Adidam History – A Chronology
Source: https://www.adidaupclose.org/sacred_history/index.html
1970
May
28 Adi Da leaves the United States to go to India “for an indefinite period”, together with Nina Davis and Patricia Morley. They stay for one night in Mumbai (Bombay), and then (on May 30th) continue on to the Ashram of Swami Muktananda.
June
7 Approximately one week after arriving at Swami Muktananda’s Shree Gurudev Ashram, Adi Da is working in the garden when the Divine Shakti appears to Him in subtle form as the Virgin Mary. She instructs Him in a form of the Catholic Christian prayer, “Hail Mary”. This initiates a period of Christian heart-visions for Adi Da.
20 At Swami Muktananda’s Ashram in Ganeshpuri, India, the Divine Shakti in the form of the Virgin Mary instructs Adi Da Samraj to go on a pilgrimage to the Christian holy places in Jerusalem and Europe. He starts a diary of His Christian experiences, which He continues until July 17, 1970.
22 During His daily visit to the burial shrine of Swami Nityananda, Adi Da Samraj is blessed by Swami Nityananda, who tells Him that He belongs to the Mother-Shakti now, and confirms that He should leave Swami Muktananda’s Ashram and let Her guide Him.
23 Adi Da Samraj, Nina Davis, and Patricia Morley leave Swami Muktananda’s Ashram and arrive in Mumbai (Bombay). Directed by the Divine Shakti appearing to Adi Da in the form of the Virgin Mary, they set out on a pilgrimage to Christian holy sites.
24 Adi Da Samraj arrives in Jerusalem at the outset of His Christian Pilgrimage and will stay through June 27.
28 Adi Da Samraj arrives in Athens, Greece as part of His Christian Pilgrimage.
July
7 visits Rome as part of His Christian Pilgrimage. (Picture: Adi Da in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.)
11 arrives in Paris as part of His Christian Pilgrimage. 12 arrives in London as part of His Christian Pilgrimage.
14 arrives in Madrid, Spain, as part of His Christian Pilgrimage.
16 visits the great shrine at Fatima, Portugal, as part of His Christian Pilgrimage. He makes what He describes as His “last emotional gesture to Christianity”.
17 visits the sea resort of Estoril, Portugal. He makes His last entry in His pilgrimage diary: “The Christian visions were not false. It was necessary for me to have them, in order to Realize the Truth that transcends them. Those frozen imageries formed part of the last barrier to the full Awareness of Reality….”
August
settles in Los Angeles, after having completed His Christian Pilgrimage in the Middle East and Europe, and having returned to the United States.
Sept
10 Re-Awakened to His Native Condition of Divine Enlightenment in the Vedanta Society Temple in Hollywood.
1971
1972
April
25 The public is invited to the formal opening of Shree HridayamSiddhashram at 8:00pm, in the small hall behind the bookstore at 6913 Melrose Avenue, in Hollywood, California. At 8:15pm, Adi Da Samraj takes His seat for the first time, looks around briefly at everyone, then sits in silent Satsang for twenty to thirty minutes. At approximately 8:45pm, He looks out at those who are gathered and quietly asks, “Who will cast the first stone?” When no one responds He asks, “Has everyone understood?” Larry Geller replies that he hasn’t understood, and asks Adi Da to explain what He means by “understanding”. Thus Adi Da Samraj begins His first talk to the public. He later entitles this talk, “Understanding”, and it becomes the first talk in His book, The Method of the Siddhas.
June
22 At the Melrose Ashram in Los Angeles, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Gorilla Sermon”, which is later published in The Method of the Siddhas (and now available in My “Bright” Word).
July
20 In Los Angeles, Adi Da gathers with devotees on the first Celebration of “Guru Day”, now The Great Sovereign-Avataric Celebration of Adi-Guru Purnima. He gives the talk, “Skinning The Disciple”, about the “seeking error” in all who approach Him, which now appears as part of the “Walking The Dog” chapter of My Bright” Word.
Oct
22 In Los Angeles, California, Adi Da gives the talk, “One-Pointedness”, which is later published in The Method of the Siddhas. “All of the Great Siddha-Gurus (of whatever Real degree of Real-God-Realization) — Who have Taught and Transmitted the Inherently Divine Truth of Reality to living beings — have given their devotees the Graceful Gift of Satsang.
Nov
9 At the Melrose Ashram in Los Angeles, Adi Da gives the talk, “Vital Shock”, later published in The Method of the Siddhas (and currently in My “Bright” Word).
1973
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Jan
3 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Guru Enters Devotee” at the La Brea Ashram, which would later be published in the book, Garbage and the Goddess.
6 Adi Da Samraj makes a second trip to San Francisco to sit with interested people. He formalizes the service functions in the Los Angeles Ashram, indicating who is responsible for what.
18 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, Money, Food, and Sex, in which He formalizes the disciplines of money, food, and sex for devotees’ spiritual practice. This talk was later published in the book, My “Bright” Word (known previously as The Method Of The Siddhas).
Feb
21 Swami Rudrananda (Rudi), dies. Rudi was Adi Da Samraj’s first spiritual teacher.
March
1 In Los Angeles, Adi Da Samraj defines Prasad as the symbol of Grace, in a letter to devotees.
11 In Los Angeles, on the first Prasad Day, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Heaven-Born Gospel of The Ruchira Avatar”, which would later be published in The Method of the Siddhas.
Devotees begin relating to Adi Da Samraj in the traditional manner as Guru (with formal bowing, etc.).
14 The Student Center is opened on Melrose Avenue, two doors down from the Melrose Ashram. The first student course is initiated.
Jun
13 In Los Angeles, Adi Da talks with devotees about True Spirituality versus the limiting search for “ecstasy”. “True Spirituality is not ecstasis — ‘standing outside yourself’ — another condition, in other words. Ecstasy is not the goal of true Spiritual life — ecstasy is one of the conditions under which ‘self’-understanding is appropriate.
18 Adi Da gives the talk, “Guru, Faith, and Satsang”.
28 Adi Da gives the talk, “I Only Move Where There is Fire”. (Available as a CD with the name, Conversion To The Guru.)
July
1 The Method of the Siddhas is published. (This would later be republished as My “Bright” Word.) It is comprised of Adi Da’s original formal Teaching Discourses, given in the years 1972-1973. Adi Da would describe this book as providing answers to every beginner’s question about the “radical” Reality-Way of Adidam.
15 The first Guru Purnima celebration.
Aug
16 In a letter written on this day to the Los Angeles Ashram, devotee, Gerald Sheinfeld, communicates Adi Da Samraj’s announcement of His new name, “Bubba Free John”; Adi Da also calls for the establishment of “Bubba Free John University” as a center for the worldwide transformation of culture and spirituality.
Sept
2 The Heart of the Ribhu Gita is published by The Dawn Horse Press. This book contains commentaries by Ramana Maharshi, edited by Adi Da (who also wrote the introduction to the book).
Oct
25 The decision is made to buy The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, which will provide a more secluded place than Los Angeles for Adi Da Samraj to engage in intensive spiritual work with devotees.
Nov
9 At the La Brea Ashram in Los Angeles, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Three Dharmas”.
18 At the LaBrea Ashram in Los Angeles, Adi Da gives the talk, “God Is Perfectly Obvious to Me”, in which He describes (for the first time) the prototypes of the “solid” and “vital” strategies.
Dec
21 Adi Da Samraj has the first “accessories party” with the Los Angeles Ashram and calls for a “seventy-year party” to celebrate the ecstasy of God-Communion. This marks the beginning of the Garbage and the Goddess Teaching Demonstration.
1974
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Jan
7 Sadguru Sri Gnanananda dies.
23 Adi Da Samraj takes up residence at Persimmon (The Mountain Of Attention) for the first time.
26 The first community gathering with Adi Da Samraj at Persimmon (The Mountain Of Attention), with devotees coming from Los Angeles and San Francisco. Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Better To Be Happy Than Concerned” in what is now Temple Eleutherios.
Feb
13 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Understanding versus Yoga”.
18 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Death is Not Your Concern”. This would later be published in the book, Easy Death
Mar
18 Adi Da Samraj formally names His Church “The Dawn Horse Communion”.
22 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Discarding the Cult”.
23 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Saturday Night Massacre” in Great Food Dish.
26 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees in Ordeal Bath Lodge. This event becomes known as “Monday Night at the Baths”.
30 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Process of Transformation”.
April
15 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Garbage and the Goddess”, in Temple Eleutherios, which would later be published in the book, Garbage and the Goddess. 18 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Franklin Jones Is a Fictional Character”. “‘Franklin Jones’ is a series of lessons. . . . The Knee Of Listening is about ‘Franklin Jones’, the one who has a spiritual adventure, who goes through transformations, who has learning experiences, and all of that. . . . My life was lived as a series of lessons, over and against the cult of this world.”
July
7 At The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, the First Great Guru Day is held. The Garbage and the Goddess period ends. The filming of the movie, “A Difficult Man” begins. Adi Da Empowers Lithia Springs; Adi Da’s Feet are washed there.
Oct
1 Garbage and the Goddess is published. This book is an amazing account of miraculous phenomena manifested by Adi Da during 1974 for the sake of teaching His devotees fundamental lessons.
25 National Premiere of the film, “A Difficult Man”. Nov
4 Fear-No-More Zoo is established at The Mountain Of Attention. 15 Conscious exercise and the Transcendental Sun is published.
1975
Paradox Realization
Jan
1 Stricter student practice disciplines are re-instated.
20 At the Polk Street Center in San Francisco, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “I Prefer to Be Free”, about the decentralization of the Ashram.
Mar
24 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Frogs and Walls”, in Western Face Cathedral (now Temple Adi Da).
April
3 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk “The Invisible Man”, at The Mountain Of Attention. “A lot of what the guru does, apparently as teacher, is an attempt to confuse or paradox you beyond any interest in the teaching, any interest in anything else, experiences or whatever so that you will become available in that raw form to the Guru-Siddhi.
Jun
1 The book, No Remedy, is published.
July
2 Additional land is purchased for Persimmon (now known as The Mountain Of Attention). 13 Adi Da’s daughter, Io Free Jones, is born at 4:44 a.m. (PDT).
Sept
7 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Sex, Laughter, and God-Realization”, in Land Bridge Pavilion.
21 Adi Da’s daughter, Shawnee Free Jones, is born at 2:53 a.m. (PDT).
Dec
1 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives His devotees the Way of Divine Communion: “Therefore, many will come to me, and all are welcome, who are simply suffering the common failures of life. To all of them, I simply say, come to Me happily, with the urge to happiness, to peace, to love, and to a better realization of your born life.
16 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Divine Distraction”, in which He compares the devotional relationship to Him with that of Krishna and His Gopis. (An update of this talk would become the essay, “Perfect Distraction”, in Part Nine of The Aletheon.)
1976
Jan
10 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the community of His devotees and the world the Way of Divine Communion.
17 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da and His devotees view the film “Laughter” in Western Face Cathedral.
22 Adi Da’s daughter, Tamarind Free Jones, is born 9:35 A.M. PST at The Mountain Of Attention.
Feb
14 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”.
Mar
10 At The Mountain Of Attention, the “Gala Fasting Celebration” begins. 26 The revised second edition of No Remedy is published.
April
18 Adi Da Samraj moves to Hawaii.
May
6 Adi Da gives “The Free Primitive Church of Divine Communion” as the new name for the fellowship of His devotees.
July
Indoor Summer
11 The Way of Divine Communion booklet is distributed.
Aug
14 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gathers with devotees in Western Face Cathedral (now Temple Adi Da) and introduces His consideration of Divine Ignorance to the full gathering of His devotees for the first time.
At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da engages devotees in a consideration about how “I” is the body.
Oct
10 – At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “My Radiance is Perfect”, introducing the Divine Ignorance consideration.
Nov
10 I Is The Body booklet published.
Dec
3 Adi Da formally renames the education division, “Vision Mound Ceremony”. Adi Da (12/12/76): “Traditionally, spiritual cultures would often build a mound as a holy place. People went to a prominent place on the earth, a rise, a hill, or a mountain.
8 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Identification of the Beloved”, which was later published in the book, The Paradox of Instruction.
31 Adi Da Samraj returns to San Francisco from Hawaii to help realign devotees’ practice.
1977
Jan
1 Adi Da Samraj sits with the Adidam community at the Polk Street Student Center and bookstore in San Francisco.
29 Adi Da Samraj writes the book, What To Remember To Be Happy
Feb
22 The Paradox of Instruction is published. This book and Breath and Name were the two Source Texts of Adidam at the time.
Mar
3 The San Francisco bookstore on Polk Street suffers damage from a fire. 16 Adi Da Samraj returns to Vision Mound (The Mountain Of Attention).
April
18 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Heartbeat is the Primary Form of Contraction”, at The Mountain Of Attention.
Jun
3 The first edition of Vision Mound magazine is published.
24 The book, Breath and Name, is published. Breath and Namedescribes a beginner’s practice that prepares the body, emotions, and mind for more advanced spiritual practice. But even this beginner’s practice is a “seventh stage Way” based on “prior enlightenment”, intelligence, and freedom from childish and adolescent habits and illusions.
Aug
19 At The Mountain Of Attention, formal use of Plain Talk Chapel is initiated.
22 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da talks to devotees about the need to embrace all the aspects of the Revelation of Real God, including the aspects of change, dissolution, and death.
30 Adi Da Samraj begins His fifth pilgrimage to India, accompanied by devotees William Tsiknas and Crane Kirkbride.
Sept
2 In India, Adi Da Samraj visits Sri Ramanasramam, Ramana Maharshi’s Ashram. 5 During His fifth visit to India, Adi Da visits Pundi Swami.
9 Adi Da returns to California from His fifth visit to India. 15 End of theatrical Teaching Work.
All dates for the rest of this year at Mountain of Attention Sanctuary
Oct
writes the essay, “True Religion”, which is later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
18 gives the talk, “The Golden, Great, Bright-Foreheaded Warrior”, explaining what Krishna’s admonition to Arjuna to “fight” (in the Bhagavad Gita) is really about. The talk was later published in Forehead, Breath, and Smile.
24 Adi Da Samraj’s Shiva Dance.
Nov
3 gives the talk, ‘Renouncing the Search for the Edible Deity’, which is later published in The Eating Gorilla Comes In Peace.
6 gives the talk, “The Religious Ambivalence of Western Man”, which is later published in The Way That I Teach.
8 gathers with devotees and Calls each and all to Be Happy, in every moment.
14 gives the talk, “God Is Not an Alternative Reality”, which is later published in the book, The Way That I Teach.
15 gives the talk, “God Is Not an Alternative Reality”(later published in Vision Mound magazine), in which He Criticizes the traditional and modern day tendency to equate Real-God-Realization with the inversion of attention.
29 Adi Da Samraj meets with devotees for the first time at Talking God Seminary, in Clearlake, California, where He grants Darshan and talks with devotees.
Dec
11 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Abandoning Casual Association Between the Sexes” (later to be published in Love Of The Two-Armed Form).
25 Adi Da Samraj meets with devotees at Talking God Seminary in Clearlake, California. He gives the talk, “Love Is Sufficient Wisdom”, which is later published in God Is Not a Gentleman and I Am That One.
31 Adi Da Samraj meets with devotees again at Talking God Seminary, in Clearlake, California.
1978
Jan
20 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da meets with Dr. Thakkur to discuss Kaya Kalpa practices for bodily rejuvenation.
