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The
Dawn Horse
Testament
The Testament Of
Secrets
Of The Divine World-Teacher
and True Heart-Master,
Da Avabhasa
(The “Bright”)
November
1991
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Unique Capitalization
Capitalization as a Teaching Device
Throughout His “Source-Texts”, and particularly in The
Dawn Horse Testament, Avatar Adi Da frequently capitalizes
words that would not ordinarily be capitalized in
Englishand such capitalized words include not only
nouns, but also pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and
even articles and prepositions. By such capitalization, He
is indicating that the word refers (either inherently, or by
virtue of the context) to the Unconditional Divine Reality,
rather than the conditional (or worldly) reality.
Avatar Adi Da’s chosen conventions of capitalization vary
in different “Source-Texts” and in different sections of a
given “Source-Text”. In The Dawn Horse Testament (and
certain other Texts), Avatar Adi Da employs a convention in
which the overwhelming majority of all words are
capitalized, and only those words that indicate the egoic
(or dualistic) point of view are left lower-cased. This
capitalization convention (which Avatar Adi Da has worked
out to an extraordinarily subtle degreein ways that
are often startling) is in itself a Teaching device,
intended to communicate His fundamental Revelation that
“There Is Only Real God”, and that only the ego (or the
dualistic or separative point of view) prevents us from
living and Realizing that Truth. For example:
Therefore, For My Every Devotee, all conditions Must Be
Aligned and Yielded In Love With Meor Else any object
or any other Will Be The Cause Of Heart-Stress,
self-Contraction, Dissociation, Clinging, Boredom, Doubt,
The Progressive Discomfort Of Diminished Love-Bliss, and All
The Forgetfulness Of Grace and Truth and Happiness
Itself.
Note that “and” and “or” are lower-casedbecause
these conjunctions are (here, and in almost all contexts)
primal expressions of the point of view of two-ness, or
duality. Also note that “all conditions”, “any object”, “any
other”, and “self” are lower-cased, while “Heart-Stress”,
“Contraction”, “Dissociation”, “Clinging“, “Boredom”,
“Doubt”, “Discomfort”, “Diminished”, and “Forgetfulness” are
capitalized. Avatar Adi Da is telling us that unpleasant or
apparently “negative” states are not inherently egoic. It is
only the presumption of duality and separatenessas
expressed by such words as “conditions”, “object”, “other”,
and “self”that is egoic.
Adidam.org
Why does Adi Da write in capital letters?
Avatar Adi Da has transformed the English language into a
vehicle to serve His Communication of the Sacred,
God-Realizing Process in His Company. In doing so, He has
Revealed the logic underlying the common conventions of
written English.
Adi Da explains: Ordinary speech and written language are centered on the
ego-I, as a tent is raised on a centerpole.
Therefore, in ordinary speech and written language, the
ego-word I is commonly capitalized and
everything less than the ego-I is shown in
lowercase. In contrast, the centerpole of Avatar
Adi Das Speech and Writing is the Heart, the Divine,
Consciousness, Truth, Realty, and Happiness. Therefore, He
capitalizes those words that express the Ecstatic Feeling of
the Awakened Heart, and, in many instances, lowercases those
words expressive of the ego or conditional limits in
general.
This capitalization convention, which Avatar Adi Da has
worked out to an extraordinarily subtle degreein ways
that are often startling) is in itself a Teaching device,
intended to communicate His fundamental Revelation that
There is Only Real God, and that only the ego
(or the dualistic or separative point of view) prevents us
from living and Realizing that Truth.
From: Adidam India
From the time when Heart-Master Da Avabhasa first began
to Communicate His Testament of Secrets, He used capital
letters in a unique way, to honor the importance of the
Message and to give the Communication of His Testament
Principal Force. When asked to explain this use of capital
letters, Heart-Master Da replied, “It Is Louder!” After His
Testament was completed, He responded to those who seemed to
require a further explanation:
The conventions of everyday speech and writing are
based on egoity. The “I” of the separate, independent, and
separative (or “Narcissistic“) self is the primary word
around which all common spoken and written language is
built. My Testament of Secrets is not spoken or Communicated
from the egoic point of view. Therefore, a unique convention
developed spontaneously with the making of this Testament
(wherein and whereby I Intend to speak the Heart-Word, plain
and summary, and in the unique language of the Heart
Itself).
In fact, this Testament is primarily a spoken Message.
From the beginning, I spoke it aloud to gatherings of
practitioners of the Way of the Heart. Written language is
basically a representation, or a picture (or pictogram), of
spoken language. Therefore, this Testament (in its written
form) is a visual representation or Sign of My spoken Word
(which Word itself represents or Conveys My Heart-Feeling
and Heart-Consciousness).
I spontaneously made this picture that is the written
text of this Testament, and it is a picture of a form of
speech that is not based on egoity. It is the speech of
Ecstasy, of Inherently self-Transcending
Heart-Consciousness, or of Perfectly Awakened (and
necessarily Divine) Self-Consciousness, the Heart-Word of
Reality (Itself), Which Is the Inherent or Native Feeling of
Being (Itself).
Ordinary speech and written language are centered on
the ego-“I“, as a tent is raised on a centerpole. Therefore,
in ordinary speech and written language, the egoword “I” is
commonly capitalized, and everything less than the ego`I”
is shown in lowercase. (Indeed, everything that is not the
ego-“I” is grammatically subordinated to the egoic
“I”-reference.) Other ego- “I”s (other than the principal
subject or speaker) are also commonly shown in uppercase, if
they are being “properly” (or formally) addressed, by name.
And capitalization is otherwise commonly reserved for “big
meanings”, or whatever the ego- “I” presumes to be somehow
great, or even Larger (and, therefore, the ego presumes,
Other) than itself.
My Testament of Secrets was (and is) spoken in
Ecstasy, or from the Inherent or Native “point of view” of
the Heart (or Inherently Free Being) Itself, the Ultimate
Condition that always already transcends the ego-“I”, the
conditional world of others and things, and the Primary
Illusions of Separation, Otherness, Relatedness, and
“Difference”. Therefore, the very language of this Testament
expresses (and Communicates) a view of the world (and of
Truth) that is prior to egoity, and prior to the vision of
the world (and the “vision” of Truth) made by the
ego.
This Testament is My Intention to Awaken the
Consciousness of every being to Its Ultimate Real (and
Necessarily Divine) Condition. Therefore, the conventions of
capitalization (and non-capitalization) in this Testament
are Natural Signals to the Inherently (and Ultimately) Free
Heart-Consciousness.
The “centerpole” of this Testament is the Heart
Itself, the Consciousness That Is Transcendental, Inherently
Spiritual, and Necessarily Divine Being (Itself). The
uppercase words express the Ecstatic “Vision” of
Heart-Significance. And the lowercase words (which appear
only occasionally, like the uppercase words in common speech
and writing) achieve, by their infrequency, a special
significance as indicators of conditional or limited
existence.
To read (or Listen to) and Understand this Testament
is to be Released from the egoic vision and its point of
view. Let it be so. Feel and speak (rather than merely
think) this Message. The big and small letters interrupt the
common flow of mind and Signal your Heart that it is time to
Awaken, As You Are.
See: The
Summary Result of Sri Da Avabhasa’s Teaching
“Consideration”


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