| Avatar Adi Da Samraj was
born in New York In 1939. His Appearance at that moment in human
history—the beginning of World War II—was not arbitrary.
Avatar Adi Da’s human Appearance here required vast preparation
that has come to fruition in this time of humanity’s extreme
need—a time when the globe is on fire with strife and
suffering and its very existence is threatened by ecological
destruction and the modern weapons of war. In fact, the Divine
Being and Reality, Descended to here in the form of the Ruchira
Avatar, Adi Da Samraj, is Responding to eons of human prayers,
as to an immense magnet. He is here to transform humankind,
and more than humankind. He is here to Illumine even all of
manifest existence. This is what He has been doing since His
birth--for His human birth was more than His association with
a human body. His birth on earth was the initiation of an infinite
and ongoing process. That process can be described as His “Emergence”,
as a tangible, identifiable Presence in the heart of all that
exists.
While there have been many saints and sages in human history,
the ancient traditions of humankind foretell a final Revelation,
a God-Man promised for the "late-time" who will
perfectly fulfill the deepest longings of the human heart.
Adidam is established on the recognition that, by a Unique
and Mysterious Process, this all-surpassing Event has occurred.
Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj is the Divine Being of Grace
and Truth Who authenticates the ancient intuitions and is
the answer to the heart-prayers of all beings.
How did this come to be? There is a supreme Process entirely
different from the demonstrations of great Spiritual beings
who have, by heroic effort, Realized our higher human potential.
That Process is the Act of Divine Descent—Real God,
or Truth, or Reality, Manifesting in human form. This is the
real meaning of "Avatar"— One “Crossed
Down” to this world from Above the mortal realms with
the sole purpose of compassionately Helping others to find
Truth, Happiness, and Divine Realization.
| "Whenever there is a decline
of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness, O Bharata
(Arjuna), then I . . . incarnate myself” –Bhagavad Gita (4:7) |
While Appearing through this Act of Descent, Avatar Adi Da
Samraj has also embraced human existence without reserve in
order to enable everyone, one by one, to “wake up”
from the “dream” of presumed-to-be-mortal existence.
He is here to Awaken all to the Condition that is truly Real
and Free—the Condition that exists now and forever, beyond
death, beyond all religious myths, and beyond any gesture
of mind.
How was it possible for the Eternal Divine Being to enter
into human manifestation as the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Samraj?
By what Mysterious Process did His human birth occur? From
the moment of His Birth (in New York, on November 3, 1939),
Avatar Adi Da Samraj was Consciously Aware of His Divinely
Free and Radiant Condition of Unlimited Happiness and Love.
As soon as He became able to use language, He gave this Condition
a simple but very expressive name—“the ‘Bright’”.
From His early years, the “Bright” pressed Itself
into His infant body in waves of Force Descending from infinitely
above His head. This intense Spiritual Force would engorge
His throat with a gagging sensation. It felt, as He said,
“like a gigantic mass of Thumbs.” Fevers and delirium
would sometimes accompany the onset of the “Thumbs”
as His young body struggled to adapt to the overwhelming Infusion
of the “Bright”. It was a Divine Yogic Event and
utter Sacrifice—the “Bright” Combining with
the mechanism of a mortal human being.
Throughout His Life, Avatar Adi Da has passed through extreme
Yogic Events that have restructured His human mechanism and
allowed His Spiritual Transmission to magnify. These Events
are part of the uniqueness of the Divine Avatar’s Revelation
and they have profound significance for all human beings.
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In
February 1939, about six months before the outbreak
of World War II, Upasani Baba received an important
visitor to his ashram. He was the Shankaracharya of
Jyotir Math. The Shankaracharya was expressing his dismay
at the chaotic state of religion in India and in the
world altogether. He saw only one solution to this sorry
state of affairs—a great Divine intervention,
in the form of an Avatar. Only such an event, he felt,
could re-establish true Spiritual life.
According to the account, Upasani
Baba listened sympathetically. He was a man of few words
and unpredictable ways. Suddenly, he burst out with
a completely unexpected utterance. Such an Incarnation,
he said, would soon be born in a Western country. “He
will be all-powerful,” Upasani Baba declared,
“and bear down everything before him. And he will
see to it that Vedic Dharma is firmly reestablished
in India.”
To prophesy the coming of an Avatar
was extraordinary enough. To foresee That One as a Westerner
was iconoclastic. Upasani Baba was foretelling a World-Teacher,
One capable of Mastering both East and West. The notion
that such a One would be a Westerner was, from the traditional
Hindu point of view, incomprehensible. Nevertheless,
around the time of this prophecy, Avatar Adi Da’s
physical vehicle was conceived on Long Island, New York,
by his parents Frank and Dorothy Jones. |
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