Feb
2 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Wives of the Prophet”.
6 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “Songs of Sahaj Samadhi”, which would later be published as “Songs of the Enlightened Heart” in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
12 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Man Who Fell to Earth”, in Plain Talk Chapel.
13 Adi Da’s book, The Way That I Teach, is published.
March
1 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da re-introduces the Way of Sacrifice (also known as The Way of Surrender).
18 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Crucifixion and Transfiguration”.
23 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives devotees the Divine Invocation (now known as The First Great Invocation).
24 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “God and Doubt”.
April
1 Adi Da writes the essay, “The Secret of How To Change”, which is now titled “Right Principle and Right Self-Management: The Secrets of How To Change”, and appears in Part Nine of The Aletheon.
3 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “I Am John”, which would later appear in The Enlightenment Of The Whole Body.
11 Adi Da Samraj establishes the Renunciate Order.
26 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Eating Gorilla”, at The Mountain Of Attention.
At Da Love-Ananda Mahal
May
14 Adi Da’s book for children, What to Remember to Be Happy, is published, instructing young (and old) people to “feel the Mystery”. Later editions would be titled What, Where, When, How, Why, and Who To Remember To Be Happy.
20 In Hawaii, Adi Da gives devotees the first version of the Prayer of Remembrance.
27 In Hawaii, Adi Da gives devotees the “Bodily Worship of the Word” practice (“Bodily Worship of the Word or Name of the Radiant Person of the Living God”), as part of the daily “Cycle Of Devotions”.
Jun
1 In Hawaii, Adi Da gives devotees the original form of “The Divine Disclosure” (now appearing as “The Divine Avataric Self-Disclosure” in First Word of The Aletheon).
4 At Muliwai House in Oahu, Hawaii, Adi Da writes the essay, “The Essence of Devotion”, His Free Rendering of verses twenty-two through twenty-five of chapter fourteen, book eleven, of the Bhagavata Purana. This essay is later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body and as “Ruchira-Guru-Bhava, or, The Love-‘Intoxication’ of True Devotion To Me” in Aham Da Asmi.
13 At the Muliwai House in Oahu, Hawaii, Adi Da writes the essay, “How the Law Is Fulfilled in Practice”, later published in Bodily Worship of the Living God.
14 At the Muliwai House in Oahu, Hawaii, Adi Da writes the essay, “My Purity”, which is later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
20 At Muliwai House, Oahu, Hawaii, Adi Da writes a Free Rendering of verses seven through twenty-six of chapter twenty-six, book eleven, of the Bhagavata Purana, later published in Love of the Two-Armed Form.
21 Adi Da Samraj writes the essay, “The Free Standing Man”, His free rendering of portions of the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad Gita(a conversation between the God-Man Krishna and His warrior devotee, Arjuna), later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
27 In Muliwai (Oahu, Hawaii), Adi Da writes the essay, My Work Is Necessary, but It Must Also Fail, which is later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
29 While at Muliwai, Hawaii, Adi Da writes the essay, “The True Man”, which is later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
Jul
12 Guru Day Celebration at Muliwai, Hawaii. 17 Live in Fire and be Purified (video)
Adi Da gives the talk, “The Fire Must Have Its Way”. (An excerpt can be seen here.) He talks about the tapas or heat produced in devotees’ devotional relationship to Him.
In the summer of 1978, during the famous “ten days of celebration,” three hundred and thirty students were sitting in Western Face Cathedral (now Temple Adi Da) practicing the new devotional cycle and ceremony we had learned from our Teacher.
Aug
20 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da writes the essay, “The Way Is Forever, but the Realization Is Absolute”, later published in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body and The Hymn Of The True Heart-Master.
23 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da writes the essay, “Frustration: The Universal Disease”, which is later published in The Eating Gorilla Comes In Peace.
31 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da writes the essay, “What Will You Do If You Love Me?” He makes it the epilogue to The Enlightenment of the Whole Body. This Essay now appears as “What Is A Greater Message Than This?” in Part Twenty-Six of The Aletheon.
Sept
18 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj writes an essay on “radical” devotion, “I have come to Accept the Worship of My Devotees”: “I Am not other than the Divine Person. I Am the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Divine Consciousness, Shown to humankind through My bodily (human) Divine Form.
20 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj writes the essay, “The Law In My Company”, originally published in The Hymn of the Master
27 Adi Da gives devotees the first version of The Great Confession.
Oct
At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj grants Darshan in Plain Talk Chapel.
28 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “True Surrender Is a Koan”, which is published in The God In Every Body Book, and which is a direct and humorous address to the dilemma of every beginner in Spiritual practice: How do I surrender to God?
29 The Enlightenment of the Whole Body is published.
Nov
1 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives devotees “The Call to Meditation”. 7 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives devotees “The Call to Prayer”.
Dec
13 The book, Love of the Two-Armed Form, is published. Subtitle: “The Free and Regenerative Function of Sexuality in Ordinary Life and the Transcendence of Sexuality in True Religious or Spiritual Practice”.
16 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “What Is Cultism?” “Everything about cultism is specifically criticized in this Teaching.” View it HERE: https://www.adidaupclose.org/cgi-bin/videos/pageprofile.cgi?id=PAG1001250
23 Dressed in holiday red (“I just happened to pick this out for tonight”), Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees in Land Bridge Pavilion and gives what becomes known as the Christmas Talk. He discusses devotees’ childhood religious beliefs about Jesus and sings, with devotees, holiday songs and carols from the various religious traditions represented by devotees from around the world.
1979
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At the Mountain of Attention
Jan
1 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Ego-Death and the Chaos Of Experience”, which would later be published in Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p43lFLHaPZk&t=520s
5 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “The Healing Power of Community”, which is later published in Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!
Feb
1 The Eating Gorilla Comes in Peace is published.
5 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “Songs of Sahaj Samadhi”, which would later be published as “Songs of the Enlightened Heart” in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
6 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “Songs of Sahaj Samadhi”, which would later be published as “Songs of the Enlightened Heart” in The Enlightenment of the Whole Body.
11 Puja and emotional conversion “considerations” begin.
27 Devotional use of a Murti of Adi Da as a representational image of the Divine is initiated at The Mountain Of Attention.
April
2 First Sacred Ash packets are designed.
Adi Da Samraj takes the name of “John” at The Mountain Of Attention.
4 First Sacred Ash packets are offered to Adi Da Samraj at The Mountain Of Attention.
5 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Wizard of Oz”, which would later be published in Compulsory Dancing.
13 At The Mountain Of Attention, the first Arati on Adi Da Samraj’s Bodily (human) Form takes place at Bright Behind Me.
15 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “I Am the Headless Horseman”, which is later published in God Is Not a Gentleman and I Am That One.
25 End of period of consideration about emotional conversion.
July
8 Adi Da sits with devotees in Land Bridge Pavilion.
9 Adi Da consecrates the Holy Site, Red Sitting Man. Story here.
Aug
14 Adi Da talks to devotees about the illusion of a separate self.
23 The Manner Of Flowers Empowerment takes place. Adi Da speaks about Empowerment.
Sept
9 Empowered objects are installed at the Red Sitting Man holy site. 13 Adi Da Writes the “Beloved, I Am Da” letter
14 Conversion is published. (A new, expanded version would later be published under the title, Compulsory Dancing.)
16 Adi Da Samraj gives the landmark “Day Of the Heart” talk to over 800 devotees in All True Things Park at The Mountain Of Attention. He gives devotees His Name, “Da”, to invoke Him.
17 Empowerment of Holy Cat Grotto
The great fire at The Mountain Of Attention headed directly for the Sanctuary, and stopped a foot short of the Sanctuary boundary (near the Red Sitting Man holy site), after Adi Da went up to “look the fire in the eye”.
At 5pm, Adi Da Samraj views a performance by the children of Vegetable Surrender in Great Food Dish (now Darshan Adytum).
At 9pm, novices are initiated by Adi Da Samraj with lay member devotees in attendance.
Oct
2 Adi Da gathers with devotees and “considers” the ego-transcending presumption that necessarily characterizes His true devotee.
7 At Holy Cat Grotto at The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da initiates lay members. He writes the essay, “True Prayer”, which is later published in Bodily Worship of the Living God.
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18 Adi Da writes the essay, “God-Realization Is the Transcendence of Experience”, which is later published in Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!.
28 Adi Da writes the essay, “The Ultimate Mystery of Consciousness”, which is later published in Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!
29 The first Prosperity Puja is performed.
Nov
3 Earth-Fire Temple is Empowered (for the second time) by Adi Da at The Mountain Of Attention.
Initiation of children at Plain Talk Chapel and Holy Cat Grotto, at The Mountain Of Attention.
The sacred fire site, Red Sitting Man, is Empowered by Adi Da Samraj at The Mountain Of Attention.
4 Adi Da Samraj grants a Darshan occasion in Land Bridge Pavilion.
At Da Love-Ananda Mahal
6 Adi Da Samraj moves back to Free Standing Man, at Da Love-Ananda Mahal. He writes the essay, “The Dharma Bearer”.
Dec
3 After sitting in Western Face Cathedral at The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj moves to Free Standing Man at Tumomama.
1980
Jan
19 The book, The Four Fundamental Questions, is published. Book description: “This book considers the fundamental questions of our existence. It does not merely give ‘answers’ to these questions.”
Feb
1 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the talk, “God Creates the Lifetime of the Spiritual Master”, which is published as part of “The Divine Life and Work of the Spiritual Master” in the book, The Bodily Location Of Happiness.
15 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “You Are Stuck in the Desert”. 19 Adi Da gives the talk, “The Mahasiddha Discipline”.
20 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Argument”.
21 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, The Purification of Doubt and Differences via the Introduction of Advaitayana Buddhism. This is published as part of the book, Nirvanasara.
25 Adi Da initiates the “Five Off the Wall” practice.
March
1 Adi Da moves from Free Standing Man (at Da Love-Ananda Mahal) to Vision Mound (at The Mountain Of Attention).
2 Adi Da gives the talk, “Crazy Wisdom”.
17 At The Mountain Of Attention, in The Manner Of Flowers, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Da Avocado”.
25 At The Mountain Of Attention, the first puja is performed at Tall Animals Land.
27 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj Empowers Skyway Temple for the second time.
April
24 I Am Happiness, the children’s edition of Adi Da’s autobiography, The Knee of Listening, is published.
25 The book, Compulsory Dancing, is published. Book description: “The problem of the usual Man is emotional dissociation. The body-mind or psycho-physical being that is the usual Man is automatically tending to contract upon itself, to be differentiated from all experiential phenomena, to possess and fill its emptiness with the objects of all experience, to protect itself with all knowledge, to separate itself from the mysterious emotional demand of all relations and events.”
26 Adi Da’s daughter, Naamleela Free Jones, is born at 5:05 AM (PDT) in Marin, California.
May
22 At The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Truth About Death” (later published in Easy Death it also can be read online here.)
31 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj responds to a devotee’s question about the process after His Divine Mahasamadhi.
Jun
10 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks to them about separation, death and the Reality-Way beyond them.
July
9 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “What Is to Be Realized?”, which would later be published in the book, Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!.
13 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Study the Avadhoot”, which later appears in The Lesson.
Aug
24 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj speaks in Land Bridge Pavilion on “Buddhism and the Stick”.
Sept
9 Adi Da Samraj writes the essay, “Our Defense of the Body in God”, which would later be published in Crazy Wisdom magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, February 1982.
17 While speaking to a devotee artisan at The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da talks about the nature and purpose of true art:
Oct
11 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj speaks to missionaries in Great Food Dish (now called Darshan Adytum).
26 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Asana of Science”, at a devotee’s house in San Rafael, California. This talk is later published in The Transmission of Doubt. Adi Da Reveals the fault inherent in adopting either the “occidental” or the “oriental” disposition as the means for fully participating in Reality Itself.
27 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, ‘The Bridge to God’, at a devotee’s house in San Rafael, California. (Text version here. Audio excerpt here. Full CD here.) “This world is God Present. God is not merely behind the world and elsewhere and up there and inside. God is Omnipresent, absolutely Present, unqualifiedly Present.
29 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da talks about the fundamental disposition of “going beyond” the knot of egoic “self”-contraction, and being love in all relations.
Nov
devotees visit Rinpoche
3 Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House is published.
4 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gathers with devotees and Reveals the Identity and Function of the true Spiritual Master.
At Da Love-Ananda Mahal
10 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da talks about the fierce intention necessary to transcend the negativity and difficulty of the world. On November 15, 2007, Bhagavan Adi Da completed re-editing of this talk for publication in “The Surrender-Response”, in Part Twenty-One of The Aletheon:
17 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks about the desire for “higher knowledge” and how true Wisdom arises.
26 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks about the “attitude of participation” as the foundation for a Real-God-Realizing life.
28 “I” Is the Body of Life is published.
Dec
12 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Keep Attention in the Sacrifice” (to be published later in the book, Scientific Proof of the Existence of God Will Soon Be Announced by the White House!).
23 Planting and Empowerment of Grace Leans (the great sacred banyan tree later renamed “Grace Straightens”) at Tumomama (now called Da Love-Ananda Mahal Sanctuary).
28 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da speaks about karma and the meaning of compassion and love
1981
Jan
16 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da declares “Avatar Independence Day”.
26 Original Empowerment of Bright Behind Me, at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
Feb
3 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da “Considers” with devotees the basis upon which His devotees come to a right view and understanding of the “points of view” represented in the Great Tradition.
11 At The Mountain Of Attention, a puja is done re-establishing Great Food Dish (now, “Darshan Adytum”) as a Holy Site.
Mar
24 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da presents the essay, “What Are You Always Doing?” to a gathering of devotees.
Oct
8 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gathers with devotees to read and discuss the Essay He just wrote, “Spiritual Maturity”, which is later published in “I” Is the Body of Life.
At Mountain of Attention Sanctuary
11 Adi Da returns to The Mountain Of Attention to realign devotees.
21 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “The Foundation and the Source”, which is later published in The Bodily Sacrifice of Attention. “When bodily existence is free of egoic ‘self’-contraction (and the compulsive stress of a mind that seeks release from the ‘self’-contraction via conditional states of ‘knowledge’ and ‘experience’), then attention is in an inherently free state.
Nov
2 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da talks about the seventh stage Realization and the non-necessity of conditional existence.
3 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da talks with devotees about the discipline of ego-transcending service to Him. (This talk is later published in “I” Is the Body of Life.)
28 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Bodily Location of Happiness”, which is later published in The Bodily Location of Happiness. (Audio available here.)
(Leelas – Hawaii)
82 Jan
5 At The Mountain Of Attention, devotees sing outside Bright Behind Me during Adi Da Samraj’s dinner, drawing Him to celebrate The Feast of God In Every Body the following day.
13 Adi Da Samraj spontaneously moves into the unfinished Manner Of Flowers at The Mountain Of Attention.
14 Darshan and gift-giving with Adi Da in the new Manner Of Flowers Darshan Hall at The Mountain Of Attention.
22 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Grace of Indifference”, which would later be published in The Dreaded Gom-Boo.
Feb
3 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Great Bird That Flies to the Heart”, which would later be published in The Dreaded Gom-Boo.
