Avatar Adi Da has given two
basic forms of practice that deepen the fundamental practice of
devotional turning to Adi Da Samraj: Conscious Process (supports the turning
of the faculty of attention to Avatar Adi Da) and Conductivity (supports
the turning of the faculties of body, emotion, and breath to Avatar
Adi Da). These two practices are complementary and mutually supportive
and are only engaged on the basis of already being turned to Avatar
Adi Da. They are ways of freeing energy and attention, and supporting
and magnifying the freely received Gift of devotion, not ways of
“getting” devotion to “happen.” This crucial
distinction is what makes these practices a matter of the relationship
to Avatar Adi Da—rather than a matter of techniques,
engaged independent of the relationship to Him.
Conscious Process and Conductivity
practices are engaged through:
| 1. |
Meditation |
| 2. |
Puja |
| 3. |
Chanting |
| 4. |
Prayer |
| 5. |
Recitation |
| 6. |
Simple Naama Japa |
| 7. |
Preliminary Practice of "Perfect
Knowledge" |
| 9. |
Relaxation, feeling, and breathing exercises |
The conscious process and conductivity practice are engaged most
intensively during formal periods of meditation. Meditation in the
Way of Adidam is a concentrated occasion of turning the faculties
of the body-mind to Avatar Adi Da, with no other distractions. True
meditation in the Way of Adidam is a Gift from Avatar Adi Da, of
in-depth Communion with Him, rather than any kind of self-motivated
technique. As your practice matures in the Way of Adidam, meditation
becomes an ever-deepening occasion of Communion with Avatar Adi
Da, and it becomes your primary daily “food”. It is
the key practice in the process of “waking up” to the
Divine Reality.
| “If you make
Me the Object of your attention, all the other ‘things’
of attention (which have no permanence) will dissolve.”
– Avatar Adi Da Samraj, Da Love-Ananda Gita. |
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