Adventure was entirely a Teaching, a Revelation, a Process I had to Suffer. Thus, an Instructional Narrative, or Sign, has been Made by My Life, as I had to Live It. That Sign should Instruct you. My Own State Is the Same now as it was at the beginning — the "Bright" Infant.
[On the difference between an ordinary incarnation and
an Avataric Incarnation:] My True Story is the Divine
Avataric Leela — the Leela of the One Who is Realized from
Birth, Transcendentally Spiritually Fully Awake from Birth.
That is a Unique Situation — because not only Is It Full Transcendental
Spiritual awakening, but I am not born. Karmic entities are
born, and they seek Realization — and, then, if they achieve
It (to some Real degree), they die. Full Realization does
not come into birth except through an Avatar. Only in Such
a Case can there be bodily survival of a Fully Realized birth.
Otherwise, there would not be any bodily conjunction to begin
with, because it would not be viable.
The purpose of Adi Da's birth — His Avataric Incarnation — was
twofold: to establish a new and complete Revelation of the living
Divine Reality, and the Way by which all beings could Realize the
Divine Reality; and to transform the dire future that human egos
were otherwise making more and more likely.
Avatar
Adi Da Samraj
Avatar Adi Da Samraj
(click to enlarge)
The Divine Avatar's Intervention here is a Spiritual one. And His
Avataric Incarnation refers to much more than His bodily human form
— it refers to the great Emergence of Divine Conscious Light into
this realm. While His primary Work in the body was to establish
a new Way of Divine Realization here, He is always Working Spiritually,
on a universal scale, to purify the negative energies, influences,
and forces that have patterned (and continue to pattern) world events.
Adi Da Jayanthi, November 3, 2008 (Adi Da Samrajashram)
Adi Da Jayanthi birthday cake at a small devotee
party in Oakland, California
(November 3, 2012)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Fire Puja in New Zealand, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Fire Puja in Auckland, New Zealand,
2012
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Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland, New Zealand, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland, New Zealand,
2012
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Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland, New Zealand, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Auckland, New Zealand,
2012
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Coconut to be dropped into the fire of the Da Jayanthi Fire Puja
with a Divine Horse made from layers of acrylic paint. Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop,
The Netherlands, 2014
Coconut to be dropped into the fire of the Da Jayanthi Fire Puja
with a Divine Horse made from layers of acrylic paint.
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands,
2014
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Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
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Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration in the European Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in the European
Danda, Maria Hoop, The Netherlands, 2012
(click to enlarge)
Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
(click to enlarge)
Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
(click to enlarge)
Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
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Adi
Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The Mountain Of Attention, 2013
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration in Land Bridge Pavilion at The
Mountain Of Attention, 2013
(click to enlarge)
Invitation
Adi Da Jayanthi, November 3, 2008 (Adi Da Samrajashram)
The great good news is that, in the course of His human lifetime
(from His birth on November 3, 1939 to His
Divine Mahasamadhi on November 27, 2008), Adi Da succeeded in
establishing the Way of Adidam — the Way by which all beings can
now Realize the Divine Reality.
You do not yet know how to estimate the effect of My Birth and what will occur as a result of My Incarnation.
You are the seed of a great historical change, and you cannot even see what is before your eyes. We have accomplished great things already, although you are not yet aware of it. . . As decades pass, you will see the import of what you have all experienced in seed form but cannot yet recognize. . . .
The purpose of My Birth is to transform humankind, everyone, human history, by bringing you through this terrible transition in which you now find yourselves. My Divine Avataric Birth Is an Epic Moment of Transcendental Spiritual Intervention. . . When you have passed through this crisis of growth, you will begin to understand what has happened, what Force has been Brought into the flesh through My Divine Avataric Birth. . . .
This Birth will then be a tool for the transformation of humanity altogether. This Is My Purpose. It is true for every single individual who approaches Me. Every single one is Called by Me, every single one is Loved by Me, every single one I Embrace.
Avatar Adi Da Samraj, November 7, 1983
Adi Da
Jayanthi Celebration, Naitauba, 2012
Adi Da Jayanthi Celebration, Naitauba,
2012
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And so we invite all who read this to learn about
and consider taking up
the Way of Adidam — and Realize the Perfect and Eternal Happiness
of Adi Da, that infinitely exceeds every
form of suffering and every passing pleasure in this mortal life and limited world.
"Franklin" derives from the
Middle English frankelin, "freeman" —
see here.
"Albert" is from the Germanic name Adalbert,
which is composed of the elements adal, "noble",
and beraht, "bright" — see here.
"Jones" is the English form of Iohannes and the Latin form of the Greek name Ιωαννης (Ioannes), itself derived from the Hebrew name "Yochanan" meaning "God is gracious"
— see here. So altogether, the esoteric meaning of the name, "Franklin Albert Jones", is "A Free
Man Who is the 'Bright', through Whom God is Gracious".