4 Open Eyes: The Revelation of the World as God is published. This book is “A Tribute To Master Da Free John on the Tenth Commemorative Celebration of the World-Proclamation of The Way of Understanding”
Nirvanasara is published. In Nirvanasara (“the essence of Nirvana”), Adi Da took two seemingly dissimilar traditions — Advaita Vedanta, whose focus is Self-Realization and non-dualism; and Buddhism, whose focus is the transcendence of suffering through realization of the nirvanic state — and identified both of them as sixth stage traditions.
8 At The Mountain Of Attention, the “Yoga of Consideration” period begins.
14 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Taboo Against Owning and Knowing Too Much”, which would later appear in the book, The Dreaded Gom-Boo.
16 The Johannine Daist Communion becomes the official church name. 27 The Yoga of Consideration and the Way That I Teach is published.
Mar
18 Looking for a Hermitage in Fiji, Adi Da Samraj and the Renunciate Order arrives at the island of Nananu-I-Ra (staying at Charlie’s Place).
April
13 At The Mountain Of Attention, the first Darshan of Adi Da at “Here I Am” holy site (in front of Huge Helper) takes place.
27 Daji Megan Fear-No-More, a German shepherd devotee of Adi Da, dies at The Mountain Of Attention. Adi Da places his grave at the entrance to Fear-No-More Zoo.
May
8 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da writes the essay, “Exoteric Christianity and the Universal Spiritual Message of Jesus”.
July
5 The Hymn of the Master is published. This will later be retitled The Hymn of the True Heart-Master, and then Ruchira Avatara Gita. The core of this book is Adi Da’s Free Rendering of the principal verses of the traditional Guru Gita.
Eleutherios: The Liberator is published. Eleutherios contains Avatar Adi Da’s most esoteric offering of the “Perfect Practice” of the Way of Adidam. This “Perfect Practice” takes place in the domain of Consciousness Itself, prior to the body and the mind. Eleutherios is an address to the great human questions about God, Truth, Reality, Happiness, and Freedom.
At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Empowers Seventh Gate.
7 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da holds the “raft event” with missionaries at Mother’s Bed.
9 Adi Da’s begins His consideration about the Cosmic Mandala.
Aug
12 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da passes on to His devotees (on His handwritten “yellow Pages”) the 49 poems (most were written between 1971 and 1976) that will later be published as the book, Crazy Da Must Sing, Inclined To His Weaker Side. Two weeks later, He recites them for His devotees.
I Am the Heart,
Who stands between the arms, Who seems the double mind until I’m known,
Who keeps the body living while the Mystery survives.
30 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Tell Me True, Have You Got the Gom-Boo?”. (Beezone)
Sept
9 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Dreaded Gom-Boo”. This would later be published in the book, The Dreaded Gom-Boo.
11 A book of Adi Da’s early poetry, Crazy Da Must Sing, Inclined to His Weaker Side, is published.
Forehead, Breath, and Smile is published.
Second worldwide sitting, The Feast of Liberation (now known as The Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of the Divine Re-Awakening).
27 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj talks with devotees about Divine Ignorance. 28 At Tumomama, Adi Da Samraj spontaneously tells the “Goohkamachee Pie” story. Devotees were utterly undone in amazement and awe.
30 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the Talk, “Surrender”, in response to a devotee going over the waterfall at the Sanctuary.
(was this a period of consideration?
Oct
2 Swami Muktananda dies.
16 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da writes the Essay, “The Transcendence of Life and Death”
28 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the essay and talk,”What Is the Conscious Process?” From the essay: “Do not think you can take Heaven by storm. The mere ego-‘I’ thought is not now an indicator of the Great One.
31 Adi Da Samraj gives the essay and talk, “Transcendence of the Politics of Spirits”, in which He discusses the distinction between traditional religion and Adidam, the ancient world-view (which included a hierarchy of beings with “God” at the top), man’s usual destiny after death, and the transcendence of all the realms of cosmic existence. This essay and talk would later be published in The Fire Gospel.
Nov
3 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the essay and talk, ‘A Birthday Message from Jesus and Me’, which was later published in The Fire Gospel.
4 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da changes the name of the Hawaiian Ruchira Sannyasin Sanctuary from “Akua Mauna” to “Tumomama” (“Fierce Woman”).
21 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gathers with devotees and reads from (and talks about) His new Essay, “Freedom from the Ideal of Purity”, which is later published in Crazy Wisdom magazine.
23 At Tumomama (now known as Da Love-Ananda Mahal), Adi Da engages in a “conversation” with the “Goddess”-Force of Nature, giving the talks, “The God Don’t Eat the People” and “Do it, Tumo!” (which would later be published in The Dreaded Gom-Boo), as Hurricane Iwa hits Da Love-Ananda Mahal.
At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da writes the essay, “Salvation and Liberation”, and then discusses it with devotees as He reads it aloud in a gathering. Adi Da clarifies the difference between the “two fundamental aspects, or levels, to Divine Realization”
Dec
16 In Hawaii, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Baptism of Immortal Happiness” “What is the Truth? We are Happy. We live in God. The Great One is our very Being. We inhere in the Blissful, Force- ful Being of the Starry God, the Wonder, the Mystery, the Person of Love.
17 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Baptism of Immortal Happiness” “The ego is such a heavy grip, such a clench on the Divine Light, that Spiritual experience through Spiritual Transmission in life does not amount to much for most people.
25 The Fire Gospel is published. The Fire Gospel affirms the ancient spiritual Way that underlies mankind’s great religious and spiritual heritage: Spiritual Baptism.
Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, The Feast of God In Every Body. “Know that I Bless you through and beyond time and space. Live a life of celebration. True life, ego-transcending life, is a celebration, a joyous occasion of meeting with others in the universal circumstance of prior unity and in the joy of Communion with the Indivisible Divine Reality. That is why I look forward to this season every year. It is the greatest season of the year. It is a marvelous season. I hope it is a happy time for you and for all of your friends.”
1983
Feb
16 Adi Da Samraj writes the essay, “Freedom Is in the Existence Place”, and gives a talk on it. It later is published in the book, The Dreaded Gom-Boo.
18 The Feast of Water and Fire: Pavakavara (the Day of Fire Purification) is initiated.
25 The God in Every Body Book is published. This small book contains Adi Da’s Instruction about the origins of conventional religion (especially as a projection of the parent-child relationship), and how the individual may be drawn beyond childhood and adolescence into a direct Realization of the Divine.
March
1 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj gives the essay and talk, “Education, or My Way of Schooling in the Seven Stages”. This is later published in Look at the Sunlight on the Water.
3 Adi Da Samraj begins retreats at Kilauea, Kauai, initiating a period of His wandering in search of Hermitage.
11 Adi Da Samraj leaves Tumomama (in Hawaii) with the Renunciate Order for Fiji to find Hermitage sanctuary.
14 First Kava Ceremony for Adi Da Samraj at Pacific Harbour Inn, Fiji.
21 Adi Da gives an admonition to devotees about the Ordeal of Being Retreat, at Charlie’s Place on the island of Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji.
22 First “Ordeal of Being” retreatants arrive at Charlie’s Place, on the island of Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji.
23 First Ordeal of Being Retreat begins, at Charlie’s Place on the island of Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji.
April
3 At Charlie’s Place (on the island of Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji), Adi Da Samraj shaves His head for the first time as a sign of renunciation.
8 Fire at Charlie’s Place, on the island of Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji.
12 Adi Da Samraj and the Renunciate Order leave Charlie’s Place on the island of Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji.
13 Adi Da Samraj and the Renunciate Order arrive at Namale Plantation on Vanua Levu, Fiji.
26 In Fiji, Adi Da begins a consideration about emotional-sexual neurosis.
May
5 In Fiji, Adi Da gives devotees the Oedipal consideration.
24 In Fiji, Adi Da gives the talk, “Feeling Without Limitation”. This talk is later published in the book, Feeling Without Limitation.
31 Adi Da Samraj and the Renunciate Order move to Nukabati, Fiji.
Jun
1 The book, Easy Death, is published.
29 At Nukubati, Fiji, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Domain of Love”.
July
2 On Nukubati Island, Fiji, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk entitled, “Become Wounded by Love”, excerpts of which would later be published in The Four Primary Principles of Conscious Childrearing and The Incarnation Of Love.
9 Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks about the Divine Vision of Reality, founded in devotional recognition and Realization of Him, versus the mortal vision of reality that is the presumption of the ego-bound individual.
Aug
26 The “Consent to Deal” is granted by the Fijian government, clearing the way for devotee Neil Stewart to purchase the island of Naitauba (from its owner, actor Raymond Burr) and offer it to Adi Da Samraj for His Hermitage Sanctuary.
Sept
10 Enlightenment and the Transformation of Man published. “Look at the Sunlight on the Water” is published.
15 Deed acquired to Naitauba Island.
Oct
3 On Nukubati Island, Fiji, Adi Da gives the talk, “A Great Secret”, talking about the wound of love that makes Spiritual life real: “Without such love, such a heart-feeling wound, such happiness, you are just an aberrated being. There is no cure for anyone, no happiness for anyone, no release from the disease of egoity, until this wound occurs.”
10 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Love of the Real-God-Man”, in which He makes clear that only ego-transcending responsive devotion to the Real-God-Man relieves the heart of the ego’s “self”-created “purgatory” of separation, separativeness, and unlove.
27 Adi Da’s first Footstep on Naitauba Island at 1:32 pm.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Our Purpose is Fulfilled”.
Nov
3 God is Not A Gentleman and I Am That One is published.
7 Newly arrived at His Principal Hermitage, Adi Da Samrajashram, Bhagavan Adi Da Reveals to His devotees the import of His Revelation-Work:
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Yoga of Response”, in which He describes how the two fundamental dimensions of the Transcendental Spiritual process in His Divine Avataric Company — Hearing and Seeing — deal with the conditional and Unconditional aspects of Reality.
Dec
25 What is the Conscious Process? is published, transcribing a talk given by Adi Da on October 28, 1982. Adi Da (from the book): In The Liberator (Eleutherios), I have written: Be Conscious as the Feeling of Being and Realize that It Is Radiant Happiness.
30 Adi Da Samraj makes His first visit to Ciqomi (the Fijian village on Naitauba), marking the beginning of His worldwide Blessing Work. He sits in the village church, Granting His Darshan to devotees and Solo, a Fijian man who would later become His devotee.
On this evening (and continuing on January 1, 1984), Adi Da gives the talk, “Mark My Words”, capping a series of Prophetic Utterances that had spontaneously begun when He moved onto Adi Da Samrajashram two months earlier.
1984
Love of the God-Man — The site played a major role in Adi Da’s ten-day visit to The Mountain Of Attention in 1984
All dates for rest of year Adi Da Samrajashram
Jan
1 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the second part of His prophetic talk, “Mark My Words”.
9 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj calls devotees to take responsibility for Hermitage and the Holy Institution.
Feb
8 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Transcendence of Reactivity”.
25 Do You Know What Anything Is? is published.
March
1 Adi Da visits The Mountain Of Attention. The “Love of the God-Man” Celebration begins, and lasts for ten days.
2 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj Embraces and Re-Empowers the Tree of Life at Skyway Temple.
8 Adi Da speaks to devotees at the Manner Of Flowers, during the “Love of the God-Man” Celebration.
9 At The Mountain Of Attention, Yeshe, a devotee rock/jazz group, gives a concert in the Celebration tent with Adi Da Samraj and hundreds of devotees in attendance.
10 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj Installs the large Lingam at the Manner Of Flowers.
11 At The Mountain Of Attention, “The Love of the God-Man” Celebration ends.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Be Drawn into the Swoon of Infinite Love-Bliss”, in which He describes His “Visit” earlier that day to the “high place” of transition for beings who are in the last stages of embodied existence.
April
16 Franklin Augustus Jones, Adi Da Samraj’s father, dies.
22 The book, The Transmission of Doubt, is published. From the book: “Science is a dehumanizing adventure when made into an absolute philosophical point of view, because it chooses a reality independent of Man as the subject of its investigation”
June
19 Adi Da writes the essay, “Technical Considerations Relative to Mahamantra Meditation”, revealing the Mahamantra (“Om Ma Da”) to His devotees for the first time. He later rewrites and expands the final paragraphs, which become part of the Epilogue to The Dawn Horse Testament.
20 Adi Da Empowers Sri Mahamantra Chakra.
21 Adi Da Samraj Initiates devotees into Mahamantra Meditation.
24 Adi Da begins writing The Dawn HorseTestament. The first essay He writes is “The Testament of Secrets”. “These are the Secrets I must Reveal before I Retire into Seclusion to Wait for all beings. I must Reveal it all now, and then Leave everyone to practice as they will.”
July
5 Adi Da gathers with devotees and explains why the Divine must Appear in Incarnate Form:
13 Adi Da Empowers Sri Mahamantra Chakra.
14 First formal Sat-Guru Puja on Adi Da Samraj’s Body. Adi Da gives devotees The Testament of Secrets (The Dawn Horse Testament).
17 Adi Da gathers with devotees to recite a new essay, and respond to devotees’ questions about it. One week later, He incorporates portions of this essay and discourse into “The Testament of Secrets”, the beginnings of what later would become The Dawn Horse Testament.
Sept
8 The Testamental Hymn Of The Master is published. Subtitle: “A Confessional Recitation on the Mystery of the Spiritual Master and His Revelation of Secrets”.
9 Adi Da talks with devotees about how they devotionally recognize Him.
11 the Empowerment of Baptized Each One, a holy site near Adi Da Samraj’s Residence.
Oct
2 Adi Da Samraj talks about a portion of His Dawn Horse Testament where He Reveals the fundamental Principle that one becomes what one meditates upon: “Wherever your attention goes, you take on the qualities of that ‘object’.
31 Adi Da gives devotees “The Plight of the Heart-Husband”, a poem of extraordinary beauty and Divine Wisdom, comprised of the titles of all the chapters (at that time) of The Dawn Horse Testament.
Nov
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “For The Love”.
1985 Jan
23 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “A Reality Uninvited”.
Feb
1 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “I Am the Secret of Suddenness”, which would later appear as part of Sutra 47 in His Dawn Horse Testament.
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Self-Enquiry Again”.
May
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers the “Shine From Here” children’s hall. He grants His Darshan at a worldwide children’s sitting.
June
21 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers “Willing To Give”.
Oct
1 The Dawn Horse Testament (first edition) is published. This book is Adi Da’s paramount “Source-Text”, unparalleled in its magnitude and depth. It represents the fruit of Adi Da’s immense work of Teaching and Revelation for more than three decades. It is an extraordinary Scripture, containing Adi Da’s detailed Revelation of every aspect of the process that culminates in Divine Enlightenment.
4 Adi Da Samraj receives a printed copy of the just published, first edition of Dawn Horse Testament, along with 64 one-faced rudraksha beads to complete His Mala.
He gives the talk, “My Conversation Has to Be Eternal”.
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da sits with the worldwide gathering of devotees, to celebrate the publication of The Dawn Horse Testament. For the first time, all devotees formally receive Prasad copies of The Dawn Horse Testament for their study.
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees and reveals the secret of moment-to-moment “Radical” devotion to Him, “I Am Your Unique Advantage” in Part 8 of The Aletheon.
24 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Escaping Nobody”, wherein He reads from The Dawn Horse Testament and speaks about the great purpose of His life and work: “All of My work has been about Love. I wondered all My life how I could tell you about it, how you could find out. This is all that troubled Me.
Nov
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees, and instructs them about the sacred and absolute obligation to care for their Master and keep Him alive. “Let Me see the ‘soul’-force in My devotees, let Me have My Feet washed, and let Me be served from Head to Foot. Let This Body literally be kept alive by the service of My devotees.”
