ON THE LIFE, WORK, AND PASSING OF ADI DA SAMRAJ AND THE
PRESERVATION OF HIS SPIRITUAL LEGACY By Michael (Anthony) Costabile, Director
Adi Da’s final two years were essentially passed in
silence, except for necessary speech and communications
regarding various aspects of his work. As with The Aletheon,
his final words for inclusion in Not-Two Is Peace, along
with his instructions for preparing the manuscript, were
given on the morning of his passing. Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas Adi Da formally and finally declared the end of his
self-submission work on July 10, 2007, when he fully
embraced what he called “Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas”,
his final seventh-stage disposition of “Divine
Self-Revelation-Only”. At the end of all of his years of self-submission and all
his efforts to awaken humankind thereby, Adi Da had, he
says, conclusively (and paradoxically) demonstrated that the
method of self-submission does not and cannot work. That is,
only his egoless divine self-revelation, and not any address
to the ego in its presumed separateness, enables the process
of transcendental spiritual awakening. Knowing that he had
long seen the futility of his self-submission, one might ask
why he persisted in it with such intensity and for so long a
time. Of this he writes: It was absolutely Necessary that I Do everything, in
order to See if My Blessing and Liberation of beings were
possible by Means of My Self-Submission. I have
Demonstrated, with Absolute Conclusiveness, that Such is not
possible.34 “Parama” is Sanskrit for “supreme”.
“Sapta” is Sanskrit for “seven”,
indicating the seventh stage of life and its perfect
realization in his case. “Na” is short for
“Naitauba”, his principal hermitage sanctuary, the
site of his Mahasamadhi Temple, and the source-point of his
transcendental spiritual transmission on Earth. Therefore,
there is no purpose in any continuation of My
Self-Submission.…My Impulse to continue Working in the
Manner of Self-Submission utterly Vanished—most
conclusively, on July 10, 2007. The fruitlessness of My
SelfSubmission became so overwhelmingly obvious that That
Effort entirely Fell Away. But Adi Da was never only engaged in his self-submission
work of reflecting egos to themselves. He was always, he
says, simultaneously revealing himself as he is: Until I am whole-bodily-responsively devotionally
recognized, the ego sees itself in Me, and sees the
“world” on Me (or in My Person), as in a mirror.
All of My years of Divine Avataric Self-Submission-Work have
been a Sign of how I have been approached as a
Mirror—rather than being approached As I Am.
Nevertheless, I have Always Been Revealing Myself As I
Am—Stimulating the surface of the water in order to
Awaken “Narcissus” to the Water Itself, to the
Nature, Condition, and State of My Own Person (Boundless
156-57). From July 10, 2007 on, Adi Da says that he embraced
Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas, his radical renunciate disposition,
standing entirely apart from any submission to devotees or
the world and expressing only his free blessing toward
all: [Now] I Am a Sapta Na Sannyasin, Utterly Free.
I Did My Submission35 From the unpublished essays, “I
Stand Free Apart and Not In The Middle Here”, and
“Adidam Is NoSeeking Practice Is Perpetual
Reality-Practice”, forthcoming in The Aletheon. 81
Work—and This Is How I now Am—As I Am [and
the] Blessing [of all and All] Is simply My
Nature, My State, My Intrinsic Condition of Self-Radiance
(Aletheon). Parama-Sapta-Na Sannyas, then, is the ultimate mode of
Adi Da’s divine selfrevelation and, he affirms, the
entirely sufficient means for the realization of reality and
truth. Nevertheless, devotees recognize that the practical
teachings and wisdom-revelations given by Adi Da during his
years of self-submission remain among his essential gifts to
humankind. His considerations, insights, instructions, and
revelations about ordinary life (the “moneyfood-and-sex
ego”) are available to humankind as a whole, now and in
perpetuity. As one devotee writes: There is a way to live in the fullness of our common
humanity—profoundly given over to love and
self-yielding in relation to the Divine Reality and to all
others. How to do so with a truly open and wounded heart is
a fundamental wisdom-lesson conveyed in all the
Teaching-Work done by Adi Da during the entire epoch of His
SelfSubmission (Costabile, “The Call” 52). My “Secret” Biography Before proceeding to an account of Adi Da’s
mahasamadhi and a discussion of the future of Adidam, here
is Adi Da’s own final statement of the significance of
his life and appearance in the world: From the unpublished essay, “Adidam Is No-Seeking
Practice Is Perpetual Reality-Practice”, forthcoming in
The Aletheon. My Avataric Lifetime Is A Divine and Unique
Demonstration of Intentional Entanglement—In Which The
egoless Divine “Bright” Self-Nature,
SelfCondition, Self-State, and Divine Transcendental
Spiritual Self-Force of My Prior and Perfect Freedom Is
Constantly Self-Revealed In Spontaneous Acts, Great Events,
Remarkable Conjunctions, Extraordinary Processes, and
BeyondWonderful Demonstrations of Perfect
Dis-Entanglement—For The Sake of alland-All. By Means
of My Avataric Lifetime of Divine Self-Revelation,
all-andAll who are, as if by accident, entangled here (and
everywhere), in egoic time and space, Are Divinely
Avatarically Given All of Necessary and Perfectly Acausally
Effective Means For Perfect Dis-Entanglement—now, and
forever hereafter, In Me, and Where and As I Am. This Is The
Key to rightly and truly understanding All of The Acts,
Events, Conjunctions, Processes, and Demonstrations of The
Totality of My Lifetime-Evidence (Boundless 49). See full paper: AVATARIC
REVELATION AND THE RESTORATION OF SPIRITUAL CULTURE –
Michael Costabile download PDF file
Also see: My
Self-Submission-Time Has Come To An End – “My Work of
Self-Submission…necessarily failed”
pp. 79 – 81
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