1986 Jan
10 At Ashvamedhanath Bhavan, Adi Da Samrajashram, the Initiation of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Avataric Self-“Emergence”, 5:30 a.m. (Fiji Time; January 11 on the Fijian calendar). This event marked the end of His Teaching Work.
11 Divine Emergence https://www.adidaupclose.org/calendar/divine_emergence.html
22 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the Adidam Quandra Mandala is established.
Mar
16 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da writes the essay, “The Call To Hermitage, Or, ‘Perfect Practice’ Of The Way That I Teach”, later published as “My Call For ‘Perfect Practice’ of The Way Of Adidam” in “The Lion Sutra”, Part Fifteen of The Aletheon.
21 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks about the tradition of devotion to one’s Ishta, and discusses it in relation to the Way of the Heart, coining the unique term, Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga, to describe His own devotees’ devotional practice. He would continue talking about this subject the next day (March 22) as well.
22 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gathers with the newly formed Esoteric Order and speaks about renunciate practice.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees and reads from His newly-written essay, “The Order of Renunciate Names” — which He later extensively revises, expands, and divides into two separate essays, each published as books: The Order of My Free Names and The Orders of My True and Free Renunciate Devotees.
April
Adi Da Samraj adopts all the traditional signs of a sannyasin (He embraces the “Sign of Sannyas”) and takes on the name, “Love-Ananda”, which was given to Him by Swami Muktananda.
May
15 Adi Da Samraj arrives in California from Fiji, beginning an unprecedented worldwide Yajna.
18 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj reads the Love-Ananda Gita (now The Lion Sutra — part 15 of The Aletheon) and gives a passionate talk, “Be Dyed in My Color of Renunciation and Realization”, in Land Bridge Pavilion.
21 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da invites the public to receive His Darshan.
27 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj uses His Staff to Anoint Seventh Gate with water from the pond behind Seventh Gate.
28 Adi Da Samraj sits at Founders’ Grove, in the Northern California redwoods.
June
1 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj sits in the tent at the Love of the God-Man Site and grants Darshan to eight hundred people, including public. His extraordinary Demonstration of Spiritual Power or Siddhi Awakens many devotees at least temporarily to the state of the “Witness Consciousness”.
11 At The Mountain Of Attention, Avatar Adi Da writes the essay, “Realization and Renunciation by Grace”, later published in The Da Upanishad and now titled “Realization and Renunciation By Means Of My Divine Avataric Spiritual Grace”.
19 Adi Da Samraj communicates His observations about the course of the “Radical” practice among devotees, the overall reception of His Message, and the future of His Blessing Work. “Renunciation is the point. Resistance to renunciation is the essence of the difficulty that individuals are having”. He continues these communications through June 21.
21 Adi Da Samraj leaves California to continue His worldwide Yajna of Penance. He heads for New York and then to London. On this day, He also comments on the significance of the jade piece and the logo for the Free Daist Eleutherian Mission.
22 At 6:00 a.m., Adi Da Samraj arrives in New York City on His worldwide Yajna of Penance. At 9:00 a.m. He enters St. Patrick’s Cathedral during high mass, walks to the front via each side aisle, granting His Blessing and Darshan to a thousand people.
The Lion Sutra is first published (as the Love-Ananda Gita, in the form of a little orange book), on this day of the summer solstice. It would later appear in Part 15 of The Aletheon as “The Lion Sutra — The Perfect Practice of Perfect Knowledge”. (Listen to Adi Da reciting the original version on May 18, 1986, here.)
27 Adi Da Samraj arrives in England on His worldwide Yajna of Penance. He would go on to visit and bless Kew Gardens, Westminister Abbey, Glastonbury, and Stonehenge.
30 While in England (as part of His worldwide Yajna of Penance), Adi Da visits and blesses Stonehenge.
July
5 Adi Da Samraj clarifies the nature of His Own Work with devotees since His Divine Emergence in Fiji on January 11. He gives the talk, “The Three Siddhis”, which are: 1. The spontaneous generation of all the signs associated with the seven stages of life. 2. The spontaneous Siddhi of meditating all others. 3. Spontaneous tapas or renunciation and the beginning of His Blessing Work.
9 Arrives in France on His worldwide Yajna of Penance. 13 visits Sacré Coeur Basilica in Paris.
17 ends His fast and the mode of sannyasin and ceases to use the title, “Swami”. He says that the title and orange dress of a swami were nearly universally ineffective because people have lost their appreciation of the Great Tradition. Adi Da Samraj calls this time from April 11 to July 17 His “Last Submission as Teacher”.
20 Adi Da Samraj arrives in Maria Hoop in the Netherlands. He sits with European devotees on the Feast of the Adi-Guru Moon at a former Catholic monastery rented for the occasion (later purchased by devotees, it is the present European Danda). He gives the talk, “Doubt”, during this occasion and answers devotees’ questions, in what would later become Adi Da Kapel.
Sept
10 Replicas of the Durga and Gav Devi from Ganeshpuri are Installed in the Sukra Kendra at Da Ashvamedhanath Bhavan, Naitauba.
Nov
7 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da begins repainting and repairing the Durga in the Sukra Kendra at Da Ashvamedhanath Bhavan.
Dec
86 Adi Da Samraj meets with a few devotee intimates who had been associated with Him during the years of His Teaching Work and gives the talk, “Love Is a Puja”, which would later be published in The Incarnation of Love.
30 Hurricane Raja strikes Naitauba.
1987 Jan
17 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Robe of Tapas” (which would later be published in the study guide, Hear Me Heart-Deep).
22 Adi Da Samraj begins a period of engaging devotees in Hermitage and around the world in a dialogue about their understanding and practice of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga. This would continue through January 27.
27 Adi Da Samraj completes a period (begun on January 22) of engaging devotees in Hermitage and around the world in a dialogue about their understanding and practice of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga.
April
2 The period of gatherings known as “Indoor Yajna” begins at Naitauba.
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Authority of Grace”.
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Discipline of Participation“.
20 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Freedom From the Need Connection”.
22 Adi Da Samraj describes the “great transition” as occuring between the third and fourth stages of life — as the movement from full human maturity into a Spiritual perception of Reality, no longer based on the viewpoint of the body-mind.
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk,”I Am the Bull’s Eye”.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “True Hearing Is a Samadhi”. “True hearing is a profound transformation. It is greater than any satori you can imagine or realize. It is itself a kind of samadhi. It is an extraordinary realization. When it occurs, you will know it. I knew it. It is obvious.”
May
20 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Observe the Self In Toto”.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Killing the Tiger”. “Traditionally, young men were given a spear, and they went out to kill a tiger or be killed. They passed through the training of manhood, overcoming whatever circumstance had to be overcome to become a man.
Aug
13 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks to devotees about right life in the context of conditionality and death.
19 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk to devotees about the egoic nature of “home”:
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks with devotees about the right orientation to discipline in the Reality-Way of Adidam.
Sept
2 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da critiques the “view” of Reality proposed by egoity.
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks about the human urge to Happiness and its expression through the motive to create and participate in art.
Oct
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Reality Confounds the ego”, in which He instructs devotees that real maturity in the Reality-Way of Adidam requires understanding and going beyond the common motive toward “self”-fulfillment, allowing the true motive of the heart, which is to transcend all conditional designs and all illusions, to come to the front.
9 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Cut the Strings”.
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks with devotees about the Perfect Practice. “If you had to fulfill all the stages of life rather than transcend them directly as you do in the Reality-Way of Adidam, how many lifetimes would you need even to fulfill the fourth stage of life? How many lifetimes would you need before you Realized conditionally ascended Nirvikalpa Samadhi?
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, ‘You Must Be Prepared for a Totally Different Sign in Me’.
31 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks about the difference between academic philosophy and the traditional engagement of philosophy, emphasizing that Real-God-Realization is the ultimate and right purpose of philosophy.
Nov
22 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks about the seriousness required to make one’s life into ego-transcending practice: “You are profoundly committed to having life work out good. You seem to think that it is supposed to, that it must, that life is supposed to work out to fulfill your middle-class, rather ‘Western’ presumptions about the ‘good life’.”
Dec
8 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Yearning Place”, which was later published in Crazy Wisdom, Vol. 7, No. 2,March/April 1988.
19 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, Sadhana Hurts. This is one of many talks Adi Da gives during this period about the necessity to endure the pain or “heat” of self-transcending practice.
27 Adi Da Samraj spontaneously and formally re-affirms the “Fullest Free Sannyasin Form of Renunciation”, and puts on orange clothing in the gathering.
1988
Thirty-one years later (in 1988), Franklin — Adi Da — would give a talk (“One More Monkey”) https://www.adidaupclose.org/cgi-bin/videos/pageprofile.cgi?id=PAG1001568
Feb
2 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani is initiated into the level six practice.
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da does a Shiva Dance to a musical recording of The Hymn Of The True Heart-Master, drawing devotees into His Divine Bliss, on the eve of the messengers’ departure from Hermitage to bring His call to practice to the worldwide culture of Adidam.
18 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj shaves His head (for the second time).
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da admonishes His devotees to make right and fullest use of the Gifts they receive in His Divine Avataric Company.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da receives a presentation from a devotee about traditional shamanistic cultures and the reality of their “experience” of the “un-seen”. He then talks about why modern “Westernized” humanity — including His devotees — have little “experience” of “spirit-worlds”, or of anything beyond solid material realities.
Mar
16 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk explaining the Mystery of the event with the Goddess in the Vedanta Temple. He tells how, through His Divine Husbanding, the Divine Goddess-Power Herself came to rest as the very Radiance of the Divine Person, Da. The period of “Indoor Yajna” ends.
28 Adi Da Samraj gives “24-hour notice” and leaves for New Zealand on a worldwide Yajna.
30 Adi Da Samraj arrives in New Zealand. He considers with devotees the moment-to-moment disposition that characterizes truly ego-transcending devotional practice.
April
3 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Great Relationship”.
May
11 Adi Da Samraj Re-Empowers all major Holy Sites at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
20 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Make Sense Out of Your Life”, discussing the practical dimension of personal and collective practice.
July
2 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Contemplation, Satsang, Sadhana”, in Land Bridge Pavilion, which would appear in the May/June 1988 issue of Crazy Wisdom Magazine. He also talks about the Vision of Mulund: His calling to the Sangha for true religion and community.
9 At The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, Adi Da gathers with devotees and calls them to make right and most full use of His Divine Samadhi.
Sept
10 Adi Da Samraj invites the Kanyas to perform the Sat-Guru Puja on His Bodily Human Form. This was the first private occasion of meditation and Sat-Guru Puja they had ever had with Adi Da. This marked the beginning of Adi Da working very specifically with the Kanyas.
Oct
9 Adi Da Samraj gives Notes on how to participate in His Darshan.
11 Adi Da Circumambulates and Re-Empowers Da Love-Ananda Mahal. He and the Kanyas leave Da Love-Ananda Mahal for Adi Da Samrajashram.
13 Adi Da Samraj returns to Naitauba, ending His 1988 Yajna; He invites all prepared student-beginner practitioners worldwide to come on retreat and receive His Darshan.
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, upon awakening from sleep, Adi Da begins writing the Da Love-Ananda Gita (The Free Avataric Gift of The Divine Love-Bliss).
16 The Love-Ananda Gita is read to devotees for the first time; formal Darshan and meditation occasions begin at Naitauba.
27 During Hermitage Day celebration, Adi Da Samraj lays hands on Ratu Seru, a Fijian elder who had recently suffered a stroke.
Nov
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Religion is the Great Spiritual Process”. He also gives Spoken Instructions, which are later published as “My Kheyala” in the “I Am (Myself) What you Require” section of the Love-Ananda Gita, clarifying what His spontaneous Mudras, Moods, and Acts (that devotees observe in Darshan) indicate:
Dec
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Bhagavan Adi Da gives the talk, “After Death, Mind Makes You” (later published in the book, Easy Death).
23 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Blesses Naitauba (then called “Translation Island”) with the new name, “Sri Love-Anandashram”.
27 While visiting New Zealand, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “What Is Your Intention?”, later published in the Love-Ananda Gita, and available on the DVD, The Commitment to Real-God-Realization.
(Indoor Yajna – Master Dancer)
1989
Jan
Divine Emergence Explanation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7NZ771HSZM
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj visits Finau (the father of devotee, Solo Finau) at Ciqomi and serves his death transition, including placing His shawl around Finau. Also on this day, Adi Da Samraj calls devotees to finally acknowledge Him as Sat-Guru and allow Him to live freely in His Sacred Domain of Adi Da Samrajashram.
First formal celebration of the Feast of the Ashvamedha.
13 At Aham Da Asmi Sthan, Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj begins to invite retreatants to sit with Him in small groups at His Residence for the first time.
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da grants the first Darshan occasion with retreatants held at Owl Sandwiches.
Feb
20 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives instruction on cooperative community.
Mar
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives devotees “Surrender Through Obedience”, providing instruction for their practice that is later published in The Hymn of the True Heart-Master.
April
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the Empowerment of Sri Da Paduka-Deva Mandir. Adi Da Samraj has Ruchiradama Nadikanta perform the Empowerment Puja according to His explicit Instructions and with His Direct Regard. This was the first time He did not perform an Empowerment of a holy site Himself.
May
2 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da develops criteria for entrance into the formal orders of the Free Communion Church: the Lay Renunciate Order, the Hermitage Service Order, and the Free Renunciate Order.
9 At the Danda in San Rafael, Adi Da gives the talk, “Chanting and the Sacred Arts”, discussing the necessity to engage all of the sacred arts as ego-transcending devotional Communion with Him.
Jun
11 Adi Da Samraj renames the seven Feasts that form the annual cycle of celebration in the Way of Adidam, Reed House, Marin County, CA.
July
7 The first edition of The Love-Ananda Gita (The Wisdom-Song of Non-Separateness) is published.
13 Adi Da Samraj visits the Vedanta Society Temple in Hollywood for the first time since His Re-Awakening in 1970 and performs puja; He also visits and performs puja at Vivekananda’s Pasadena California House.
15 First issue of The Free Daist magazine published.
Aug
24 In Marin County, Kanya Navaneeta (now Ruchiradama Nadikanta) and Kanya Suprithi are Initiated into level six practice at the Reed House.
Oct
5 Adi Da Samraj returns to Adi Da Samrajashram after a four and a half month Yajna.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da begins to clarify His Divine Avataric Self-“Emergence” (begun on January 11, 1986, and now ongoing) in oral communications entitled, “The Swoon of My Samadhi”, which is later published in the introduction to The Dawn Horse Testament (1991 edition).
At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da renames Hermitage Day, “Naitauba Padavara”, and calls for a more sacred occasion to celebrate that day. He Invites six Fijian men to make the devotional gesture to Him rather than the traditional Fijian sign. They agree, and one of the men, Ratu Seru, whom Adi Da Samraj had laid hands on the previous Hermitage Day, goes through a complete healing.
The Kanyas perform an empowerment of Da Agnilingasthana (Naitaiba’s sacred fire site).
Nov
3 At Adi Da Samrajashram, on the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of His Birth, Adi Da gives a new name, “Da Jayanthi”, to His Birth Anniversary. A presentation is given by Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani titled, “Surpassing Anything That Has Ever Existed in the Manifest Worlds”.
At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da completes His clarification of His ongoing Divine Emergence (begun January 11, 1986), in communications entitled, ‘The Swoon of My Samadhi’. “My Divine Emergence is not something that simply happened on January 11, 1986, and that is to be remembered as the Event of January 11, 1986.
13 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Da Amritanath Cave (a natural lingam cave) is formally Established as a Holy Site by Adi Da Samraj.
1990
Jan
3 Adi Da Samraj begins His “Tapas of Seclusion”, which He refers to as “Imprisonment”; at Indefinable, Naitauba. He has all furnishings removed and eats minimally.
4 Avatar Adi Da empowers Adi Da Paduka Mandir at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, from Adi Da Samrajashram.
11 Adi Da Samraj presents a gift of Silver Padukas to the Kanyas on the Feast of the Ashvamedha to do puja on daily, and a second pair of Padukas made of rosewood and inlaid with brass for the Brahmacharinis. Adi Da Samraj asks the Brahamacharinis to perform puja on His Bodily Human Form and to take the Blessed Padukas, hat, shawl, mala, flower lei, and new Murti to their Communion Hall. The Kanyas also take their vows as The Hridaya-Da Kanyadana Kumari Mandala Order.
Feb
16 The worldwide retreat program formally resumes in Naitauba. Adi Da Samraj sits with retreatants and empowers the new Communion Hall, “Mindless Company”. There is also now a new living quarters for retreatants, “Joyful Submission”.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da speaks about the right relationship to Him, describing the discipline of Penance He must enact when His devotees are not responsible, to fulfill the Spiritual laws that are an inherent part of the Guru-devotee relationship.
Mar
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj invites residents to go into the water with Him near His Residence.
13 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Transcendental Spiritual Practice in My Company”. “Transcendental Spiritual practice is not about merely ‘experiencing’ the ‘effect’ of My Transcendental Spiritual Presence, but ‘Locating’ My Transcendental Spiritual Presence.”
21 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da returns to Aham Da Asmi Sthan.
29 At Adi Da Samarajashram, Adi Da Installs and Empowers the Sukra Kendra at The Matrix.
April
6 Adi Da Samraj takes the name, “Da Kalki”. In the Hindu tradition, “Kalki” is the name of the tenth Avatar of Vishnu: the greatest of all Avatars, destined to appear when mankind is most estranged from God.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the new Sacred Arts building, “Hymns To Me”, is inaugurated by Adi Da Samraj.
May
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers His new boat, the Talatala i Dau Loloma.
Jun
10 The Da Kalki Ashvamedha Mandala is formed. Adi Da Samraj is the Center. Immediately surrounding Him is the Da Kalki Gurukula Kanyadana Kumari Order, the ring of the Free Renunciate Order. The next ring is the Da Kalki Gurukula Brahmacharini Order and around them are the future members of the Free Renunciate Order. The next is the Da Kalki Ashvamedha Mandala comprised of four concentric rings (or circles).
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks to all devotees about the devotional relationship to Him. Portions of this talk are later published in The Hymn Of The True Heart-Master.
July
8 On the Celebration of Da Purnima, the calf, “Good News”, is born in Adi Da Samrajashram.
10 Adi Da Samraj blesses the new cargo boat, the Dauveinqaravi i Dau Loloma (“Servant of Da”), at Nukasa.
Nov
2 Arrival of the Durga and the Gav Devi at Adi Da Samrajashram. (Devotee Pamela Bennett tells the story of a miracle that occurred at this occasion.)
4 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the Durga and Gavdevi are Installed in the Sukra Kendra at The Matrix.
26 Adi Da Samraj gives a talk on regenerative orgasm.
1991
Mar
9 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da emerges from sixty-five days of Seclusion in Indefinable and returns to Aham Da AsmiSthan. This day is named, “Naitauba Avadhoota Peethavara”. Adi Da places a lingam in the front room of Aham Sphurana Sthan and later moves back to Aham Da Asmi Sthan.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj goes back into isolation in Indefinable saying, “I simply cannot let people off the hook in terms of what real practice requires, and I will not accept a religion business version of The Way of Adidam.”
30 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da establishes the “architecture of living”; women return to using their maiden names; and town meetings (through which the Sangha holds the Adidam Institution and itself accountable for fulfilling its collective responsibilities) are established.
May
3 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Celebrate My Good Company”. Adi Da: “I told you even in the earliest years that The Way of the Heart was a life of celebration. And it is so. . .”
23 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da creates His Hermitage Ashram, conforming all of Adi Da Samrajashram to His Form.
30 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da moves to Da Avabhasa Chakra (now called Aham Da Asmi Sthan). He requests many sacred artifacts from The Mountain Of Attention and Installs them in Aham Da Asmi Sthan to further signify this place as His Primary Residence. The first issue of the magazine, The “Bright”, is published.
Jun
7 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da invites resident devotees for Darshan and a Prasad breakfast.
8 Adi Da Samraj accepts an initial group of applicants for the Lay Renunciate Order and the Lay Congregationist Order.
9 Members of both the Lay Renunciate Order and the Lay Congregationist Order are initiated in Extraordinary Eyes and then granted Darshan in Divine World-TeacherDarshan Mandir.
16 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da names the devotee residents’ village “Qaravi Dau Loloma”. (“Qaravi” is Fijian for “service”, “ceremony”, or “duty”. “Dau Loloma” one of Adi Da’s Fijian names, meaning “Divine Adept of the Divine Love”.)
20 Adi Da Samraj calls for signs of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga and criticizes the double-mindedness of devotees. He gives instructions on Guru-devotion. He continues in this through June 22.
25 Adi Da Samraj shows the photo of the Arhat Ajith (a Buddhist Realizer) to His devotees, as a characterization of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga, and as an example of what somebody looks like when they truly want Divine Realization. Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani gives a presentation on Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga based on Adi Da Samraj’s Instructions.
July
3 Adi Da’s boat, the Talatala i Dau Loloma (“Messenger of Dau Loloma”), returns to Naitauba after being repaired from the damage in a storm.
18 Adi Da Samraj begins a period of 40 days of Kaya-Kalpa treatment.
Aug
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj’s last day of Kaya-Kalpa treatment.
30 Adi Da Samraj gives instructions on the practice of constant worship: “Celebrate Me and Worship Me”. An ecstatic Arati-Darshan occasion occurs where devotees wave lights around Adi Da Samraj.
Sept
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da’s devotees construct a palanquin, and they carry their Ishta-Guru in the new palanquin in the ancient manner, which epitomizes the sacred and traditional relationship between the Sat-Guru and the devotee.
25 18 members of the Lay Brahmacharya Order arrive on Naitauba (from California) for a ten-week retreat.
28 Adi Da Samraj gives to devotees His oral instructions, “Love of Me”, later published in The Hymn Of The True Heart-Master:
Oct
3 Adi Da Samraj gives instructions on what He looks for in residents of His Hermitage Ashram, Adi Da Samrajashram. He indicates that the requisite signs of spiritual growth and transformation depend on practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga.
27 A Saligram and Adi Da Samraj’s Feet Impressions are Installed at Sri Mahamantra Chakra, Adi Da Samrajashram.
Nov
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da describes the true sarvadhikari.
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Devotion is What Makes the Difference”.
22 In “The Ashram is Made By the Guru”, a talk given on this day, Adi Da Samraj calls for maximum renunciate discipline and for Adi Da Samrajashram to be conformed to Him.
24 Bright Behind Me, Adi Da’s original home at The Mountain Of Attention, is destroyed by fire.
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Ashram is About Divine Contemplation”.
Dec
22 Adi Da places His feet in the Padukas that are being installed at Divine World-Teacher Darshan Mandir; puja is then performed on His feet.
26 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “I Am Present With Each One”, about Ashram Dharma.
1992
At Adi Da Samrajashram Jan
1 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga is Obedience To My Word”.
May
25 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Effort Toward Union Has Nothing To Do With Realization”. This begins a ten-week period of gathering with devotees (mostly applicants to the Lay Renunciate Order) that would later be called the “Demonstration of Human Love.”
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “You Must Exhibit Great Tolerance for One Another”.
Jun
3 Adi Da gives the talk, “You Must Make Love the Actual Principle of Moment to Moment Existence”. He describes how to demonstrate love in an intimate relationship.
5 Adi Da gives the talk, “You Must Bring the Force of Love Down”.
7 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Transform the Conditions of Existence”. He addresses devotees’ emotional-sexual practice and how each devotee must evaluate what form of life practice is appropriate in his or her case.
25 “Wake Up Darshans” for retreatants. In His white truck, Adi Da Samraj drives by the devotee retreatants’ quarters late into the night, on His way home after gathering with devotee residents. Adi Da will continue the “Wake Up Darshans” through June 28.
July
4 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Love is Serious Even When It Laughs”, which would later be published in the education booklet, Love of Me Must Be the Measure of Your Intimacies.
6 Adi Da gives the talk, “Realize the Circumstance You Are In”.
7 Adi Da creates Club Rat during the height of a Celebratory period.
14 Adi Da offers His Blessing Touch to devotees in the humorous and unconventional form of shooting them with Nerf arrows, and later with water guns.
20 Adi Da gives the talks, “True Intimacy Liberates You From Promiscuity”, and “You Are Here To Be Mastered By Me”
Aug
15 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Remember and Realize That Which is Greater Than Your Separate Self”. The LRO applicant retreat comes to an end and with it, the ten-week period of gatherings and Reality Considerations of late May, June, July and early August. Adi Da Samraj exhorts all devotees to go beyond their superficial level of religious practice.
24 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives a summary talk on the essence of true practice: “First Be Devoted To Me”. This talk would later be published in Ishta, and as part of the study set, First Be Devoted To Me.
29 Adi Da Samraj offers His instruction: “I Shake the Water in Your Face”; “If There is Any Limitation in Your Practice, it is a limitation on Your Practice of the Foundation Disciplines”; “All My Devotees Are Always On Retreat With Me”.
Sept
11 Hurricane Iniki hits Tumomama Sanctuary.
Oct
25 The Man of Radical Understanding Retreat Center opens at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
Dec
14 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “You Have the Ultimate Course and You Have the Middle Course”.
1993
Jan
3 Hurricane Kina hits Naitauba.
13 Adi Da Samraj reveals the secrets of the Ashvamedha after devotees present a summary of the traditional references.
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “My Work Is Not About Me, It Is About You”, about the necessity for basing the practice of Adidam entirely on what we actually experience of Him and of the world, and never on mere belief in His esoteric descriptions of Himself.
16 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk on the Event which initiated His Divine Emergence.
Feb
12 On Naitauba, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Crashing Down of My Divine Grace”. Crashing Down of My Divine Grace
18 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk (brief excerpt here) about how He was drawn to incarnate by the heart-need of certain of His devotees.
23 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj Empowers the Durga shrine at Da Ashvamedhanath Bhavan.
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da admonishes His devotees to use the devotional means He has given them.
Mar
2 In a talk entitled, “See Me As the Indifferent Man” (a reference to Divine Indifference, the third of four stages in the unfolding of the seventh stage of life), Adi Da Samraj proclaims His retirement into Hermitage seclusion, wherein devotees agree to assume full responsibility for all aspects of their personal practice, their service to Adi Da, and all aspects of the Adidam institution, culture, community, and mission. The proposed name of this event is, “The Day of the Indifferent Man” or “Da Purusha Shantavara” (later re-named, “Adi Da Shantavara”).
5 Conversation with Donald Webley about 7th Stage Realization
6 Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “The Great Work That Ultimately Translates All Beings”. He receives confessions from devotees on this night of their understanding of “Da Purusha Shantavara” and Who He Is altogether. He speaks of His utter uniqueness in time and space.
He makes the Divine Confession of Himself as the First, Last, and Only Seventh Stage Adept-Realizer.
20 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj speaks about the “Karma-Changing Discipline” of minimum-optimum diet and practicing the principle of “unburdening the body” while still taking care of its nutritional requirements, allowing its natural energy to manifest itself.
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da talks about the devotional principle of “self”-responsibility versus the ego-based psychology of irresponsibility and blame.”
April
8 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives a key talk on self-understanding. “See that you are only seeking. Examine yourself and find this out. Understand that seeking is a pursuit of union. . .”
16 Devotees install the ashes of Franklin Augustus Jones [Adi Da Samraj’s father] and empower Sri Adi Da Pitamata Asthi Mantapaat The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
All dates here at Adi Da Samrajashram Fiji Time
July
5 Adi Da Empowers the Sacred Grove at The Matrix.
Aug
14 Adi Da climbs Padavara Loka, the first point He contacted spiritually on the island in 1983. He Empowers this holy site by planting His staff there for the first time at 3:56 PM. A Puja is done on the Padukas there, on each Feast of the yearly cycle.
16 Adi Da Samraj gives instructions on Da Chi Gong. 28 Master Da gives more instructions on Da Chi Gong.
Sept
24 The Fijian Government issues passports for Adi Da and the Kanyas.
Oct
19 Adi Da prepares Empowerment Elements to be placed in the base of the Durga at Ganeshpuri, India.
27 Adi Da Empowers Padukas at Padavara Loka, 1:32 PM, the exact time of His First Footstep on Naitauba in 1983.
28 Adi Da instructs Kanya Navaneeta (now known as Ruchiradama Nadikanta) and all devotees relative to His health and their responsibility for the continuation of His Bodily (Human) Form through right relationship to Him, treating His Form as Divine Prasad.
30 Adi Da receives devotee and Fijian residents of Naitauba, as well as many off-island Fijian guests, for an unprecedented occasion of Blessing and gift-giving, accompanied by the yaqona ceremony which is central to the traditional Fijian culture.
Nov
1 Adi Da continues to develop the “consideration” He started on October 30, giving the talks, “I Bridge the Gap Between All” and “Understand Me as the Unifying Principle That Blesses All Peoples”. On November 2, Adi Da Samraj moves the gatherings to the lawn in front of His residence, Indefinable.
2 Adi Da provides oral instruction on the traditional and right approach of political and secular leaders to Him as Parama-Guru.
3 Adi Da Samraj gives a talk, on this day of His 54th Jayanthi, on ‘The Continuation of This Body’, while devotees install His Murti Form and His Teaching Word in the Durga base at the Gavdevi Temple at Ganeshpuri.
4 Adi Da gives the talk, “I Embrace All Beings”. (Text excerpt here.) “All equally require Divine Compassion, Love, and Blessing, the thread of Communion with the Divine made certain and true and directly experienced.
9 Adi Da gives the Talk, “The Key Is in Renunciation”. He indicates that the “Perfect Practice” — not any other secondary aspects of Transcendental Spiritual Yoga — is the import of the Transcendental Spiritual process in Adi Da’s Company.
19 The Durga and Gav Devi for The “Brightness” arrive at Adi Da Samrajashram. Adi Da Samraj Empowers The “Brightness”, His Mahasamadhi Site.
20 Adi Da gives a talk entitled, “The Intrusion of the Goddess Forced Me Back to the West”. In this talk, given the day after devotees brought the new Durga and Gav Devi from Ganeshpuri, Adi Da speaks about His unique relationship with the Goddess and Ganeshpuri. Adi Da also speaks about His Mahasamadhi Site as “the most Powerful Place of My Transmission on Earth”. 24 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Westerner in Everyone Must Be Converted”, after learning that some of His devotees were disturbed about His Establishment of a temple where His Body would be buried after His physical death.
Dec
2 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives one of His Most comprehensive talks about the practice of self-surrendering, self-forgetting, and self-transcending devotion to Him and the practice of Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga.
5 At Adi Da Samrajashram, initiation of Dacharini Naamleela, marking the transition from her high school education to a more mature phase of training and education for her future role as a primary server of Adi Da Samraj’s Universal Blessing Work. (She will go on to apprentice directly with the Kanya Order.)
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Bhagavan Adi Da gives the talk, “The Drama of the Total Body-Mind” (published in the book, Ishta), in which He talks about the inherent sorrow associated with conditional existence and the fruitlessness of attempts to perfect it:
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives a talk in which He identifies what holds people up in the first three stages of life: unhandled life-business and unresolved emotional-sexual problems.
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “What Is Your Conclusion About Reality?”, on the themes of “radical” devotion and the reality “consideration”. This would later be published in the book, Ishta.
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks with devotees about the process of turning the faculties of the body-mind-complex in devotional surrender to Him. (This talk would be published in Ishta as “The ‘I’ and the ‘It'”).
15 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da continues His Consideration in gatherings with devotees about changing their conclusions about reality, observing that only by doing this will they allow His Grace to change their destiny.
23 Temple Day, Danavira Mela Celebration. At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da builds a scale model of the Vedanta Society Temple out of gingerbread, choosing not to make the traditional gingerbread house. He gathers with devotees and gives the talk, “The Happiness That Transcends the World”, in which He talks about the meaning of Danavira Mela and what devotees celebrate at this time.
29 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers the Sacred Grove at The “Brightness”.
1994
Jan
11 At Agnilingasthana, Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj attends the Da Ashvamedha Sacred Fire Puja. He also gathers with devotees and talks about the seriousness required for responsive devotional surrender to Him to be true and effective.
15 At Adi Da Samrajashram (on Jan. 15 and Jan. 18), Adi Da gives the talk, “God Is Guru”, which would later be published in Ishta.
25 Adi Da Samraj begins an outing to the nearby Fijian island of Vanua Balavu.
Feb
2 Adi Da Samraj has a phone conversation with devotees, in which He communicates that devotees must have real seriousness about their sadhana.
4 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives an ecstatic talk on Guru-devotion, using Himself and Swami Muktananda as examples, part of which was later published in Ishta as “How Magical How Profound!”.
7 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees and talks about the Gurukula Principle (“Master say, devotee do”).
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “True Hearing Magnifies Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga”.
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees and continues the discussion of hearing, speaking with many devotees about their practice.
17 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da establishes Himself in �Forest Retreat� at Lion’s Lap for three weeks. The circumstance demonstrates the absence of �things�, as Adi Da talks to small gatherings nightly about God-Realization and the ecstasy of renouncing everything for the sake of God and God-Realization. All attending the site are drawn into intimate service to Adi Da.
Mar
8 At Lion’s Lap on Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj speaks on the nature of human existence as a wound: it wounds the ego; the ego is what must be transcended, and God is What There Is to be Realized.
9 Adi Da Samraj returns from Lion’s Lap to Aham Da Asmi Sthan and continues to gather with small groups in a small bure on the beach called, “Sitting Quietly Here”, or with larger groups in the village. He speaks of His Own Ultimate Work.
17 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees. “I am looking for this entire gathering to demonstrate true fidelity, to really practice in My Company, and to come to Me with the signs that justify My Responsive Self-Transmission.”
18 Adi Da Samraj engages devotees in a “consideration” about how He will have to continue His active Work in the Cosmic Domain beyond His lifetime. Wanting devotees to have a right view of Divine Translation, He summarizes, in a sequence of “Propositions”, His Revelations about Divine Translation and the Divine Domain.
29 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks about His Divine Indifference. He gives the talk, “I Will Be Incarnated Countlessly Through My Devotees” (later published in Ishta, and now in My “Bright” Form). (You can hear an excerpt here.) Adi Da Reveals how the Devotional Prayer of Changes becomes effective.
30 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees at Tangible Touch (the wharf), and brings the recent “considerations” to a conclusion. It is a more celebratory occasion, with Adi Da Samraj telling Leelas of His life.
April
16 Devotees in Naitauba celebrate the Feast of Water and Fire, which had been postponed due to the gatherings. A Sacred Offering of music is presented to Adi Da Samraj and most of the lyrics from the songs offered are from The Lion Sutra. (The Lion Sutra now appears as Part 15 of The Aletheon.) Pleased, Adi Da Samraj touches and blesses each piece of Prasad (which devotees receive as gifts from Him) individually. The Celebration continues through April 17.
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the Feast of the Divine World-Teacher is celebrated, highlighted by a formal Darshan in the inner courtyard of Aham Da Asmi Sthan. Adi Da Samraj personally hands Prasad to each devotee.
May
1 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj Empowers the new gates at the “Outshining Brightness” and Installs the lingam in The “Brightness” Sukra Kendra. He also Empowers the new marble Padukas for the Sukra Kendra.
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da concludes the period of His gathering with devotees with a summary “consideration” of emotional-sexual practice, in which He asks devotees to consider whether what they are engaging is the practice of Ruchira Avatara Bhakti Yoga or simply ego games.
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, this evening’s gathering ends a six and one-half month period of gatherings of devotees with Adi Da Samraj that were full of His humor and delight. Adi Da now enters into a period of rest and quiet.
Aug
30 Adi Da Samraj calls for a cultural change, particularly in Adi Da Samrajashram. He signifies the Freedom of His Avadhoot Purity by adopting the traditional color of orange. He visits the Fijian island of Nadi. Many Fijians receive Adi Da Samraj’s Darshan at “The Garden of the Sleeping Giant.” Adi Da Samraj also visits Indian and Fijian shops.
Sept
7 The Day of the Completion of Adi Da’s Avataric Revelation. Avatar Adi Da’s Teaching-Submission is completed at 6:00pm (Fiji Time). This Event (in Pacific Harbour, on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji) completes the initiatory Event of His Divine Emergence in 1986, and is comparable in Yogic magnitude. The Event establishes Adi Da Samraj’s Eternal Spiritual Presence in all the conditional realms.
12 Adi Da Samraj returns to Naitauba from Viti Levu, Fiji.
23 Adi Da Samraj further clarifies the completion of His Revelation Work. He also accepts the secondary name of “Santosha” as a sign of His own Santosha: His Satisfaction, His Completeness, and His utter Demonstration of No-Seeking.
30 At Naitauba, Paduka Mandir is dismantled.
All dates for rest of year Adi Da Samrajashram
Oct
1 Adi Da speaks about how, in order to do His Spiritual Work, He must live in Spiritual Seclusion and how His Great Hermitage Sanctuary at Adi Da Samrajashram must be a place set apart exclusively for the Spiritual, Transcendental, and Divine Process.
5 Adi Da Samraj reveals His Divine Designation, “The Da Avatar”.
7 one month after the September 7 Event that established Adi Da Samraj’s Eternal Spiritual Presence in all the conditional realms (now celebrated at Da Santosha each year), Adi Da Samraj hears and sees the name, “Adi Da”.
11 Adi Da Reveals to devotees His name, “Adi Da”. “Adi” is Sanskrit for “first”, “primordial”, “source”. “Da” means “The One Who Gives”, or “The Divine Giver”.
15 Adi Da Reveals His Name, “Santosha Da”.
Nov
4 the image of Santoshi Ma is Installed at The “Brightness”.
16 Adi Da writes a letter to Floyd Hand, a Sioux medicine man who had a vision of Adi Da. In His letter, Adi Da Reveals His Divine Identity and the Great Purpose He is here to fulfill in this world — providing a right understanding for the vision Floyd had.
Dec
2 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj instructs a small gathering at Da Avabhasa Chakra. The talks are later entitled “Yogic Celibacy is the Way of the Heart”; “What Should You Do When You Are Bothered by Lust?”; “I Am Not The Usual Man”; “I Provide the Means for the ‘Bonding’ of All Beings to My Self”.
4 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da speaks about the Delhi palace of the Moghul emperor, Shah Jahan (creator of the Taj Mahal).
7 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with His devotees (on a night that has since been referred to as “the Night of Madness”) and offers instruction in the form of these talks: “Because you are my true devotee, your life is absolutely single in Me, ‘Bonded’ to Me”; “Use Your Life for the Purpose of the Heart”; “Vive La Difference”; and “No More Explanation”. These talks were later published in The Free Daist Magazine, Fourth Quarter, 1994.
23 Adi Da Samraj receives an image of Santoshi Ma for the Shakti Ma Temple in Ganeshpuri, India; He also Installs Santoshi Ma images at Aham Da Asmi Sthan and Da Ashvamedhanath Bhavan.
31 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees and instructs them on the seriousness required for authentic practice of the “radical” Reality-Way of Adidam Ruchiradam
1995
Jan
5 Pink Flamingoes consideration
11 Santosha Ma is installed at the Shakti Ma Temple, in Ganeshpuri, India.
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj grants the first formal Sitting in Danavira Peetha (also known as the “Silver Hall”).
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “Little-ji or Me”, His summary Instruction on egoic Bonding vs. Divine Bonding.
Feb
13 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da begins the period, “the Eleven-Day Gathering”, of intense emotional-sexual consideration. He gives the talk, “Sexuality Undisciplined is the Great Alternative to Divine Enlightenment” (published in Free Daist, February–April, 1995), in which He emphasizes the immensity of the sex-force and its powerful influence over human beings.
19 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “I Am Here for Ordinary People”. He confesses His Regard for ordinary people and mentions the sweet and serving qualities of a number of His relatives.
24 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Heart Cure is the Only Cure” on emotional-sexual practice, published as four segments: “True Fidelity”, “Incest, Psychology, and the Mood of Betrayal”, “There Is No Right Sexual Yoga Outside the Context of True Intimacy”, and “To Exercise the Heart Principle Is the Fundamental Test”.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers Padukas for use in worship (by devotees at level 2 of practice and beyond) in Divine World-Teacher Darshan Mandir.
Mar
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da moves to Lion’s Lap.
8 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da begins a period of having small gatherings with devotees in His tent at Lion’s Lap. (The gathering period would continue through March 14.)
9 At Adi Da Samrajashram, in a talk entitled, “The Big Picture”, Adi Da Samraj speaks of western civilization, politics, and the present day world situation.
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “’Bond’ to Me and to Me Only”. 14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da completes a period (begun on March 8) of having small gatherings with devotees in His tent at Lion’s Lap.
23 Action and Consciousness Essay
At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gives the talk, “Transcending Victim-Consciousness”. Throughout March, 1995, Adi Da addresses all the functions and patterns of addictions that prevent higher human growth and Spiritual Awakening.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Cultivation of Samadhi”, on the essential practice of the Way of Adidam.
30 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da instructs devotees not to relate to Him casually or socially but in a Sacred manner, in a talk entitled, “Cultivate Your Right Relationship to Me”. He also speaks about the ultimate purpose of the Guru-devotee relationship.
April
1 The Turaga Dau Loloma, a large, spacious boat, arrives at Naitauba.
4 At Adidam Samrajashram, Adi Da Blesses the new boat, the Turaga Dau Loloma, and makes His first trip on it. He gives the talk, “ The Tradition of Love and Respect”, at a gathering on the new boat to which Solo, a Fijian resident of Naitauba, is invited.
9 Adi Da Samraj transforms the annual burning of confessions at the Feast of Water and Fire, by having devotees on Naitauba quickly throw them into the fire all at once and then run to “The Wharf” for His Darshan. He invites devotees to swim with Him; and, when given a water gun, He Blesses His devotees (as “Admiral Rambo Adi Da”) by “shooting” each one with water. A beach party ensues.
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, beginning of the “Perfect Practice” gatherings with Adi Da on the Turaga Dau Loloma (boat). They continue through April 15, 1995
15 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the talks, “If You are More Than a Mere Organism then Prove It!” (later published in Drifted in the Deeper Land) and “My Own Sign is just Luminous and Fundamentally Motionless”. End of the “Perfect Practice” gatherings with Adi Da on the Turaga Dau Loloma (boat).
16 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the final day of the Feast of Water and Fire with devotees offering affirmations. Adi Da passes out modaka Prasad and later summarizes the “considerations” that had concluded the day before on the Turaga Dau Loloma (boat). Many beautiful Self-Revelatory declarations are made by Adi Da in the talk, “Love is How I Got Here”, where He describes how devotees should relate to His Spiritual Presence after the Divine Mahasamadhi of His bodily (human) Form.
18 Adi Da Samraj visits the Fijian island of Cikobia (where most Fijians that serve Naitauba are from).
Jun
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20 Adi Da gives talks (June 20 through June 21, 1995) on “the Dual Sensitivity that leads you to Me”. These talks epitomize and summarize His entire message to devotees and everyone. “I do not Speak exclusively, representing only one or the other of your ‘halves’ (whether ‘Eastern’ or ‘Western’). Rather, I Speak to your native (or inherent) ‘dual sensitivity’ — your sensitivity to what is conditionally real and your sensitivity to What Is Non-conditionally Real.”
July
7 Adi Da talks with devotees about the seriousness required to grow beyond the beginner’s stage of practice.
8 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees and talks about the Divine Advantage He has given to all who devotionally resort to Him:
15 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees and speaks about the unique difference between Real-God-Realization in the Reality-Way of Adidam and the possible realizations in other spiritual traditions.
Aug
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, in a phone Gathering with devotees, Adi Da Reveals the Nature of His Divinely-Avatarically-Born bodily (human) Divine Form. “My Own Person is Transcendental Spiritual in Nature. Some people might think that for Me to Manifest My Own Person to them at a distance, I ought to bilocate, I ought to stand in front of them in My human Form somehow. That is subtle-body business. My Transmission (or Projection, or Expansion) of My Divine Body is what you ‘experience’. It does not have a physical body. It does not have a subtle form Itself. I Show you Myself, My Own Divine Person and Presence. My Divine Form Is the ‘Bright’, the Love-Bliss-Form That you can feel Tangibly Touching you, Surrounding you, Moving in you, Making all kinds of changes. That Is My Divine Body. I can Manifest It anywhere, and Do, all the time. I Manifest Myself.”
19 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks about the period of His Teaching Work.
Adi Da arrives at Mountain of Attention
Sept
9 After leaving Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da arrives at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary and visits Pita Mata Mantapa, Paduka Mandir, and the newly rebuilt Bright Behind Me, for the first time. (All of these had been built since His last visit.)
24 Adi Da Samraj’s mother, Dorothy Jones, passes away.
Oct
1 Adi Da Samraj installs the ashes of His mother, Dorothy Jones, in Sri Adi Da Pitamata Asthi Mantapa at The Mountain Of Attention.
14 Adi Da Samraj returns to The Mountain Of Attention (after eye surgery in San Francisco) and stays until March 11, 1996.
22 Adi Da Samraj sits with patrons and advocates outside Paduka Mandir, at The Mountain Of Attention.
26 Adi Da celebrates Naitauba Padavara at The Mountain Of Attention (the first time away from Naitauba).
28 Adi Da visits the Man Of Radical Understanding Retreat Center with several devotees. He Empowers the Communion Hall and sits in and Blesses the retreat house.
Nov
3 Adi Da Samraj Installs and Empowers Robert the Cat statue Murti at Holy Cat Grotto, at The Mountain Of Attention, with hundreds of devotees in attendance.
Dec
17 At The Mountain Of Attention, advocates of Adi Da receive His Darshan, sitting with Him in Western Face Cathedral (now known as “Temple Adi Da”).
21 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gathers with the whole Northern California region of devotees in Land Bridge Pavilion.
23 On the night of December 23, 1995, at The Mountain Of Attention, in First People (the primary kitchen facility on the Sanctuary), Adi Da Samraj makes cookie portraits of devotees with Him in the kitchen; He is accompanied by more devotees singing holiday songs and playing instruments just outside the kitchen window next to Him.
29 Sugar Bowl Talks on Ishta-Guru-Bhakti Yoga. Adi Da Samraj describes these talks as the end His 25-year Teaching Revelation. His “Sugar Bowl Talks” continue through December 30. (They were named “Sugar Bowl” because they took place at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort in Lake Tahoe, California.)
96 Jan
3 Adi Da gives the talk, “The Primal Condition of Radiance”. He describes this as the Beginning of the Santosha Epoch.
5 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da initiates a ten-day period of gathering with devotees in His residence, the Manner of Flowers. The talks from this period would later be released as The “Brightening” Way Talk Series. On this day, He gives a talk, “Be Moved By Me To Infinity.”
6 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “A Contemplative State of Exhaltation”. “Most non-human beings, you could observe, are spending a lot of time in Contemplation.”
16 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da ends a ten-day period of gathering with a small group of devotees. He leaves The Mountain Of Attention, and travels to Da Love-Ananda Mahal in Hawaii.
27 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk on The Mummery and the Pleasure Dome.
31 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives a talk, considering the illusory nature of Narcissus, and on its basis, our fruitless search for Happiness in the “world” of “klik-klak”
Mar
11 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the “intimate friends” sadhana as a form of relational practice.
20 In Kauai, Adi Da Samraj pierces His left ear and begins to wear an earring as a sign of not being detached from the Shakti.
23 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj talks with devotees about the Pleasure Dome. “There is an Integrity in the Midst that is the ‘Pleasure Dome’, and the Way to Realize Me.”
29 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da approves “Adi Da Samraj” as His primary Name.
31 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da talks with devotees. “Allowing yourself to be transformed in devotional Communion with Me is fundamental practice for all beings in this ‘world’, and all ‘worlds’ or planes.”
April
8 Adi Da gives a summary talk on the Pleasure Dome.
10 While staying in Kapaa, Hawaii, Adi Da Samraj meets and acquires Peaches (“Hemalekha”), the Moluccan cockatoo.
13 Adi Da renames Tumomama (the Sanctuary in Kauai, Hawaii) “Quandramama”, a name that indicates the mastering of the Goddess Force.
18 Adi Da gives the Sanctuary in Kauai, Hawaii the formal name, “Quandramama Shikhara”.
25 Adi Da Samraj Empowers the Sukra Kendra at Da Love-Ananda Mahal.
May
14 Adi Da Samraj travels to Cape Cod, Boston, and New York for two weeks to sit with and visit His devotees on the East Coast.
15 Adi Da Samraj arrives in Cape Cod.
27 Adi Da Samraj arrives in New York, where He meets His grand niece, Jenny Lee. 30 Adi Da Samraj returns to The Mountain Of Attention.
Jun
10 Adi Da Samraj leaves The Mountain Of Attention, heading for Naitauba.
12 After leaving The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj arrives at Naitauba.
18 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks with devotees in My Plain Word.
19 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da goes into seclusion at Aham Da Asmi Sthan 20 Adi Da Samraj goes into seclusion at The “Brightness”.
25 Adi Da Samraj leaves The “Brightness”.
27 Adi Da Samraj returns to The “Brightness”. (He went into Seclusion there on June 21, 1996, and temporarily left on June 25.)
July
9 Adi Da changes the title, “Quandra-Devi”, to Quandra Mai.
13 Adi Da Samraj leaves Naitauba for Suva. He arrives in Suva July 14.
17 Adi Da Samraj travels to Europe for three months. He arrives in Holland on the 17th and then travels on to Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, and France. While in Geneva, He visits the United Nations building.
Sept
26 In Maria Hoop, Holland, in the woods behind the European Danda, Avatar Adi Da begins a period of ordeal and penance for the sake of purifying His devotees and the world altogether. (A shrine, the Da Peace site, has since been built to commemorate this period.)
Nov
6 Adi Da Samraj reveals His Divine Title, “The Ruchira Buddha”; He renames Naitauba “Ruchira Buddha Dham”. He talks with devotees about living on the basis of His Divine “Self”-Emergence rather than basing their lives on the daily news.
Dec
7 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “Nothing Feels as Good as No-Contraction”. This talk would later be published in Drifted In The Deeper Land.
10 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “You Can’t Expand ‘And'”. This would later be published in Drifted in the Deeper Land.
97 Jan
19 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gives a talk on the essence of Enlightenment.
Feb
18 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “The Yoga of Contradiction”, in the Manner Of Flowers.
Mar
20 Adi Da Samraj changes the name of Adidam’s Hawaiian Sanctuary from “Quandramama Shikhara” to “Love-Ananda Mahal”
29 At Kauai, Hawaii, Adi Da Samraj passes on the manuscript for His book, Hridaya Rosary, to the Adidama Quandra Mandala.
April
11 First gathering where Adi Da talks to devotees about The Hridaya Rosary (the “Four Thorns of Heart-Instruction”) at the Lauii Beach house at Poipu Kauai.
22 Adi Da Samraj visits the Vedanta Temple, and the original sites of the Melrose Bookstore, the La Brea Ashram, and the other places where He had lived in Los Angeles, 25 years earlier.
Jun
1 Avatar Adi Da gives Naitauba the name, “Adi Da Samrajashram”.
July
1 Drifted In The Deeper Land is published. This book is a compilation of Adi Da’s talks from November 29, 1996 through December 24, 1996.
Aug
Adi Da creates “Aham Da Asmi”, “The Heart of the Adidam Revelation.” Adi Da Samrajashram
Sept
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da establishes His Divine “Source-Texts” as twenty-three principal books.
Nov
4 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da initiates Ruchiradama Nadikanta into Contemplation of Consciousness Itself.
98 Jan
5 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da attends a Sacred Music Offering at Hymns To Me, and grants Darshan to His devotees through the newly installed glass window for the first time.
Feb
3 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives a summary talk to devotees on Transcendental Spiritual “Locating” of Him, and how True Hearing of Him is necessary for True Seeing of Him. “If you bite an apple, you are tasting the apple, not yourself. True Transcendental Spiritual ‘Location’ of My Divine Body is like that. It is Me, not you. I Distract you from yourself by My Mere Presence.”
25 Adi Da Samraj leaves Naitauba to Celebrate Sivaratri with the Quandra Mai at Da Love-Ananda Mahal. He arrives at Da Love-Ananda Mahal. First gathering of the “Overnight Revelation” period at Da Love-Ananda Mahal.
Mar
8 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da talks to devotees about the “radical” foundation of the Reality-Way of Adidam. “Adidam is not a seeker’s Way. You are always already inhering in That
Which you must Realize. You are never cut off from Me — it is not possible, you see, by My Very Self-Nature.”
April
1 First issue of the magazine, The Adidam Revelation, is published.
13 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj makes the esoteric communication, “A Horse Appears In The Wild Is Always Already The Case”.
20 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da Samraj signs the first fine art reproductions of His “She Paintings”.
22 Last gathering of the “Overnight Revelation of Conscious Light” period, at Da Love-Ananda Mahal.
24 Adi Da Samraj arrives on Naitauba from Da Love-Ananda Mahal.
26 Adi Da Samraj receives the published version of “The Five Books Of The Heart Of The Adidam Revelation” at Adi Da Samrajashram. Adi Da intended these five books (of His 23 Source-Texts at the time) to serve as an introduction to His Teaching, The Dawn Horse Testament to be the primary Source Text, and 17 other Source Texts (“The Companions Of The True Dawn Horse”) to elaborate. The five introductory books are: Aham Da Asmi, Ruchira Avatara Gita, Da Love-Ananda Gita, Hridaya Rosary, and Eleutherios.
May
27 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da begins working extensively on re-writing the text of The Mummery Book (book 1 of The Orpheum trilogy) for the first time since He wrote it in 1969, greatly expanding it.
Sept
12 First Live Internet Sighting of Avatar Adi Da from Darshan Adytum, at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
24 Avatar Adi Da first sets foot in the house in Trinidad, California, that will become His Forest-Hermitage, Tat Sundaram.
30 Avatar Adi Da declares the house in Trinidad, California, His Hermitage, and names it “Tat Sundaram” (“All Of This Is Sacred, All Of This Is Beautiful”).
Oct
4 Avatar Adi Da sits in the first formal Sighting of His Form at Tat Sundaram Hermitage, Trinidad, California.
5 At Tat Sundaram Hermitage, Adi Da uses a camera for the first time in over thirty years. 29 Avatar Adi Da installs a lingam in His Sukra Kendra at Tat Sundaram Hermitage.
Nov
18 At Tat Sundaram, Adi Da talks to devotees about His use of photography (and, by extension, His use of all of His Divine Image-Art) as a means to serve His Divine Communication to humankind.
30 Adi Da gives the talk, “You Are Only Consciousness Itself”.
Dec
31 The deed for Tat Sundaram Hermitage is recorded.
99 Jan
9 At The Mountain Of Attention, the first full recitation of The Mummery, newly re-written by Adi Da (and now called The Mummery Book). Adi Da listens via RealAudio while at His residence, the Manner Of Flowers.
10 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj receives the published version of The Promised God-Man Is Here.
11 The deed is granted to acquire Walk About Joy (as a support for Tat Sundaram Hermitage), in Trinidad, California.
13 In Trinidad, California, Adi Da Samraj visits Walk About Joy, the primary support building for the Tat Sundaram Hermitage.
Feb
5 At Tat Sundaram, Adi Da Samraj gives the Adidamas new names: “Ruchira Adidama Sukha Sundari” and “Ruchira Adidama Nirvanasati Hriddaya”. (“Ruchira Adidama” would later be simplified to the title currently used: “Ruchiradama”. The final names Adi Da would give to the Ruchiradamas are Ruchiradama Quandra Sukhapur Rani and Ruchiradama Nadikanta.)
21 At Tat Sundaram, Adi Da finishes writing the essay, “I Am The Horse In The Wild”, which would later be published as “Last Word: I Am The Horse In The Wild (Forty-Three Verses Of Indivisibility)” in Aham Da Asmi.
23 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj describes how He “fell out of the common world of pain”.
March
7 Avatar Adi Da arrived at Naitauba in the evening. https://www.adidaupclose.org/calendar/brightness.html
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj begins residing at Atma Nadi Shakti Loka (The “Brightness”).
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, while in seclusion at the Outshining “Brightness”, Adi Da begins to develop His “Lineage Essay” entitled “I (Alone) Am The Adidam Revelation”, which would later be published in many of His Source Texts, including The Knee Of Listening.
I was working as a journalist and newsreader at this time. My memory is Bhagavan Asked His devotees to sleep at night at Sanctuaries and in meditation Halls around the world.
April
4 At Adidam Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj reveals His second calling, “Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace”.
8 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da completes “The Universal World-Prayer”.
22 At Adi Da Samrajashram, after 43 days of seclusion, Adi Da passes through an Event of Yogic Death at The “Brightness”, thereby establishing the Perpetual Radiation of His World-Blessing of all-and-All from Adi Da Samrajashram.
June
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da completes the writing of His Lineage Essay, “I (Alone) Am The Adidam Revelation”. This later becomes part of The Knee Of Listeningand Eleutherios. Adi Da had begun this essay on March 11, 1999, the day after His arrival at The “Brightness”, expanding an Essay He had written some years before on the philosophical and yogic roots of the Lineage of Realizers preceding Him.
Nov
6 At The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary, the first formal event showing Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Image-Art is held at the Man of Radical Understanding.
7 Avatar Adi Da Empowers Temple Adi Da at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
2000
April
12 The Ruchira Dham Event: Adi Da Samraj enters into the Translation Phase of His Work on Lopez Island.
June
22 While photographing in the redwoods of Northern California, Adi Da initiates an essential and dramatic breakthrough beyond the limitations of conventional camera use, to the point where His subjects are no longer recognizable as defined objects. In transcending the camera, He transforms it into a free and transparent vehicle for His artistic and spiritual communication.
Oct
3 At Tat Sundaram, Adi Da talks to devotees about the need for a Global Proclamation of His Divine Avataric Self-Revelation: “You may recall in the New Testament, Jesus of Galilee asks, ‘Who do you say I am?’ And his disciple Peter responds and essentially acknowledges the Divine status of Jesus. Then Jesus says, ‘Upon this rock I will build my church.’ Well, in the beginning of the Ruchira Avatara Gita, I am referring to something similar. This gathering of My devotees, and the mission of the gathering, must be founded on My Divine Avataric Self-Revelation and the full receiving of It by one or many, so that the devotee’s voice can speak the Truth.
01 Jan
5 In Yosemite Valley, California, Adi Da finishes creating The First Yosemite Suite.
11 Adi Da Samraj finishes creating the Image-Art suite, 9 Mary, at Love’s Point Hermitage in Northern California.
Feb
11 At The Mountain Of Attention, Avatar Adi Da’s “Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of Adidam Ruchiradam” is first communicated to devotees worldwide.
Mar
22 At the Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da speaks about His Divine Intervention-Work to a devotee going through the death process. “I Am What the dead know. I Am Who they are. It is not dead. This Body is Transfigured by the Divine Light.”
April
20 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da reads essays from His “Divine Avataric Self-Revelation of Adidam Ruchiradam”, and gives the talk that becomes part of this Revelation.
Jun
11 Adi Da accepts Love’s Point as a Hermitage Ashram
July
7 Complete recitation of Adi Da’s The Mummery Book first published on CD.
Sept
28 Santosha Adidam is published. This book is Adi Da’s extraordinary and comprehensive Instruction on the relationship between the seven stages of life and the “five sheath anatomy” of the human body-mind — including the physical body, the pranic body, the lower brain-mind, the superconscious mind, and the causal body.
Nov
15 The Bright Field: The Photographic Art of Adi Da Samraj is published. Book description: The first publication of Adi Da’s image-art. This large-format book presents black-and-white photographic image-art from 2000-2001 and includes 12 very different suites.
02
Leaves Mountain of Attention for Da Love-Ananda Mahal
Sept
11 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Avatar Adi Da Empowers the Sukra Kendra with images of Durga, Gavdevi, Santoshi Ma, and Ganesh.
23 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Avatar Adi Da completes an intensive review of the text of The Dawn Horse Testament. (A substantially revised new edition would be published in August, 2005.)
Nov
26 Sacred Images for Avatar Adi Da’s Sukra Kendra at The Mountain Of Attention, and Hanuman statues for all Sukra Kendras, arrive at Da Love-Ananda Mahal (after completing a Yajna of Holy Sites in India) and are Blessed by Avatar Adi Da.
03 Feb
1 Puja performed at the Vedanta Society Temple in Hollywood, California, on sacred images for Avatar Adi Da’s Sukra Kendra at The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary; sacred Images return to The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary.
Mar
2 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Hanuman images are installed in Avatar Adi Da’s Sukra Kendras.
24 At Da Love-Ananda Mahal, Adi Da gives the first Discourse to be broadcast live via the Internet to devotees worldwide. It was also His first gathering with the general membership in over five years.
April
1 In Kauai, Adi Da creates the first color configurations of His Divine Image-Art.
8 Opening of the first major exhibit of Adi Da’s Divine Image-Art: fabrications from The Quandra Loka Suite (subtitled “The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light”) — at the Louis Stern Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles. (More here.)
May
29 Adi Da returns to live at Adi Da Samrajashram, for the first time since 1999. He grants Darshan to His devotees in Temple Adi Da for the first time, and permits sacramental worship on His Body.
Jun
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, artifacts from the Gavdevi Temple in Ganeshpuri arrive for Installation at the Sukra Kendra at The Matrix.
July
11 Adi Da writes the Essay, “The Three Great Principles of All Truth” (Part 14, The Aletheon).
Nov
12 Sacred images for Avatar Adi Da’s Sukra Kendra at Tat Sundaram arrive at Adi Da Samrajashram after completing a Yajna of holy sites in India.
04 Jan
1 Puja is performed at the Vedanta Society Temple, in Hollywood, California, on sacred images to be placed in Avatar Adi Da’s Sukra Kendra at Tat Sundaram Hermitage.
3 Images of the Durga, Gadevi, Santoshi Ma, Ganesh, and Hanuman are installed in the Sukra Kendra at Tat Sundaram Hermitage.
Feb
7 A new edition of Aham Da Asmi (Beloved, I Am Da) is published. Book description: “In Aham Da Asmi, Adi Da Samraj fully Reveals Himself as the Avataric Incarnation of the Living Divine Person and He elaborates on the Spiritual significance of this All-Embracing Divine Confession, which is the foundation of His entire Revelation of the esoteric Way of Adidam.”
April
16 Doors from the Gavdevi Temple in Ganeshpuri and five sacred Images arrive at Adi Da Samrajashram and are placed in Avatar Adi Da’s Sukra Kendra at The Matrix. (They will be installed later in the Sukra Kendra at Lion’s Lap.)
24 A new edition of Adi Da’s autobiography, The Knee Of Listening, is published. Adi Da’s Spiritual Autobiography has transformed the lives of thousands of secular and religious seekers since it was first published in 1972. The Knee Of Listening tells the miraculous story of His unique Incarnation and Revelation for the sake of Liberating all beings.
All dates during this year Adi Da Samrajashram
Aug
19 Bhagavan Adi Da gathers with devotees in the Marble Hall of Samraj Mahal, and worldwide (over the Internet):
22 Adi Da gives an Avataric Discourse. He describes how humankind is a single family, a single species in “diaspora” dispersed across the earth as the result of migrations from a single point of origin (in Africa) thousands of years ago.
23 Adi Da gives an Avataric Discourse. He explains how ordinary meditation techniques accomplish nothing more than relaxation. They don’t touch the egoic identification with the body-mind.
28 Adi Da gathers with devotees in Samraj Mahal, and over the Internet worldwide
30 Adi Da gives an Avataric Discourse at Adi Da Samrajashram. He speaks about the illusion of the separate self and the true position in which everything is arising — how one’s own position determines the nature of reality.
Sept
1 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees in Samraj Mahal and across the world live via the Internet.
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da spoke to devotees in Samraj Mahal (in the Marble Hall), and over the Internet to devotees worldwide.
Blessed replicas of Swami Nityananda’s Padukas are brought to Avatar Adi Da, and placed in His Sukra Kendra at The Matrix, Adi Da Samrajashram. Also, the dog Toto arrives in Adi Da’s Company.
Oct
12 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees in Samraj Mahal, and worldwide via the Internet, and talks about the seventh stage Demonstration of Divine Translation.
20 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da talks with devotees about the significance of recognition of Him as the Divine, and about the Perfect Practice: “The ‘Perfect Practice’ in the Reality-Way of Adidam is not established by means of argument, but by Means of direct Transmission of the Divine Self-Condition, or Conscious Light Itself, the ‘Bright’ Itself.
Nov
4 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Samraj receives the New Standard Edition of The Dawn Horse Testament. Sutra rocks are Installed at Baptize Each One.
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathers with devotees in the Marble Hall and worldwide over the Internet. He responds to a devotee’s request for Adi Da’s Blessing to bring peace to his family and native country.
05
January
21 Avataric Discourse, Samraj Mahal, January 21, 2005, Part 1 – Bhagavan Adi Da amplifies and clarifies the language in the Dawn Horse Testament relative to sexuality in the ultimate stages of the Way…
https://www.facebook.com/jeanpierreleroux/videos/10156857440994715/
May
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da creates the twenty-three “Courses” of His Divine Avataric Revelation-Word.
Arrives at Mountain of Attention
July
7 In Land Bridge Pavilion, at The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives an Avataric Discourse. He talks about the presumption of the egoic “separate self” sense that is the root of human suffering. He contrasts this with our actual Position in Truth: the Position of Conscious Light.
Oct
14 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da Samraj gathers with devotees and reads from the Text He had just begun writing, a free rendering of the Ashtavakra Gita that would become The Scapegoat Book. Adi Da spontaneously composed The Scapegoat Book over a period of six weeks, in October and November, 2005, while in residence at his northern California Hermitage-Sanctuaries, Tat Sundaram and The Mountain Of Attention, in Humboldt and Lake counties, respectively. On January 14, 2006, in conjunction with the Da Orpheum Theatre Guild, he read the work at the Da Orpheum Theatre, which at the time was located at the latter Sanctuary.
Nov
11 Adi Da Samraj Discourse November 11, 2005 The Mountain Of Attention Sanctuary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVAYXoDFz-4
Dec
11 At Walk About Joy, Avatar Adi Da reads from His first rendering for the text that will become The Gnosticon.
06 Jan
6 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives an Avataric Revelation Discourse, “Consistent Connectedness”. “My photograph is not a substitute for Me. It is simply a means whereby you turn to Me. It gives you a tangible point of contact in your turning to Me.”
14 At The Mountain Of Attention, the World Premiere of The Scapegoat Book (one of the books in the Orpheum Trilogy), recited by Avatar Adi Da, in enactment with the First Room Theatre Guild, and with the worldwide gathering of devotees in attendence via the internet.
Feb
Adi Da Samraj leaves Mountain of Attention
March
1 Avatar Adi Da confirms the irreducible requirements of His Divine Sannyas and His Set-Apart Hermitage. He re-names Naitauba “Adi Da Samrajashram”.
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da passes on “The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries” to devotees, by making it a chapter of The Happenine Book. This would later be published as a separate book, and as part of a number of Source Texts (e.g., The Aletheon).
14 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da’s Gift of the preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” Listening-practice of “Transcendental ‘Root’-Standing” is formally communicated to devotees worldwide (6:45 p.m. Fiji time), as part of The Teaching Manual of Perfect Summaries: The Revelation of The Preliminary “Perfect Knowledge” Teachings Of His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj.
15 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the name, “Is Happen That Is”, to a new Temple (later named “Is-Da Happen”).
April
1 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da establishes a new process through which He creates His Image-Art as a form of digital “painting”.
22 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da begins the 13 occasions of His recitation of The Happenine Book (the third book in The Orpheumtrilogy).
All dates during this year Adi Da Samrajashram
May
10 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da completes the thirteenth and final Recitation and Enactment (after Recitations and Enactments on each of the previous twelve evenings) of The Happenine Book (the third book in The Orpheum trilogy).
28 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da recites The Spiritual Gospel of Saint Jesus of Galilee, His new Rendering that re-tells and reveals anew the communication associated with Jesus. This essay appears as Part Six of The Pneumaton.
29 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers the site at Lion’s Lap where His Sukra Kendra will be built, by placing His Staff on the rock there.
July
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da Empowers the new Temple, Is-Da Happen.
Aug
27 Adi Da reveals a new form of conscious exercise, which He later names “Da Fours”.
29 Avatar Adi Da writes the first Essay, “My Non-subjective Art of Image”, for His book, Transcendental Realism.
Sept
11 Avatar Adi Da performs a lingam Puja at the Sukra Kendra at The “Brightness”, then grants Sighting of His Form at the “Brightness” Pavilion for the first time.
23 Avatar Adi Da writes the first essay (“Divine Adidam Is Inside Out”) for the Revelation-Text that will become The Aletheon
25 Avatar Adi Da instructs that the “Submission Years” practices of the two Devotional Ways (of Insight and Faith) are no longer to be engaged.
Dec
23 At Adi Da Samrajashram, devotees receive Adi Da’s Darshan.
07 Jan
21 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gathered with devotees in Is-Da Happen and over the internet. It was the last time He would speak to the full gathering of Adidam directly. He would later edit the Discourse to be the essay, “Radical Adidam”, in Part Eight of The Aletheon.
April
11 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da takes up Hermitage Residence at “My House”, at Lions Lap.
May
17 At The Mountain Of Attention, Adi Da gives the talk, “I Will Do Everything”, revealing the secret of devotional Communion with Him. The talk would later be published in the book, The Way That I Teach.
18 The Celebration of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas. At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da takes the title, “Sapta Na”, and Establishes the Sapta Na Sannyasin Order. https://www.adidaupclose.org/calendar/parama_sapta_na_sannyas.html
22 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da first sits in (the still unfinished) Temple, Is-Da Happen.
At Adi Da Samrajashram
Jun
10 Avatar Adi Da’s collateral exhibition, “Transcendental Realism”, opens to the public at the 52nd Biennale di Venezia, in Venice, Italy.
18 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da completes His Retirement Statement, “My Final Work Is Me – Alone”, which would later appear in Part 23 of The Aletheon (titled, “Walk-About To Me“).
July
10 Avatar Adi Da’s Impulse to continue working in the manner of Self-Submission conclusively vanishes, leaving only the Sign of His Divine Self-“Emergence” Work. This Event is now celebrated as the Great Sovereign-Avataric Holy Day of Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas.
Sept
15 Avatar Adi Da renames the temple next to Aham Da Asmi Sthan “Is-Da Happen”.
Nov
9 Avatar Adi Da names His literary trilogy, The Orpheum.
13 Avatar Adi Da indicates His five Principal Books of “Forever Comprehensive Seventh-Stage Address to all-and-All”.
Dec
18 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da Empowers His Sukra Kendra at Lion’s Lap.
08
At Adi Da Samrajashram Feb
23 In Florence, Italy, the opening of Adi Da’s exhibition at the Cenacolo di Ognissanti, associated with the annual “Winter in Florence” festival.
Mar
10 On Lopez Island, Washington State, Ruchira Dham Hermitage is formally acquired.
April
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da completes the original form of His summary essay, “Atma Nadi Shakti Yoga”, His quintessential communication of the Process by which any and all living beings may Realize the Ecstasy of Perfect Oneness, or Prior Unity, with Reality Itself. This essay is included in The Aletheon and other Source-Texts.
13 From Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da formally Empowers Ruchira Dham Hermitage on Lopez Island, Washington State.
Jun
6 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da takes “Parama-Sapta-Na” as His unique title.
11 Darshan Of His Divine Presence Parama-Sapta-Na Adi Da Samraj at Picture Perfect https://www.facebook.com/simon.pritchard.121/videos/10157740186754048/
15 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da gives the name, “Atma Nadi Shakti Loka”, to The “Brightness”.
Jul
18 Avatar Adi Da Empowers His Sukra Kendra at Ruchira Dham Hermitage. A Holy Site, the Da Peace site, is established in the woods near the European Danda in Maria Hoop, Holland, commemorating Avatar Adi Da’s Penance there in 1996.
Aug
8 Devotees receive Adi Da’s Darshan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHKR2sDowKo
13 Devotees receive Adi Da’s Darshan. (Video)
25 Avatar Adi Da receives the new “723” Boat, painted with the colors of the 723 flag. (Adi Da explain the significance of “723” in His essay, “723: The Free Declaration of The Universal, Moral, Social, and Political Laws of True and Necessary Civilization”, in Not-Two Is Peace.)
Sept
9 Adi Da gives devotees Final Revelations about His Divine Re-Awakening on September 10, 1970. (These Notes have been titled, “My Room of Primal Realization”.)
Oct
27 Avatar Adi Da is first honored as “Kalokalo Serau i Naitauba” (“‘Bright’ Shining Star of Naitauba”).
Nov
10 Avatar Adi Da receives the remodel of Cow Catcher.
19 Avatar Adi Da indicates that His writing for The Aletheon is done. Adi Da makes His final visit in His living body to The “Brightness”, granting Darshan in the Pavilion and at the Gates.
21 Avatar Adi Da receives Kali Images for His Sukra Kendras.
26 At Adi Da Samrajashram, Adi Da receives the gift of a horse, naming it “Dawn”.
At Adi Da Samrajashram, Avatar Adi Da completes The Aletheon with a change to the title page; He adds “Final Word (Something New Must Emerge)” to Not-Two Is Peace.
The Divine Mahasamadhi of Avatar Adi Da, 5:05 p.m., November 27 (Fiji Time), Adi Da Samrajashram.
30 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the Sacred Interment of Avatar Adi Da’s human body is completed at 9:14 p.m. (Fiji Time).
Dec
3 Opening of the public exhibition of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Image-Art at SCOPE 2008 in Miami.
14 First worldwide sitting after Adi Da Samraj’s Divine Mahasamadhi, broadcast via the Internet from Is-Da Happen at Adi Da Samrajashram.
09 Mar
4 Opening of the public exhibition of Avatar Adi Da’s Divine Image-Art at SCOPE 2009 in New York.
July
14 In Florence, the Florence Dance Company premieres “Quattro Maggiore: Adi Da Samraj per Vivaldi” (“Four Seasons”).
Sept
14 Installation of Avatar Adi Da’s “Linead One” at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
26 The Aletheon (“The Book of Truth”) is published. During the final two years of a Lifetime that had been utterly devoted to the Communication of Truth, Adi Da created The Aletheon as His supreme Scripture: a book of oceanic depth and magnitude. This final and greatest Instruction by Adi Da spans over 2300 pages. https://www.adidaupclose.org/books/aletheon.html
Nov
4 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the first edition of The Aletheon is presented at Atma Nadi Shakti Loka.
24 At Adi Da Samrajashram, the new book, The Eternal One, is presented to Adi Da at Atma Nadi Shakti Loka.
2010
Mar
15 Tropical cyclone Tomas strikes Naitauba, causing great devastation. This Category 4 cyclone was the most intense since tropical cyclone Bebe in 1972 (and until the catastrophic arrival of Category 5 cyclone Winston in 2016).
July
12 Opening performance of Divina.com by the Florence Dance Company, with Adi Da’s Image-Art projected on a huge screen behind the dancers, and with Dante’s and Adi Da’s words set to music and sung.
Sept
9 The New York City gallery premiere of Adi Da’s Image-Art at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery.
2011 Oct
30 Opening performance of Not-Two Is Peace by the Florence Dance Company, with Adi Da’s Image-Art projected on a huge screen behind the dancers.
2015 Sept
12 A devastating fire — called the “Valley Fire” — swept through a large area of Lake County, California, with extraordinary speed, burning virtually everything in its path for days, before more than four thousand firefighters finally succeeded in containing it.
2016 Feb
20 Tropical cyclone Winston strikes Naitauba, causing great devastation. This Category 5 cyclone was the strongest ever recorded in the entire Southern Hemisphere, with winds gusting to nearly 200 miles per hour, creating eight-foot high waves. Longtime devotee residents of Adi Da Samrajashram confirmed that they had experience many cyclones on Naitauba, but had never seen anything like the force of this cyclone.